Exam 2 Flashcards

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What are examples of pathogens that enter via the skin

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  • S aureus, Candida albicans, pseudomonas aeginosa via mechanical defects
  • HIV, Hep viruses via needle sticks
  • Yellow fever, plague, Lyme disease, malaria, rabies via animal bites
  • schistosoma via direct penetration
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What are examples of pathogens that enter via the GI tract

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  • vibrio cholerae and giardia via attachment and local proliferation
  • shigella, salmonella and campylobacter via attachment and local invasion
  • poliovirus via uptake through M cells
  • Protozoa and helms
  • hep A, rotavirus and norovirus (defense: pancreatic enzymes)
  • Clostridium difficile
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What are examples of infections that spread through nerves

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Varicella zoster, rabies

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What is an example of a microbe that spreads within inflammatory cells

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M tuberculosis in macrophages

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What are the host defenses against infection in each of the systems

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Skin: tough keratinized barrier, low pH, fatty acids
Respiratory: alveolar macrophages, mucociliary clearance, IgA
GI: acidic gastric pH, viscous mucus, pancreatic enzymes and bile, defensins, IgA, normal flora
GU:repeated flushing and acidic environment created by commensal flora

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What are examples of mechanisms of antigenic variation

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  • Hight mutation rate: HIV, influenza virus
  • Genetic reassortment: influenza virus, rotavirus
  • Genetic rearrangement: BOrrelia burgdorferi, neisseria gonorrhoeae, trypanosomiasis, plasmodium
  • Large diversity of serotypes: rhinoviruses, strep pneumoniae
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7
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How do microbes resist phagocytosis

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Producing a capsule

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What are the viral STDs

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  • herpes simplex virus: primary and recurrent herpes, neonatal herpes
  • Hep B
  • HPV:cancer of penis, cervical and vulvar cancer, condyloma acuminatum in both females and males
  • HIV
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What are the bacterial STDs

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  • chlamydia trachomatis: urethritis, epididymitis and proctitis in males, urethral syndrome, cervicitis, bartholinitis, salpingitis in females, lymphogranuloma venereum in both
  • Ureaplasma urealyticum: urethritis in males
  • neisseria gonorrhoeae: epididymitis, prostatitis, urethral stricture in males, cervicitis, endometritis, bartholinitis, salpingitis, infertility, ectopic pregnancy in females, urethritis, proctitis, pharyngitis, disseminated infection in both
  • Treponema pallidum: syphylis
  • Haemophilus ducreyi: chancroid in both
  • Klebsiella granulomatous: granuloma inguinal (donovanosis) in both
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What are the Protozoa that cause STDs

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-trichomonas vaginalis: urethritis, balanitis in males, vaginitis in females

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What is an example of a microbe that causes purulent infection

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Staphylococcal pneumonia

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What are examples of microbes that cause tissue necrosis

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Clostridium perfringens and hep B

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What are the staining techniques used for different kinds of infections agents

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  • gram stain: bacteria
  • Acid-fast stain: mycobacteria, nocardiae
  • silver stains: fungi, legionellae, pneumocystis
  • periodic acid schiff: fungi, amoebae
  • mucicarmine: cryptococci
  • giemsa: campylobacter, leishmaniae, malaria parasites
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What are koplik spots

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Ulcerated mucosal lesions in oral cavity seen in measles: marked by necrosis, neutrophilic exudate, and neovasculariziation

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What are warthin finkeldey cells

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Multinucleate giant cells found in the lymphoid organs in measles: have eosinophilic nuclear and cytoplasmic inclusion bodies; also found in lung and sputum

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What are the corneal lesions caused by HSV

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Herpes epithelial keratitis: virus induced cytolysis of superficial epithelium
Herpes stromal keratitis: infiltrates of mononuclear cells around keratinocytes and endothelial cells leading to neovascularization, scarring, opacification of cornea and blindness (caused by immune reaction, not HSV itself)

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17
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When does the chickenpox rash typically occur

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2 weeks after respiratory infection

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18
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What is Ramsay hunt syndrome

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If varicella zoster involves geniculate nucleus: causes facial paralysis

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What is the frequent disease presentation of streptococcus pyogenes

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Pharyngitis

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What is the common disease presentation of vibrio cholerae and enterotoxigenic E. coli

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Noninflammatory gastroenteritis

