Infectious Disease - Lecture 26 Flashcards

1
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What does SARS stand for?

A

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

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2
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What is SARS?

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It’s a type of coronavirus

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3
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Why were the phases of the Toronto SARS Outbreak fluctuating?

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Waves of infection were caused by weather and variants of mutation

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4
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How is Influenza Virus named?

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With an H and N (molecules on the virus)

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5
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What did Influenza virus help us realize?

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Infectious disease can arise from other things like animals and spread to humans.

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6
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What caused infectious disease mortality risk to drop?

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Vaccines that helped slow viruses down but not bacteria

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7
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Sanitation improvement

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Fought against bacteria and lowered mortality risk

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8
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Because of movement in WW1 sanitation was terrible, causing Spanish Flu. What did this lead to?

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Spike in mortality risk

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9
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By how much per 100,000 cases did people die of infectious disease?

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50 to 339 from 2019 to 2020 respectively

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10
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What is a Rnot

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How many people an infected person can spread a infectious pathogen to

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11
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Rnaught of 1?

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One infected person infects one person

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12
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Exponential growth

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Rnaught has an exponential growth so the bigger rnaught is the more people get infected

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13
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Close contact with livestock

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Livestock may have disease and can spread it to you

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14
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If you already have a disease and then get infected with a virus?

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Increases your risk for mortality even more.

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15
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Symptoms of respiratory virus

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Fever, Dry Cough, Fatigue, Shortness of breath

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16
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Why is fever a good thing?

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Fever is showing that your body is fighting; it’s having an inflammatory response to fight it off.

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17
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Why is Covid-19 in water droplets good?

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Because limitation of spread is limited to 6-8 feet. If airborne where virus can survive in air, it would be bad.

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18
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How did we act to fight off virus

A

Quarantine and isolate at home

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19
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What is isolation?

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Separates sicks with contagious disease from those not sick.

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20
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What was unique about the Black Death

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It was a bacteria infection; sanitation was poor which allowed it to kill

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21
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What is Covid’s global death marker

A

7th

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22
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Who was most affected by smallpox

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Kids in the fall and winter; it was seasonal.

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23
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Variola Virus

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Small pox virus which would affect skin and respiratory system

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24
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MMR Vaccine

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Dropped measles cases

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25
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Understanding balance of risk with benefit

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Taking vaccine or not

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26
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Anti-vax protest getting more momentum

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Measles cases are increasing because of this recently

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27
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How does a vaccine work?

A

Primes your immune system to fight off the infection the next time it comes around.

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28
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How do Immune cells prepare to fight

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Take the mRNA into cell and creates a spike protein which tells them where to find the virus and kill.

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29
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Disease or Syndrome

A

Pathological condition of the body; named based on symptoms

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30
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Infectious disease

A

Disease caused by an infectious agent (Know what caused the symptoms)

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31
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Can you take a vaccine for a bacterial infection?

A

No

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32
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Antibiotics for Viral Infection

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No

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33
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When an infectious agent enters the body and reproduces; can lead to disease

A

Infection

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34
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Protozoa

A

Organism in food

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35
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Pathogen

A

Infectious agent

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36
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What’s carrying the pathogen

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Host

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37
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How quick the infectious agent can spread

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Virulence

38
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Do Bacteria respond to antiviral medication

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No, only antibiotics

39
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Antiviral medication

A

Used to fight off viruses specifically

40
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What are prions

A

Found in cow’s bone marrow; causes mad cow’s disease and they’re impossible to kill

41
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Pathogens give you a symptom and it leads to recovery, survive infected or die.

A

Summary of how pathogens work

42
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What hosts do viruses infect

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Animals, plants, bacteria, usually a specific tissue

43
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What hosts do bacteria infect

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Animal & plants, and affect the organism entirely.

44
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How are viruses different than bacteria in the way they reproduce

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Uses DNA/RNA of host to reproduce while bacteria has it’s own DNA to reproduce.

45
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Which is bigger?

A

Bacteria

46
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Where do bacteria get their energy when reproduing?

A

Takes energy from cells of the host.

47
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Surface proteins of Influenza allow the infection to do what?

A

The H’s and N’s; that allow virus to get in and out of the cell.

