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how genetic changes influence changes in infectious disease

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changes in the gene sequence change virulence/pathogenicity, the host they can infect and antibiotic resistance

  • syphilis and scarlet fever lose virulence gene
  • mutation in flu caused spanish flu pandemic
  • AIDS used to infect primates
  • staphylococci and others are resistant to penicilin bc of natural selection
  • HIV developing resistance to anitvirals
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how changes in public health influence changes in infectious disease

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clean water, clean air and vaccines make infections more rare

  • clean water prevents cholera
  • clean air prevents respiratory infections
  • vaccines make MMR rare
  • in all of these cases the organisms have not changed and will infect if precautions stop being taken
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diseases of unknown etiology might be infectious

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  • recently found stomach ulcers and cervical cancer are infectious
  • due to genes and gut microbes
  • other possibly infectious conditions include obesity, stroke, heart attack, alzheimers, MS, diabetes
  • you can transfer obesity in mice
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bacterial structure

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  • genome made of DNA, no introns
  • chromosomes are single, circular
  • 70s ribosomes
  • peptidoglycan cell wall, optional LPS, LOS envelope
  • replicate by binary fission
  • genome located in nucleoid
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virus structure

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  • genome of DNA or RNA
  • single, segmented chromosomes
  • no ribosomes
  • protein capsule on outside, optional outer lipid envelope
  • replicates by invading bacteria; parasitic
  • no particular genome location
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eukaryotic structure

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  • genome made of DNA with introns
  • multiple chromosomes
  • 80s ribosomes
  • replication by mitosis
  • genome in the nucleus
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bacterial cell size vs. animal cell size

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bacterial cells are much smaller so animal cells are able to engulf

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possible bacterial morphology under light microscope

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cocci
bacilli
vibrio
spirochetes

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Neiserria, e coli, pseudomonas, V cholerae, borrelia, treponema shape

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Neisseria - diplococci
e coli - bacilli
pseudenomas - bacilli
V cholerae- vibrio
borrelia/lyme - spirochetes
treponema/syphillus - spirochetes
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bacterial structures with pathogenic significance

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LPS - part of g- walls, an endotoxin, made of O antigen and lipid A. in g+ techoic acid is similar but less toxic

glycocalyx -

  1. slime layer - loose coating of polysaccharides that aid in attachment. form biofilms that are more resistant to antibiotics and hygiene tools because more diverse
  2. capsule - firm enclosure that helps with attachment and makes harder to engulf. can make vaccine targeting capsule (meningococcal capsule gives virulence)
  3. pili/fimbrae - for attachment. e coli cause UTI this way.
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gram stain procedure

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  1. fixation with heat
  2. crystall violet stain - purple
  3. iodine - makes crystal violet permanent for g+
  4. alcohol destain - for g-
  5. counterstain - safranin
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g+ vs g-

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  • presence of LPS/LOS outside of cell wall in g- and thinner peptidoglycan cell wall
  • only g+ make spores
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additional bacterial structures for pathogenesis

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  1. flagella - recognized as an antigen in humans
  2. ribosomes - target for antibiotics
  3. spores - resistant to antibiotics and genes
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importance of exponential growth in pathogenesis and lab diagnosis

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lots of nutrients make it very pathogenic

  • can grow to take over the world in weeks
  • but log phase does not last long
  • identify by conditions they grow best in
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fermentation vs. O2 based ATP generation

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  • O2 used electron transport chain, produces a lot of ATP. will be restricted to O2 rich areas of the body
  • fermentation produces small amount of ATP. acid from fermentation can be used to identify. leave a lot of energy in waste that can be used by others later. these will grow in sealed cans
  • facultative anaerobes can grow in almost anything (e coli)
  • aerotolerant if have catalase or dismutase to detoxify O2
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quorum sensing

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change gene expression based on population density.

