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1
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What are the four types of antimicrobials?

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  • Antibacterial Drugs
  • Antiviral Drugs
  • Antifungal Drugs
  • Antiprotozoan Drugs/Antihelminthic Drugs
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What are the three categories (for microbiologists) of antibacterial drugs?

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  • Antibiotics
  • Semi-synthetics
  • Synthetics
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What was discovered in 1670?

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Existence of Microbes

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What happened around 1840-1850?

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Pasteur & his Germ Theory

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What happened in 1880?

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Germ Theory was proven

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What happened in 1935?

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First antibacterial- sulfa drugs

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What did Paul Ehrlich and his Magic Bullet do?

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  • development of “selective toxicity” idea

- found dyes which treated african sleeping sickness

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What did Sahachiro Hato do?

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Sahachiro Hato identified arsenic compounds that treated syphilis

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What are sulfa drugs?

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Drugs which attack the enzymes that make folic acid.

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Why are sulfa drugs significant?

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They only attack enzymes that make folic acid, and since humans don’t make folic acid, they have selective toxicity and don’t harm us.

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What was the first true antibiotic?

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Penicillin.

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What was the first synthetic antibiotic?

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Sulfa drug.

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How was penicillin discovered?

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Alexander Fleming, in 1928, observed a contaminated plate. Didn’t think it could develop more.

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What did Selman Waksman do?

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Discovered every major class of antibiotics. Grew bacteria and fungi from all over the world to see which produced antibiotics. Coined the term antibiotics.

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Why would microbes be secreting toxic compounds?

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To protect them. They want to kill off their neighbors, since it’s a big war for nutrients and space.

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What is the drug pipeline?

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Bringing a drug to the market.

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What do you need in the drug pipeline?

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  • 1 billion dollars
  • Prove it’s safe and effective
  • Clinical trials (1. Safety in humans, 2. effectiveness, 3. Relative effectiveness)
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How long does the drug pipeline take?

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Ten years.

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19
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What are the cell wall inhibitors?

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  • Penicillins
  • Polypeptides
  • Cephalosporins
  • Antimycobacterials
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20
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What does natural penicillin work against?

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Gram +

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21
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Is natural penicillin narrow or broad spectrum?

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Narrow

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22
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Is semi-synthetic penicillin narrow or broad spectrum?

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Broad

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What does clavulanic Acid (Augmentin) do?

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Will stop penicillinase, which is found in some microbes.

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What is clavulanic acid (augmentin) composed of?

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Amoxicillin and clavulanic acid.

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25
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What are the protein synthesis inhibitors?

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  • Aminoglycosides
  • Pleuromutilins
  • Tetracyclines
  • Macrolides
  • Streptogimes
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26
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What are the nucleic acid inhibitors?

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Sulfa drugs

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What are probiotics?

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Bacteria taken to replenish normal flora lost during antibiotic treatment.

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What are prebiotics?

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Nutrients taken to feed normal flora. Generally fibers that humans can’t digest.

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What are antifungals?

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Antimicrobials for fungus.

  • Fewer in number
  • Natural and synthetics
  • Broad spectrum
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What are antivirals, and what types are there?

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Antimicrobials for viruses.

  • Fusion Inhibitors
  • Nucleic acid inhibitors
  • assembly inhibitors
  • exit inhibitors
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What is the problem with antivirals?

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They’re extremely narrow spectrum, and only synthetic

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32
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What are some types of antibiotic resistance?

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Decreased permeability
Activation of drug pumps
Change in drug binding site
Use of alternate metabolic pathway

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33
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What happens with decreased permeability resistance?

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The receptor that transports the drug is altered, so the drug can’t get into the cell.

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34
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What happens in activation of drug pumps resistance?

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Specialized membrane proteins are activated and continually pump the drug out of the cell. Call drug eflex pump.

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What happens in alternate metabolic pathway resistance?

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The drug has blocked the usual metabolic pathway, so the microbe circumvents it by using an alternate, unblocked pathway that achieves the required outcome.

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What happens in change in drug binding site resistance?

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The binding site on target (ribosome) is altered so the drug has no effect.

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How are mutations spread? (There are four ways)

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  1. Conjugation
  2. Transduction
  3. Transformation
  4. Binary Fission
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What happens in transduction?

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The virus take the genetic info from bacteria

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39
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What happens in transformation?

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Microbe takes genetic info from dead organisms that are around

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40
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What happens in binary fission?

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Sexual reproduction

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41
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What happens in conjugation?

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Genetic information sharing through sex pili.

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42
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How can we stop resistance?

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  • Limit use
  • Rotate Drugs
  • Appropriate dosing
  • Drug combinations
  • New variations
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43
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Where did our normal flora come from?

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Birth
Breathing
Touch
Liquids
Solid Food
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Where are our normal flora?

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Skin, Upper Respiratory Tract, GI Tract, urethral opening, external genitals, vagina, external ear, eye canal.

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What are the three types of bacteria in humans?