48
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Antigen?

A

Surface proteins are markers to let your immune system know there is a foreign invader.

49
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H1N1; what do the 1’s indicate?

A

Influenza; what subtype of H and N proteins is on the surface.

50
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Hemagglutinin

A

Allows virus to enter host cell

51
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Neuraminidase

A

Allows virus to escape host cell

52
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How can you check the virulence of H’s and N’s

A

Based on Rnaught

53
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Does Covid have surface proteins?

A

Yes, spike proteins not H’s and N’s

54
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SARS mutated to give what main symptom?

A

Severe respiratory issue

55
Q

What part does a bacteria have that a virus doesn’t to make it move

A

Flagella

56
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Why was black death not possible to fix

A

It was a bacteria; no sanitation and antibiotics

57
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How does antiviral medication work

A

Block surface proteins of viruses from replicating

58
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Who discovered antibiotics

A

Alexander Flemming’s and his moldy bread

59
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Bacteria that are antibiotic resistant

A

MRSA, C. difficile, CRE, and VRE

60
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MRSA

A

staph bacteria passed through touch; found in medical equipment

61
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C. difficile

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In human feces, and passed through touching infected surface and touching mouth

62
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CRE

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Bowel and feces; in patients using ventilators, urinary catheters.

63
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VRE

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In intestines and female genital tract; spread through touch

64
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What is sepsis?

A

Bacterial infection spreads into bloodstream

65
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Why should you take all your antibiotics

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Because you want to kill every single bad bacteria or else it will become resistant to it.

66
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What is the best barrier of protection from disease

A

Skin

67
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Lymphatic System

A

Apart of immune system; helps drain lymph which is made of WBC’s into bloodstream

68
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Swollen Lymph Nodes

A

Means it can be infected

69
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What does the spleen do?

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Processes WBC and creates inflammation when there is an infection

70
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Thymus gland

A

Located in the neck, creates T cells

71
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What do leukocytes look for when hunting viruses and bacteria

A

Antigens

72
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Macrophages take the antigen of engulfed invader and use it to track other invaders with the same antigen

A

Special Property

73
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What happens when you get a wound.

A

Mast cells releases histamine increasing bloodflow

74
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What does histamine do?

A

Causes inflammation so capillaries leak and release phagocytes; also alerts immune system to mobilize

75
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What do the phagocytes do once released?

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Engulfs the bacteria, dead cells and debris

76
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How is the wound sealed?

A

Platelets move out of capillary to seal wound.

77
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Why is histamine commonly released?

A

Allergic reaction

78
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Too much histamine is bad as it can cause a terrible response

A

Amount of histamine

79
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What are signs of inflammatory response?

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Swelling, redness, heat, histamine causing blood vessels to dilate

80
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What would happen if histamine response was too high?

A

Can go into respiratory failure because of overactive immune response

81
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What are the two groups of immune cell responses

A

Innate and Adaptive

82
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Macrophages, Mast Cells, Neutrophils, Basophils, Natural Killer Cells. (Born with these)

A

Innate Immune Cells

83
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Body adapts/acquires them (T Cells, B cells)

A

Adaptive/Acquired Immune Cells

84
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Why do B cells and T cells need to be made every time there’s a new infection

A

Because if the invader comes back but with different antigens, you need to have new T cells and B cells to fight them.

85
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A non-specific defense that acts immediately after exposure

A

Innate Immunity

86
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What are the main WBC’s in the non-specific defense fighting?

A

Macrophages and Neutrophils

87
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What do the Neutrophils and Macrophages do after fighting invader?

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Calls in “special forces” which are the acquired immunity cells like antibodies to remember the invader.

88
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What are B cells?

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Made in bone, produce antibodies once recognizing a specific antigen

89
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Why are B cells double edged?

A

It only responds to virus of a specific antigen, so when mutation occurs the antibodies it produces won’t work. Hence, vaccines needed.

90
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T cells have two sub cells

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CD8 (supressor and killer) and CD4 (helper T-cell) primarily used in killing

91
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Helper T cells are called in by macrophages and alert Killer T and B cells. T cells kill infected body cells and B cells produce antibodies that attack to virus so macrophages can destroy

A

Summary of Acquired Cells Job