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1
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what are three examples of disease?

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  • individual vs population
  • viral vs bacterial
  • non-notifiable and notifiable
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what is hepatitis?

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liver inflammation

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what is conjunctivitis?

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inflammation of the conjunctiva

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what are 5 casues for disease/illness?

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  1. bacterial
  2. viral
  3. parasitic
  4. fungal
  5. non biological
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5
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what is vigamox?

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  • moxifloxacin
  • antibiotic against streptococcus
  • targets DNA replication
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is no effect from an antibiotic enough evidence that it is not a bacterial infection?

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no, would need to take a culture and determine exactly what it is

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why would a physician give someone a drug without doing a culture first?

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to begin treatment and alleviate discomfort

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what is viroptic?

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  • trifluridine
  • blocks DNA replication of virus
  • is an antiviral
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9
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what is mylan-acyclovir?

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  • acyclovir
  • antiviral
  • blocks the synthesis of DNA -> is shaped like a nucleic acid
  • as effective as trifluridine
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10
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how do we know how to treat?

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  • lab tests
  • epidemiological data on commonly reported cases in the area
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11
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BC CDC testing

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will receive info from physicians regarding their patients: PCR, culturing, ELISA

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what determines how efficient a treatment is?

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  • social resistance
  • biological resistance
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what is social resistance?

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  • social determinants
    -> abuse of antibiotics, refusal of vaccines
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what do we need to consider for biological agents causing disease?

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the ecology (how agents react in their environment) and evolution of the host and biological agent

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herpes types

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  1. herpes simplex (HSV)
  2. herpes zoster (HZV)
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what is HSV

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  • herpes simplex
  • smaller than HZV
  • dsDNA class 1
  • can become provirus and incorporate into the nerve cells in the back of the eye
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what is HZV?

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  • herpes zoster
  • larger than HSV
  • dsDNA class 1
  • can become provirus
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what is a provirus?

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a form of a virus that is integrated into the genetic material of a host cell and by replicating with it can be transmitted from one cell generation to the next without causing lysis.

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difference between HSV and HZV?

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  • size -> HSV is smaller than HZV
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is herpes a notifiable disease?

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  • no, you do not have to report it in canada
  • 60-95% of pop is already infection and most ppl immune
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21
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is SARS CoV 1 notifiable?

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yes

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what is seroconversion

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antibody production

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is SARS CoV 2 notifiable

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no, we have a separate database for it

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24
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how is SARS CoV 2 different from influenza?

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the structure is different but the symptoms are similar

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25
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whats presumptive cases?

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have not been officially put in the database for reporting if they are notifiable. there is not enough testing data to confirm its what physician thinks

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whats confirmed cases

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have the correct testing results to confirm it is what physicians think it is. ready to be put into database if notifiable

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what is CFR

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case fatality rate
(# of deaths / total number of cases)

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28
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what kind of vaccine is Astra-zeneca?

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recombinant adenovirus with covid 19 protein

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29
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what is a bivalent vaccine

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original strain plus variants

30
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what is pharyngitis

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sore throat / inflammation

31
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what causes TB?

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mycobacterium tuberculosis

32
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is TB notifiable

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yes

33
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how do we confirm TB?

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1) Acid fast staining (AFB) - smear of sputum turns pink (1-2 days)
2) Nucleic acid Amplification Test (NAAT) PCR testing a specific M.tuberculosis gene (2-3 days)
3) Culture if AFB is positive (up to 8 weeks) - Important to determine antibiotic sensitivity
4) Chest X-ray - to see the extent of the infection

34
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why has the number of confirmed cases for TB gone down since 40s?

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vaccination and effective antibiotics

35
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where in canada has the highest amount of TB cases?

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nunavut - 266 per 100,000
yukon 21 per 100,000

36
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what happens when a presumptive case is confirmed?

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secondary contacts become presumptive cases

37
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current TB vaccine?