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What it’s eh common disease presentation of shigella, salmonella, campylobacter jejuni, and enterohemorrhagic E. coli

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Inflammatory gastroenteritis

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What are the common disease presentations of ecoli, pseudomonas aeruginosa, enterococcus species in the GU tract

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UTI

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23
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What does staphylococcus aureus cause in the skin

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Abscess, cellulitis

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What does steptococcus pyogenes cause in the skin

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Impetigo, erysipelas, necrotizing fasciitis

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What does clostridium perfringens cause in the skin

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Gas gangrene

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26
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What does bacillus anthracis cause in the skin

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Cutaneous anthrax

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What are the effects of staphylococcal infection on different systems

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Resp infection, toxic shock syndrome, osteomyelitis, skin infections (surrounded around hair follicle)-> boils and carbuncle, endocarditis, food poisoning *S aureus -> pyogenic inflammation

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What is staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

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Called Ritter disease; usually in children with infection of nasopharynx of skin; sunburn like rash that spreads over entire body that can lead to skin loss

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What is erysipelas

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Caused by strep pyogenes; characterized by r avidly spreading erythematous cutaneous swelling

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30
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What is scarlet fever associated with

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Strep pyogenes

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31
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Is listeria monocytogenes gram positive or negative

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Positive bacillus

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32
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What is the classification of Bacillus anthracis

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Spore forming gram positive rod shaped bacterium

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33
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What is the classification of pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Aerobic gram negative bacillus

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What is the difference between the ulcers/rashes formed by haemophilus ducreyi and klebsiella granulomatis

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Klebsiella: painless

H. Ducreyi: painful

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What do the masses formed by Klebsiella sometimes form

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Urethral, vulvar, or anal strictures from scarring

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What is unique about TB in immunocompromised people

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Do not form granuloma a

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What is the hallmark of mycobacterium avium in HIV patients

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Abundant acid-fast bacilli within macrophages

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What are the stages of the protean manifestations of syphilis

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Primary: chancre
Secondary: palmar rash, LAD, condyloma Latum, neurosyphilis
Latent
Tertiary: Neurosyphilis (asymptomatic, meningovascular, tabes dorsalis, general paresis), aortitis (aneurysms, aortic regurgitation), gummas (hepar lobatum, skin, bone)

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39
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Contrast gram positive and negative bacteria

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Positive: thick cell wall; envelope has outer cell wall of complex cross linked peptidoglycan
Negative: thin cell wall

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40
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What microbes found in the GI tract can also be spread by oral/anal sex

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Shigella and E histolytica

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41
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What is the difference between erythema migrans, multiforme and marginatum

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Migrans:single lesion
Multiform: multiple lesions
Marginatum: snake-like

42
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Which group of strep is normal in GI tract

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D

43
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Which organisms cause necrotizing pneumonia

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Rhodococcus equi, klebsiella pneumoniae, staphoreus

44
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How does staphaureus become resistant to penicillin

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Contains beta lacrimal which breaks it down

45
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What is Waterhouse-friederichsen?

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Caused by neisseria meningitis -> b/l adrenal hemorrhage

46
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Which STI causes one joint arthritis if left untreated

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Gonorrhoeae

47
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Which microbe is associated with rose spots

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Salmonella typhi

48
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Which microbe is associated with Guillian-Barre

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Campylobacter jejuni

49
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Does haemophilus ducreyi cause a painful or painless ulcer

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Painful

50
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What is a characteristic of late stage syphilis

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Dissecting aortic aneurysm

51
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Describe the micro characteristics of staph aureus

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Gram positive, catalase positive, coagulase positive, beta hemolytic, ferments mannitol

52
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What is the virulence factor of staph aureus

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Protein A->component of cell wall; binds Fc portion of Igs; prevents opsonization and phagocytosis

53
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Where dose staph aureus colonize

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Nares

54
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What diseases does staph aureus cause

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  1. ) inflammation -> pneumonia with patchy infiltrate, most commonly post viral infection; septic arthritis, impetigo, faruncles, boils, abscesses, rapid onset acute endocarditis *tricuspid valve, osteomyelitis *most common cause
  2. )toxin mediated dz: scalded skin syndrome (protease; skin peels off), TSS, rapid onset food poisoning (more vomiting)
  3. ) MRSA: alters penicillin binding protein
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What does Staph epidermidis often infect