  • allow conservation of energy and coordinated attack
  • low density –> no inducer
  • high density–> inducer.
  • when theres enough inducer, there is a transcriptional activator that causes density dependent genes to be transcribed/expressed.
  • used for making biofilms and virulence factors
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dipicolinic acid

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calcium chelator in spores

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peptidoglycan structure and as drug target

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  • made of NAG and NAM with peptide cross-links and side chains
  • target peptidoglycan because it is essential to bacterial cells but not to human cells.
  • penicillin inhibits its synthesis, lysozyme cleaves it
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how pathogens spread

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  1. contact - direct, indirect, droplet
  2. airborne
  3. respiratory (vehicle and vectors)
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chain of infection

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  1. pathogen
  2. reservoir
  3. portal of exit
  4. means of transmission
  5. portal entry
  6. new host
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strategies to prevent spread of pathogen

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  1. hand hygiene
  2. PPE
  3. isolate
  4. sterilize
  5. housekeeping
  6. ventilation
  7. proper disposal
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Airborne precautions

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  • mask and gloves and private, neg pressure room
  • patient mask if leave room
  • TB, chicken pox, shingles, measles, pandemic flu
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droplet precautions

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  • coughing, sneezing, talking, procedure
  • mask, gown, handwashing
  • meningitis, seasonal flu, pertussis, mumps
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contact precautions

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  • microbes spread by direct contact
  • gown and alcohol based hand wash
  • multi-drug resistant bacteria: MRSA, VRE, acinebacter, ESBL, rotavirus, scabies
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contact plus precautions

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  • serious illness easily transmitted
  • soap and water, not alcohol
  • disinfect room with bleach
  • C dif, diarrhea, norovirus, enteric infections (camp, e coli, shilgella, salmonella, crypto)
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reverse isolation

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mask, gloves, gown

-protect immunocompromised from other people

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sterilization definition

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destroy/eliminate all microbes by physical/chemical means

-not for living tissue

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disinfection definition

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eliminate many pathogens (not spores) on inanimate object

  • 3 levels depending on how many microbes destroyed
  • 3 levels depending on required strength
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antisepsis

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reduce microbes on living tissue internally, externally and on surgery tools
-doesnt kill spores and doesnt disinfect

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potential for transmitting infectious agents on medical devices

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  1. critical - enter normally sterile area of body. need to sterilize
  2. semicritical - in contact with mucous membranes or non-intact skin that should be free of microbes other than spores
    - use a high level disinfect
    - includes respiratory, anesthesia, endoscope, butt, throat
  3. non-critical - for items on intact skin.
    - use alc, halogens, phenolics, quants
    - bedpans, bp cuff, crutches, computers
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physical techniques used for sterilization

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  1. steam/autoclave - effective and quick **most common
  2. dry heat - for petroleum based substances
  3. irradiation - single use medical supples
  4. gas - highly flammable
  5. plasma - high penetration; excite gases to disrupt metabolism
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chemical sterilization techniques

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  1. glutaraldehydes - hospital instruments
  2. hydrogen peroxide - releases O2 to produce radicals that damage DNA/protein
    (6% for equipment, 30% sporicidal)
  3. peracetic acid - mix of acetic and H2O2
    - disrupts cell membrane
    -clean water tower to prevent biofilm and carcass sanitation
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promoter

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where, when, what degree a gene is expressed

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RNA pol

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binds to promoter to initiate transcription and produce mRNA

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operon

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cluster of genes with related function controlled by 1 promoter

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repressor

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blocks expression

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inducible expression

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inducer/substrate binds to repressor to remove it fromo operon and allow expression

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negative vs. positive regulation

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  • positive: usually repressed. need transcription factor to bind at promoter to initiate expression
  • negative: product acts as repressor to prevent more of itself from being made
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operator

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regulates expression of operon and separates gene from promoter

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ways to acquire new genes

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mutations

  1. spontaneous
  2. chemical modifying
  3. physical agents

these often lead to antibiotic resistance

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types of gene exchange in bacteria

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  1. transformation
  2. conjugation
  3. transduction
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transformation

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DNA from dead bacteria gets taken up as chromosomal DNA or a plasmid

  • could be incorporated by homologous recombination
  • restriction enzymes often digest this DNA with different patterns or they get methylated and spliced out
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conjugation

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males are F+ and transfer F factor and surrounding DNA to F- females. the F factor has sex pili and genes for conjugation process
-often transfers antibiotic resistance

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specialized transduction

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lysogenic phage inserts itself into bacterial DNA and makes prophage

  • later prophage excises itself with surrounding host DNA
  • can transfer toxins this way
45
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R factor

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non-chromosomal DNA with genes for antibiotic resistance

-may move next to F- plasmid and get transmitted

46
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how methods of bacterial gene transmittal and acquired genes contribute to pathogenicity and resistance

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  • resistance genes can be acquired through conjugation, transduction, transformation and mutation
  • transposons move: resistance genes may move next to plasmid and get transmitted
  • compound transposons resistant to multiple things
  • pathogenicity islands: area with several genes that contribute to pathogenesis
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commensalism becoming pathogenic