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Normal Flora
Pathogen
Opportunistic Pathogen

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What is an infection, by definition?

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Microbes reproducing in the body tissues.

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What is a disease, by definition?

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Disruption of normal body processes.

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What is an infectious disease?

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Disruption of normal body processes caused by a microbe.

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What is a primary infection?

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The infection caused by the original pathogen.

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What is the secondary infection?

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The infection caused by the second pathogen, which gained entry because of the first pathogen.

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What are the three portals of entry?

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Skin
Mucous Membranes
Placenta (for a fetus)

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What is the infectious dose?

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The number (or range) of cells needed to get a disease.

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53
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What are symptoms?

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Subjective. What the patient says.

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54
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What are the signs?

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Objective. What we can see.

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55
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What are the three types of reservoirs?

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Human
Animal
Nonliving reservoirs

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56
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What are zoonoses?

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Diseases that are transmitted from animals to humans.

57
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What is a communicable disease? Example?

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Transmissible to others, but not super easily. Ex. HIV.

58
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What is a contagious disease? Example?

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Easily transmissible to others. Ex. A cold.

59
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What is a non-communicable disease? Example?

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Not transmissible from one person to another. Ex. Food poisoning.

60
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What are the three types of contact transmission?

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Direct
Indirect
Droplet

61
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What’s the difference between droplet and airborne transmission?

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Droplet is within less than three feet, airborne is more than three feet away.

62
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What is vehicle transmission?

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Transmission by an inanimate reservoir.

63
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What are three examples of vehicle transmission?

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Waterborne
Foodborne
Airborne

64
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What is vector transmission?

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Animals/arthropods that transmit organisms

65
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What is the morbidity rate?

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An incidence rate. The number of new cases in a specific time period per unit of population

66
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What is a mortality rate?

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The number of deaths from a disease.

67
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What is a sporadic?

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Never expected. Random case.

68
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What is an endemic?

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Standard rate, which you can guess and predict. Random cases all over.

69
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What is an epidemic?

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Any time there’s more than the predicted rate. Bunch of cases in one place.

70
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What is a pandemic?

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An epidemic on several continents. Bunch of cases all over.

71
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What makes a pathogen dangerous?

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Its virulence factors.

72
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What are some biological characteristics of S. aureus?

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  • Gram +
  • Facultative Anaerobe
  • Grape-like clusters
  • Halotolerant (10% NaCl)
  • Transformation
  • Approx. 80,000 deaths/year
73
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What are some virulence factors of S. aureus?

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  • It may have a capsule
  • It may have a slime layer
  • It has protein A
  • Enzymes
  • Toxins
74
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What is Protein A?

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Found on the surface of the cell wall. Binds to antibodies, facing the wrong direction. FC portion of the antibody is bound to protein A.

75
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What enzymes does S. aureus have?

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  • Coagulase
  • Staphylokinase
  • Hyaluronidase
  • Lipase
  • Nucleases
76
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What does coagulase do?

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Has the ability to clot blood, can block himself in so WBCs can’t get in.

77
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What does staphylokinase do?

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Dissolves the blood clots he made when he’s ready to leave his wall.

78
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What does lipase do?

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Break down fats. Can get in all of our cells.

79
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What does nuclease do?

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Chop up our DNA.

80
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What are cytolytic Enzymes?

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Specifically disable red blood cells.

81
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What does Panton-Valene Leukocidin do?

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Kills leukocytes

82
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What is exfoliative toxin?

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Makes layers shed, like an exfoliator.

83
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What does hyaluronidase do?

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Breaks down hyaluronic acid, which is cell cement, in order for S. aureus to be able to get in.

84
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What are enterotoxins?

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Target our enteric system, causing severe diarrhea and vomiting.

85
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How much of the population are S. aureus carriers?

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33%

86
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How is S. aureus transmitted?

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Contact transmission-both direct and indirect

  • touching and droplets
  • fomites
87
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What is the treatment of S. aureus?

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  • Penicillins, although 90% of S. aureus strands produce penicllinase
  • Methicillin/oxacillin
  • vancomycin
88
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How much of the community has MRSA in the community vs. in a hospital setting?

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  • 2% in the community

- 50% in the hospital

89
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What secondary diseases can S. aureus cause?

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  • Food poisoning
  • Skin infections/diseases
  • Pneumonia, etc.
90
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How does S. aureus food poisoning work?

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  • You eat food with S. aureus in it.
  • It was improperly cooked or stored
  • You ingest their TOXINS, not it itself after you eat it
91
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What are the symptoms of S. aureus food poisoning?

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  • Happens within 4 hours of ingestion
  • Projectile vomiting
  • Diarrhea
  • Headache
  • Sweating
  • Stomach pain
  • Last approx. 24 hours
92
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What’s the treatment for S. aurerus food poisoning?

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There is none.

93
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What are some S. aureus skin diseases?

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  • Scalded skin syndrome
  • Impetigo
  • Folliculitis
  • Boils
  • Carbuncles
94
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What happens with Scalded Skin Syndrome?

