Comprehensive Microbial List Flashcards
Yellow Fever
- mosquito vector (South America + Africa) flavivirus -coagulative necrosis of hepatocytes
- Presence of apoptotic (Councilman) bodies in liver biopsies.
- abrupt onset of fever, chills, headache, myalgias, nausea, and vomiting.
- 3-5 days, hepatic failure with jaundice, clotting factor deficiencies, and diffuse hemorrhages.
- “Black vomit” is classic feature of severe cases.
- High mortality rate
Gonnorrhea (Neisseria Gonorrhoeae)
- P2P: sexually transmitted + perinatal transmission
- aerobic, bean-shaped, gram(-) diplococcus
- pili with IgA protease: attach to transitional epithelium of columnar/transitional epithelium of urogenital tract
- acute inflammtory response-abscecess
- Men: purulent urethral discharge, dysuria, orchitis, epididymitis (may cause infertility)
- Women: 50% asymptomatic, endocervicitis, vaginal discharge/bleeding, urethritis with dysuria, chronic salpingitis, pelvic inflammatory disease (infertility if tubes swell/blocked with pus), endometritis, Fitz-Hugh-Curtis Syndrome (healing fibrous attachement liver–parietal peritoneum)
Clonorchiasis / Liver fluke (Clonorchis sinensis)
- Asia, Vietnam, Korea
- spread by ingesting inadequately cooked freshwater fish
- flat and transparent adult
- lethal due to complications: biliary obstruction, bacterial cholangitis, pancreatitis, cholangiocarcinoma
Human Papillomavirus
- person to person contact (STD) -genital warts + cervical cancer (common manifestations)
- depressed cell-mediated immunity with spread of HPV lesions
- koilocytosis: large squamous cells with shrunken nuclei in large cytoplasmic vacuoles.
Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome
- rare transmissable spongiform encepalopathy
- dementia common feature
- some rare sporadic cases, usually familial
Paracoccidioidomycosis (South American/Brazilian Blastomycosis)
- similar to coccidiodomycosis + blastomycosis
- chronic granulomatous infection starting with lung involvement–dissemination in immunocompromised to skin, oropharynx, adrenals, and macrophages of lymphatic system.
- central + south america
- usually acute, self-limited and mild disease
Rubella (German Measels)
Epidemiology: Spreads by respiratory route. World wide locus. Not highly contagious (only 10-15% unvaccinated women remain susceptible into reproductive years). live attenuated viral vaccine prevents rubella.
Pathology: Infects repiratory epithelium and spreads to bloodstream and lymphatics. Rash results from immunologic response to virus and resolves in 3 days. Fetal infection occurs through placenta during viremic phase of maternal illness. Fetus remains persistently infected. Heart, brain, eyes most frequently affected in fetus.
Clinical Features: Febrile illness, rhinorrhea, conjunctivitis, postauricular lymphadenopathy. 30% infections asymptomatic. Fetus: pulmonary valvular stenosis, pulmonary artery hypoplasia, ventricular septal defects, and patent ductus arteriosus. Cataracts, glaucoma, and retinal defects. Microcephally and mental retardation
Shigellosis (Shigella dysenteriae)
- aerobic, gram(-) rods
- SELF-LIMITED necrotizing infection -spread oral-fecal route (fecally contaminated food/water or surfaces)–areas of poor sanitation
- self-limiting disease (3-8 days) with watery diarrhea
- 300,000 annual cases in US diarrhea/dysenteric stools, abdominal pain, tenesmus, fecal urgency
- Produces Shiga exotoxin: inhibits protein synthesis and inhibits fluid absorption in colon)–affects distal colon and sometimes distal ileum–dysentery
- infected mucosa is edematous, inflamed, eroded with presence of pseudomembrane composed of neutrophils, fibrin, and necrotic epithelium (healing complete in 10-14 days)
Meliodosis (Burkholderia pseudomallei)
- a pulmonary infection that can cause cavitary pneumonia with high fever, splenomegaly, hepatomegaly, septicemia, and shock–SEVERE
- flourishes in wet environments (Vietnam) and enters skin through lesions, burns, or wounds as well as aerosolized droplets
- incubation time months to years
- liver, spleen abscesses in 25% of infected
Mucormycosis (Zygomycosis)
- Environmental fungi, cause severe necrotizing, invasive infections that begin in sinuses and lungs (spores are inhaled)
- Rhinocerebral: creates a black crust with friable/hemorrhagic underlying tissue - spreads to vessels and brain. Tx = surgery, amphotericin B, may be fatal
- Pulmonary: Usually fatal, looks like aspergillosis (sepsis and infarction)
- Subcutaneous zygomycosis: In the tropics, hard inflamm. mass on shoulder, trunk, buttock, thigh
Mycetoma
Sporotrichosis
- Rose Gardner’s disease
- chronic granulomatous skin infection with suppurative center
African Trypanosomiasis (Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense)
- Tetse fly
- Acute febrile progresses to life threatening meningoencephalitis-3 to 6 months
- Humans only reservoir of T. brucei
- evade immune system by altering glycoprotein antigen coat–genetically determined pattern (not mutation)
- Disruption of sleep, neurological problems.
