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Exam 2- Bac V Flashcards

1
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Do not cause disease in a healthy host with a healthy immune system

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Opportunistic pathogens

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Are equipped with virulence genes for adherence, invasion, evasion, from the immune system toxin

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True pathogens

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Hospital acquired infections

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Nosocomial infections

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Examples of nosocomial infections

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MRSA, clostridium difficile

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5
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They need a cell to replicate

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Obligate intracellular pathogens

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Examples of obligate intracelluar pathogens

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Rickettsia, claymidia

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They can survive in extracellular and intracellular locations

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Facultative intracellular pathogens

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Staphylococcus

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Gram + bacteria
Usually in skin
Produces a variety of toxins and virulence factors

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S. Aureus

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G+, mastitis in cows

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S. Pseudintermedius

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G+, dermatitis in dogs

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S. Hyicus

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G+, Greasy pig disease

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G+ bacteria that causes abscesses, supportive infections, post surgical infection

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Pyogenic bacteria

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13
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What enzyme coagulates blood plasma, occurs in virulent strains

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Coagulase

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Streptococcus

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G+ bacteria

They have a capsule, which helps the organism to evade phagocytosis

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S. Pyogenes

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G+, mostly in humans

Has a capsule

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S. Agalactiae

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G+, causes mastitis

Has a capsule

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17
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Streptococcus dysgalactiae

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G+, mastitis

Has a capsule

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s. equi subsp

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G+, equine strangles

Has a capsule

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19
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S. equi subsp zooepidemicus

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G+, normal bacterial flora in horses

Has a capsule

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Bacillus anthracis

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G+ rod, produce endospores, exotoxins, capsule

Use penicillin to treat, has 3 separate proteins encoded on one plasmid, lethal factor

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Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

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Swine erysipelas or diamond skin disease in swine,

Treat with penicillin

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22
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Corynebacterium psuedotuberculosis

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  • causes lymphadenittis

- characterized by access formation in major peripheral lymph nodes, also in spleen

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23
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Actinomyces bovis

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  • pyogranulomatous osteomyelitis
  • lumpy jaw, lesion in mandible
  • cattle
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24
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex

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  • acid fast + mycolic acid
  • in dairy cows mostly
  • injection into neck or pulse of tail
  • TB test
  • facultative intracellular bacteria
  • cause tuberculosis
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M. Bovis

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Bovine tuberculosis

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What causes Johne’s disease?

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  • m. Avium, subsp paratuberculosis
  • chronic, bad body condition
  • causes lesions in small intestines
27
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Listeria monocytogens

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  • septicemia, abortion, meningococcal encephalitis
  • facultative intracellular bacterium
  • food borne pathogen
  • uses host actin filaments to travel through cells
28
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Examples of Facultative intracellular pathogens

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Mycobacterium, listeria monocytogenes

29
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Clostridium

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G+, histotoxic, invasive, toxigenic clostridium

30
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C tetani

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  • Tetanus-causes lock jaw, spastic paralysis

- infects surgical wounds, puncture wounds, produce tetanus toxins

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C. septicum

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Malignant edema, gas gangrene

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C. chauvaei

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C. perfringes type D

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Enterotoxaemia

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C. novyi

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Black disease

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C. botulinum

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Botulism

  • produces botulinum toxin, causes flaccid paralysis
  • not an infection but intoxication with BoNT
36
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Groups of Gram - bacteria

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Enterobacteriaceae
Coliform
Escherichia coli
Salmonella

37
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Enterobacteriaceae

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-Present in water, soil, environment and the GI tract of humans and animals

38
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Coliform bacteria

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-E.coli, Klebsiella, enterobacteria

39
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Coliform enumeration

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Is performed to evaluate fecal contamination in drinking water

40
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__________________ causes neonatal colisepticemia in calves

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Escherichia coli

41
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Escherichia coli

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  • neonatal colisepticemia in calves
  • Edema disease in piglets
  • in human hemorrhagic enteritis
  • hemolytic uremic syndrome and kidney failure O157H7
42
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Salmonella enterica

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  • salmonella enterica subsp enterica
  • > 2500 serotypes
  • Ex: Typhimurium, Newport, enteritis
  • -Gastroentenitis and systemic diseases
43
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Salmonella dublin

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Salmonella in cattle

44
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Salmonella typhi

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In humans- (typhoid fever)

45
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Salmonella enteritidis

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In chickens

-infects chicken ovaries and transmitted through eggs

46
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Actinobaccillus pleuropneumoniae

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-fibrinonecrotic pneumonia in pigs

47
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Pasteurella multocida + mannheimmia hemolytica

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Causes shipping fever pneumonia in cattle

48
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Symptoms of Brucellosis:

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  • may take months after exposure
  • can be chronic and lost for years
  • can have similar symptoms to other diseases (fever, sweating, body aches, joint pain, fatigue, weekends, dizziness, headache)
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Where do Brucellosis survive?

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Macrophages

50
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Zoonotic diseases

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Can be transferred from an animal to a human host

51
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Brucellosis abortus

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G-, causes premature abortion in cattle fetus

52
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Brucellosis melitensis

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G-, in ovine causes Malta fever

53
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Brucella suis

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G-, swine, causes chronic inflammatory lesions in reproductive organs

54
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Brucella canis

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G-, causes brucellosis in dogs

55
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Bordetella bronchiseptica

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  • kennel cough in dogs
  • Atropohic rhinitis in swine
  • mycoplasma app.- arthritis, many other infections
56
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Leptospirosis

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  • spirochete (endoflagella)
  • multiple reservoir animals
  • bacteria lives in kidney tubules (can be transmitted through infected urine)
  • widespread zoonotic diseases
57
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Borrelia burgdorferi

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  • spirochete
  • causes limes disease
  • tick vector
58
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Mycoplasma pneumonia

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-walking pneumonia in humans

59
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Mycoplasma

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  • No cell wall ( no gram-staining)
  • no peptidoglycan
  • not susceptible to penicillin
  • They are the smallest prokaryotic cells capable of self replication
  • need special media and forms fried egg colonies
60
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Rickettsiales

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  • obligate intracellular bacteria
  • transmitted through ticks
  • Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia

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