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  • commensalism assume compartments and immunocompetency
  • immunosupressed allows runaway growth
  • if commensal bacteria transferred to baby during birth
  • antibiotics can throw off balance and allow overgrowth
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normal flora definition and examples

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commensal bacteria and yeast usually present in GI, resp, intestinal tracts and skin
GI - lactobacilli maintain low pH vagina, E coli may cause UTI, B strep in vagina bad for baby

Skin - staph epidermidis, C albicans

Resp - nose and throat have strep, staph, Neisseria. Staph aureus and N meningitidis may overgrow
- in mouth S mutans normal but good hygiene keeps it out of heart

intestinal - small intestine has strep, lactobacilli, yeast
colon - bifidobacteria, coliforms, clostridium, etc

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colonization resistance

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  • a form of symbiosis
  • prevent pathogens from successfully colonizing host
  • part of innate immunity
  • adaptive immunity will take over if they do colonize
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communicable vs contagious infection

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communicable - passed from host to host
contagious - highly communicable
non-communicable - comes form environment rather than a previous host

51
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latent infection

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disease subsides but microbes stay and restart disease later in life
- chicken pox and herpes

52
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chronic carrier

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host survives disease but continues to shed pathogens indefinitely. hepatitis.

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types of parasites

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  • pathogens are parasites bc they cause harm
    1. obligate intracellular parasite - must enter host to reproduce
    2. facultative intracellular parasite - can reproduce outside of host
54
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complement

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binds to antibodies that are already bound to antigens. also binds the antigen, releases aflatoxin induces phagocytosis and MAC

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virulence factor activity

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  1. survive extreme environment - tolerates pH, drying, detergents. siderophores can get iron out of globins
  2. adhesion - use pili, slime layer, adhesins to stick to host surface
  3. immune invasion - capsules to resist phagocytosis, IgA protease, induce macrophage apoptosis, antigenic variation, serum resistance for complement in A aureus
  4. take over host cell
    type 3&$ secretions - bridge cytoplams of bacteria and host to condition host. transport proteins and DNA
    -endosome escape - grows inside macrophage and later lyses cell and spreads
    -actin polymerization - force host to polymerize its own actin that it shoots out
  5. Poison Host- exotoxins, endotoxins, tissue degrading enzymes
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Endotoxin structure

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  • g- cell wall
  • immunogenic symptoms: overproduce TNF and IL1
  • produce fever and shock
  • damage endothelium causes hypotension
  • clots and massive bleeding in other spots
  • activate complement
  • SIRS : systemic inflammatory response syndrome. over produce cytokines and complement
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exotoxin

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g+ or g-
secreted from cell
most toxic
often on plasmids or phage
heat liable
can raise antibodies against inactive form
A and B subunits: A for toxicity, B binds host

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Koch’s Postulates

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for proof of causality

  1. observe potential pathogen in sick animal
  2. grow pure culture of pathogen
  3. infect new animal
  4. observe same disease
  5. culture same pathogen from new animal
  6. if fulfilled you can say it causes disease
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how normal flora become anaerobic pathogens

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escape normal compartment or form abscess

  • actinomyces is normally in mouth but can cause abscess that needs draining
  • B fragilis normally in colon but infection if gets into blood
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how anaerobes in environment become pathogens

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  1. spore formers - enter wounds, germinate, form toxins
    - ex: C tetani, C fergrigens, C botulinum
  2. through food - spores survive inadequate sterilization and live in airtight can. once exposed to air they die but toxin remains
    ex: C bot and C perfrigens
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technique to culture and identify anaerobes

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  • need to handle anaerobically, add reducing agent to rid O2, fill tube all the way, stopper tight, do not shake
  • use glove box or airtight jar and gas pak and incubate anaerobically
  • identify with staining, GC or DNA sequencing
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anaerobic pathogens with soil reservoir

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C tetani, C perfrigens, C botulinum

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anaerobic pathogens that start as normal flora

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C dfi, GNAB, actinomyces

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exotoxin producing anaerobes

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C tetani, C botulinum, C perfrigens, C dif, GNAB

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anaerobes that cause abscesses

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GNAB and actinomyces

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treatment for anaerobic caused infection

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  1. Abscess - drain or surgically remove
  2. Toxigenic - use antitoxin
    probably use an antibiotic afterwards too
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Spirochete common themes

