Diseases Flashcards
Tuberculosis:
rod-shaped
aerobic
slow growing
mycobacterium tuberculosis
how long does it take for mycobacterium tuberculosis to form a colony?
two weeks
in 2022, there were 1.5 cases per 100,000 people of ______ in IN
tuberculosis
contains waxes of 60 to 90 carbon mycolic cycles
mycobacterial cell walls
mycobacterial cell wall contain _________ lipids (cord factor)
glycolipid
mycobacterial cell walls are _________.
basic fuchsin dye cannot be removed from cell by aid alcohol treatment
acid-fast
tuberculosis was known as “_________”
consumption
mycobacterium tuberculosis was identified by ___________ ________
Robert Koch
tuberculosis is spread by __________-____-___________
person-to-person
tuberculosis can be spread by animal to ______ (M. bovis)
person
mycobacterium tuberculosis is a _________ pathogen
professional
always there to harm you and to replicate
always causes an immune response
professional pathogen
1-10 bacteria can lead to ______
disease
- host inhales
- immune cells recruited, phagocytose bacteria
- bacteria get to lung tissue
-TB - bacteria survive, replicate
-Granulomas
-ghon complex (calcified)
Primary infection
mycobacterium are still ____ in the ghon complex
alive
Ghon complex:
-months to decades
-immune cells fail to contain TB replication
-bacterial dissemination: lung, bloodstream, other organs
active disease
TB epidemiology:
____ of world population infected
-most common: homeless, elderly, malnourished, prisons
1/3
PPD: purified protein derivative
-injected into skin
-look for reaction
detection
tuberculin can not cause ____
TB
if you got a positive result from PPD: you follow up with
chest X-ray
blood culture
DNA probes
miracle drug to treat TB in 50s
streptomycin
if you have had the vaccine & your PPD is positive
then your immune system interacts w vaccine and protects you from TB
You can not have TB from the _____ (vaccine)
tuberculin
inadequate therapy:
non-compliance
forgetting
erratic therapy
suboptimal dosage
Multi-drug resistant TB