Aani Micro: PRION & Zoonosis COPY

Question 1

How is brucellosis transmitted?

Answer 1

Cattle

Question 2

What is brucellosis gram stain?

Answer 2

Negative Aerobic bacilli

Question 3

Ix for Brucellosis?

Answer 3

Serology: anti-O-polysaccharide Abs

Question 4

Rabies transmission?

Answer 4

Dogs & bats

Question 5

What cells are pathognomonic of Rabies?

Answer 5

Negri bodies (Negri the dog)

Question 6

Symptoms of rabies?

Answer 6

Slow progression: encephalitis

Question 7

Treatment for rabies?

Answer 7

Give vaccine pre exposure and then give Rabies IgG pre and post exposure

IgG
DoG

Question 8

Plague carries which organism? Transmission?

Answer 8

Gram negative Yersinia Pestis via fleas on the back of the black rats

Question 9

Q fever is caused by which organism?

Answer 9

Coxiella Burnetti

Question 10

Which animal carries Q fever?

Answer 10

Sheep/cattle

Question 11

How does anthrax present?

Answer 11

Painless round black lesions

Question 12

Describe lyme disease?

Answer 12

Erythema Chronicum Migrans (ECM) -

Bullseye rash

Question 13

How is lyme disease transmitted?

Answer 13

Ixodes Ticks1

Question 14

Which organism causes Lyme disease?

Answer 14

Borrelia Burgdoferi (Borris had a lime burger on a ferry)

Question 15

Leishmania transmission?

Answer 15

Sandfly

Question 16

What are the types of Leishmania presentations?

Answer 16

Cutaneous
Diffuse cutaneous
Muco-cutaneous
Visceral

Question 17

Which type of Leishmania causes cutaneous disease?

Answer 17

L. Tropica and L.Major

Question 18

Which type of Leishmania causes muco-cutaneous disease?

Answer 18

L. BRaziliensis

Question 19

Which type of Leishmania causes Visceral disease?

Answer 19

L. Donovani and L.Infantum