export_zoonotic bacteria ii Flashcards
Borrelia features
Neither Gram-positive nor negative
Long spirochetes
Fastidious, microaerophilic
Borrelia disease
Lyme disease Relapsing fever (endemic or epidemic)
Species causing lyme disease
Borrelia burgdorferi
Lyme disease reservoirs
Mice
Deer
Lyme disease vector
Ixodes (hard tick)
Disease stages of lyme disease
Early stage 1
Early stage 2
Late, stage 3
Early stage 1 lyme disease
Localized infection
Bull’s-eye rash
Malaise, fever, headache, fatigue
Early stage 2
Disseminated infection
3-5 weeks after bite
Bacteremia, myalgia, cardiac dysfunction, signs consistent with meningitis/encephalitis
Late, stage 3 lyme disease
Persistent infection
Arthritis
One or more joints affected, skin discoloration, neuro complaints
Treat lyme disease
Doxycycline or amoxicillin
Types of relapsing fever
Epidemic
Endemic
Epidemic relapsing fever cause
Borrelia recurrentis
Louse-borne
Endemic relapsing fever cause
Borrelia hermsii
Tick-borne
Relapsing fever pathogenesis
Dissemination
Ag variation
Febrile and afebrile cycles
Difference between endemic and epidemic relapsing fever
Epidemic form is NOT a zoonotic disease
Transmission from human to human via louse
Relapsing fever symptoms
Chills, fever, headache
Hepatosplenomegaly
Several relapses may occur
Diagnose relapsing fever
Giemsa stained blood smear
Treatment for relapsing fever
Tetracycline or erythromycin
Rickettsia features
Very small Gram-negative coccobacilli
Obligate intracellular pathogen, facilitate uptake into host cells
Disease caused by Rickettsia that we need to know, and vector
Rocky mountain spotted fever
Dog tick
RMSF symptoms
Rash and fever
Pink, non-itchy lesions that become raised and spread to torso
RMSF untreated
DIC, pulmonary edema, renal failure, GI hemorrhage
RMSF treatment
Tetracycline (doxycycline)
Ehrlichiosis causative agents
Ehrlichia and Anaplasma