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Artificial joints; indwelling Cath important source of infection; *endocarditis in artificial valves; normal skin flora; novobiocin sensitive; cat positive, urease positive, coagulase negative

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What does staph saprophyticus cause

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UTI in sexually active F; cat positive, urease positive, coagulase negative

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Describe the micro characteristics of strep A pyogenes

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Encapsulated made of hyaluronic acid which makes it non-immunogenic; beta hemolytic

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What does strep pyogenes cause

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Impetigo ‘honey crusted’; pharyngitis, cellulitis, erysipelas

  • Rheumatic fever: M protein in cell wall *main virulence factor; interferes with opsonization; generates humoral response which makes abs to similar structure (myosin in heart) *mitral valve; ONLY after pharyngitis infections; Symptoms Joints (polyarthritis) O - heart problems, Nodules on forearms or knees, Erythema marginatum, Sydenham chorea: rapid involuntary movements
  • post strep glomerulonephritis: type III rxn; dark brown urine, facial swelling, 2 wks after onset after pharyngitis OR skin infection, virulence: streptolysin O: lyse RBCs; streptokinase: convert plasminogen->plasmin, DNAase: depollymerize DNA
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What are the infections caused by strep pyogenase toxin (SPE)`

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  • Scarlett fever: reddening and swelling of tongue (strawberry tongue), pharyngitis, widespread rash that spares face
  • toxic shock - like syndrome
  • necrotizing fasciitis: SpeB
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What is strep agalactiae

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Group B strep; meningitis in infants; + hippurate test (hydrolyzes sodium hippurate); poly sacc capsule; CAMP + *distinguishes from other strep -> arrowhead zone of hemolysis; beta hemolytic; swab vaginal canal at 35 wks and prevent with penicillin

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Describe the micro characteristics of strep pneumoniae

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Alpha hemolytic** (also strep viridans); partial hemolysis (outer has green hue); encapsulated (polysaccharide) *major virulence factor; optochin sensitive; diplococci; bile soluble

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What does strep pneumoniae cause

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Production of rust colored sputum, MOPS (meningitis, otitis media, pneumonia, sinusitis); virulence factor: cleaves IgA

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Describe strep viridans

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No capsule; optochin resistant; bile resistant; alpha hemolytic, associated with dental caries; affects damaged heart valves (adheres to fibrin aggregates and platelets)

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Describe enterococcus

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Inhabits intestines; 2 species: Faecalis *more common and Faecium *more serious; can grow in NaCl; 3 main infections: UTI, endocarditis, biliary tree infections *do you love trees?; nosocomial

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What is splenomegaly usually associated with

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Viral syndromes

66
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What is a positive heterophil ab test diagnostic for

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Mono; CMV can give negative test but still cause mono-like

67
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Does mycoplasma hominis cause neutrophilic or lymphocytosis

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Lymphocytosis because not acute pyogenic bacteria

68
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What does the CSF in acute bacterial meningitis look like

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Turbid color, increased opening pressure, decreased CSF glucose, increased protein *group B strep, ecoli, listeria, neisseria

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Describe the features of bacillus anthracis

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Gram positive bacilli; causes black Eschar (necrotic cutaneous lesion with surrounding erythematous ring); encapsulated -> made of protein *poly D glutamate; obligate aerobe; spore former

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What are the toxins of bacillus anthracis

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  • lethal factor: exotoxin; protease that cleaves MAPK -> necrosis
  • edema factor: adenylate cyclase increases cAMP -> fluid
  • both need to be present to cause symptoms
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Describe pulmonary anthrax

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Starts with dry cough, progresses to hemorrhagic mediastinitis and widened mediastinum

72
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Describe bacillus cereus

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Gram positive bacilli; spore forming *food poisoning in reheated fried rice

73
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Describe the features of clostridium tetani

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Gram positive bacilli, obligate anaerobe, spore forming, found in soil, rigid paralysis; Risus Sardonicus *evil grin -> lock jaw; extension of back *opisthotonus; toxin - tentanospasmin -> travels retrograde to spinal cord; protease that cleaves SNARE and inhibits release of GABA and glycine *renshaw neurons

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Describe the features of clostridium botulinum

