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1
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What stain do you use for TB? What happens with this stain?

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Acid Fast, it Glows

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Individual coughing with acid-fast positive is likely what diseases*?

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TB

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What causes TB?

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Pulmonary Lesions, Mycobacterium

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Where does TB disseminate?

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Kidney, Liver, Testes

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When are you infectious with TB if you previously were infected?

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After your body walls off the bacteria, if the bacterium penetrates the wall and comes out of latency you will become infectious

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Who is most susceptible to TB?

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AIDs patients, crowded populations, homeless people

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Is TB always highly contagious?

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Not if your body walls off the bacteria and it is latent, uncontained it is highly communicable.

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What was the reason for the spike of TB in the 1980s?

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Due to the Spike of HIV

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What happens during Primary TB infections?

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Macrophages migrate to local lymph nodes, CMI slows the growth of bacteria, the bacteria become contained in epithelioid giant cell granules

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What happens to tubercles at the end of TB infections?

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They can become calcified with sequestered bacteria that produce a positive skin test, negative X-ray.

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What is the main difference between primary TB and Latent TB

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Primary = First Exposure

Latent = Controlled exposure in granules

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What is Secondary TB?

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Skin test positive, X-Ray Positive, Sputum Positive

Clinical TB

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Two ways Active TB interferes with lipid metabolism?

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Night Sweats, Weight Loss

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14
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What is the Ghon complex?

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Enlarged Tubercles rupture into airways and blood vessels ( Cheesy Spread ) [Pos, skin test Pos, X-ray]

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What are the physiologic reactions due to the Macrophages in secondary TB?

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Fever and weight loss

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What is the most likely form of TB infection?

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Latent

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What patients are at risk for Rapid failure of CMI due to TB?

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Immunocompromised patients.

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18
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How do we test for TB?

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Inject PPD in the skin, observe the response of CMI by the diameter of TB ‘bump’

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How do we get around TB’s drug resistance when treating patients?

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Use 2,3,4 drug combos

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What is the MAC?

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Mycobacterium avium - intracellulare

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21
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What is disseminated miliary TB?

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Miliary = milit seed disseminated = pass out

Radio graph = Lesions spread out all throughout the body
(Prevalent in immunocomplex. pts)

Associated with Secondary TB

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What two stains are used for MAC?

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Acid Fast + fluorochrome

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A pt with a CD4 count that is extremely high with positive skin test, lesions all over the body what could be the cause?

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TB

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What causes syphilis? how is it transmitted?

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Treponema Palladium , infectious chancre lesion

-sexually transmitted

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If your pt does not have lesions, but syphilis symptoms do you use RPR tests or immunofluorescence?

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RPR blood test, testing for a spirochete.

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Explain the stages of syphilis.

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[Spirochete]
Primary - Chancre lesion (21 days) painless, heals w/o treatments

Secondary - Rash over a wide area ( 1 - 6 months later)

Tertiary - Multi-organ failure, death if not treated (>6 months)

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What does Borrelia Burgdorferi cause?

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Lyme Disease, tick bite. [Spirochete]

Asymptomatic—>Non Specific flu symptoms—-> Rash—->Neurologic /Cardio/Arthritic involvement

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What is the shape of the skin rash in lime disease?

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Bullseye

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How do you transmit Leptospira interrogans? what are the symptoms?

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contact with infected animal urine or contaminated water

[spirochete]

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What is a unique feature of the Ab response in leptospira interrogans?

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Over the course of time, the Ab response rises (rising ab titer)

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31
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What is the difference between an increasing titer and a constant titer?

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increasing = recent infection

constant = either not infected or not a recent infection

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Burkholderia malia

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Associated with horses (animal blood transmission) , HIGH fatality if not treated

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Burkholderia psuedomalia is a _____ threat that causes _________.

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Biological threat, melioidosis

[gram neg bacilli]
[south east asia, pacific, australia]

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Unique features of Burk. cepacia

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  • Hard to kill
  • Common in soil and water
  • Nosocomial infections

[Gram Neg Bacili]

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35
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Infectious properties of Burkholderia species

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  • lung , airways affected
  • pneumonia
  • quickly can lead to death in the immuno compromised

[gram neg bacili]

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36
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Where is peptostreptococcus normal vs. abnormal body microbiota?

