exam four (diseases) Flashcards
a rod shaped bacteria that is aerobic and slow growing (2 weeks to form colony)
mycobacterium tuberculosis
this cell wall contains waxes with 60 to 90 carbon mycolic acids; glycolipids
mycobacterial cell walls
a ____ results when the immune system is overwhelmed and microbe has taken over
disease
mycobacterial infections start out _____ but eventually lives inside immune cells
extracellular (attached to surface)
the cord factor is ____ in cell and are unique to mycobacterium
glycolipids
mycobacterium are ___ ___
acid fast
who discovered and isolated tuberculosis
robert koch
how can TB be spread
person-to-person; animal-to-person
TB is or is not a professional pathogen (1-10 bacteria can lead to disease)
is
the primary infection of TB is induced when host ___
inhales
in the alveoli of the lung TB is recognized by ___ ____; TB turns off macrophage when it is inside of it and walls itself off inside of it (become intracellular)
alveoli macrophages
TB
the bacteria replicate and gather forming a ____
granuloma; ghon complex (Calcified)
the aggregation of macrophages around M. tuberculosis
tubercules
the ghon complexes can stay walled off for months to decades; the bacteria will break its macrophage wall and _____
disseminate
to detect for TB, ____ is injected into the skin to look for reaction
PPD
what is miracle drug treatment for TB
streptomycin (lots of resistance now)
what is the follow up for a positive TB test
chest x-ray, blood culture, DNA probes
today in an active TB disease there is a ___ ____ therapy over 6-9 months
mult-drug
multi-drug resistant TB is ____ to multiple drugs and is on the rise
resistant
the mycobacterium leprae only known reservoir is
humans
leprosy incubates for ___ to ____ years
3 to 5
leprosy is what type of pathogen; it invades nerve or skin cells
obligate intracellular
______ leprosy is less aggressive and less progressive; it causes hypersensitivity causing skin lesions and damage to nerves and skin
tuberculoid
______ leprosy invades the skin schwann cells which have large bacterial numbers; there will be nodules all over and peripheral nerves are destroyed
lepromatous