microbiology diseases blood heart Flashcards
symptoms bacteremia
fever chills naseua, malaise, low blood pressure.
ostomyeltis
infection or inflamattion of bone
brucellocis
brucella melitensis aerobic gram negative coccobacillus no capsule. Fever spikes every afternoon. Intracellular (uterine, phagocytic) and has endotoxin. Consumption of contaminated dairy products or animal blood. Difficult to culture. Ab test.
tularemia
skin lesions swollen lymph nodes. Francicella. Small obligate aerobe g negative coccobacillus. Lipid capsule blocks phagocytosis. Intracellular parasite blocks phagosom - lysosome. Infected tick or animal. Produes B lactamase so no penicillin.
Bubonic plague.
Large lymph nodes (bulboes). Death of tissue then gas gangrene. Yersinia pestis. Facultative anaerobe with capsule G NEGATIVE. Adhesins. Type III injection system to inject into cells. Antiphagocytic protein, capsule. Fleas are vectors. Antimicrobials flea and pest control.
Lyme disease
Borellia burgdorfia spirochete uses manganese not iron. Bullseye rash. Meningitis severe arthritis. Vector is deer tick. Test serologically, not usually found in blood. Antimicrobials early, prevent with DEET.
Mononucleosis
Severe sore throat and fever, fatigue, apetite loss. Epstein barr virus. Enveloped DsRNA virus with icosohedral capsid. Supresses apoptosis of Bcells, replicates in nucleus. Salivary transmission. Large lobed Bcells and neutropenia. Prevention is dificult.
yellow fever
+ssRNA enveloped flavivirus.Icosahedral capsid. Aedes aegypti mosquito. 3 stages, fever in first, remission, delerium in last. Travels to liver, replicates. South America and Africa 20% chance of dying. Viral antigens, treatment supportive. Vaccine, control mosquitoes.
Dengue hemorhagic fever.
Adema, fever. Head muscle pain. DHF is hyper immune response to second Dengue fever infection, cuses bleeding and possibly death. 4 strains. +ssRNA virus Icosohedral capsid. A aegypti. Infects monocytes. Control mosquitoes.
african hemorhhagic fever
minor cappilary to sever internal and orifice bleeding. Ebola or Marburvirus. +ssRNA filamentous capsid. Infected macrophages cause clotting depletes other areas of clotting proteins. Bodily fluid exchange. Symptoms and presence of virus. Vaccine??
Malaria
Red blood cells lysed. Fever and chills 2-3days. Anemia weakness and fatigue. 4 plasmodium species, most evee is falcipirum. Anopheles mosquito. RBC lack MHC therefore no surveillance. Secretome injects toxins into cell. Adhesins to stick to certain tissue. chloroquinone treat.
toxoplasmosis
inflamation lungs liver heart. Fever malaise. Only weak immune systems show symptoms. Pregnant in danger. Toxoplasma gondii present in cats.
Chagas disease.
Trypanasomi cruzii. South america. Triatomakissing bug.
Schistasomiasis
Common parasite. Skin itchiness. Eggs deposited throughout body. Schistasoma parasitic fluke.
protozoans which cause disease in humans?
apicocomplexan
