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Bacteremia and septicemia Flashcards

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  1. Define bacteremia.
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Bacteria in the blood

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  1. Define septicemia
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A physiologic response to the presence of bacteria or their toxins in the blood stream

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Define sepsis

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. A life-threatening physiological response to an infection which results in organ damage. Most commonly a bloodstream infection.

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  1. Gram negative cocci are rod shaped and have a thick cell wall and stain blue. TRUE/FALSE
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False

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  1. Gram negative bacilli are rod shaped and stain red. TRUE/FALSE
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True

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  1. What bacteria are associated with TB?
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acid fast mycobacteria

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  1. What is the most virulent species of staphylococcus and what does it look like?
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Staphylococcus aureus, The grapes of staph, blue cocci in clusters

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  1. How does streptococcus pyogenes look different from staphylococcus?
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Streptococcus forms long blue chains instead of clusters

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  1. What bacteria causes strep through?
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Streptococcus pyogenes

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  1. What bacteria causes rheumatic heart disease?
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Streptococcus pyogenes

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  1. What does streptococcus pneumoniae look like?
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Gram positive (blue) diplococci (pairs)

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  1. What does Neisseria gonorrhea look like?
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Gram negative (red) cocci

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  1. What are the symptoms of Neisseria meningitides infection and what type of bacteria causes it?
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Inflammation in the lining of the brain, severe headache and stiff neck. Palpable purpura (skin is bleeding from the vessles), gram negative (red) cocci

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  1. What type of gram negative bacilli are associated with contaminated beef and chicken?
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E. Coli & Salmonella

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  1. What type of gram negative bacilli is associated with bloody diarrhea or dysentery?
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Shigella

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  1. What curable and preventable disease is the leading cause of death worldwide and what bacteria causes it? Describe the bacteria. How is it spread?
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis or TB, acid fast bacilli, air born

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  1. What are the symptoms of TB?
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Coughing, sputum production, may disseminate in immunocompromised individuals

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  1. What is XDR-TB?
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Extensive drug resistant TB

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  1. What factors determine whether a person will become infected with TB?
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Bacterial load, aerosol generation (sneezing), intensity and duration of exposure, ventilation, innate defenses, cell-mediated immunity, malnutrition

20
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  1. What determines severity of TB infection?
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Immune system

21
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  1. What type of disease is Lyme disease and what type of bacteria causes it?
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Vector born infection, The spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi

22
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  1. What are the 4 ways viruses are classified?
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Nucleic acid: DNA or RNA virus and single strand or double strand, type of tissue they infect, size and lipoprotein envelope

23
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  1. What are 3 ways viruses enter a cell?
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Binds to receptor, phagocytosed, and viral envelope fuses w/membrane

24
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  1. What are two processes of virus shedding?
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Budding and cell lysis

25
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  1. Explain viral driven carcinogenesis.
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DNA viruses hide (latent) in the DNA of cells and with oxidative stress, inflammation, and immunosuppression they are reactivated which causes the cellular changes that lead to cancer

26
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  1. Explain how bacterial superinfection kills people infected with the flu virus.
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The Respiratory immune system (cilia) becomes impaired in the flu causing the lungs to become infected with bacteria

27
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  1. Why do we get a new flu shot every year?
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The virus changes its surface antigens in a process called antigenic drift or shift

28
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  1. What causes influenza pandemics?
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A shift in antigenic variation

29
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  1. What is a common cause of pneumonia in kids that causes wheezing?
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Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)

30
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  1. What is the most common cause of deaths in infants worldwide?
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Rotavirus

31
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  1. What acute infection of the liver is caused by fecal-oral transmission?
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Hepatitis A virus

32
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  1. What chronic infection of the liver is caused by sexual contact or blood exposure?
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Hepatitis B & C

33
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  1. What might be the end result of long-term infection with Hepatitis B &C?
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cirrhosis and carcinoma of the liver

34
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  1. What are the childhood exanthems?
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Viral rashes such as measles and rubella

35
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  1. What symptoms present in measles virus infection?
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Encephalitis, rash that starts at the forehead and spreads downwar

36
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  1. What symptoms present in the rubella virus?
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Crosses the placenta and infects the fetus causing congenital malformations, rash starts on cheeks and spreads downward

37
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  1. What virus causes shingles in adults?
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Varicella

38
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  1. What virus causes severe hemorrhagic meningitis?
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Herpes virus

39
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  1. What virus can cause DNA changes in the nucleus of cells that leads to cervical cancer?
A

Human papilloma virus

40
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Bacterial Classification Shape

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On the basis of Morphology Biochemistry Genetics

King Phillip Come Out for God Sake

Stratification

Kingdom 
Phylum
Class
Order
Genus
Species
41
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What is bacteremia and septiemia?

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Bacteremia - bacteria in the blood.

Septicemia: slightly different the presence of various (pus forming) bacteria or their toxins in the bloodstream capable of generating sepsis. Blood poisoning (coll)*

Sepsis: a life-threatening physiological response to an infection which results in organ damage. Most commonly, but not always due to a bloodstream infection.

Bacteremia > Septicemia > Sepsis > Septic
Shock**

Severity and Physiological Derangement

  • Greek: poison in putrid blood
    • In shock, blood supply doesn’t meet demands
42
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Gram negative cocci

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Gram negative cocci

Gonococus - gonorrhea
Meningococus - meningitis

Neisseria meningitidis
Is the cause of spinal meningitis and can cause minor epidemics in crowded conditions

43
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5 F’s of infection spread

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Fomites, fingers, food, flies, feces

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