Ch. 23: Microbial Diseases Of The Cardiovascular And Lymphatic System

Question 1

What’s septic shock?

Answer 1

• Mostly hypovolemic, histamine makes the capillaries leaky which causes the drop in blood volume
• SIRS (Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome)

Question 2

Anthrax is caused by?

Answer 2

Bacillus anthracis, it’s the spores you have to worry about

Question 3

What are the two most famous pathogenic (genre) endospore formers?

Answer 3

Clostridium and bacillus

Question 4

What are the three types of anthrax?

Answer 4

• Cutaneous anthrax
• GI anthrax
• Inhalation (pulmonary) anthrax

Question 5

What is pulmonary edema?

Answer 5

Fluid in the lungs

Question 6

What causes pulmonary edema?

Answer 6

Capillaries leakage, 100% mortality rate if untreated

Question 7

What’s GAS gangrene caused by?

Answer 7

Clostridium perfringens

Question 8

How do you treat GAS gangrene?

Answer 8

Antibiotics and hyperbaric chamber

Question 9

What does a hyperbaric chamber do?

Answer 9

Big tank with pressurized air, you’re forcing air into the wounds, 02 is toxic to anaerobes

Question 10

Who’s at risk for GAS gangrene?

Answer 10

Diabetics and chronic wounded individuals

Question 11

What are the two types of black plague?

Answer 11

1) Bubonic plague

2) Pneumonic plague

Question 12

What causes Lyme disease?

Answer 12

• Ticks

* Dramatically under reported because the symptoms often mild and go away for a while

Question 13

Where does the lymphatic system empty out?

Answer 13

Superior Vena Cava

Question 14

What does Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF) include?

Answer 14

• Ebola
• Lassa
• Marburg
• Yellow Fever
• Dengue hemorrhagic fever
• Can progress to a hemorrhagic disease

Question 15

What are the signs and symptoms of VHF?

Answer 15

• Sometimes bleeding through the orophage
• Catatonic state (inability to move normally)
• Extreme weight loss
• Sclera of the eye turn a Crimson color

Question 16

How is dengue fever spread?

Answer 16

Aedes aegypti, same mosquito the spreads yellow fever, chikungunya and Zika virus

Question 17

Dengue fever is often called?

Answer 17

• Break bone fever, it’s rarely fatal but you get fever, lethargic, and your joints hurt
• It’s on the rise worldwide 40 million cases

Question 18

What’s one complication of malaria?

Answer 18

Anemia

Question 19

What’s the best way to diagnose the malaria?

Answer 19

Blood smear and if you see any protozoans including the ring stage in the blood smear, it’s a definite diagnosis.

Question 20

What are the three different stages of Lyme disease?

Answer 20

1) Muscular rash
2) Neurological complications (Facial tics, Facial paralysis, meningitis encephalitis)
3) Athro symptoms (arthritis in the joins)

Question 21

What are the different types of gangrene?

Answer 21

Dry
Systemic Organ
GAS (most common)

Question 22

What bacteria causes Lyme Disease?

Answer 22

A spirochete, Borrelia burgolorferi

Question 23

What’s lymphangitis?

Answer 23

Inflammation of the lymph vessels

Question 24

Sepsis

Answer 24

Type of SIRS

Fever, chills, tachycardia, hypotension

Question 25

Neonatal sepsis

Answer 25

Group B Strep infection that newborns are at high risk for.

Can lead to sepsis

Question 26

Common pathogen of TSS?

Answer 26

Staph and Strep

Question 27

Pathogen that causes Malaria?

Answer 27

Plasmodium spp.

Question 28

What pathogen causes Lyme Disease?

Answer 28

Borrelia burgolorferi

Question 29

Protozoan that causes Malaria?

Answer 29

Plasmodium falciparum