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Mycobacteria

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Many Mycobacteria are _____ organisms. They can be found in:

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opportunistic; Water, soil, food (plumbing)

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The most common species of Mycobacteria is:

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M. tuberculosis

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The genus Mycobacterium includes 2 ____ parasites, which are:

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Obligate; M. tuberculosis and M. leprae

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How do we organize mycobacterial human pathogens?

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We organize them based on the diseases the cause (i.e. organized clinically)

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What are the three categories of Mycobacterial human pathogens?

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  1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
  2. Mycobacterium leprae
  3. Nontuberculosis mycobacteria
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (definition and associated species)

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species that cause tuberculosis; M. tuberculosis, M. bovis

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Mycobacterium leprae causes:

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Leprosy

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Nontuberculosis mycobacteria (definition)

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Any other mycobacterium that causes human disease (but not TB or leprosy)

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____ ____ is an important determinant of mycobacterial disease presence and severity.

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Host susceptibility (i.e. immune characteristics)

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True or false: differences between strains of Mycobacteria are very important determinants of how sick the host will get and how severe the disease will be.

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False (strain differences are much less important than host susceptibility)

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Mycobacteria differ greatly from gram positive and gram negative species in that:

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Their cell walls contain mycolic acids

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Can you use a gram stain approach in Mycobacteria?

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No, you use acid-fast staining

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What is the acid-fast staining process?

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  1. Stain with carbol fuschin
  2. Decolorize with acid-alcohol
  3. Counterstain with methylene blue
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Mycobacteria are slow-growing and thus are ____. They can be divided further into two categories:

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fastidious (also difficult to culture); slow-growing and fast growing

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Mycobacteria produce distinct ____ ____ that may be used to speciate clinical isolates. However, it more useful to use ____ and ______ ____.

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carotenoid pigments; PCR and biochemical tests

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True or false: Mycobacteria are strict aerobes and lack anaerobic metabolic capacity.

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True

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Do Mycobacteria possess flagellae?

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No, they are non-motile

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2 factors that hinder diagnosis and lab study of Mycobacteria

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  1. difficult to culture in vitro

2. difficult to manipulate genetically (due to lack of tools/gene knockdown)

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Why does the slow-growing nature of Mycobacteria make them difficult to treat?

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  1. may be less likely to respond to standard antibiotics

2. can develop resistance to single agents easily

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What diseases can nontuberculosis mycobacteria cause?

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  • pulmonary disease similar to TB
  • lymphadenitis
  • skin and soft tissue diseases
  • disseminated diseases
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True or false: Mycobacteria stains strongly gram positive.

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False; neither GP nor GN

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Mycolic acids make up ____% of the cell wall and allows cells to be resistant to ____.

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60; desiccation

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Mycolic acids are anchored to the rest of the cell wall through _______.

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Arabinogalactan

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True or false: Mycobacteria do not contain peptidoglycan

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False: they do, just small amount