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Normal = vagina 
Abnormal = Bone and Joints
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37
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Key features of Fusobacterium

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Anaerobic, periodontal infections, skin ulcers

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38
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Faecalibacterium is normal when? and abnormal when?

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Normal in high numbers as a boost to the immune system

Abnormal in low numbers as an indication of clinical disorders

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39
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Bifidobacterium

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Probiotic, normal bacteria of the vagina and mouth and gut

[Gram pos bacili, non spore forming]

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40
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Propinobacterium sets the stage for what?

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Acne

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41
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Lactobacillus spp. characteristics

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Gram pos bacillus, normal in digestive and genital tract

a common probiotic in food

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42
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Influenza is what kind of virus?

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Myxovirus

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43
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The flu is transmitted mostly by what 3 things?

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Droplets, contact, inhalation

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44
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Who is affected most by the flu?

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The young and old

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45
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If your body can’t fight off viral influenza what are you most likely to die from? vs. a secondary bacterial pneumonia infection

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More likely to die from the viral influenza URT infection.

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46
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What is the purpose of Hemagluttin and Neuraminidase in flu infection?

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Attachment and virulence.

Vaccines try to match up to these for attack.

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47
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Which type of flu has high variability?

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Type A

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48
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H and N of the flu come from what?

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Surface Proteins that vary with virulence

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49
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How should we treat for the flu?

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Antivirals and treat early

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50
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Which strain is the most important to get right when predicting for the flu vaccine?

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Type A

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51
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Type B and C of the flu are _________ stable.

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Antigenically

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52
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Common human subtypes of the flu

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H3N2 , H1N1

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53
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Early in the flu season you get flu ___ late you get flu ___

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A, B.

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54
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What is RSV?

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Respiratory Syncytial Virus

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55
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What can cause the common cold?

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Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, Corona Virus

RNA virus

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What is the primary cold infection of infants and children?

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RSV, Respiratory syncytial virus

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57
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What is the transmission of Covid?

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Person to person, contaminated surfaces, droplets

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58
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Symptoms of covid

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Fever, Cough, Shortness of breath, loss of smell taste, MISC in children

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What is significant about the covid virion structure

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Virus codes its own replicase (RNA polymerase) and proofreading enzymes

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What is an ACE-2 / NRP-1 ?

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They are docking site receptors in nasopharyngeal and bronchial tissues. Antigen spikes attack here.

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About how many viruses can be made from one infected cell of covid?

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~2100

62
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With a covid infection at what point are you contagious vs. symptoms?

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2.5 days to 4 days after exposure you are contagious until day 12
Symptoms go from day 4 to about day 7.5

63
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After exposure to the Covid virus, what happens to surface receptors?

A

There is an increase which can lead to an increase in infection

64
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What does NRP-1 do?

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Blocks pain signaling pathways, allows infection to spread w/o inflammatory pain.

65
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What is the effect of blocked interferon response

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Decrease in immune efficiency

66
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Common pathology of Covid?

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Vascular system damage= Bradykinin storm [bp lowers] Co opt of ACE-2

67
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Parainfluenza

A

Enveloped causing croup, member of parmyxovisu

68
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Human metapneumovirus is common when?

A

Early spring

69
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Adenovirus

A

DNA non enveloped can cause atypical pneumonia with a vaccine in types 4 and 7 which cause acute respiratory disease

70
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Herpes chracteristics

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DNA enveloped, latent and reoccurring. type 1 and 2

71
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What does a syphilis legion look like?

A

Canchre

72
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Which legion is painful? Herpes vs. syphillis

A

Herpes, canchre is hard not painful

73
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Why is herpes recurrent?

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Branches off the ganglion so you normally get a legion in the same spot

74
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How is the herpes virus normally held in check?

A

Cell-mediated immunity

75
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Herpes Zoster (Varicella-Zoster) causes what 2 infections?

A

Chickenpox, Shingles

76
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Why can chickenpox turn into latent recurring shingles?

A

Because your CMI gets keeps it in check most of your life, as you get old it gets old as well, HZV remerges from the nerve ganglia.

77
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If you get shingles where is the rash typically?

A

One specific area following the ganglion.

78
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Who gets the shingles vaccine?

A

Anyone over 50

79
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Epstein Barr Virus affects what cells?

