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Mechanisms of viral infections and pathogenesis Flashcards

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What is kaposi’s sarcoma?

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cancer caused by herpes simplex virus 8

- occurs in immunocompormised people e.g. with HIV

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If you have multiple sexual partners, what are you likely to get?

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  • papillomavirus

- causes genital warts and cervical cancer

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How can you get EBV?

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  • causes glandular fever
  • kissing
  • bodily fluids
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What is a primary infection?

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  • it can enter and replicate at site of entry and remain there e.g. influenza virus and rhino virus
  • the virus can replicate at the entry site and then spread e.g. varicella zoster
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Where doest varicella zoster virus start and spread to?

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  • start in respiratory tract
    (asymptomatic here)
  • spread to skin
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What is reactivation?

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  • stay latent in body cells and reactivate later in time
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Give examples of viruses that can reactivate in the body?

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  • herpes simplex virus
  • varicella zoster
    they hide in neurons
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What is secondary infection?

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  • second different organism after having/while being infected by a previous organism
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What is a good example of a secondary infection?

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  • someone has bacterial infection
  • give antirbiotics
  • gets rid of commensal organisms
  • so less competition for other organisms to grow
  • can get candida albicans (vaginal thrush)
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What is a bad reason why secondary infection can go?

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  • when there is compromised immunity
  • e.g. HIV where we see increased bacterial and fungal infections
  • e.g. getting bacterial pneumonia after viral respiratory tract infections
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What is reinfection?

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  • same organism infects again
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Which organisms reinfect?

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  • influenza

- rhinovirus (common cold)

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Which viruses enter through the respiratory tract?

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  • influenza virus
  • rhinovirus
  • varicella Zoster
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Which viruses enter through the faecal-oral route?

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  • noravirus

- rotavirus

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Which viruses enter the blood?

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  • HIV
  • HepA
  • HepC
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Which viruses enter through skin cuts?

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  • papilloma virus

- molluscum contagiosum

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Which viruses are passed on through sexual transmission?

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  • papilloma virus
  • HIV
  • HSV
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Which viruses are passed on through animal bites?

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Which viruses are passed through insect bites?

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  • hemorrhagic fever

- lassafever (Arenaviridae)

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Which viruses cause acute diseases?

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  • influenza
  • rhinovirus
  • rotavirus
  • rabies
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Which viruses cause chronic disease (lasting more than 3 months)?

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  • HepB

- HepC

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What decides how pathogenic a virus is?

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  • nature of virus
  • site of entry
  • tissue tropism
  • what tissue does it affect?
  • extent of cell damage caused
  • ability of the immune system to clear the virus
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What are examples of vertically transmitted viruses?

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  • rubella

- parvovirus

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In a perinatal infection, how is the immune system evaded?

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  • a huge viral load of herpes simplex virus can be passed from mother to child
  • the load is so much that baby struggles to clear it
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How does HSV evade the immune system?
- stays latent in nerve ganglia | - immune system cant reach here bc doesnt know where the virus is
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How does CMV evade the immune system?
- downregulate MHC1- so infected cells cant present to CD8+ | - hide in privileged sites e.g. CD4 T helper cells
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How do HIV and CMV evade the immune system?
- hide in privileged sites e.g. CD4 T helper cells | - hard for immune system to get the virus
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How does influenza evade the immune system?
- change antigens constantly - so immune system doesnt recognise it when it infects again - so each time it takes the immune system time to react
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How does HepB evade the immune system?
- releases incomplete surface proteins - they form an incomplete virus - they decoy proteins and divert immune response away from complete virus
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What is human papillomavirus?
- non enveloped - double stranded DNA virus - over 100 types - put into high risk and low risk
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What are the high risk human papillomaviruses?
- HPV 16, 18, 31 and 45 | - development of cervical carcinoma and other malignancies
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What does HPV attack?
- epithelial cells and these epithelial surfaces have different cellular layers - epithelial surface has many layers - only cells in basal layer actively divide - virus needs to infect here - they attack and migrate to cell nucleus - now copies its own DNA
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What genes does the HPV have?
E2, E6, and E7
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What does E6 do?
- E6 gene interferes with TP53 (coded by the p53 gene) (a tumor suppressor gene) - TP53 PROTEIN normally causes apoptosis if the cell’s DNA is damaged or if the cell is infected by a virus - activates telomerase gene (keeps cancerous cell intact)
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What does E7 do?
- interferes with retinoblastoma which is a tumor suppressing protein in the host cell - retinoblastoma normally helps regulate the cell cycle - E7 binds to this protein and stops it from functioning, and the cell cycle becomes unregulated
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What does E2 do?
- downregulates E6 and E7 expression - when the viral plasmid is unintegrated into host DNA, E2 turns down the cancer causing genes so they are not expressed and do not have an effect - BUT when HPV integrates its DNA into the host genome - the virus makes a cut in the DNA plasmid in the middle of E2 - the circular viral DNA is not linear, and it integrates into the host DNA-now an upstream regulatory region recruits transcription factors and E6 and E7 are produced
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Tell me about Zika virus:
- flaviviridae family - enveloped - ssRNA - positive sense - Transmission: via mosquitos - causes microcephaly in infants when pregnant women get zika

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