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Lec 29 Viral GI Illnesses Flashcards

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What is leading cause of childhood death?

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diarrhea

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What is most common viral cause of severe diarrhea in young children?

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rotaviruses

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Who gets rotaviruses?

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children age 6 - 24 mos

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What are signs of rotavirus infection?

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  • can be asymptomatic or severe dehydrating gastroenteritis
  • fever
  • vomiting
  • watery diarrhea
  • dehydration [more common in rotavirus than with other causes of infectious diarrhea]
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Does rotavirus infect immuodeficient? HIV+?

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  • longer lasting more severe syndrome in immunodeficient

- not a common cause of diarrhea in HIV+ adults

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Can reinfections of rotavirus occur?

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  • can occur but tend to be less severe
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Whos gets rotavirus? when?

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  • almost all children infected before age 3
  • adults infected when caring for infected infants
  • seasonal infection –> peak in colder months, lower humidity
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How is rotavirus transmitted?

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  • fecal oral route
  • resistant to desiccation –> can survive 7 months in feces]
  • shedding of large numbers of rotaviurs prior to, during and after infection
  • short < 48 hr incubation time
  • some evidence of maybe respiratory spread too
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How is rotavirus diagnosed?

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  • ELISA or latex agglutination to detect viral antigen in stool
  • RT-PCR of viral RNA
  • electron micro of stool
  • isolation in cell culture is possible
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What are the 7 serogroups of rotavirus? where are they found?

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groups A, B, C in animals and humans

groups D-G in animals

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How are rotavirus serogroups determined?

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reactivity of antibodies with VP6 [by ELISA]

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How are the rotavirus serotypes determined?

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  • within each group based on reactivity of antibodies with VP7 [G antigen]
  • also type based on reactivity of antibodies wtih VP4 [P antigen]
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What are the common serotypes most important for human disease?

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Group A serotypes G1, G2, G3

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What is function of VP4 gene in rotavirus?

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takes part in cell attachment

contains: hemagglutinin, neutralizing epitopes, P antigen

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What is function of VP6 gene in rotavirus?

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contains major group [A-G] antigen

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What is function of VP7 gene in rotavirus?

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contains neutralizing epitopes, G antigen

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What is function of NSP4 gene in rotavirus?

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codes for enterotoxin that aids in ER protein/assembly

18
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What is structure of rotavirus?

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  • rota = wheel appearance by EM
  • non-enveloped with 3 layer protein struct [double capsid + core]
  • segmented [11 segments]
  • double strand RNA
19
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Where in cell does rotavirus replicated?

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in cytoplasm

20
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What proteins are in outer capsid? inner capid? core?

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outer capsid = VP4 [P] + VP7 [G]
inner = VP6
core = VP2

21
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What are important points of rotavirus replication cycle?

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  • replicated in cyto
  • only uses viral enzymes
  • dsRNA always associated with subviral particles
  • subviral particles form and mature by budding through ER where they acquire outer capsid proteins
22
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How do you replicate dsRNA?

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  • copied into mRNA by RNA dependent RNA pol
23
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What is pathogenesis of rotavirus?

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  • diarrhea begins before signficiant damage to intestinal mucosa
  • get viremia
  • NSP4 enterotoxin plays important part in diarrhea
  • replicated in small intestinal epithelial cells
  • net secretion water and loss of ions
24
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What distinguishes bacterial from rotavirus diarrhea?

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rotavirus diarrhea has minimal intestinal inflammation in comparison

25
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What is immune response to rotavirus?

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  • antibodies in lumen of small intestine most important for protection
  • T cell may play role
  • first infection indunce homotypic immunity [anti-VP7 and VP4]
  • prior infection reduces likelihoood and severity of new infections = cross-protective immunity
26
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What are vaccines for rotavirus?

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  • jennerian vaccines: animal strains attenuated in humans as live vaccines
  • reassortment vaccines
  • attenuated human strain
27
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What is mech of RotaTeq?

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  • live, pentavalent [G1, G2, G3, G4, G6
  • human-bovine reassortment vaccine for rotavirus
  • for infants younger than 32 wks
  • not administered to infants with immunodeficiency
28
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Mech of rotarix?

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monovalent [G1P(8)] vaccine from most common human rotavirus strain

  • attenuated
  • provides partial cross-protection against other serotypes
29
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Mech of RotaShield? bad side effect?

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  • oral tetravalent human-rhesus rotavirus reassortment

- link to intussusception so withdraw from market

30
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What is the most common cause of outbreaks of nonbacterial gastroenteritis?

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norovirus

31
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What are the two types of human caliciviurses?

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  • noroviruses

- sapporo-like viruses

32
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What are the bio properties of norovirus?

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  • difficult to propagate in culture
  • non-enveloped
  • sing strand
  • pos sense
  • linear RNA
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Where does norovirus replicate in cell?

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in cytoplasm

34
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How is norovirus spread?

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  • fecal-oral transmision -> person to person, or from contaminated surface, fomites, airborne droplets]
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What is incubation period of norovirus? how long does it last?

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  • incubation 1-2 days

- illness 1-2 days

36
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How long does viral shedding last in norovirus?

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viral shedding can last 2 wks

37
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Who gets norovirus?

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older children and adults

38
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What are symptoms of norovirus?

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mild: fever, watery diarrhea
sever: fever, vomiting, headache, constitutional symptoms

adults –> diarrhea
children –> vomitting

can be asymptomatic carrier

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What is immune response to norovirus?

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  • infection induces antibodies that prevent illness following administration of homologous virus
40
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What is secretor negative phenotype?

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  • mutations in FUT2 gene encoding gene for H antigen found on epithelial cell surface –> no NV binding, no virus shedding
  • resistant to norovirus
41
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How is norovirus diagnosed?

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  • not usually made in clinical setting

- identify by EM, RT-PCR, ELISA

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