Bacterial Zoonotic Flashcards
Cause of Tularemia
Franciscella Tularensis
Franciscella Epidemiology
Northern Hemishpere
Summer (Ticks)
Winter (rabbitts)
Vectors: Ticks and deer flies
Characteristics of Tularemia
Fastidious, aerobe COCCOBACILLUS Facult Intracellular Like Macrophages Extended life in mud and carcasses
Method of Transmission Tularemia
Arthropod bite Direct animal contact Aerosol Incontaminated Water Undercooked meat Small Mammal Bite NO PERSON TO PERSON
Alinical of arthropod
Ulceroglandular
Inhalation
Pneumonic
INgestion of meat
Oropharyngeal
Systemic Spread
Typhoidal
Autoinoculation
Oculoglandular
Ulceroglandular Tularemia
Most Common, Rarely fatal Through Skin, Inhibits lysosome phagosome fusion; macrophages 2-5 days painful papule Lymphadenopathy Abrupt Onset Spread
Pneumonic Tularemia
High Mortality Inhaled, multiple necrotizing granulomas Broncho pneumonia, Bronchitis, Tracheitis Lobar Pneumonia Bacteremia
Oropharyngeal Tularemia
Bacteria Ingested Bloodstream Endotoxemia Fever sore throat splenomegaly
Oculoglandar
Rare form Bacteria ioculated in eye Conjuctival sac Photophobia mucopurulent discharge
Typhoidal
Mortality is HIGH
Systemic bloodstream
Sepsis
Pneumonia
Diagnosis of Tularemia
Culture aspirate lymph node
Special AGAR
4x increase in IgG
Antibodies cross react w/ brucella
Tularemia Treatment
Streptomycin
Doxyclcline–> relapse
Tularemia Prevention
Avoid Reservoirs and vecotrs
process in biohazard hood
live vaccine not great but reduces severity
Brucellosis subtypes
Abortus—-cattle
Melitensis— goats and sheep