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Gramp positive bacilli; obligate anaerobe spore former; flaccid paralysis (descending) only peripheral nerves; cleaves SNARE -> attacks motor neurons that release Ach; *babies, think honey; causes floppy baby syndrome (ingestion of spores) in adults ingestion of preformed toxin

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Describe the features of clostridium difficile

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Gram positive spore forming nosocomial infection; clindomycin inducive to infection; exotoxins: A (bind to brush border and cause inflammation and cell death -> watery diarrhea) and B (depolymerizes actin -> enterocyte death and necrosis -> yellowish grey exudate that forms pseudomembrane covering colonic mucosa); diagnosis: toxin in stool; obligate anaerobe

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Describe the features of clostridium perfringens

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Gram positive bacilli, associated with military combat and motorcycle wounds; spore forming obligate anaerobe; causes gas gangrene (alpha toxin inhibits lecithinase and damages cell membrane; zone of double RBC hemolysis) and food poisoning (late onset diarrhea)

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Describe the characteristics of corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Gram positive bacilli; club shaped; metachromatic granules; exotoxin A (active: EF2) and B; inhibits ribosome function and formed pseudomembrane (gray in throat and tonsils -> LAD *bulls neck); resp transmission; causes myocarditis, arrhythmia and heart block; can demyelinate CN; diagnosis -> plate on telluride or Loeffler’s; diff btw toxic and non toxic -> eleks test

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Describe the features of listeria monocytogenes

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santa pic Gram positive bacilli; associated with pregnant women; beta hemolytic, motile, catalase positive, survives in cold, *milk, meat, cheese; newborns -> meningitis and in adults over 60

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Describe the features of actinomyces Israeli

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Gram positive obligate anaerobe; normal flora of oral cavity; infection associated with jaw trauma *dental work; begins as no tender lump on jaw that drains yellow pus

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Describe the features of nocardia asteroides

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western card game pic Gram positive obligate aerobe found in soil; acid fast satin *mycolic acids; catalase positive, urease positive, *seen in immunocompromised men more than women; 3 sites of infection -> pulm (pneumonia w cavitation), CNS (brain abscess), cutaneous (pyogenic response)

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Describe the features of Neisseria overall

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Diplococci gram negative; oxidase positive; cannot grow in blood agar; needs heat *chocolate agar; growth on VPN agar; virulence factors: pillus: allows attachment and genetic rearrangement; difficult to target; IgA protease

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Describe neisseria meningitidis

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Gram negative, spread in close quarters via resp droplets, ferments maltose and glucose, colonizes in nasopharynx, polysaccharide capsule *main virulence factor b/c inhibits phagocytosis; infections usually type B; sickle cell -> more susceptible; spreads via blood -> inflammation generated by LOS proteins in the envelope -> increases permeability -> hypovolemia -> vasoconstriction leads to adrenal insufficiency *waterhouse Fredrich syndrome; petechial rash (DIC)

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Describe neisseria gonorrhoeae

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Gram negative and invades PMNs; no capsule; males: urethritis, proctitis, orchitis; females: PID, white purulent discharge thicker than chylamydia; PID can spread to peritoneum (Fitz-Hugh Curtis syndrome; causes adhesions to liver); asymmetric polyarthritis; joint fluid that doesn’t gram stain (b/c intracellular); congenital -> purulent conjunctivitis (sooner onset than chlamydia)

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Describe Klebsiella pneumoniae

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Enteric gram negative bacilli; *UTI, pneumonia, nosocomial; ferments lactose; three A’s: alcoholics, abscesses, and aspiration; polysaccharide capsule; currant jelly sputum, immotile, cavitation lesions, urease postive

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Describe enterobacter app and serratia mareasans

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Both are motile gram negative bacilli that cause UTI, pneumonia and are nosocomial; serratia has a red pigment when cultured

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Describe salmonella enteritidis

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Gram negative bacilli, motile, black colonies, capsule, acid labile (easily degraded so need high concentration to cause infection) ie: more susceptible if use antacids; caused from raw chicken; infects macrophages in the colon; faculatative intracellular; causes inflammatory diarrhea; virulence: type III secretion system

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Describe salmonella typhi

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Gram negative motile bacilli; black colonies, acid labile, capsule; found in the GB of carriers; causes rose spots on the abdomen, number one cause of osteomyelitis in patients with sickle cell; constipation or diarrhea that resembles pea soup; type III secretion system

