Fenger (Hepatitis Viruses) Flashcards
What the 2 liver enzymes present in the serum that indicates liver disease?
Why?
AST: Serum Aspartate Aminotransferase
ALT: Serum Alanine Aminotransferase
Bc they are usually intracellular so there must be lysis of the cell so that these enzymes leak in to the serum.
What Hepatitis viruses are transmitted via blood?
Hep B, C, D
What Hepatitis viruses are transmitted by fecal-oral route?
Hep A, E
What Hepatitis virus belongs to the Picornaviridae family (+ SS RNA)?
Hep A
What Hepatitis virus belongs to the Flaviviridae Family (+SS RNA, enveloped)?
Hepatitis C
What Hepatitis virus is an enveloped, Partially DS DNA?
Hepatitis B (Hepadnaviridae family)
What Hepatitis Virus is Circular, Enveloped Negative SS RNA?
Hepatitis D
Name 3 DS DNA Viruses that belong to the Herpetoviridae Family that have the clinical feature of Hepatitis?
What newborn virus (+RNA)?
- EBV
- CMB
- HSV
Rubella (newborns)
Which Hepatitis?
- Picornaviridae
- Enterovirus Type 72
+ SS RNA
-very resistant, acid-stable, naked
Hep A
Which Hepatitis?
- *CLINICAL: low mortality**
- sporadic outbreaks
- short incubation
- NO CARRIER/CHRONIC STATE
Kids have milder disease than adults (like EBV, Polio)
-fecal-oral transmission by contaminated food and water
Vaccine candidates: homosexual men, IV Drug users, international travelers.
Hep A
True or False?
Viremia is established with the Hepatitis viruses.
True.
1o multiplication in GI tract epithelium and lymph nodes—->viremia-—>liver, kidney, spleen—-> virus in feces, urine, blood in preicteric (pre-jaundice).
Which Hepatitis?
- Immune electron microscopy detects virus
- ELEVATED Anti HAV IgM
-Long Term Immunity, but will not protect against the other Hep viruses
Hep A
What are the options for Prevention and Control of Hepatitis A?
1.
2.
- Kids - ?
4.
- Pooled Gamma Globulin (given 1-2 weeks post exposure)
- Inactivated/Killed Vaccine
- Kids: 2 immunizations (1st: 12 months, 2nd: 6 months later)
- HepA and HepB Combo - Twinrix, 4 doses
What is the name of the particle that is the ONLY infectious virus particle of Hepatitis B?
Dane particles
True or False.
Noninfectious particles are also found in serum of infected individuals.
True.
22 nm particle (HBsAg aggregates)
27 nm particle (core antigen aggregates)
*********What are the 3 particles found in the serum of a patient with Hepatitis B virus?
***********
- Dane particles - infectious particle
- HBsAg aggregates - noninfectious
3 Core Antigen aggregates - noninfectious
What is found within the core structure (HBcAg) of the Hep B Virus?
1.
2.
- Partial DS DNA (viral genome)
- Polymerase (reverse transcriptase) complex
Name the 3 Antigens of Hepatitis B Virus
HBsAg: ___________
HBcAg: ___________
HBeAg: ___________
HBsAg: surface antigen
HBcAg: core structure antigen
HBeAg: infectivity antigen
What is the Hep B antigen that you want in a vaccine?
HBsAg - elicits antibody response (neutralizing antibodies)
What HBsAg complex antigen is common with asymptomatic carriers?
What HBsAg complex antigen is associated with dialysis and drug addicts?
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