Exam #4 Flashcards
Tuberculosis
Receive from inhaled bacteria - gets ingested by macrophages and reproduces in them
Process of disease can take decades
Not as contagious in latent form
Tubercules (granulona)
Area of tissue that form from your immune system trying to wall off infection, surrounding tissues will die/hemorrhage
TB Diagnosis
Chest X-Ray and can see the granulomas
Miliary tuberculosis
Granulomas can break down, destory tissues and will spread into the circulatory system (out of lungs)
Disseminated tubercles
Granulomas (tubercles) forming in other places than the lungs
- ex urinary, spinal cord
TB treatment
- Isoiazid (mycolic acid synthesis prohibitor - bacteria needs to live)
- Rifampin
- Combo isoniazid and rifapentine
Make sure that people are taking drugs appropriately
Treatment for latent TB with no outward symptoms (skin test positive)
Treatment can last 6-9 months
SS of infection
decreases appetite, fatigue, chest pain, coughing up blood, prolonged productive cough, night sweats
M. tuberculosis skin test
Inject the proteins of bacteria, if you have been exposed to the bacteria your immune system will launch a immune response
Injection site will: swelled, raised (induration/diameter) needs to be greater than <15 mL with no risk factors
<10 mL with some risk factors
Inhalation Anthrax
prodromal phase lasts 5 days (similar to the flu), rapid progression - SOH, chest pains, coughing up blood (need to get antibiotic treatment within 48 hours) lung will fill with fluid
Bacillus Anthrasis (gram stain)
Anthrax
edema factor - causes swelling prevents phagocytosis
lethal factor - toxic to immune cells and kills human cells
protective antigen (trojain horse) - brings the factors into the cells and injects it into the cytoplasm.
Cutaneous Anthrax
90% of all cases, 2-5 post exposure, low mortality, spores introduced to skin and release exotoxins causing damage to tissue (eschar)
Eschar
black necrotic tissue forming accompanied by swelling can be a sign of cutaneous anthrax
Infectious mononucleosis
herpes virus (Epstein-barr virus)
avoid strenuous activity (liver and spleen swollen and could rupture)
SS: headache, fatigue, malaise, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes
Septicemias diagnosis
Growth of blood cultures
Septicemias diagnosis
Growth of blood cultures
Group B strep
Streptococcus agalactica
can be normal flora of vaginal, not a problem for mom, effects baby
neonatal sepsis and meningitis
try to treat mom before birth with penicillin (safe)
Plauge
fleas (vectors) rodents (reservoir) bacteria still endemic in rodent populations in the US and Europe
Yersinia pestis, gram negative rods
Bubonic plague
incubation 2-7 days
name swellings in groin called buboes
if untreated can become septicemia plague
Buboes
swelling of lymph nodes, they can turn black with necrosis
pneumonic plague
travels to the lungs,
only kind that can be spread person to person
most deadly, need to get antibiotics within 24 hours