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Emerging infections Flashcards

1
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What is an emerging infection?

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Not occurred in human before
Occurred previously but only effected a small amount of peeps
Occurred through history but only recognized as a distinct disease due to an infectious agent

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Where do most emerging infections come from?

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Animals - zoonosis (75%)

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What has contributed to emergence?

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Mass food production systems (HUS - E. coli)
Evolution of a strain (cholera)
Pig-duck stuff (pandemic flu) 
Refusal of vax (pertussis) 
Break in health measures (rabies)
Antibiotic resistance (TB)
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Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Coronavirus (CoV) characteristics

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Enveloped (+) ssRNA virus

Readily transmissible and serve in the 21st century

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5
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Describe the emergence of SARS.

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Chinese people on 2002 left in 2003
Spread via international travel
Fatal in 15% unless over 50 yrs (50%)

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6
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What is the natural reservoir for SARS?

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Bats

Intermed host = Palm civet

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What is the pathogenesis of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)?

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Beta-coronavirus

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How is MERS transmitted?

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Person-to-person

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How is MERs prevented?

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Surveillance for severe acute respiratory infections (SARI)

Diagnostic testing

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What was the emergence of A/H1N1 swine flu?

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Mixing vessel hypothesis
2009
Triple reassortment in swine

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How was mostly effected by A/H1N1?

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Young people

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How is A/H1N1 prevented?

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Vaccine

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What are the subtypes of A/H5N1 avian influenza (AI)?

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H5 and H7

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What are the factors contributing to A/H5N1?

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Globalization and international trade
Marketing and farming practices
Wild birds
HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza)

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How is A/H5N1 transmitted?

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Direct contact with gross birds and poop

Farm movement of birds

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What are the clinical presentations of A/H5N1?

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Aggressive clinical course with deterioration and high fatality
Incubation 2 -8 days
Early symptoms: LRT illness, respiratory distress, sometimes bloody sputum

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How is A/H5N1 prevented?

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Surveillance measures

Biosecurity

18
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When did cholera re-emerge?

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What is the pathogenesis of cholera?

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Toxigenic O1 and O139 bacteria
Free-living organism
Found in fresh and brackish water

20
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What are the clinical presentation of cholera?

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Mild cholera: asymptomatic or causes a mild gastroenteritis
Severe cholera: Acute, profuse watery diarrhea “rice water”, vomit
Hypovolemic shock and death
Tachycardia, loss of skin turgor, dry mucous, hypotension
Muscle cramps, electrolyte imbalances

21
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How is cholera prevented?

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Improved sanitation
Education of the people
Currently no vaccine

22
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When did cholera emerge in the US?

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Transportation of bird, mosquitoes

23
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How is cholera transmitted?

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Bite of mosquito
Culex pipiens (east US)
Culex tarsalis (midwest + west)
Culex quinquefasciatus (southeast)
24
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What is the clinical presentation of pertussis?

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Effects infants and young children
7 - 10 day incubation
Mild fever, runny nose, paroxysmal cough with whooping, apnoea
Pneumonia

25
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How can bordatella pertussis be prevented?

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DTaP - vaccine for babies

26
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What is the treatment for Bordatella pertussis?

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Antibiotics

27
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What were the factors in the emergence of Pertactin-Negative bordatella pertussis in 2013?

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Outbreak and epidemics when the vaccine wears off

Possibly change in pertussis vaccine

28
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Is the pertactin-negative pertussis antibiotic resistant?

29
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What is the vaccine resistant genotype of pertussis?

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prn2-ptxP3

30
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What are some of the issues with current vaccination of the prn2-ptxP3?

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Maybe be causing powerful clones

Vaccine uptake near 95% but needs frequent boosters

31
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When did S. aureus develop resistance to penicillin?

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1940s-1950s

32
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What class of penicillin-like antibiotics is Methicillin resistant to?

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Beta-lactams

33
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When was the first documented case of vanc resistant S. aureus?

34
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What is N. gonorrhea resistant to?

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Quinolone, penicillin and tetracyclin

3rd gen cehalosporins in Japan and US

35
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Where is Enterococci normally found?

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Human Gi and female genital tract

36
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What are the types of Enterococci that are problematic?

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E. faecium and E. faecalis

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How is Enterococci transmitted?

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Person-to-person by body fluid
Indirect by hand contact w/o open wounds or fomites
Nosocomial infections

38
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When did vancomycin resistant enterococci appear?

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1986, first case 1989

39
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What are the two best antibiotics that doesn’t work against multidrug-resistant TB?

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Isoniazid and rifampin

40
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Why is extensively drug-resistant TB dangerous?

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Less common but resistant to isoniazid and rifampin and most alternative drugs

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