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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?
-lack of compliance with therapeutic regimen -overuse of antibiotics
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Toxoids
Chemically altered pathogen toxin injected into body, allows body to learn to defeat that toxin
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Passive immunotherapy
Preformed antibodies are given to individual, obtained from human immunoglobin from pathogen survivor
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Primary Immune Deficiency
Congenital immunodeficiency caused by gentic defect
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Secondary Immunodeficiency
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)
Underdelvoped thymus leads to absense of T-cells, few lymphocytes
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DiGeorge Syndrome
Thymus and parathyroid gland dysfunction, leads to inadequate T-cell production and management of plasma calcium
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Hypogammaglobulinemia
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)
Numbers of RBC, WBC, platelets
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Differential
Individual numbers of lymphocytes, granulocytes and monocytes
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Quantitative determination of immunoglobins
Determines subpopulations of immunoglobins
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Total Complement Assay
Total number of complements in blood
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Stem Cell Transplantation
-transplant from bone marrow, umbiullical cord cells, temporary improvement
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Mesenchymal stem cell (MSCs) injection
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
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)
-Caused by Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) -Depletes Helper T-cells --> dysfunctional afaptive immune system, increased susceptibility to disease
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Epidemiology
branch of medicine that deals with incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases
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Difficulties with HIV vaccine development (2)
-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)
Combination drug therapy that inhibits entrance, reverse transcriptase, integrase and protease
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Retroviral
Virus with RNA not DNA
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Hypersensitivity
Altered immunological reponse to an antigen that results in disease or damage to host
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Allergy
Harmful effects of hypersensitivity to environmental antigens
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Autoimmunity
Disturbance in immunological tolerance of self-antigens clinical disorders are called autoimmune diseases
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Alloimmunity
Immune reacion to tissues of another individual (transplants, transfusions, or fetus)
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Type I Hypersensitivity
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
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
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
Cell mediated (Does not involve antibodies) E.g. poison ivy, graft rejection
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Immediate Hypersensitivity Reaction
reaction that occurs within minutes or hours
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Anaphylaxis
Most rapid and severe immediate immune reaction Symptoms are pruritis, erythema, vomiting, diarrhea, breathing difficulties
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Pruritis
Severe itching
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Erythema
Red patches on skin
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Delayed Hypersensitivity Reacion
Reaction occurs after serveal hours to maxium of several days later
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Atopic
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
Type II Hypersensitvitiy, -Antibodies target cell malfunction --> targets thyroid, doesn't kill cells but causes malfunctions
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Herd Immunity
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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