A

B Cells

80
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How is EBV transmitted

A

Saliva, oral secretions
[kissing disease]
infectious mono

81
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How does the EBV convert from lysogenic to lytic?

A

Latent viruses are reactivated upon B cell stimulation

[converts into lytic phase]

82
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Cytomegalovirus causes what?

A

Congenital cytomegalic inclusion disease from infected vaginal microbiota during the birthing
[CMV mono]

83
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What is CMV associated with clinically?

A

Impairs CNS and can develop mental/physical retardation of the affected child

84
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Latent CMV is expressed in what cases?

A

Immunosuppressed malignancy, AIDS, organ transplant, causes expression.

85
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Rotavirus is a _____ virus.

A

RNA

86
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Transmission of Rotavirus

A

Fecal to oral

87
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Norwalk virus Characteristics

A

RNA virus.
Worldwide cause of Gastrentereritis. 18-48 hours of incubation / 12-60 hrs of symptom.
[transmitted by food, water, vomitus- difficult to prevent spread] Think crews ship ( everyone gets sick )

88
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What generally happens to immunity in HIV infections?

A

Decreased and increased opportunistic infections

89
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Why are there so many different variants of the HIV virus?

A

Because it is an RNA virus

90
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Virion properties of HIV

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Glycoprotein -41 / -120 attaches to CD4 and CXCR4.

CCR5 is for macrophages

P24 is the capsid protein

91
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HIV-1 is prevalent where vs. -2?

A 
1 = world wide 
2 = african countries
92
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What is reverse transcriptase?

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produces a DNA copy of the RNA genome

93
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What is the purpose of reverse transcriptase in HIV

A

RNA enters a host cell then Reverse transcriptase makes new viral DNA.
[CD4 cells cant produce cytokines]

94
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What are key details of the 4 stages of HIV

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1= Primary infection w spike in viral count [p24 antigen detectable] asymptomatic (1 to 4 months)

2= Latent (asymptomatic period) fought off the virus most of the time here. get a decrease in CD4 cells at the very end,

3 = Persistent infection [subclinical immune dysfunction, p24 spike at the end here.
[Kaposis sarcoma]

4 = AIDS , no longer have any CMI, decrease in CD8 here too.

95
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CD4 count under 200 suspects HIV. What else can happen?

A

More susceptible to other infections

96
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Symptoms of Viral Hepatitis

A

Anorexia
Hepatic tenderness
Jaundice and dark urine

97
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Hep B is what kind of virus

A

Viral enveloped DNA virus

Blood transmission

98
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What do HBsAg, HBcAg, and HBeAg stand for

A

Hep B

Surface - earliest chronic infection [long term infection]
Core -
Envelope - early acute infection [active virus]

99
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Anti-HBe = indicates? 
Anti-HBs = indicates?
A

= seroconversion late acute resolution

=convalescence recover immunity [protective Abs]

100
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Seroconversion =

A

when Ab appears

101
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Is Hep B curable?

A

Yes it is an acute infection that resolves in 3-6 months

102
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What does the HBV vaccine solicit, or help create?

A

Anti-HBs for protection

103
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Hep C characteristics

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Small, Enveloped RNA virus
Blood transmission
High co-infection with HIV

No vaccine, too many variants

104
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Hep A characteristics

A

Small, non enveloped RNA virus
Not chronic
Fecal to oral route

A vaccine is available.

105
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Bunyaviridae includes what viruses

A

Hantavirus , CCHF , RVF , [Hem fever]

106
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Filoviridae includes what viruses

A

Ebola and Marburg , [Hem fever]

107
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Flaviviridae includes what viruses

A

Dengue, yellow fever , [Hem fever]

108
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Togaviriddae includes what viruses

A

Chikungunya , [Hem fever]

109
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Common symptoms of Dengue fever

A

joint pain = break bone fever
conjunctivitis
headache
rash

[Hem fever]

Transmitted by mosquitos, not common in the USA

110
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Yellow fever is transmitted by

A

Mosquitos, not common in the USA because of the vaccine

[Hem fever]

111
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Places in the US that you can find Chikungunya

A

TX and Florida

112
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Congo - Crimean Hemorrhagic fever = ____ transmission

A

Tick

[Hem fever]

113
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What is the vector for ebola?

A

Fruit bats and bushmeat

114
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At risk areas for ebola

A

direct contact with blood and body fluids.

