Microbial Disease of skin and eye

Question 1

What is the arrangement of Staphylococci?

Answer 1

Spherical, Gram Positive, Grape Clusters

Question 2

What is the arrangement of streptococci?

Answer 2

Spherical, gram positive, chains

Question 3

Where is staphylococci found?

Answer 3

Skin

Question 4

Where is streptococci found?

Answer 4

Respiratory tract

Question 5

Pathogenesis of Staphylococci?

Answer 5

Most species aren’t pathogens

Question 6

pathogenesis of streptococci?

Answer 6

Causes many diseases

Question 7

How do streptococci divide?

Answer 7

Division is in one linear direction

Question 8

How do staphylococci divide?

Answer 8

Multiple directions

Question 9

What is the causative agent for mild acne?

Answer 9

Comedal Acne

Question 10

What is the causative agent for inflammatory acne?

Answer 10

Cutibacterium acnes

Question 11

What causes the inflammatory response in acne?

Answer 11

Formation of fatty acids

Question 12

Symptoms of acne

Answer 12

Neutrophils come to site, secret enzymes which cause damage?

Question 13

Causative agent of smallpox

Answer 13

Variola Virus

Question 14

Symptoms of small pox?

Answer 14

Lesions that become pustular

Question 15

How is small pox transmitted?

Answer 15

Respiratory route; infecting internal organs and skin

Question 16

symptoms of chicken pox?

Answer 16

vesicular for 3-4 days , vesicles fill with pus rupture and scab

Question 17

how is chicken pox transmitted?

Answer 17

Respiratory route, localized in skin after 2 weeks

Question 18

causative agent of chicken pox?

Answer 18

Varicella virus

Question 19

causative agent for shingles?

Answer 19

Herpes Zoster virus

Question 20

How does someone get shingles

Answer 20

When a latent virus becomes reactivated by stress or weak immune system

Question 21

Symptoms of shingles?

Answer 21

Skin lesions are vesicles and form in distinctive areas (usually around waist)