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Chapter 11 Flashcards

1
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What are the differences between bacteria that reside in our bodies and those that cause disease?

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Only normal in one part of your body

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What is disease?

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Any change from a general state of good health for an individual

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Infection refers to:

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An imbalance between the host and microbe

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Mutualism

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Both host and microbe benefit

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Commensalism

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The microbe benefits and the host is unaffected

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What is a pathogen?

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A microbe whose relationship with its host is parasitic and results in infection and disease

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How does disease occur?

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  1. An exogenous infection occurs if a pathogen enters sterile tissue
  2. An endogenous infection occurs if normal microbiota enter
  3. Primary infections occur in healthy bodies ex) flu
  4. Secondary infections occur in a body weakened by a primary infection ex) pneumonia
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Portals of entry?

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Mouth, GI, skin, urogenital

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9
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Disease progression as a microbe?

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  1. Get in
  2. Attach
  3. Survive
  4. Damage
  5. Get out
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10
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What is it called when a microbe establishes itself in a host and causes damage?

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Virulence

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11
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Disease progression in a human?

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  1. Incubation - entry of microbe
  2. Prodromal - mild signs/symptoms
  3. Acute period -signs and symptoms are most intense
  4. Period of decline - signs and symptoms subside
  5. Period of convalescence - body back to normal
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Acute diseases

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Very short ex) flu

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Chronic disease

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Linger for long periods of time and slower to develop ex) hepatitis

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14
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What is invasiveness?

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The ability of a pathogen to penetrate tissues and spread

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15
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What is virulence factors?

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Any characteristic or structure of the microbe contributes to its ability to establish itself in the host and cause damage

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16
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Examples of virulence factors?

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Streptokinase- dissolves fibrin clots and allows dissemination of the bacteria
Leukocidins-disintegrate neutrophils and macrophages (WBC)
Hemolysins-dissolves red blood cells
Biofilms- immune cells cannot reach bacterial cells covered in biofilm, protective structure

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17
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Two types of toxins:

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  1. Exotoxins

2. Endotoxins

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18
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Exotoxins

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Proteins that are secreted

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Endotoxins

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Released upon disintegration of bacteria

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Chemical composition differential characteristics between exotoxins and endotoxins?

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Exo: small particles
Endo: lipopolysaccaride of well wall

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21
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Denatured by heat differential characteristics of bacterial between exotoxins and endotoxins?

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Exo: yes
Endo: no

22
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Typical sources differential characteristics of bacteria between exotoxins and endotoxins?

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Exo: a few gram + and gram -
Endo: all gram negative bacteria

23
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Localized infection

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Microbes enter the body, remain confined to a specific tissue

Ex) boils, warts, final skin infections

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Systemic infection

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Infection spreads to several sites and tissue fluids, usually the blood

Ex) mumps, rubella, chickenpox, aids, anthrax, typhoid, syphilis

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Focal infection

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Infectious agent spreads from a local site and is carried to other tissues

Ex) TB, streptococcal pharyngitis

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Mixed infection

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Several agents establish themselves simultaneously at the infection site

Ex) human bite infections, wound infections

27
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Primary infection

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The initial infection

Ex) can be any infection

28
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Secondary infection

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A second infection caused by a different microbe, which complicates a primary infection - often a result of lowered host immune defenses

Ex) flu complicated by pneumonia, common cold complicated by bacterial otitis media

29
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Acute infection

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Infection comes rapidly, with severe but short lived effects

Ex) flu

30
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Chronic infection

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Infection that progresses & persists over a long period of time

Ex) HIV

31
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What is a sign?

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Objective evidence of diseases as noted by an observer (what you can see)

Ex) edema, granulomas and abscesses, lymphadenyitis

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What is a symptom?

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Subjective evidence of disease as senses by the patient (what u feel)

Ex) fever, pain, soreness, swelling

33
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What is a syndrome?

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A disease identified by a certain complex of signs and symptoms

34
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What is a reservoir?

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Where pathogens live

  • primary habitat in the natural world from which a pathogen originates
  • often a human or animal carrier
  • also soil, water, and plants
35
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What is a transmitter?

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Individual or object from which an infection is acquired
-syphilis: reservoir and transmitter are the same

  • hepatitis: reservoir is a human, transmitter is food
36
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Majority of animal reservoirs are….?

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Arthropods - fleas, mosquitos, flies, ticks

37
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Biological vector:

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Actively participates in a pathogens life cycle, serving as a site in which it can multiply or complete its life cycle

38
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Mechanical vector:

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Carries the microbes more or less accidentally on its body parts

Ex) hands and spreading it

39
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What’s Zoonosis?

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Transfer of microbes b/t animals & humans

40
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Transmission of infections:

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Communicable, contagious, non communicable

41
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What’s communicable?

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A disease in which an infected host can transmit the infectious agent to another host and establish infection in that host

42
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Contagious:

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A disease that is highly communicable, especially they direct contact

43
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Non-communicable

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An infectious disease that does not arise thru transmission of the infectious agent from host to host

44
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Nosocomial infection:

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Infection acquired during hospital stay

-2-4 million cases a year resulting in 90,000 deaths

45
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Epidemiology

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The study of disease in populations

46
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Prevalence:

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the total number of existing cases with respect to the entire population

47
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Incidence:

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Measures the number of new cases over a certain time period

-also called the case or morbidity rate; indicates both the rate and risk of infection

48
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Endemic:

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Disease is always present at a low level in a certain geographic area

49
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Epidemic:

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Disease occurs in a region in excess of what is normally found in that population - not usually there

50
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Outbreak:

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Is a more contained epidemic

51
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Pandemic:

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Is a worldwide epidemic

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