Introduction to Microbes, Immunity and Disease Flashcards
What affects susceptibility & recovery
- Type of micro-organism
- Our body’s structure
- Exposure
- Nutrition
- Behaviour
- Beliefs and attitudes
- Thoughts and feelings
- Relationships with and care of others
Draw the schematic diagram connecting the pathogenic organisms entry and the effects on Innate immunity, nervous system, adaptive immunity and microbiome
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Lecture Slide
Immune defenses
-what are the layers
- Innate immuity (physcial, micorbial, humoral factors)
- If enters body then innate immunity engages cellular and humoral factors
Not enough?
- Inflammation and adaptive immunity using cellular and humoral factors
Lecture Slide for diagram
Clinical Case 1:
A 6 month old Chinese/Samoan baby girl is brought in as she has a fever of 39°C. She has been unwell for 2 days, has a rapid pulse and has not had a wet nappy for 24 hours.
- What are some common possible diagnosis?
– upper respiratory tract infection
– acute otitis media
– influenza
– gastroenteritis
– urinary tract infection
– bacterial pneumonia
Clinical Case 2:
A 2 year old Māori boy presents to the Emergency Department with a 2 day history of coughing. He has a low grade fever, rapid breathing and audible wheeze. He is with two female caregivers. This is his fifth attack of cough and wheeze.
-Diagnosis?
Whooping Cough
(infection with Bordetella pertussis)
Childhood illness with paroxysms of coughing, plus whoop, apnoea and vomiting
Typically lasts 6 weeks
Case 3:
malaise for the last 8 days. He also complains of a sore throat and anorexia for the last 2 days. On examination he has mildly enlarged tonsils, widespread cervical, axillary and inguinal lymphadenopathy, but no hepatosplenomegaly.
- What process are involved in making these symptoms
- why enlarged lymph nodes
Immune response and systemic inflammation causes symptoms
Antibody formation causes enlarged lymph nodes
