L8 MHD: Spirochetes Flashcards
Treponema Pallidum:
- Light microscopy or Darkfield
- Vector/reservoir
- Transmission
- Disease
- use Darkfield
- NO vector/reservoir
- Intimate sexual contact
- Disease = SYPHILLIS
Leptospira Interrogans
- Light microscopy or Darkfield
- Vector/reservoir
- Transmission
- Disease
- Use dark field
- Rats, mice, wild rodents, dogs, swine, cattle
- Contact or ingest urine-contaminated water (surfer’s disease)
- Leptospirosis!
Borrelia Recurrentis
- Light microscopy or Darkfield
- Vector/reservoir
- Transmission
- Disease
- Light microscopy
- V= louse + tick
Reservoir = rodents - Transmitted by ticks or lice
- RELAPSING fever
Borrelia Burgdorferi
- Light microscopy or Darkfield
- Vector/reservoir
- Transmission
- Disease
- Yes - Light microscopy
- Vector = tick
Reservoir = Mouse, deer
- Transmission via (ixodes deer) TICKS
- Lyme borreliosis
Treponema Pallidum:
- Seen on ____ or ____
- Outer membrane: Does NOT contain ____
- What is the internal flagellum called?
- Immunofluorescence or darkfield
- No LPS
- Internal flagellum is called AXIAL FIBRIL
The following are characteristics of _____:
- Helical morphology
- Flexible peptidoglycan cell wall
- Axial fibrils that wind around cell wall
- covered by outer membrane
SPIROCHETES
Treponema & leptospira are THIN and seen only by dark field microscopy
BLT
- burrelia (can be seen with light microscopy)
- leptospira
- treponema
Culture of T. Pallidum:
- Cultured on _____
- Differentiated by clinical association only, why?
- What type of respiration?
- rabbit epithelial cells
- Generation time – 30 hours - Because structural & metabolic differences between treponemes have to been found.
- differentiated by clinical association only - MICROAEROPHILLIC!
- Outer membrane protein antigens cloned but pathogenicity not well characterized
Syphillis Transmission:
- Major contact? With what?
- How does congenital infection arise?
- Lesions of tertiary syphillis are contagious (T/F)
- No sexual spread if greater than ___ years after acquiring infection
- Intimate sexual contact with infective PRIMARY or SECONDARY lesion
- genitals, anus, lip - Dissemination through PLACENTA
- FALSE: lesions of primary and secondary syphilis are contagious
- 4 years!
How have US rates of syphillis changed?
Linked to what 3 things?
Marked increase among what population?
Decreased in ____
INCREASED since 2005
- Drug use
- Truck Routes
- core groups
Increase in GAY MEN
Decreased rates among FEMALES
(most common in white non hispanic males)
PATHOGENESIS:
- Syphillis passes through ____ or ____
- Multiplies locally and disseminates to____ and other organs
- Symptoms or signs when number of organisms reaches critical mass
Primary _____ days after inoculation - What is the pathologic lesion of syphillis?
- What stages are self-limiting?
- Intact mucosa or Abraded skin
- lymph nodes
- 10-90
- OBLITERATIVE ENDARTERITIS
- Hypersensitivity and autoimmunity may play late role - Primary and secondary stages are self-limiting
(each followed by periods of latency)
- immunity to reinfection after treatment of early syphillis is NOT enough to prevent reinfection
- immunity after later stages is more substantial
Primary Syphillis:
- What appears at the site of inoculation? This also results in regional _____
- Painless papule is called a ____
- Describe the ulcer
- T/F: systemic manifestations appear in primary stage.
- Heals ____
- ULCERATIVE LESION
- regional adenopathy - CHANCRE
- PAINLESS papule that ulcerates
(10-90 days after initial infection) - Ulcer has smooth , heaped up margins and dry crusted base
(liquid from base is dark field positive)
+ FIRM LOCAL ADENOPATHY
- FALSE: no fever/chills
- Heals spontaneously
Secondary Syphillis:
- What type of illness?
- What type of rash? Is the whole body covered?
- In Moist areas, papillose coalesce to form _____
- What other sites are affected?
- Fever & generalized ______
- SYSTEMIC flu-like illness
- may develop 2-10 weeks after primary lesion heals - PAPULOSQUAMOUS rash
- entire body including pass and soles
ALSO mucocutaneous rash with generalized lymphadenopathy & organ (liver, kidney, CNS involvement)
- CONDYLOMA LATA
- Hepatitis, aseptic meningitis, periostitis, nephritis (IMMUNE COMPLEX type)
- LYMPHADENOPATHY
What is a papulosquamous rash? Which stage of syphillis is this characteristic of?
- Red, elevated lesion that is easily felt, rough on the surface with a sandpaper texture
- HYPERKERATOTIC - SECONDARY SYPHILLIS
What is the difference between adenopathy between primary and secondary syphillis?
- Primary = REGIONAL lymphadenopathy
- genital area (inguinal etc.) - Secondary = GENERALIZED (neck/axillary)
One third of untreated syphillis cases resolve spontaneously.
The reminder progress to what?
What is positive in this stage?
Clinically what is seen?
- LATENT SYPHILLIS
- presence of POSITIVE treponema serologic test in
- the absence of clinical manifestations
(1/3 of untreated cases become LATE syphillis)
Late Syphillis presents in what 3 major organ systems?
- Neurosyphillis
- TABES Dorsalis
- (demyelination of nerves) - Cardiovascular
- proximal aorta & branches –> causing aneurisms due to AORTITIS
- can lead to ascending aortic aneurism
“tree barking of aorta”
(syphillis destroys the vast vasorum –> smaller vessels that supply the aorta) - Late Benign GUMMATOUS
- granulomatous lesions in skin, mucocutaneous areas, bones
- soft growth with firm necrotic center
Describe the 4 kinds of neurosyphilis.
- Asymptomatic
- Meningovascular
- Paresis
- Tabes dorsalis (what sensory deficits present?)
- Asymptomatic
- CSF infected w/o symptoms or signs (only seen as infection in CSF) - Meningovascular
- chronic meningitis which can affect major arteries to brain & cranial nerves
(stroke is possible/ without HTN) - Paresis
- CORTICAL DEGENERATION w/ mental changes - Tabes dorsalis
- demyelination of posterior colums & dorsal roots
**LOSS OF PAIN, temp, proprioception
+ ATAXIA
Congenital Syphillis:
- Infection occurs ____
- T/F: symptoms present at birth
- Prevent with what?
- What is recommended during pregnancy?
- IN UTERO infection (typically 1st trimester)
- FALSE no symptoms at birth
- multi system disease later
a) rhinitis
b) rash
c) bone & cartilage involvement
d) liver, spleen, lymph nodes , CNS - Penicillin during pregnancy (de-sensitize person if allergic, since tetracyclines are contraindicated in pregnancy)
- ROUTINE SCREENING recommended
What are the pupils that arise due to tertiary Syphillis?
What congenital defects are associated with syphillis?
Argyle - Robinson pupils
- can accommodate but not react to light!
= stay dilated when light is shined
(prostitute pupils)
FIRST AID:
- Saber shins
- Saddle shaped nose
- Hutchinson’s teeth (notched)
- Mulberry molars
- CN VIII deafness!!
- RHAGADES (linear scars at angle of mouth)
Microscopy for syphillis includes what 3 tests:
- ___ for primary & secondary lesions
- Immunofluorescence with monoclonal antibodies ______
- ___ which is not used clinically
- DARKFIELD
- Direct Fluorescent Antibody Test
- PCR