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Host Microbe Interactions: principles of disease Flashcards

1
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What term is coined for living things living together?

A

Symbiosis

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2
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What flora do not cause disease under normal circumstances?

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Normal flora

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3
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What flora Colonise for a brief time – does not last, normal flora
competes – may cause disease

A

Transient flora

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4
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What flora causes disease?

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Pathogenic flora

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5
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What relationship occurs when there is mutual benefit?

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Mutualism

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6
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What relationship does the Lactobacillus acidophilus and the adult vagina have?

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Mutualism

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7
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What relationship does Staphylococcus epidermidis and the human skin have?

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Commensalism

– Under normal circumstances does not cause harm

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8
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What relationship do pathogenic microbes have to its host?

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Parasitism

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9
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What relationship Occurs when Host becomes predisposed to infection by otherwise harmless microbe? Such as in Candida albicans and the vagina?

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Opportunism

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10
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What contributes to the manifestation of disease?

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Factors of both the microbe, host and environment

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11
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Four things a microbe must do to cause disease (to be a pathogen):

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• 1. Gain entry to a host – environment
• 2. Attach and multiply – microbial pathogenesis
• 3. Evade Host defences
– host susceptibility / immunity - tomorrow
• 4. Cause damage to tissues – microbial pathogenesis

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12
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What is the Period in which microbe attempts to evade host defenses and establish infection

A

Incubation period

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13
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Incubation period of chicken pox

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2-3 weeks

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14
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Incubation period of pertussis (whopping cough)

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7-10days

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15
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Incubation period of Covid 19

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5-7 days

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16
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Summary of incubation periods

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Chicken pox 2-3 weeks
• Measles 8 – 14 days
• Mumps 12 – 25 days
•TB 4–12 weeks
• Pertussis 7 – 10 days
• Food poisoning 12 – 36 hrs
• HIV/AIDS 3 weeks - years
• Covid-19 5-7 days
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17
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What phase of disease is the Period of microbe multiplication
– Mild, non-specific symptoms
– Host defense may overcome infection at this point

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Prodromal phase

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18
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What phase of disease depicted by Cell damage occurs

– Producing recognisable signs and symptoms

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Acute or invasive phase

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19
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2 possible outcomes of disease development

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Fulminating

Decline and convalescence

20
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What phase of disease development is depicted by when Acute phase develops rapidly, Symptoms appear suddenly, Feature of a very virulent pathogen and has a Fatal outcome

A

Fulminanting

21
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What phase is described by When host defense overcomes pathogen and Symptoms subside

A

Decline and convalescence

22
Q

How does infectious disease become established?

A
  1. Gain entry to a host
  2. Attach and multiply
  3. Evade Host defences
  4. Cause damage to tissues
23
Q

Give 3 reservoir of infection

A

Humans
Animals
Soil and water

24
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What infection can you get from animals

25
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What’s the reservoir of infection for melioidosis and legionnaires disease?

A

Soil and water

26
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5 Modes of transmission of infectious disease

A 
Physical contact
Air borne
Water borne
Food borne
Vector
27
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Mode of transmission for sexually transmitted disease

A

Direct - physical contact

28
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Mode of transmission for flu

A

Indirect physical contact

29
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Mode of transmission for tuberculosis

30
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Mode of transmission for daintree ulcer

31
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Mode of transmission for Giardia intestinalis cysts and Cryptosporidium parvuum

A

Water borne

32
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Mode of transmission for Vibrio spp and Aeromonas spp GIT

A

WAter borne

33
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Mode of transmission for Toxoplasma gondii – rare kangaroo

A

Food borne

34
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Mode of transmission salmonella

A

Food borne

35
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Mode of transmission hepatitis A

A

Food borne

36
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Mode of transmission malaria

37
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How do we do infection control

A

Break transmission cycle
Change host behaviour
Eliminate vectors

38
Q

What are the portal of entry and exit of pathogens?

A 
Skin
Respiratory tract
Gastrointestinal tract
Urogenital tract
Transplacental - mother to baby
39
Q

5 Infections that have skin as a portal of entry and exit

A 
melioidosis,
HIV
Hep B needle stick 
Dermal migrans
human hook worm
40
Q

2 infections using respiratory tract as entry and exit

A

Streptococcus pnemoniae

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

41
Q

Portal of entry and exit of Shigella dysenteriae

A

Gastrointestinal

42
Q

Give 2 pathogens that use gastrointestinal as entry and exit

A

Helminthes attach firmly

Protozoa protective cyst

43
Q

Portal of entry and exit for syphilis and gonorrhoea

A

Urogenital

44
Q

Portal of entry and exit for Escherichia coli

A

Urogenital - UTI

45
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Portal of entry and exit for toxoplasmosis

A

Transplacental

46
Q

Give 3 diseases using transplacental route for infections

A

Rubella
Toxoplasmosis
Cytomegalovirus- CMV

Micro Lec 1 (4 decks)

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