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Describe Shigella

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Gram negative bacilli; causes bloody diarrhea; green colonies; immotile, acid stable -> fewer organisms cause infection; M tropic -> invades; facultative intracellular; shigella dysenteriae: hemolytic uremic syndrome (although more assoc with E. coli) -> shigatoxin induces endothelial damage and aggregation of platelets causes a decrease in count; also bind s the 60S subunit and inhibits translation; type III secretion system

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Describe E.coli in general

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Gram negative bacilli; virulence factors: fibriae -> UTIs, ferments lactose, capsule (K antigen), catalase positive, LPS -> sepsis; *neonatal meningitis ONLY when positive for K antigen

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Describe EHEC (hemorrhagic E. coli)

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From undercooked meat; causes bloody diarrhea, only ecoli that doesn’t ferment sorbitol; toxin inhibits 60S (shiga-like toxin); causes hemolytic uremic syndrome; O157-H7 Ag linked to outbreaks

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Describe ETEC (invasive)

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*travelers diarrhea via drinking contaminated water; toxins: heat labile that increases cAMP and heat stable that increases cGMP; watery diarrhea

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Describe yersinia enterolitica

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Gram negative bacilli transmitted via dog poop; more common in kids (cause also be spread in milk), resistant to cold temps, bipolar safety pin staining; capsule; causes bloody diarrhea, fever, leukocytosis, abscesses, intusseception, perforation and can mimic appendicitis

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Describe yersinia pestis

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Black Plague; gram negative bacilli; reservoir: rats or prairie dogs; vector: fleas; causes buboes (swollen tender LN), abscesses and DIC from endotoxin; exotoxin and outer proteins use type III secretion system to inhibit phagocytosis

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Describe campylobacter jejuni

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Gram negative; associated with Gillian barre ascending paralysis; thermophilic, infects intestinal tract (Fecal/oral), causes bloody diarrhea, curved rod shape; oxidase positive; invasive -> reactive arthritis

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Describe vibrio cholerae

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Gram negative rod, comma shaped, fecal oral route; *does not invade; uses fibriae to attach to wall and secrete cholera toxin which increases cAMP by activated adenylate cyclase leading to increased H2O in lumen; acid labile; oxidase positive; non-cholerae vibrio is transferred via contaminated seafood

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Describe H pylori

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Gram negative, motile, curved rod, urease positive (reduces acidity and helps it invade) urea breath test, oxidase positive, causes duondenal ulcers

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Describe psuedomonas aeruginosa

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Gram negative rod, thrives in water *hot tub folliculitis (ecthyma gangrenosum), oxidase positive, catalase positive, blue/green pigment when plated b/c pyocynin; grape like odor; obligate aerobe; number one cause of nosocomial pneumonia; causes osteomyelitis in IV drug users and diabetics, capsule; *causes fatal complications in burn victims; indwelling cath -> UTI; otitis externa *swimmer’s ear; toxin: exotoxin A -> inactivates EF-2 by ribosylation

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Describe proteus mirabilis

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Gram negative facultative anaerobe, motile, urease positive which causes the formation of staghorn calciculi (kidney stones); UTI’s, fishy odor

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Describe bordatella pertussis

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Gram negative bacilli; spread by resp droplets which attach to epithelium via pilli(filamentous hemagglutinin) *doesn’t invade -> releases toxins -> pertussis toxin and andenylate cyclase-> ribosylates Gi -> increases cAMP; tracheal toxin ->part of peptidoglylcan wall, damages ciliated cells; initial infxn non specific; paroxysmal stage -> cough, convalescent stage lasts 3 months

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Describe haemophilus influenzae

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choc covered cherry pic Gram negative cocci-bacilli; grown on chocolate agar which needs factor V (NAD) and X (hematin); aerosol trasmission; causes pneumonia, cherry red epiglottitis with inspiratory stridor and drooling, otitis media, meningitis only when capsular form and type B strain; septic arthritis; asplenic more susceptible

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Describe legionella pneumophila

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battleship Gram negative but doesn’t stain well so need silver stain; grown on charcoal in presence of cysteine and iron; oxidase positive; causes legionnaires; Pontiac fever -> fever and malaise; atypical pneumonia: patchy infiltrate with consolidation in one lobe; *unique -> associated with hyponatremia, HA with confusion, and diarrhea; high fever; use rapid urine ag test or sputum culture