Mucosal tissue
eyes
breaks in skin

115
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What ar e Ebola supersspreaders

A

A small number of people that get the virus infect most of the people with total infection of ebola.

116
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What is Encephalitis viral transmission?

A

Zika = Mosquito-borne and semen
EV = Tick Borne
West Nile = Mosquito

117
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Which virus is associated with Guillain Barre Syndrome

A

Zika , can cause microcephaly in fetus

118
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Which virus is associated with Guillain Barre Syndrome

A

Zika can cause microcephaly in the fetus

119
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Does Zika have a vaccine?

A

No

120
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General areas you can find the following infections :

  1. St. Louis Encephalitis
  2. West Nile fever
  3. Japnese Enceph.
  4. Murray Valley Fever
A
  1. California / South America
  2. Africa / Europe / small[mid USA]
  3. Japan
  4. Australia
121
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Where does Rabies virus replicate?

A

tissue at bite travels in PNS

122
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How do you die from rabies?

A

Often due to respiratory paralysis

123
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HPV is associated with what cancer

A

cervical cancer, genital warts Type 6 & 11.

not all are sexually transmitted

124
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Enterovirus is a __ Virus

A

RNA

125
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Enter. virus transmission

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fecal to oral , resp. secretions, contact with vesicle fluid

126
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What type of enter. virus is an emerging cause of polio like illness (acute flaccid paralysis)

A

Enter. virus D68

127
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What type of enter. virus causes myocarditis , pleurodynia, vesicular rash

A

Coxsackie

128
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What does poliovirus invade

A

The CNS = muscle deterioration / paralysis

129
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How are measles transmitted

A

Person to person highly contagious

130
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What is re-emergent rubeola?

A

Red measles [re-emergent measles virus]When you are contagious with the measles, serious infection
Cough, rhinitis, high fever, red eyes, Koplik spots, rash

131
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When are you contagious with the measles

A

4 days prior to 4days after rash onset

Vaccine effective

132
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Meningitis, first tests you do

A

Blood culture and spinal tap

[imunnocompromised]

133
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What causes fungal ringworm? how can they be visualized

A

Microsporum, Trichophyton, and Epidermophyton

KOH wet prep

134
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Sporothrix has _______ that travels along with the lymph and gives you ulcerated ______.
With a history of what?

A

Nodules
Bumps

Working in soil/ rose garden, few weeks later.

135
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Histoplasma is associated with what transmission and what locations?

A

Bird droplets that you inhale and it gives you flu lesions
[systemic mold pathogen]

Ohio, Mississippi, Asia

136
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Where is coccidiosis located most commonly?

A

Southwest USA, North Mexico

137
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Candida Auris is an ____ . How is it identified?

A

emerging threat.

hard to identify
hospital infections

138
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How do you identify cryptococcus neoformans

A

India ink CSF

immunodiagnostic test

139
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If you have rabies, polio , and entero d68 , what are the differences

A
  • rabies = dog , vaccinations
  • polio = paralysis vaccinations
  • 68= more frequent in kids
140
Q

Difference between smallpox and chickenpox

A

vesicles in small pox are synchronous, chickenpox has different vesicles in different stages at a given time.

141
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What is a unique way that zika is transmitted

A

sexually

142
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What type of virus is HPV. Is the vaccine 100% affective?

A

DNA , no many strains.

143
Q

Mumps , rubella, and measles are all ____ viruses.

A

RNA

144
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What virus is associated with rodents and Asia?

A

Hantavirus

145
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Dengue is aka what? what symptoms are associated with this? Where is it endemic?

A

Breakbone Fever , associated with severe joint pain and hemorrhagic fever
Tropical Africa

146
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What is the vector for congo Crimean hemorrhagic fever

A

Ticks

147
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What does a high p24, capsid protein, mean in HIV?

A

It means the virus is active and replicating

148
Q

What virus causes upper and lower respiratory tract infections

A

HUMAN METAPNUEMOVIRUS

[enveloped rna virus]

149
Q

adenovirus is a ___ virus.

WHAT ARE THE COMMON SYMPTOMS

A

DNA

COLD, PINK EYE, GI, SORE THROAT

150
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What most commonly gives kids diarrhea from fecal to oral contact?

A

Rotavirus

[rna virus]

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