Bacteria V Flashcards
trench fever
bartonella qunitana
-lice spread
fever, headache, backache, rash, leg pain, relapses
trench fever
-bartonella quintana
cat scratch fever
bartonella henselae
-fever and malaise
bacillary angiomatosis
bacillary angiomatosis
proliferation of small vessels in skin of AIDS patients
- with bartonella henselae
- cat scratch fever
Q fever
coxiella burnetti
- fever, sweats, pneumonia
- NO rash
fever, sweats, pneumonia - NO rash
Q fever - coxiella burnetti
human ehrlichiosis
like rocky mtn spotted but no rash
-from tick bite
gram - corkscrew
spirochetes
-treponema, leptosira, borrelia
syphilis
treponema pallidum
stages of syphilis
primary - painless chancre
secondary - bacteremia and rash palms, soles, oral cavity and condyloma latum (wart like lesions)
latent - asymptomatic
tertiary - 6-40 years later - gummas, cardio sx, neurosyphilis
neurosyphilis
in tertiary stage
- subacute meningitis
- meningovascular
- tabes dorsalis - ataxia, lose DTRs
- general paresis - psychosis
arsyll robertson pupil
constricts during accomodation, not with light
in syphilis
saddle nose, saber shins, mulberry molars, teeth
congenital syphilis
-late stage
congenital syphilis
early - infected pregnant woman, rash, condyloma latum, runny nose
late - saddle nose, saber shins, molars and teeth, 8th nerve deafness
diagnosis of syphilis
darkfield microscopy
VDRL and RPR tests
nonspecific - lipids released during syphilis infection
FTA-ABS test
specific - for treponema infection - syphilis
syphilis rules of 6’s
6 axial filaments 6 week intubation 6 weeks to heal ulcer 6 weeks to secondary 66% latent resolves 6 years to tertiary
jarish herxhemier phenomenon
worsening of symptoms with start of antibiotics
-release of pyrogen
treponema pallidum endemicum
endemic syphilis (bejel)
- africa middle east
- skin ulcers with gummas
treponema pallidum pertenue
yaws
- moist tropics
- gangosa - face disfigurement
yaws
gangosa - face disfigurement
-treponema pallidum pertenue
bejel
endemic syphilis
- treponema pallidum endemicum
- africa and middle east
- skin ulcers with gummas
pinta
treponema pallidum cardeum
latin america
-red lesion > blue > white
treponema pallidum cardeum
latin america
- pinta
- red lesion > blue > white
lyme disease
borrelia burgdorferi
- number one cause of tick-borne illnes in US
- ixodes tick
stahes of lyme disease
early localized - erythema chronicum migrans - spreads from bite site
early disseminated - skin, NS, heart, joints, lesions on body, CN palsies, peripheral neuropathy, cardiac abnormalities
late - chronic arthritis