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Slow-growing mycobacteria grow ___ times slower than E.coli and forms visible colonies after _ ___.
40; 7 days
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Fast-growing mycobacteria grow ___ times slower than E. coli and forms visible colonies ______.
20; before 7 days
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Common bacterial densities in some infections are ____
10^9 - 10^11 cells/mL
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What is the mutation rate in Mycobacteria that can confer antibiotic resistance per cell per division?
10^-8 mutations per cell per division
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis currently infects ____ of all people worldwide.
1/4
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True or false: there are ~5 million TB deaths per year worldwide currently.
False: ~1.5 million deaths
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TB infections accelerated during:
Europe's industrial revolution
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What are the three conditions that TB thrives under?
Poverty, crowding, and malnutrition
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Multidrug resistance remains a problem in places where:
access to care is limited
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There is a concurrence of both ___ and ___ prevalence in the world.
TB and HIV
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How does HIV/AIDS impact TB? (4 things)
1. TB disease burden is highest in areas with endemic HIV 2. HIV increases susceptibility to TB 3. HIV impacts T cell-mediated immunity which may worsen TB outcomes 4. AIDS increases susceptibility to nontuberculosis mycobacteria
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True or false: the current COVID-19 pandemic threatens to reverse the progress made towards global TB targets
True
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How has COVID-19 adversely impacted us? (5 things)
1. access to care 2. food distribution 3. TB and HIV testing 4. Treatment of TB and HIV 5. Household income
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True or false: the WHO has prioritized restoring TB testing and treatment after the pandemic is over.
False; during the pandemic, not after
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Primary TB is characterized by: (3 things)
1. Often clinically quiescent 2. Disseminated + dramatic disease can occur in immunocompromised patients 3. In normal hosts, latency can occur
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Secondary TB is characterized by: (3 things)
1. night sweats, fever, weight loss 2. infectious cough 3. can infect vertebrae and meninges (CNS)
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How is TB transmitted?
droplet nuclei that can penetrate the alveoli in the lung
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What characteristics of droplet nuclei are thought to be important for causing infection? (2 things)
1. desiccate and shrink over time | 2. they have to be very small, and just the right size to run through nares, pharynx, trachea, and into lungs
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Droplet nuclei are produced by:
Infected person via cough, talking, sneezing
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True or false: droplet nuclei often fall to the ground quickly due to gravity.
False: they can remain suspended in the air for hours
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TB transmission usually require ____ and ____ exposure for infection.
recurrent and prolonged
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After TB primary infection, M. tb enters the ____ and is ingested by _____ where M. tb can then replicate.
alveoli; macrophages
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When M. tb replicate in macrophages, this can ____ them and:
destroy; signal to other macrophages and T cells to come to the site of infection
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What is a granuloma and how is it formed?
A granuloma is essentially a ball of infection and inflammation as a result of M. tb infection. It is formed when M. tb is ingested by macrophages and signals more macrophages to the site of infection, creating a destructive cycle where more and more macrophages are infected.
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True or false: only when your immune response becomes effective, you start to develop symptoms
True
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Infected macrophages can disseminate via ____ to ___ ___ and beyond.
lymphatics to lymph nodes
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The immune response usually ____ the infection.
contains
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After primary TB infection, in immunocompetent hosts:
hypersensitivity/cellular immunity develop and infection is usually controlled
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Can immunocompetent hosts get reinfected after primary infection of TB?
Usually no, but reactivation can occur later
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After primary TB infection, immunocompromised hosts can:
get progressive and disseminated disease that does not control/contain the infection
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Primary TB infection is often progressive in these 2 age groups:
infants and elderly
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Reactivation of TB usually occurs within _ ___ and occurs in the:
2 years; apices of the lungs
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What is a common reason for TB reactivation?
HIV or cancer therapy, possibly due to immunosuppression
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What happens during TB reactivation?
granulomas open up, macrophages continue to kill and bacteria keep growing in cavities until granulomas eventually empty out infected junk through the infectious cough
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True or false: only humoral immunity seems to make a big difference in TB host response
False: cellular immunity
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There is ...... immune response in early TB infection.
little to no
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Macrophages have multiple ___ receptors, such as:
Mtb; complement receptors
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True or false: Mtb can resist getting killed in acid phagolysosomes.
True
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__ _______ are critical for activating the immune response in TB.
CD4+ T-lymphocytes
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Hypersensitivity is usually experienced ___ after exposure.
3-8 weeks
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During TB hypersensitivity: (2 things)
1. increased macrophage killing and control in normal host | 2. formulation of granulomas that contain infection, can either heal or necrose/caseate
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What are 5 methods we can use to diagnose TB?
1. microscopy 2. culture 3. PCR 4. Skin test (PPD) 5. IFN-gamma release tests
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The gold standard to diagnose TB is ____, but:
culture; but takes a long time (3-6 weeks)
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QuantiFERON Gold and T-spot are _____ ____ ____ and are much more ____.
IFN-gamma release tests; common
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It is important to use at least __ treatments to treat TB in order to:
3; create synergy and prevent antibiotic resistance to single agents
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If a patient has a known exposure of TB but has no identifiable disease, we treat them with:
INH only for chemoprophylaxis
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M. leprae was the ____ _____ identified as causing disease in humans and was discovered by ____ ___ ____.
first bacterium; Gerhard Armauer Hansen
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True or false: the ability to diagnose and treat leprosy quickly advanced soon after its discovery.
False- has only recently advanced
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Can we cultivate M. leprae in vitro?
No
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Leprosy hosts (3)
1. humans and some other primates 2. armadillos in the Americas (15% LA and TX) 3. Eurasian red squirrels
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True or false: eurasian red squirrels and armadillos can transmit M. leprae easily.
False: role of either in transmission is unclear
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Those with leprosy have historically been:
ostracized and stigmatized
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Leprosy incubation time
2-10 years
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There are ____ types of leprosy manifestation, including:
several; 1. tubercululoid or paucibacillary (low skin organism burden) 2. Lepromatus or multibacillary (high skin organism burden) 3. many other intermediate forms
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Tuberculoid/paucibacillary leprosy manifestation is characterized by: (3 things)
1. often localized, single anesthetic skin lesions and rare thickened nerves 2. spontaneous resolution can occur 3. analagous to primary/latent/reactivated TB
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Lepromatous/multibacillary leprosy manifestation characteristics: (4 things)
1. 10^15 cells per patient 2. multiple skin lesions and thickened peripheral nerves, anesthesia, weakness 3. spontaneous resolution does not occur 4. analagous to systemic tuberculosis, where there is poor cell-mediated immune response
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Leprosy transmission is thought to occur via ____ ____, and exposure to ____ and/or ____ may be important.
aerosol route; animals; soil
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For leprosy transmission it is thought that ____, ___ exposure is important, but it is not as important as _____ _____.
long-term, close; genetic predisposition
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True or false: we can easily diagnose leprosy by simply cultivating in vitro.
False: this is complicated, we currently cannot culture in vitro
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Usually, diagnosis of leprosy is often made by ____ _____. Some symptoms that we can look for are: (3)
clinical suspicion; localized weakness and anesthesia, skin lesions, thickened nerves
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Leprosy treatment included ___ as a monotherapy for a short time, but _____ occurred very quickly.
dapsone; resistance
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The standard to treating leprosy is ___ ____. We use ____, ____, and _____.
multidrug therapy; dapsone, Rifampin, Clofazimine
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How long does it take for infectiousness to be lost in leprosy if given multidrug treatment?
within 3 days (very high efficacy)
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M. bovis
can cause tuberculosis
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M. kansasii and M. avium-intracellulare
can cause tuberculosis-like respiratory disease
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M. scrofulaceum
lymphadenitis ("scrofula")
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M. fortuitum, marinum, ulcerans
skin and soft tissue infections
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M. abscessus, M. chelonae
opportunistic pulmonary infections
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True or false: M. tuberculosis is among the most important human pathogens of all time.
True

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