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How do bacteria invade human body

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-Through mucus membranes (respiratory and garstrointestinal tracts, urinary tract and genital openings)
-Non intact skin (bites, wounds, injections…)

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How do bacterial pathogens damage host cells?

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  1. Invasion
  2. Toxins
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What is invasion

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Ability to spread to other loc in host by invading cells or tissues. Atp that signs of illness and disease occur

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what are Toxins

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Very specific virulent factor produced by bacterial pathogens, poisonous substances to host

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What is toxigenicity

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Organism’s ability to make toxins

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Two categories of toxins

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Endotoxins and exotoxins

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Exotoxins

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Toxin secreted by microorganism into surrounding enviro

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Endotoxin

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Toxin release by microorganism into environment when it dies, it’s part of cell wall

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Impacts to metabolic pathways in eukaryote host by bacterial toxins

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  1. Damage cell membrane
  2. Disrupt prot synthesis
  3. Inhibiting function of nervous syst
  4. Inhibiting activation of host immune syst
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Some pathogens

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Gonorrhea, lyme disease, strep throat, tuberculosis, tetanus

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What are antibiotics

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Drugs to treat infections caused by bacteria

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What is zone of inhibition (ZOI)

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Clear zone surrounding antimicrobial agent, complete absence of bacteria

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13
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What is a bacterial lawn

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Dense and uniform layer of bacteria on agar plate

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What is selective toxicity

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When agents affect pathogens and not host (by interacting with structures not present in/diff from host)

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Antibiotic modes of action

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  1. Cell wall synthesis
  2. Cell membrane function
  3. Metabolic reaction
  4. Prot synthesis
  5. Dna synthesis
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Inhibitors of cell wall synthesis (ex penicillin)

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Targets cell wall(critical for survival of bacteria)

17
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Inhibitors of cell membrane function:

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Content of cell will leak out and cell dies. However, often poorly selective and can be toxic for systemic use in mammalian host -> only topical

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Inhibitors of metabolic processes:

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Inhibits certain pathways necessary for bacteria survival

19
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Inhibitor of prot synthesis

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Target ribosome components (diff from eukaryotic) and leads to death bc prot synthesis is necessary for multiplication/survival of bacteria

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Inhibitors of nucleic acid synthesis

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Binding to components involved in process of dna or rna -> hinders multiplication

21
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Cell wall function

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Very strong, resists bursting/maintains shape, structural support and protection

22
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What is composed of peptidoglycan

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Cell wall in bacteria

23
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What is the gram stain

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Determines gram positive (purple) and gram negative (red) bacteria and proper antibiotic to choose

24
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Which bacteria stain purple (gram positive)

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Those with thick peptidoglycan walls

25
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Which bacteria stains red (gram negative?

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Those with thin peptidoglycan wall with thick outer layer of lipids and carbohydrates

26
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Gran stain process steps

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  1. Crystal violet added (primary stain)
  2. Iodine makes purple stick to peptidoglycan layer (if present)
  3. Alcohol is decolourizing agent (gram - lose colour)
  4. Safranin sticks to gram- cell walls
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Gran stain process steps

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  1. Crystal violet added (primary stain)
  2. Iodine makes purple stick to peptidoglycan layer (if present)
  3. Alcohol is decolourizing agent (gram - lose colour)
  4. Safranin sticks to gram- cell walls
28
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Penicillin kills which gram bacteria

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Gram positive

29
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Which bacteria-toxin

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Endotoxin = gram negative
Exotoxin = gram positive

30
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Narrow Spectrum antibiotics

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Affects small range of bacteria (each target specific one)

31
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Broad spectrum antibiotic

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Affects large range of bacteria, also kills natural microbiota -> increases risk of opportunistic infections (ex yeast infections)

32
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Penicillin mechanism

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Cell wall inhibitors (gram positive)

33
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Streptomycin (antibiotic) mechanism

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Inhibits protein synthesis (broad spectrum, tuberculosis

34
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Where is the chromosome in prokaryotes

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Nucleoid region

35
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Plasmids are and can

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Smaller circular dna fragments (no genes essential for survival) and can be transferred between bacterial cells (conjugation)

36
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Why carry plasmid through evolution if not necessary?

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Bc could be advantageous (ex antibiotic resistant gene -> gets passed on and more have it)

37
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Antibiotic resistant bacteria grow how

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The more antibiotics used, the greater the “selective pressure”. Antibiotics create an enviro which favours growth of resistant bacteria by killing non resistant ones

38
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How fast can antibiotic resistant bacteria multiply

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Once resistance established, rapidly evolves bc rapidly multiplies. Overnight, one can multiply to become a million

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