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  • Exfoliative toxins, and hyyaluronidase are made
  • Blisters, skin peeling, fever
  • Dehydration
  • Secondary bacterial infections
95
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Who does scalded skin syndrome effect?

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Children younger than five.

96
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What is the treatment for scalded skin syndrome?

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Antibiotics and liquids/electrolytes

97
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What happens with Impetigo?

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  • 80% of the time, it’s caused by S. aureus
  • Blisters on patches on skin
  • Puss and scabs with white BCs and bacteria
  • Common in children
  • Cured with antibiotics
98
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What happens with folliculitis?

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The hair follicle’s entrance is blocked, so bacteria is trapped inside the hair follicle.

99
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What is a boil?

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Folliculitis, but gone far. Very common and painful. Treat with antibiotics.

100
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What are carbuncles?

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Coalescing of several boils. Way too many cytokines are being released.

101
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What is special about S. aureus skin diseases?

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They’re pyogenic, meaning that they cause puss.

102
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What is sepsis?

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Systemic response to a microbial infection.

103
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What happens during sepsis?

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Fever, increased pulse rate, increased respiratory rate, alkalination, increase in WBC count, low BP,

104
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Why is sepsis so serious?

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Organs start shutting down.

105
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What is septic shock?

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Sepsis associated with severe refractory hypotension, multiple organ failure.

106
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How does influenza get in?

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Receptors found only in the upper respiratory tract. Endocytosis, replicates in our nucleus, released from cell by budding.

107
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What makes you ache everywhere when you have influenza?

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Tons of cytokines released all over your body.

108
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What are your symptoms caused by when you have influenza?

A

Our immune system from t-cytotoxic cell destruction.

109
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What is the morbidity rate of influenza?

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5-20%

110
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What is the mortality rate of influenza?

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3000-48000 cases

111
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What actually causes death with influenza?

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A secondary infection like pneumonia.

112
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What treatment is there for influenza?

A

Antivirals. NO ASPIRIN

113
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What type of antivirals are there?

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  • Neuraminidase inhibitors

- M2 Blockers

114
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What do neuraminidase inhibitors do?

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Block a virus’s spikes.

115
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What is antigenic drift?

A

Influenza’s accumulation of mutations. This is normal evolution that’s bound to happen.

116
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What is antigenic shift?

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Genetic recombination involving reassortment of genomes. Ex. Mixing human and bird virus through conjugation in a pig to make a new virus.

117
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What is significant about the 1918 Influenza?

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40 million people died. It occured in people ages 20-40, when usually it’s the very old and the very young. Effected healthy people because the particular influenza strain caused the body to produce too many cytokines, called a cytokine storm.

118
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What kind of vaccines for influenza are there?

A

Inactivated
Recombinant
Attenuated

119
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What kinds of inactivated vaccines are there?

A
  • Tri-valent=3 strains

- Quadri-valent=4 strains

120
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What is an inactivated vaccine?

A

Dead pieces of the virus.

121
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What is a recombinant virus?

A

Genes of the virus put into another organism

122
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What is an attenuated virus?

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Live virus-found in mists and sprays

123
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What is the biggest way to prevent yourself from getting influenza?

A

Get an annual vaccination

124
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How long does influenza last on hard surfaces (hard fomites)?

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Two days

125
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How long does influenza last on soft surfaces (soft fomites)?

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12 hours

126
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How long does influenza last on hands?

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5 minutes

127
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What are some biological characteristics of C. diff?

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  • Gram +
  • Endospore former
  • Anaerobic
  • Opportunistic pathogen
128
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What are your risk factors for getting C. diff?

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Antibiotic treatment
Immunocompromised
Extended hospital stay
Nursing Home stay

129
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What do Toxins TcdA and TcdB do?

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They target tight junctions and chemotaxis neutrophils, respectively.

130
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What is pseudomembranous colitis?

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Inside of colon has been being eaten away.

131
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What are the symptoms of pseudosmembranous colitis?

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Diarrhea
Cramping
Bloody/Pussy stool
Perforated bowel

132
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What are the treatments of C. diff?

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Discontinue previous antibiotics
Vancomycin/Metronidazole
Probiotics
Surgery
Fecal transplant
Bleach-based cleaner
133
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What was the former name of HIV?

A

Slim’s Disease

134
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What are some of the biological characteristics of the HIV virus?

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  • +RNA virus
  • Retrovirus
  • Enveloped
  • Infects macrophages and T helper cells
135
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How does HIV enter human cells?

A

Membrane fusion

136
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What viral enzymes needed for replication?

A

Reverse transcriptase
Integrase
Protease

137
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When does HIV turn into AIDS?

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When he’s killed enough of your T helper cells.

138
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What is the requirement of T helper cell count to have AIDS?

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Less than 200 T helper cells per microliter of blood

139
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How do T helper cells die?

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They get sticky and membranes fuse together. Called syncytia. Immune system them attacks syncytia.

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