Chapter 156 - Miscellaneous Bacterial Infections With Cutaneous Manifestations Flashcards
Most common form of anthrax associated with lowest morbidity
Cutaneous anthrax
Natural pathogens of anthrax (3)
Sheep
Goats
Cattle
Anthrax is CDC Category __
A
There is no potential for human to human transmission of inhalational anthrax.
True or False
True
MC route of transmission of anthrax
Percutaneous inoculation of spores
Injectional anthrax is more __ than cutaneous anthrax with ___ mortality rate.
Insidious without eschar
Higher
Major virulence factors of anthrax (2)
- Poly-D-glutamic acid capsule
- Tripartite anthrax toxin
(Protective antigen, lethal factor, edema factor)
Best target for vaccines or immunotherapy of anthrax
Protective antigen
True pustules are pathognomonic for anthrax.
True or False
False, rare
‘Malignant pustule’
Important feature for differentiating anthrax from brown recluse spider bite
Painless necrotic ulcer
Naturally occurring anthrax is treated with
Penicillin
Doxycycline
Weaponized anthrax or bioterrorism associated anthrax is treated with
Fluroquinolones, even in pregnant or on children
FDA -license humanized monoclonal antibody approved for cases of inhalational anthrax
Raxibacumab
Smears and cultures from vesicles or from the necrotic tissue beneath the eschar became negative within __ hours of initiation of penicillin therapy for anthrax
6
Mortality rate of untreated cutaneous anthrax is roughly
5-20%
Most common form of tularemia in the United States
Ulceroglandular disease
Most common tick vectors of tularemia (3)
Dermacentor variabilis
Amblyomma americanun
Ixodes
Mosquitoes may serve as mechanical vectors of waterborne variant of tularemia (F. Tularensis holarctica)
True or False
True
Type of Francisella that infect patients with inherited defects in phagocytosis such as chronic granulomatous disease
Francisella philomiragia
Painful red ulcer evolving into a necrotic chancriform ulcer covered by a black eschar with regional lymphadenopathy
Tularemia
Culture of F. Tularensis
Cysteine-supplemented blood agar
Treatment for tularemia (3)
Aminoglycoside (Gentamicin) 10 days
Fluroquinolone 10 days
Doxycycline 15 days
Prophylaxis for tularemia
Ciprofloxacin
Types of tularemia (5)
Ulceroglandular: 5% mortality rate Oculoglandular Oropharyngeal Typhoidal: 30% mortality rate Pulmonary: 30% moratlity rate
Most common form of plague; Form of plague with highest mortality
Bubonic plague
Pneumonic plague