Infectious diseases B7 Flashcards
1/4 of patients with AIDS will develop what?
CMB retinitis
What is #1 infectious disease related cause of blindness?
Trachoma! (important)
caused by chlamidya trachomatis (sp?)
Chlamidya trachomatis A B and C
Presence of microbe on or in the body
Colonization
Is infection required for bacterial-related disease?
NO
True/False: A virus that infects your eye may have trouble infecting other parts of your body
True
Non living infectious particles
Viruses
Pathogen present in diseased animal
Pathogen isolated and grown in culture
INoculation of healthy animal with isolated pathogen causes disease
Koch’s postulates
What are some exceptions to Koch’s postulates?
we tend not to do this to people (we recover pathogen, or see evidence that a person is infected)
- difficulty isolating the virus
- ethical probs
True/False: An STD can affect the eye.
True
True/False: The inner part of the eye is sterile.
True
What are some sterile body sites?
Blood CSF Pleural fluid Tissues Lower respiratory tract Bladder Inner part of eye
What are some non-sterile body sites?
Eye/Mouth/Nose/Upper respiratory
Skin
Gastrointestinal tract (GI)
Urethra
If we find coagulase negative staphloccocus in a patient what do we consider?
assumed it is a contaminant until we have proved that it is a pathogen
Have a healthy dose of doubt about the gram stain you are sent. (FYI)
Use it as a clue but don’t take it to the bank. After the culture is old it gets hard to read
Wet preparations include what?
KOH dissolves protein tissue, doesn’t work on fungal wall.
Calcoflour white: fungi turns it fluorescent
Most common lab diagnostic stain used for bacteria?
Gram stain
Acid fast stain is for TB, what names are there for it
Ziehl-Neelsen or (Kinyoun)
Blood smear for white blood cell, epithelial inclusion bodies, protozoans. Can stain icanthomoeaba…
Wright-Giemsa stain can stain it in your eye
Potassium hydroxide (KOH)
10% KOH Dissolves keratin but DOES NOT DISSOLVE FUNGI CELL WALL (IMPORTANT)
Calcoflour white (CWF)
10% KOH and CWF dissolves tissue (KOH) and binds to chitin in fungal wall (fungi appear bright white)
Gram stain process
Put sample on slide
Heat fixed to seal organisms on the slide
Flood slide with crystal violet stain
Iodine- (yellos, mordant, seals bacterial cell wall, seals thick walls well, but doesn’t seal thin walls)
Between every stage wash with water
Then use alcohol for decolorization
Then use safranin to Counter stain
Gram stain which colors are positive and negative?
Purple= Gram positive Red= Gram negative
Thick peptidoglycan is what kind of grain stain?
Gram positive (purple/blue)
Thin peptidoglycan is what kind of grain stain?
Gram negative (Red)
ETOH can wash away crystal violet safranin counterstains in _______________.
thin peptidoglycan
Spheres are called what?
Rods are called what?
COCCI
BACILLI