- Fatal if untreated
Paragonimiasis / Lung fluke (Paragonimus westermani)
- spread through ingestion of uncooked crab
- Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, China
- peripheral eosinophilia-distinguishing factor against TB + eggs in sputum or stools
- frequently misdiagnoses as tuberculosis
Candida (albicans)
- Usually superficial (deep infections uncommon and life threatening)
- Endogenous flora, most common precipitating factor = antibiotic use. Yeast converts to invasive hyphae or pseudohyphae form.
- Limited to mucocutaneous sites:
- Thrush = oral cavity, fuzzy white coat on tongue (maceration predisposes)
- Vulvovaginitis = thick white discharge, itchy (antibiotics, preg., diabetes, steroids)
- Sepsis and disseminated candidiasis = usually deadly (catheter, IV, dialysis)
- Endocarditis = large vegetations (IV drug use)
- Other surfaces include esophagitis, paronychia (nailbeds), diaper rash and intertrigo (opposed skin surfaces)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
- Gram-negative, aerobic, coccobacillus bacterium
- highly antibiotic-resistant
- nosocomial pneumonia, wound infections, UTI, and sepsis
- proteoglycan coat protects against ciliary action, complement, and phagocytes
- elastase, alkaline protease, cytotoxin (exotoxin A)– ADP-ribosylate/inhibit EF-2 (like diptheria toxin) facilitate tissue invasion
- ECTHYMA GANGRENOSUM: disseminated infections causes these skin lesions
- AGRESSIVE: rapid sepsis progression (exotoxin + endotoxin production)–hemorrhagic necrosis + thrombosis
Tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis hominis, M. bovis)
- Spreads by aerosols from person to person, enters into the lungs
- Forms GHON COMPLEX lesions in lungs (area of infection + lymph nodes) - contains caseous granuloma (necrotizing center) / hilar lymphadenopathy,
- Most cases of primary TB are asymptomatic. In progressive cases (kids, immunocompromised, homeless) non specific symptoms (fever, night sweats, weight loss, fatigue).
- Secondary TB (reactivation or reinfection) - T-cells are already familiar with antigen and cause necrosis and cavities in lungs. Same as primary symptoms + hemoptysis. Disease may disseminate (miliary) and become fatal.
- Todays treatment - long term antibiotics.
Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
- Zoonotic spirochete, Transmitted by ticks, reservoir = mice, deer.
- Stage 1: erythema chronicum migrans (characteristic annular red lesions), fever, malaise
- Stage 2: muscle, heart, and nerve problems, including meningitis and facial nerve palsy
- Stage 3: more joint, skin, and nerve problems - mimics rheumatoid arthritis
- Late manifestations (years later): acrodermatits chronica atrophicans, patchy atrophy and sclerosis of skin
- Diagnosis usually established using antibody titers
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Tick-borne, caused by Rickettsia rickettsii , Gram (-) coccobaccilus.
- obligate intracellular pathogen
- Serious, life-threatening illness.
- Early presentation is non-specific, febrile.
- 2-5 days after fever
- Maculopapular or petechial rash spreading from limbs toward trunk.: from infection of vascular smooth muscle and endothelium of large and small vessels
Ascariasis (Ascaris lumbricoides)
- ingestion of food contaminated with eggs
- most common helminthic infection in humans
- usually ASYMPTOMATIC
- penetrate small intestine and travel to lungs
- can cause obstruction of pancreatic or biliary ducts-pancreatitis, suppurative cholangitis, and liver abscesses.
- Ascaris pneumonia (rare): larvae fill alveolar airspaces
West Nile Virus (Flaviviridae)
- CSF with leukocytosis,CSF is clear with mild pleocytosis and elevated protein in CNS infection.
- meningoencephalitis (Medulla).
- Fever, Rash, lymphadenopathy, and polyarthropathy.
- not very infectious, but severe disease has moderate mortality
- most dangeous in elderly and immunocompromised
Streptococcus Pyogenes (Group A)
-normal bacterial flora of skin and oropharynx
-pharyngitis (strep throat), cellulitis, myositis, pneumonia, puerperal sepsis.
-exotoxins plus cytotoxins.
-Rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis–complications -
Scarlet Fever (red rash-erythrogenic toxin)
-erysipelas (erythematous swelling of skin)
-Impetigo (intraepidermal infection): spread direct contact in children
Tetanus (Clostridium Tetani)
- obligate anaerobe, gram(+), spore forming
- causes ascending paralysis
- produces potent neurotoxin tetanospasmin (blocks release of inhibitory neuropeptides) that causes lock jaw, and respiratory spasm–death
- invades through contamination of open wounds
Pinworm Infection (Enterobius vermicularis)
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