Lec14 GI pathogens Flashcards
Which bacteria are responsible for foodborn and diarrheal diseases?
- vibrio
- campylobacter
- shigella
- salmonella
- e coli 0157
- listeria
- yersinia
- enterocolitica
parasitic:
- cyclospora
- cryptosporidium
What is path of non-inflammatory diarrhea?
- ingest toxin or organism
- toxin binds enterocyte receptors
- increase the intracellular conc of cAMP/cGMP/Ca
- activate intracellular targets
- alter transport proteins and ion chains
- diarrhea
What is path of inflammatory diarrhea?
- ingest organism
- get intestinal colonization
- mucosal invasion leading to intramucosal multiplication leading to inflammation
- cytotoxins from organism directly cause inflammation
What is mech, location, illness, and pathogen for type 1 enteric infections?
mech: noninflammatory
location: proximal small bowel
illness: watery diarrhea
pathogens:
- vibrio cholerae [primary]
- e coli
- s. aureus
What is mech, location, illness, and pathogen for type 2 enteric infections?
mech: inflammatory
location: colon
illness: dysentery
pathogens:
- shigella [primary]
- salmonella enteritidis [primary]
- campylobacter
What is mech, location, illness, and pathogen for type 3 enteric infections?
mech: penetrating
location: distal small bowel
illness: enteric fever
pathogens:
- salmonella typhi [primary]
- yersinia enterocolitica
What are our enteric defenses?
- gastric aciditiy
- intestinal mobility
- enteric microflora
- immunity
- intestinal receptors
- personal hygeine, host species, genotype
What is the infectious dose?
amount of pathogen needed to cause infection in the host
What is infectious dose shigella vs campylobacter vs vibrio cholerae vs e coli vs salmonella?
shigella 10^2 campylobacter 10^3 salmonella 10^6 e coli 10^8 vibrio cholerae 10^8
don’t memorize this just approximate order
What are micro characteristics of vibrio cholerae?
- curved to straight bacilli
- gram negative
- no spores
150 O [LPS] antigenic serotypes
Which vibrio cholerae serotypes cause cholera
only 01 and 0139
What are the two byotypes of vibrio cholerae?
classical
El Tor
How is vibrio choleare transmitted? What precipates it?
- poor sanitary conditions
- survives in aquatic environment, transmission usually by fecal contamination food/water
- lytic bacteriophages
- asymptomatic carriers
What are clinical symptoms of cholera?
- mild to severe diarrhea
- vomitting
- muscle cramps
- loss of skin turgor
- death from hypvolemic shock, metabolic acidoss, uremia from tubular necrosis
What is the pathogenesis of cholera?
- cholera toxin [ctxAB] carried by bacteriophage
- TCP pili allow attachment and colonization of intestinal villi
- toxin gets secreted by phage
- toxin binds surface receptor of cell and goes into cell
- increases adenylyl cycalse and camp
- get secretory diarrhea Na/H20/Cl/K/HCO3 secreted
What is cholera toxin?
A-B type ADP ribosylating toxin
two types of subunits: ctxA, ctxB
A = enzyme subunits
B = binding subunits
What is treatment for cholera? are there vaccines?
- mainly rehydration
- antibiotics not necessary but can speed up recovery
- vaccines for oral O1 strain and recombinant toxin but efficacy not very good
What is shigella?
- non lactose-fermenting
- small gram neg
- demonstrates agglutinating antibodies
destroys enterocytes
What is group A shigella? disease?
- shigella dysenteriae
- s. dysenteriae serotype 1 causes severe Shiga dysentery
What is group B shigella?
- shigella flexneri
- pediatric shigellosis in developing countries
What is group C shigella?
- shigella boydii
What is group D shigella?
- shigella sonnei
- causes travelers diarrhea, shigellosis in developed and transitional countries