lymphatic systems Flashcards
CAusative agent of rocky mountain spotted fever?
RIckettsia rickettsii
Lyme disease causative agent?
Borrelia burgdorfer
Ehrlichia chaffeerisis disease name?
HUman monocyte echilia
Human granulocytic anaplasmosis
Anaplasma phagocyticphilium
Brucellosis Causative agent?
Brucella spp.
Tularemia causative agent?
Francisella tulorensis
How is brucellosis transmitted?
Milk from animals
HOw is tularemia transmitted?
deer ticks/flies
Where is tularemia found?
In rabbits and muskrats
how does brucellosis differ from tularemia?
ulcerating papules in tularemia and enlarged lymph nodes in tularemia
Brucellosis can produce chronic feelings and fever spikes to 40degrees
And they have granulyctic lymph nodes
streptomycin treats tularemia though tetracycline treats both
3 phases of lyme disease?
- 7 days after = bulls eye rash
- months after = irregular heartbeat, inflammation of brain, pain
- chornic arthritis, neurological problems in 5%
one pathogeneic factor of lyme?
glycosaminoglycans binds in ECM
Travels through ECM rapidly
Ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis pathogeneic factors?
Bind to scaffolding proteins of WBC, inhibits respirtory burst