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BIO220 Lecture 9 Flashcards

Virulence II - Evolution of virulence - Evolution of influenza - Polio

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3 stages of virulence evolution

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  1. Accidental infection
  2. Virulence evolution soon after invasion
  3. Evolution of optimal virulence
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Accidental infection

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Pathogens cross species boundaries
Mostly low virulent.
This rarely happens.

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How might pathogens infect novel hosts?

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  • Infect one, but secondary infections won’t happen

- Short-lived, high virulence infection that dies quickly

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Why might accidental infections be very virulent?

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Cross species, so new host as no immune defence against novel pathogen

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Secondary infections

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Infection from host to host

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What does successful invasion require?

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Chain of host to host transmissions

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Epidemic

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Rapid increase in number of infected hosts

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What happens during stage two of virulence evolution

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Epidemic happens
Rapid evolution of pathogen and virulence
Many hosts infected

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What happens during stage 3 of virulence evolution

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Reach trade-off boundary between high & low virulence.
Evolution of pathogen slows, adaptation occurs.
Transmission frequency is optimized.

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Problem with confirming death due to flu

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Death is usually doe to associated illnesses, so difficult to confirm if flu was actually the cause.

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Once you get one strain of the flu…

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You are immune to that strain for life

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HA

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Hemagglutinin protein

Surface protein that allow virus to bind to target cell

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NA

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Surface protein that allow virus to escape from host cell and infect other cells

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Seasonal flu caused by

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Influenza A

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Pandemics are caused by…

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Influenza A

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Influenza A evolves…

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very fast

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Rapid evolution of the flu occurs at what sites on the virus?

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HA and NA sites (recognized by the immune system)

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Descendent of recent flu strains?

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From single ancestor

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What happens at antigenic sites on HA?

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Continuous nucleotide substitutions

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Where does mutations occur on HA and NA?

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Antigenic sites

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___ plays a strong role in determining influenza evolution

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Human immune system

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What do we use to make vaccines?

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The most successful strain of the current year (most number of mutations)

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How are vaccines tested?

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When new strains of the virus appear, they are tested against current vaccines. If it does not work new vaccines must be made.

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How long does it take to make a vaccine?

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6 months

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How are vaccines made?
Inactivated viruses cultured in eggs
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How are viruses used for vaccines inactivated?
Damage nucleic acid by chemicals or radiation
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What type of vaccine is used?
Trivalent vaccine: - 2 influenza A strains - H1N1, H3N2 - 1 influenza B strain
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Main point of getting a vaccine
Stop transmission to OTHER people
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3 types of the flu
1. Seasonal flu 2. Pandemic flu 3. Avian flu
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Seasonal flu
respiratory illness transmitted host-to-host. Immunity and vaccine available
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Pandemic flu
Global outbreak of a flu transmitted from host to host. No immunity.
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Pandemic flus
1. 1918 Spanish flu 2. 1957 Asian flu 3. 1968 Hong Kong flu
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Avian flu
H5N1 virus found in birds: deadly to domestic fowl and humans. No secondary infections. No immunity, no vaccines.
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Antigenic drift
Accumulation of many small mutations
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Antigenic shift
Reassortment of RNA segments from different strains = gene flow
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The Spanish Flu was due to...
antigenic drift; an avian strain that was able to secondary infect
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Most influenza A viruses are descendent of...
1918 H1N1
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The H1N1 occurred in ___ waves, and ___ happened between waves.
3 | Drift
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Who was most affected by the 1918 H1N1?
Young, old, middle age | W shaped graph
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Who is usually most affected by the flu?
Young and old people (U shaped graph)
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1918 H1N1 also appeared in what species?
Pigs
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What made up the 2009 H1N1 virus?
3 pig viruses, avian, human viruses | -> antigenic shift
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the 2009 H1N1 hit in ___ waves
2
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2009 H1N1 originated in...
Mexico
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Avian flu first appeared in...
Hong Kong
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Poliomyetlitis
Virus that causes poliomyelitis
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How do we get polio?
through the mouth
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Where does poliomyelitis replicate?
GI tract
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How is polio transmitted?
In feces
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Where does poliomyelitis affect?
GI tract, bloodstream, CNS
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what happens if the CNS is affected by polio?
Partial paralysis, maybe death
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IPV
Inactivated Polio Vaccine
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What is IPV inactivated with?
Formaldehyde
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How is IPV administered?
syringe
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OPV
Oral Polio Vaccine
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How was OPV made?
Selected for low virulence strains of polio in monkey kidneys. These live, non-virulent strains was used for vaccination.
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What are 2 advantages of OPV?
1. No needles needed | 2. Vaccinated individual can vaccinate others
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VAPP
Vaccine Associated Paralytic Polio
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What caused VAPP?
Back mutations of OPV
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What is VAPP?
After successful vaccinations, there were still some polio outbreaks (not completely gone). These outbreaks were due to VAPP.
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Sequential vaccination
IPV first, then OPV | Combination increases effectiveness, and IPV will prevent back mutations of OPV
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Where did the polio outbreak in 2000 happen?
Haiti
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Why did the polio outbreak in 2000 happen?
OPV back mutation

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