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export_cns zoonotic viruses Flashcards

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Zoonoses

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Diseases of invertebrate animals that can be transmitted to man

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Arboviral disease

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Involves an insect vector for transmission

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Arbovirus examples

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Flaviviruses - West Nile, St. Louis and Japanese encephalitis
Togaviruses - Eastern, Western, Venezuelan equine encephalitis

Bunyaviruses - LaCrosse encephalitis

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Viruses transmitted to humans directly from other mammals

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Rhabdoviruses - rabies

Arenaviruses - lymphocytic choriomeningitis

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Flaviviruses transmission

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All by mosquitos

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West Nile Virus (WNV) reservoirs

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Birds serve as reservoirs

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WNV symptoms

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Most infections are mild and clinically unapparent
Some develop West Nile fever (3-6 days of symptoms)

Sudden onset of febrile illness (malaise, nausea, vomiting, rash)

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WNV in the CNS

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Primarily affect elderly
Encephalitis and meningitis

Fever, headache, weakness, GI disturbances, may progress to coma and paralysis

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Diagnose WNV

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Adults >50 years old who suddenly develop encephalitis or meningitis in summer/early fall

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WNV treatment

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Supportive

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St. Louis encephalitis virus (SLE) disease

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Major cause of arbovirus encephalitis

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SLE transmission

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Birds are reservoir

Humans get it from Culex mosquitoes

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SLE symptoms

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Sudden onset
Fever with headache (mild)

Headaches, high fever, stiff neck, coma, tremors, spastic paralysis (severe)

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SLE diagnosis

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Confirmed via serology

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SLE treatment

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Supportive

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Japanese encephalitis virus disease

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Leading cause of viral encephalitis in Asia

Birds and livestock are reservoirs

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Togaviruses transmission

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Horses are a major reservoir

Transmitted via mosquito bite

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Togaviruses diseases

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Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE)
Western equine encephalitis (WEE)

Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEE)

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EEE symptoms

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Sudden onset of fever, muscle pain, and headache

Many progress to seizures/coma

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WEE symptoms

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Most people are asymptomatic or mild

May have sudden onset fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, malaise

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VEE symptoms

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Most infections are symptomatic

Fever, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, may progress to encephalitis

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LaCrosse encephalitis (LAC) virus transmission

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Arbovirus

Transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes

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LAC symptoms

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Fever, headache, nausea, vomiting

Severe disease can lead to seizures, coma, paralysis

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Rhabdovirus transmission

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Through infected saliva via bites (dogs, bats)

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Rabies lifecycle

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Inoculation, local proliferation, enters PNS, travels to CNS, dissemination

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Rabies symptoms

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During cerebral infection, behavioral changes occur (anxiety, confusion, agitation, hallucination)
Hydrophobia is a classic sign

Coma and death

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Rabies prevention

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Vaccination of animals and high risk individuals

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Rabies diagnosis

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Disease in animals can be confirmed post-mortem by the presence of Negri bodies

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Arenavirus CNS disease

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Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV)

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LCMV reservoirs

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Rodent-borne virus

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LCMV symptoms

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Most infections are asymptomatic or produce a mild febrile illness
Can cause aseptic meningitis, encephalitis, or meningoencephalitis

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LCMV transmission

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Inhaling infectious aerosolized particles of rodent urine, feces, or saliva
Most common is the common house mouse

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LCMV symptoms

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Febrile illness
Biphasic - 1 week of fever, malaise, headache, nausea, vomiting, remission for a few days, then second phase of disease (meningitis or encephalitis)

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Prions diseases

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Slow developing neurodegenerative diseases, thought to be caused by a family of viruses known as “slow viruses”

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Human spongiform encephalopathis

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Kuru
CJD

GSS

FFI

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Prion features

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Lack nucleic acid

Consists of protease, heat and chemically resistant hydrophobic glycoprotein (PrP)

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PrPc

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Normal cellular prion-related protein

Extended conformation containing numerous alpha-helices

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PrPSc

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Infectious form of PrPc

Globular conformation with beta-pleated sheets

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Theory for Prion replication

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PrPSc binds to PrPc on cell surface
Induces conversion to PrPSc

Cycle repeats

Aggregates form, internalized by neurons

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Symptoms of Prion infiltration to CNS

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Neuronal vacuolization
Astrocyte and glial cell proliferation

Amyloid plaques

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Prions clincal syndromes

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Slow, progressive neurological degeneration
Very long incubation period

Death ensues rapidly (months)

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Prion diagnosis

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Postmortem histological examination

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