Lec 1-4 - Actinomyces & Treponema

Question 1

these are part of normal flora, commensals, and can be opportunistic pathogens

Answer 1

actinomyces

Question 2

suppurative means blank lesions

Answer 2

pussY

Question 3

actinomyces cause these lesions

Answer 3

suppurative granulmatous

Question 4

actinomyces can look like yeast because of blank

Answer 4

hyphae

Question 5

early colonizer in oral biofilms

Answer 5

actinomyces viscosus

Question 6

actinomyces viscosus colonizes these surfaces and are associated with this disease

Answer 6

hard surfaces (hydroxyapatite), gingivitis

Question 7

suppurative chronic bacterial infection caused by actinomyces israelii

Answer 7

actinomycosis

Question 8

treatment of actinomycosis is tough because it is part of the normal flora but is treated by these

Answer 8

antibiotic (months long), surgical debridement

Question 9

mycosis is due to blank so actinomycosis is not a mycosis because it is due to bacteria

Answer 9

yeast

Question 10

most prevalent form of actinomycosis

Answer 10

cervicofacial… followed by abdominal and thoracic

Question 11

actinomycosis presents with inflamed indurated mass, can palpate submandibular lymphadenopathy, drainage is milky white or red with yellow flecks which are from blank

Answer 11

sulfur granules

Question 12

central core of actinomycosis is blank

Answer 12

calcified

Question 13

most actinomycosis is due to some sort of blank and starts as a blank abscess

Answer 13

trauma, periapical

Question 14

actinomycosis is almost always wrongly diagnosed because it is the blank

Answer 14

great mimicer of other diseases

Question 15

thoracic actinomycosis is often due to blank and have symptoms like lethargy and fever and weight loss and night sweats (like HIV)

Answer 15

aspiration

Question 16

thoracic actinomycosis can lead to these problems with the cns

Answer 16

brain abscess, meningitis

Question 17

abdominal actinomycosis can be from these

Answer 17

abdominal surgery, gi tract, female gu tract

Question 18

if bone is exposed it is blank

Answer 18

dead

Question 19

bisphosphanates inhibit blank but it makes the bone blank

Answer 19

osteoclasts, dense/avascular

Question 20

3 pathogenic spirochetes (not gram negative even though they look like it)

Answer 20

treponema, borrelia, leptospira

Question 21

spiro that causes sphyilis and necrotizing ulcerative gingiviits

Answer 21

treponema

Question 22

spiro that causes relapsing fever and lyme disease

Answer 22

borrelia

Question 23

spiro that causes leptospirosis

Answer 23

leptospira

Question 24

spiro are strict blank or can be blank and are seen by blank

Answer 24

anaerobes, microaerophiles, darkfield microscopy

Question 25

this causes lyme disease

Answer 25

borrelia burgdorferi

Question 26

this causes syphilis

Answer 26

treponema pallidum

Question 27

this causes yaws and ulcerative granulomas on skin

Answer 27

treponema pallidum pertenue

Question 28

this causes pinta which has depigmentation of skin

Answer 28

treponema carateum

Question 29

primary intraoral site of oral spirochetes

Answer 29

gingival crevice, necrotizing gingivitis (periodontitis)