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  1. Transmission - sexual, vector-borne, environmental. cross easily into blood and even BBB
  2. Pathogenesis - not very antigenic; immune evasion. little inflammation, few exotoxins. can’t make vaccines against it
  3. Diagnosis - challenging bc wide variety of symptoms, might develop in phases over months or year, lab tests unuseful (treponema too small to see under microscope) (lyme requires interpretation rather than +/-), eye exam may help
  4. Treatment - antibiotics early on; they are not very resistant. later can still be curable but nervous/muscular complications may persist.
    Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction - get it24 hr after antibiotics because immune system wakes up
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Vibrios common themes

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  1. Transmission - fecal oral route, infect wounds contaminated by seawater, H. pylori causes peptic ulcers
  2. Virulence - fecal - oral enteritis and ulcers require GI virulence factors for attachment. may use phage and endotoxin
  3. Diagnosis- exams and symptoms or lab test
  4. Treatment - antibiotics, hydration, electrolytes
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syphilis

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3 stages from painless chancre to rash with flu-like symptoms (meningitis possible) to latency or dangerous cardiac or CNS symptoms (gummas possible).
-congenital syphilis is devastating and preventable with prenatal care

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borellia burgdoferi

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  • lyme disease
  • tick borne, rodents and deer ticks
  • requires 24 hr to transmit, remove with soap and tweezers
  • 3 phaes:
    1. early localized; rash
    2. early disseminated; meningitis, facial palsy, rash, cardiac symptoms
    3. lat disseminated; arthoritis, encephalitis

treat with doxycycline for no more than 1 month

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V cholerae

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complex lifestyle outside host. has O1 marker of colonization for lysogenic phage colonization.

  • transmitted fecal - oral
  • if stomach acid doesn’t kill it, secretes mucinase to attach to intestine
  • after attachment, secrete choleragen, an AB enterotoxin that disrupts signal transduction and cause diarrhea
  • don’t necessarily need antibiotics in a previously healthy person
  • need to hydrate and restore electrolyte balance
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obligate vs. facultative intracellular pathogens

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obligate - need host to grow. for lab diagnosis need a tissue cell culture for it to grow on media
ex: chlamydia, rickettsial, viruses

facultative - can grow outside host if nutrients are available
ex: Cocci, Enterobacteria, mycobacter, Bacilli, Fungi, Legionella, Listeria

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3 major pathways intracellular pathogens use to survive endocytosis and establish infection

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  1. Escape - get out of endosome with proteases and flood cytosol before lysosome can degrade it.
  2. Subvert - dont allow lysosome to bind to it.
  3. survive - can neutralize acidic pH and degrade hydrolytic enzymes
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Reoccuring themes in intracellular bacteria pathogenesis

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  1. Ride on infected macrophages to travel through bloodstream and spread (Enterics -> TB, Mycobacter-> typhoid fever)
  2. Actin - actin tails help to spread (Shigella and Listeria)
  3. Type 3 secretions
    - inactivate lysosomes or enhance phagocytosis
    (Legionella, Enterics, mycobacter)
  4. Evade humoral immunity - can get through colonization resistance. Enterics enter through M cells of peyer patches and onto sterile exterior of intestinal epithelium –> gastroenteritis)

*effective antibiotics must penetrate cell membrane, not just travel through blood

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Listeria monocytogenes

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  • facultative intracellular pathogen
  • escapes endosome
  • actin motility to spread
  • cause gastroenteritis, which is self limiting in healthy ppl
  • in YOPIs its bad
  • pregnant women - bad for fetus
  • immunosuppressed- may cause meningitis
  • often in deli meat and soft cheese
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Chlamydia

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  • elementary bodies infect, turn to reticulate bodies which multiply, then back to elementary bodies to spread and infect others
  • may cause reactive arthritis
  • genital chlamydia may hide behind another STI
  • partner needs to get treated too to prevent reinfection
  • presents as conjunctivitis in newborn
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membrane features

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phospholipids, proteins and carbs

  • fluid bilayer
  • non covalent bonds
  • impermeable to large, polar, charged
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Membrane function

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  1. semi permeable barrier
  2. compartmentalization
  3. identification - proteins, lipids and carbs on outside
  4. signaling
  5. energy storage - create gradient
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structure and orientation of major lipids of membrane

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  • phospholipids most common - glycerol backbone, fatty acid tail, phophate+alc head. amphipathic. forms bilayer that folds on itself
  • glycolipids - have sugar attached to sphingosine
  • cholesterol - planar, hydrophobic fused ring, stiff
  • sphingomyelin - sphingosine with phosphoryl choline head
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Fluidity of membrane