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BCG - live virus vaccine

38
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why don’t we use BCG vaccine anymore in Canada?

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disease incidence is low for most of Canada, but northwest territories and nunavut are still immunized

39
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challenges with TB treatment and prevention

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  1. drug resistance - we need new drugs
  2. vaccine resistance - we need new vaccines
  3. BCG is efficient in areas with high incidence, not efficient otherwise
40
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what causes herpes?

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a virus, dsDNA genome

41
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what causes Sars CoV-2?

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a virus, ssRNA

42
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how do we know if a treatment is safe?

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  1. safety testing for drugs and vaccines
  2. evolving religious and philosophical views
43
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what is the new TB vaccine?

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M72

44
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what is a latent infection?

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infection that is dormant until active in host cells

45
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why would M72 address the rise is drug resistance for TB?

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projected to avert the use of antibiotic treatment for 42m individuals

46
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how many lives is M72 projected to save and prevent TB infection?

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8.5m saved and 76m prevented

47
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what is the difference between BCG and M72 for TB?

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M72 is not as effective and a live virus vaccine
- BCG is 50% effective for latent TB infections and a ‘subunit’ vaccine for two surface proteins of bacterium

48
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what kind of patients is M72 50% effective for?

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latent ones

49
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when was BCG developed

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over100 years ago

50
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is TB considered a new disease?

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no

51
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what happens as more vaccines are introduced?

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the mortality rate decreases

52
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when the was spanish flu?

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1918

53
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what did robert koch discover?

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the cause of TB as a bacterium in 1882

54
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what are the steps for koch’s postulates?

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  • Microorganisms are isolated from a diseased or dead animal
  • The microorganisms are grown in pure culture
  • The microorganisms are identified
  • The microorganisms are injected into a healthy laboratory animal
  • Disease is reproduced in a laboratory animal
  • The microorganisms are isolated from this animal and grown in pure culture
  • Microorganisms are identified
55
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what is pathology?

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the study of disease

56
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what is etiology?

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the study of the cause of the disease

57
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what is normal microbiota?

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permanently colonized in host/body

58
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what is transient microbiota?

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microorganisms that only temporarily found in the body

59
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what does liebigs law stipulate?

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growth is not controlled by the total amount of resources available but by the scarcest resource (limiting factor)

60
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what is a real world example of liebigs law?

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plant growth often is not limited by water or sunlight, but rather by nitrogen or phosphate in the soil

61
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what does shelfords law stipulate?

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success of an organism relies not only on the availability of nutrients but also that organisms tolerance to the environment. optimal and minimal conditions exist

62
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when was the black death spreading through Europe?

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AD 1348

63
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what is an antibiotic?

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a substance produced by a microbe that, in small amounts, inhibits another microbe

64
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what is an antimicrobial drug?

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a synthetic substance that interferes with the growth of microbes

65
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what are the 5 bacterial sites that are targeted by antibiotics?

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  1. Cell wall (penicillin)
  2. Protein synthesis (tetracycline)
  3. Inhibition of nucleic acids (rifampin for RNA, Quinolone for DNA)
  4. Cell metabolism (sulfonamide)
  5. Damage to cell membrane (polymixin B)
66
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what does penicillin target?

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peptidoglycan

67
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how does penicillin function?

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The cyclic oxygen breaks and forms a covalent bond with the enzyme, preventing it from ever being used again.

68
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what are the 4 mechanisms of drug resistance?

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  1. Block drug binding to the target site
  2. Destruction or inactivation of the drug
  3. Conformation change of the drug’s target site
  4. Rapid efflux of the drug from the microbe
69
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who coined the term vaccination?

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pasteur

70
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define vaccine

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a suspension of organisms or fractions of organisms that induce immunity

71
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What occurs physiologically in response to a vaccine being administered?

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A primary immune response which leads to the formation of antibodies and memory cells (IgM and IgG).

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