Infectious 2.1 Gram Negative Flashcards

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Neisseria virulence factors

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Antigenic variations

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Ova proteins and pili proteins

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Neisseria

Causes bacterial meningitis in children

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Neisseria menigitidis

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Neisseria

Causes STD

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Neisseria gonorrhea

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Whooping cough

Laryngotracheobronchitis

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Bortadella pertisis

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Bortadella pertisis

Diagnosis

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PCR

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Bortadella pertusis. Virulence factor

Paralyses the cilia that loses the ability of clearance

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Pertusis toxin

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Opportunistic aerobic bacillus

Usual cause of nosocomial infections

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

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External otitis (swimmer’s ears)
Pyocyanate and pyro verdin
Cystic fibrosis

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Virulence factors

Produce sepsis

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Endotoxins

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Virulence factors

Mucoid exopolysaccharide

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Alginate

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Virulence factors

Inhibits protein synthesis

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Exotoxin A

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Virulence factors

Lyses red cells and degrades surfactants

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Phospholipase C

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Virulence factors

Degrades immunoglobulins

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Elastase

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Virulence factors

Toxic to endothelial cells, majority of the lesions may be found in the blood vessels

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Iron containing compounds

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15
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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Fleur del lire: flower like
Pale center and erythematous area

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Necrotizing pneumonia

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Inflammation of the endothelium with presence of the bacteria around the blood vessels

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Pseudomonas vasculitis

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Due to bronchial obstruction

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Bronchioectasis and pulmonary fibrosis

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Complication of bacteremia
Initially presents as microthrombi or presence of clots
Once the clots are degraded, bleeding the. Manifest late stage

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Disseminated intravascular coagulopathy

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Pseudomanos aeruginosa

Well demarcated necrotic and hemorrhagic oval skin lesions

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Echtyma grangrenosum

20
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Caused black death or plaque

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Yersinia pestis

21
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Transmitted by flea bites (from infection or rodents to humans ) or by aerosols

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Yersinia pestis

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Yersinia pestis

Causes lymph node enlargement (buboes)

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Bubonic plaque

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Yersinia pestis

Severe broncho pneumoniae

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Pneumonic plaque

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Yersinia pestis

Necrosis of lymph nodes
Bacteremia induces DIC

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Septicemic plaque

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Causes soft chancre/chancroid
Sexual transmitted disease
Painful ulcerative infections of the genital areas and draining lymph nodes

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Hemophilus ducreyi

26
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Elephantiasis

Causes ulcerations and develops extensive scarring or abundant granulation tissue

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Klebsiella granulomatis

27
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Klebsiella granulomatis formerly called as

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Calymmatobacterium donovani

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Klebsiella granulomatis

Presence of ________ in macrophages

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Donovani bodies

29
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Neisseria virulence factors

Inhibits opsonization

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Capsule