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depends on temp, length and degree of saturation of fatty acids

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permeability of membrane

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small uncharged non polar > small polar > large polar > ions

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peripheral vs. integral proteins in membrane

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peripheral - can remove w/o disrupting membrane. bound to membrane or integral protein

integral - amphpathic. hydrophobic alpha helices on inside. topography is established and they do not flip flop once established in membrane

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membrane lipid synthesis

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  • made on cytosolic side of rough ER
  • scramblase distributes new lipids evenly between the 2 layers
  • packed into vesicles and transported to plasma membrane, endosomes, lysosomes, golgi, etc
  • flippase moves the lipids to establish the correct asymmetry
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enterobacteriacae foodborne and opportunisitic pathogens

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foodborne - shigella, salmonella, yersinia, E coli
(wash hands and food to prevent fecal-oral contamination)

opportunisitc - klebsiella, enterobacter, seratia, proteus, providencia, morganella

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enterobacteriacae traits

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g- rod, facultative anaerobes, glucose fermentor, non-spore, catalase +, oxidase -
pili + T3SS

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Horizontal genetic transfer

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acquire new virulence factors and antibiotic resistance this way

87
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antimicrobial sensitivity testing

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every enterbacteriacae infection that needs treatment needs antimicrobial sensitivity testing because they are so resistant.

  • need culture of patient isolate spread on agar
  • place several antibiotic disks
  • allow to incubate over night
  • zones of inhibition are where antibiotic worked/bacteria was sensitive to it and not resistant. will grow if resistant.
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Pili and t3SS for enterobacteriacae

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pili for attachment

  • T3SS for attachment and to inject (needle shaped)
  • inject into M cells of peyer patches in intestine, makes M cell more likely to engulf it
  • then can survive macrophage
  • induce apoptosis and travel to exterior epithelium and cause enterocolitis
  • or travel on macrophages to lymph nodes (systemic lymph node infection may turn to typhoid fever by S typhi)
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HUS and reactive arthritis

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Hemolytic uremic syndrome - a complication of Shigella or E coli infection. Shiga toxin released into blood and causes hemolysis, thrombocytopenia and uremia. in kids, 5-10% mortality

Reactive arthritis - if genetically predisposed and get infected by shigella, salmonella, yersinia, campylobacter, chlamydia,
-conjunctivitis, urethritis, arthritis

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ICU enterobacteriacae

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  • klebsiella, enterobacter, morganella, serratia, proteus, providencia
  • commensal, normal flora that become pathogens
  • affect already immuno-compromised hospital patients and are very antibiotic resistant, making it hard to treat
  • clean catheters and scrub equipment, don’t keep patients longer than necessary
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cocci genuses

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all cocci are spherical and non spore forming

  1. Staphylococci (clumps, catalase +)
  2. Streptococci
  3. Neisseria (only g- cocci)
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Staphylococci aureus

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virulence factors:

  1. Protein A - binds immunoglobulins
  2. Capsule - inhibit phagocytosis
  3. toxins - coagulase, protein A, enterotoxin, exfoliatin, leukocidin, toxic shock syndrome

abscesses are common

Transmission - normal in nose and throat of some people. spread by direct contact or fomites

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Staphylococci epidermidis

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normal flora of the skin

-low virulence but easily attaches to plastic and infects catheters and piercings

94
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Staphylococci saprophyticus

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minor cause of UTI

95
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stretococci pneumoniae

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capsule is an antigen and virulence factor

-found in throat of 50% of people

96
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strep mutans

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virulence:
1. enzymes that metabolize extracellular polysaccharides
2. acids that decalcify enamel and dentin
reservoir - in everyones mouths

97
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Strep pyogenes (group A)

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virulence: pili, M protein, toxins
reservoir: in pharynx and skin of 10% of people

98
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Strep agalactiae (group B)

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virulence: capsule prevents phagocytosis
reservoir: in 25% women genital tract. can be passed to baby

99
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group D strep/ enterococcus fecalis

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normal flora of colon

can cause abdominal abscess, UTI, endocarditis

100
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peptostreptococci

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  • found in abscesses with a mix of organisms

- normal in various body sites

101
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Neisseria meningitides

A

polysaccharide capsule
in resp tract of 5% of people
transmitted by droplets

102
Q

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

A

pili for attachment

-sexual or neonatal transmission

Microbiology MCM unit 1 (4 decks)

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