CH8 Flashcards
Staphylococcus food poisoning: an intoxication caused by the ingestion of enterotoxin produced by staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococci properties (causing the infection and disease):
Fairly high resistance to heat
Vegetative cells can tolerate 60 degree Celsius
Resistance to drying and radiation (Survive on skin surface)
Resistance to osmotic pressure (Grow in food)
Staphylococcus food poisoning:
S. aureus readily enters food
If allowed to incubate in food, they will reproduce and release _____in the food -> Leads to staphylococcal intoxication
This condition is named a _______
Toxin of serological type A (heat-stable) accounts for most of the cases
Toxin is _________
Toxin triggers the brain’s ____reflex centre, and have symptoms: ____
enterotoxin, temperature abuse,
heat stable and can survive 30 minutes of boiling,
vomiting,
abdominal cramps & diarrhea
How to treat Staphylococcus food poisoning for most patient
Fluid replacement, anti-spasmodic & antiemetics for symptomatic control
(Antibiotics not useful as the toxin is not affected by antibiotics)
Poliomyelitis
caused by the polioviru
transmitted by ________
the ingestion of water containing feces with the virus
Rabies
Initial symptoms:_____________
Diagnosed from body fluids with the direct fluorescent-antibody (DFA) test
Post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP): _______
Muscle spasms of the mouth and pharynx, hydrophobia (Fear of water),
Vaccine + Immune Globulin
Rabies shots include:
A fast-acting shot (rabies immune globulin) to prevent the virus from infection you ->This is given if you have not had the rabies vaccine -> Injection is given _______ (body site)
asap
A series of rabies vaccination to help your body learn to identify & fight the rabies virus -> Injected in arm -> ___ injections over 14 days (If previously not vaccinated) / 2 injections over the first three days
near the area where the animal bit you, 4
