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1
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What are virulence factors?

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Any product or strategy that contributes to pathogenicity

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2
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Name some colonisation factors

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adhesins, invasins, nutrient acquisitio

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3
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What shape are coliforms?

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Rod-shaped

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4
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Are coliforms motile?

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Most are due to peritrichous flagella

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5
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What do coliforms colonise?

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The intestinal tract

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6
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True or false: negative bacteria are facultatively anaerobic

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True

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7
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Enterobacteriaceae consists of multiple gram negative ___-shaped bacterial species

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rod

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8
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Lactose fermentation produces ____

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acid (used to distinguish between bacteria)

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9
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Which 2 bacteria show lactose use (ferment it to make acid) on appearance on MacConkey?

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Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae

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10
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MacConkey-lactose agar shows lactose fermenters in what colour?

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Red (due to acid)

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11
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What colour do lactose fermenters turn phenol red in media?

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Yellow

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12
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Do either salmonella or shigella ferment lactose?

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No, neither

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13
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What are the flagellum made of?

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Protein

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14
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What are the principal infections caused by pathogenic E. coli

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Wound infections, UTIs, Gastroenteritis, Travellers’ diarrhoea, bacteraemia, meningitis (infants)

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15
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ETEC stimulates a chlorine transporter in the intestinal lumen to release i___ and w___ through toxins which leads to watery diarrhoea

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ions and water

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16
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What does shigellosis cause?

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Severe bloody diarrhoea

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17
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Where is shigella common?

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In developing countries where sanitation is poor

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18
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True of false: Shigella is acid-tolerant

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True

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19
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How does shigella spread?

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Person-to-person, contaminated water and food

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20
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Shigella enters through colonic _ cells which overlie lymphoid follicles and deliver antigens to underlying immune cells

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M

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21
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How does the shiga toxin in shigella cause cell death?

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inhibits protein synthesis

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22
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What are the 2 species of salmonella?

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S. enterica and S. bongori (rare - contact with reptiles)

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23
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What are the 3 forms of salmoellosis caused by S. enterica

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Gastroenteritis
Enteric fever - typhoid
Bacteraemia

24
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How does salmonellosis occur?

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invades gut epithelium
Transcytosed to basolateral membrane
Enters submucosal macrophages
Intracellular survival

25
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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Ubiquitous (found everywhere), free-living, motile, rod-shaped, opportunistic, resistant to multiple antibiotics

26
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Thick mucus in cystic fibrosis increases risk of infection via m____ version of P. aeruginosa

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mucoidal

27
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Vibrio Cholerae

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Facultative anaerobe (makes ATP by aerobic respiration if oxygen is present, but is capable of switching to fermentation), saline environments

28
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True of false: Cholera is the most severe diarrhoeal disease

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True

29
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How is V. cholerae spread?

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Faecal-oral (not person-to-person)

30
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Most cases of V. cholerae can be treated with ___

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ORT (oral rehydration therapy)

31
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Campylobacter shape

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Spiral rods

32
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The flagella of campylobacter are either u_____ or b___

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unipolar or bipolar

33
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Symptoms of campylobacter

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Mild to severe diarrhoea, often with blood

34
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True or false: salmonella is the most common cause of food poisoning in UK and US?

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False - campylobacter is

35
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Helicobacter pylori shape

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Spiral-shaped

36
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Helicobacter pylori plays a major role in gastritis and p__ u___ disease

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peptic ulcer

37
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Haemophilus influenzae is an opportunistic injection seen mainly in young children and adult _____

A

smokers

38
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H. influenzae can penetrate the n__________ epithelium

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nasopharyngeal

39
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H. influenzae has built resistance to phagocytosis and c_____ system

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complement

40
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Bordetella pertussis

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Short rods, fastidious (depends on cleanliness)

41
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What is pertussis also known as

A

Whooping cough

42
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True or false: Bordetella pertussis is highly contagious through aerosol transmission

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true

43
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Legionella pneumophila

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Immunocompromised, causes severe inflammatory pneumonia, infection from man-made aquatic environments

44
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Can legionella pneumophila replicate within alveolar macrophages

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Yes

45
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Legionella pneumophila r______ within freshwater protosoa (intracellular parasite of amoeba)

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replicates

46
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Bacteroides

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Non-motile rods, commensal flora *large intestine), opportunistic

47
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What is the most frequent cause of anaerobic infections?

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Bacteroides (B. fragilis)

48
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Bacteroides is often present in polymicrobial infections with e_______

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enterobacteria (Presence of facultative anaerobes depletes O2, allowing anaerobes such as Bacteroides to proliferate)

49
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Neisseria is a non-flagellated d_____

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diplococci

50
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What does neisseria meningitidis cause?

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51
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae causes

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Gonorrhoea (second most common STD worldwide)

52
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Can gonorrhoea be asymptomatic?

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Yes

53
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Gonococci are non-c____

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capsulated

54
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Spirochaetes are longer, slender, h_____ and highly flexible

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helical

55
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Borrelia burgdorferi causes what disease?

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Lyme disease

56
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