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8 - Infections and Defects in Mechanisms of Defense Flashcards

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Communicability

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Ability to spread from one person to another and cause disease

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Infectivity

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Pathogen’s ability to invade and mulitply in host

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Virulence

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Severity or harmfullness of a disease or poison

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Toxigenicity

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Ability to produce toxins (influences a pathogen’s virulence)

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Portal of entry

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Route by which a pathogen infects host

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Prokaryotes

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Lack nucleus, +/- O2, Gram +/- (gram- is more dangerous (outer membrane, porin channels)

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Staphylococcus aureus

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-Life threatenening, very virulent (resist phagocytosis, protien blockers, inhibit recognition by immune system)
-common nosocomial infection, common on normal skin and nasal passages
-Resist many antibiotics

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Exotoxins

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-Released from inside of pathogen
-damage host cell plasma membranes or interfere with protien synthesis

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Endotoxins

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Released from outer capsule
-activate inflammatory response, produce fever

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Bacteremia

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Presence of bacteria in blood

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Septicemia

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growth of bacteria in blood

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Viral disease

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-Most commong affliction of humans
-to replicate they must enter host cell, as such are self-limiting
-simple organism (DNA/RNA surrounded by Capsid envolope)

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Cytopathic

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Causing damage to living cells

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Antigenic variation

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ability to change viral antigen (spikes) yearly, results in dysfunction in adaptive immune response
E.g. seasonal flu

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Fungal Infection

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Eukaryotes, resist penicillin, simple division reproduction

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Mycoses

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Diseases caused by funghi

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Dermatophytes

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Funghi that invade skin, hair or nails

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Tineas

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Term for diseases caused by dermatophytes
E.g. tinea capitis (scalp infection)

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Candida albicans

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Most common cause of fungal infection
-found in normal human microbiome (skin, vagina, GI)
-Disseminated in immunocompromised, high mortality rates (30-40%)

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Disseminated

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Spread (on same person)

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Parasitic Infections

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-caused by unicellular protazoa
-Spread via vectors or contaminated food/water

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Plasmodium malariae

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Causes (malaria)
-occurs in RBCs, anemia within 48-72 hours
-RBC release cytokines (TNF-a/IL-1) = fever, chills, vomiting

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Bactericidal

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agent that kills other microorganisms

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Bacteriostatic

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agent that inhibts growth of other microorganisms

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What has contributed to antibiotic Resistance?

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-lack of compliance with therapeutic regimen
-overuse of antibiotics

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Toxoids

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Chemically altered pathogen toxin injected into body, allows body to learn to defeat that toxin

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Passive immunotherapy

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Preformed antibodies are given to individual, obtained from human immunoglobin from pathogen survivor

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Primary Immune Deficiency

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Congenital immunodeficiency caused by gentic defect

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Secondary Immunodeficiency

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Acquired immunodeficiency caused by another illness
-more common than primary but usually less severe (exception of AIDS and cancer)
E.g. cancer

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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID)

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Underdelvoped thymus leads to absense of T-cells, few lymphocytes

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DiGeorge Syndrome

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Thymus and parathyroid gland dysfunction,
leads to inadequate T-cell production and management of plasma calcium

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Hypogammaglobulinemia

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Result from defect in B-cell maturation or function, results in lower levels of circulating immunoglobulins (antibodies) in blood

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Complete Blood Count (CBC)

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Numbers of RBC, WBC, platelets

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Differential

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Individual numbers of lymphocytes, granulocytes and monocytes

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Quantitative determination of immunoglobins

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Determines subpopulations of immunoglobins

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Total Complement Assay

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Total number of complements in blood

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Stem Cell Transplantation

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-transplant from bone marrow, umbiullical cord cells, temporary improvement

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Mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) injection

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Injection of undifferentiated stem cells found in bone marrow, they undergo differentiation into other cell types
-potent immunosuppressive properties

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Gene Therapy

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Therapeutic replacement of defective genes
–> reconsititution of immune system
but can lead to leukemia in some recipients

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS)

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-Caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
-Depletes Helper T-cells –> dysfunctional afaptive immune system, increased susceptibility to disease

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Epidemiology

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branch of medicine that deals with incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases

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Difficulties with HIV vaccine development (2)

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-HIV is genetically and antigenically variable
-HIV+ people have high levels of antibodies, but are not protective –> even if a vaccine creates antibodies they likely will not function properly

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Anti-retroviral therapy (ART)

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Combination drug therapy that inhibits entrance, reverse transcriptase, integrase and protease

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Retroviral

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Virus with RNA not DNA

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Hypersensitivity

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Altered immunological reponse to an antigen that results in disease or damage to host

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Allergy

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Harmful effects of hypersensitivity to environmental antigens

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Autoimmunity

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Disturbance in immunological tolerance of self-antigens
clinical disorders are called autoimmune diseases

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Alloimmunity

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Immune reacion to tissues of another individual (transplants, transfusions, or fetus)

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Type I Hypersensitivity

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IgE mediated (+histamine)
-most common, against enviromental antigens
-includes inital exposure (sensitization) and the subsequent exposure –> release of cytokines creates hypersensitive reaction
E.g. hay fever

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Type II Hypersensitivity

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Tissue-specific reactions (also called Cytotoxic Hypersensitivity)
-antibody mediated destruction of healthy host cells, against a specific tissue (only attatch to specific plasma membranes)
E.g. hemolysis in medication allergies

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Type III Hypersensitivity

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Immune complex mediated
Immune complexes formed and deposited in tissues, later attatch to cells
E.g. gluten allergy

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Type IV Hypersensitivity

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Cell mediated (Does not involve antibodies)

E.g. poison ivy, graft rejection

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Immediate Hypersensitivity Reaction

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reaction that occurs within minutes or hours

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Anaphylaxis

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Most rapid and severe immediate immune reaction
Symptoms are pruritis, erythema, vomiting, diarrhea, breathing difficulties

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Pruritis

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Severe itching

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Erythema

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Red patches on skin

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Delayed Hypersensitivity Reacion

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Reaction occurs after serveal hours to maxium of several days later

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Atopic

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Individuals predisposed to developing allergies
one parent = 40% of offspring have allergy
both parents = up to 80% of offspring

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Graves’ Disease

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Type II Hypersensitvitiy,
-Antibodies target cell malfunction –> targets thyroid, doesn’t kill cells but causes malfunctions

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Herd Immunity

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General protection of a population form a disease by means of majority protection rather than individual protection. Requires 85% of population immunized

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