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Micro of the Upper GI Part I Flashcards

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What are four ways to think about how microorganisms cause disease?

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  1. Toxin production
  2. Host immune response
  3. Microbial proliferation and invasion
  4. Cancer
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How does toxin production lead to disease?

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Bacteria release toxin that causes illness

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How does the host immune response lead to disease?

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It’s the response of the host to the microbe that causes illness

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How does microbial proliferation and invasion lead to disease?

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Growth and spread of microbes that cause damage that is significant in illness.

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How do microbes use promote cancer?

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Microbe promotes uncontrolled proliferation of cells and host organisms

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What are the GI system defenses in general?

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Epithelium, Mucus, Peristalsis

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What are the GI system defenses in the mouth?

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Saliva (lysozyme, IgA, etc.), normal flora

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What are the GI system defenses in the stomach?

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Acid, normal flora, ?

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What are the GI system defenses in the Intestine?

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Peyer’s patches, Normal flora

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What is the normal flora?

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Par to the microbiome - the ecological community of commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms that share our bodies

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What are Peyer’s patches?

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Small masses of lymphatic tissue found throughout the ileum region of the small intestine.

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12
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When do we have “clean” mouths without flora?

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In babies before teeth erupt.

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What is known about the normal flora in the Upper GI tract (esophagus, stomach, duodenum, jejunum, and upper ileum)?

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Normally contains sparse microflora

  • Bacterial concentrations is less than 10^4 organisms/ml of intestinal secretions
  • Four phyla in stomach: Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes
  • May still be important
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What is known about the normal flora in the large intestine?

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  • Microbe rich, “microbiome” studied here
  • Anaerobes
  • Gram-negative rods (proteobacteria, etc.)
  • Enterococcus, gram-psotivie cocci, facultative anaerobes can survive wide range of stressors and environmental conditions
  • Spirochetes
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What are the main parts of a tooth?

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  • Enamel
  • Dentin
  • Pulp
  • Cementum
  • Periodontal membrane
  • Nerve and blood supply
  • Crown
  • Root
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What is the infection of a Dental Carie? What can it cause?

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Infectious disease that causes tooth decay. Can lead to pain, tooth loss, spread of infection.

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What are risk factors for Dental Caries?

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  • High-sugar diet
  • Poor oral hygiene
  • Reduced amount of saliva
  • Smoking
  • Periodontal disease
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18
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What is the incidence of Dental Caries worldwide?

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Common

19
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How are Dental Caries a health disparities issue?

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AI/AN children have the highest prevalence of early childhood caries among any population group in the United States.

20
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What is the prevalence of untreated decayed teeth in people without a high school education and low income people?

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  • Double the incidence in people without a high school education
  • Much higher incidence in low income people, higher incidence in medium income people, lowest incidence in high income people
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What is the mechanism behind Dental Caries?

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Fermentable sugars + Acid producing bacteria —(add pH)—> Demineralization

22
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What is the treatment for Dental Caries?

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  • Do not want to let caries grow
  • Can involve whole tooth and cause infection
  • Drill out decayed area of tooth and put in a filling
23
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What is Periodontal Disease?

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Infectious disease destroying supporting structures of teeth (you loose teeth from this condition)

24
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How much of the population does periodontal disease effect?

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Affects more than 30% of the population worldwide

25
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What is the mild common form of periodontal disease? What does it involve?

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Gingivitis. Involves the gums.

26
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What are the symptoms of Gingivitis?

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  • Irritation
  • Redness
  • Swelling
  • Inflammation
27
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What can happen to teeth in periodontitis?

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Localized loss of attachment

28
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What is Periodontitis defined as?

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Infection of underlying tissues and bones (under teeth)

29
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What conditions is having periodontitis associated with?

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  • Heart attack
  • Stroke
  • Lung disease
  • Premature birth or having a baby with low birth weight, in women
  • Diabetes
30
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By what mechanism are microorganisms causing disease in gingivitis and periodontitis?

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Host immune response

31
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What is essential for all dental diseases?

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Plaque - a biofilm

32
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What is a biofilm?

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Two or more species of bacterial microcolonies that are enclosed in a glycocalyx

33
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What are the components of a biofilm?

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  • Glycocalyx is composed of polysaccharides and constitutes up to 50-95% of the biofilm
  • Other components of the biofilm include proteins and DNA
  • Can be hundreds of species in a biofilm
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How is a biofilm formed?

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  • Week adherence of cells to a surface
  • Stronger adherence, likely co-adhesion mediated
  • Multiplication of cells
  • Polysaccharide formation
  • Changing of microbial composition over time
35
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Why would a bacteria want to live in a biofilm?

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  • Adherence
  • Protection from immune system
  • Protection from antibiotics
  • Symbiotic (but also anti-symbiotic) relationships
  • Local conditions of pH, etc., in a normally inhospitable environment
36
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Is all plaque bad?

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It can maybe be neutral…but when its regularly removed, it cannot trend toward a pathological community

37
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What are environmental changes that cause caries?

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Caries are a result of changes in the environment due to acid procession from the fermentation of dietary carbohydrates, which selects for acidogenic and acid-tolerating species such as mutants streptococci and lactobacilli.

38
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What species of bacteria are acidogenic and acid-tolerating?

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  • mutans streptococci

- lactobacilli

39
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How can disease be prevented with dental caries?

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Disease could be prevented not only by targeting the putative pathogens directly, but also be interfering with the key environmental factors deriving the deleterious ecological shifts int he composition of plaque biofilms.

40
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What type of organisms predominate in the mouth?

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Anaerobic

41
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What bacteria play important roles in protecting against dental caries and periodontitis? How do they do this?

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Species of oral streptococci. Producing hydrogen peroxide which inhibits the growth of other oral bacteria.

42
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What are the oral streptococci that protect the mouth?

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S. sanguinis, S. oralis, S. gordonii, S. mitis

43
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What is important about the Streptococcus mitis group?

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It’s a nonpathogenic commensal organism

44
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Other than streptococci, what other bacteria are normally present in the mouth?

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  • Gram + Lactobacilli are also prominent
  • Also spirochetes
  • Bacteria associated with pathogenic infection are also often present, but at lower amounts. (still considered “commensals”)

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