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Micropara 4: Capabilities of Pathogen Flashcards

1
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is the capacity of a pathogen to produce disease

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Pathogenicity

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seven capabilities of a pathogen

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  1. Maintain a reservoir
  2. Leave its reservoir and enter a host-transmission
  3. Adhering to a body surface
  4. Invade the body
  5. Evade the body’s defense mechanisms
  6. Multiply within the body
  7. Leave the body and return to its reservoir or enter a new host
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A place to live before and after infection and is most common

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Maintain a reservoir

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reservoirs examples

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  • humans
  • animals
  • environment (nonliving: soil & water)
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examples of human reservoirs

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  1. Diseased
  2. Carriers
  3. Virus: smallpox
  4. Bacterium: gonorrhea, typhoid fever, strep throat
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examples of animal reservoirs

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  1. Zoonosis
  2. Virus
  3. Bacterium
  4. Fungus
  5. Protozoa
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a human disease caused by a pathogen with an animal reservoir

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Zoonosis

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Virus reservoirs

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  1. Rocky Mt. spotted fever
  2. rabies
  3. yellow fever
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Bacterium reservoirs

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  1. Lyme disease
  2. plague (Yersinia pestis)
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Environmental (non-living) Reservoir examples

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Soil, water
Tetanus
Legionnaire’s Disease
Water contaminated with feces

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spores live in soil

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Tetanus

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legionnaire’s disease

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water, often in air conditioning ductwork

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Water contaminated with feces

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  1. cholera
  2. typhoid fever
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14
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how the pathogen leaves the reservoir and gets to the host

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Modes of transmission

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Modes of transmission

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  1. respiratory droplets
  2. fomites (objects)
  3. Direct contact (touching, kissing, sex)
  4. Also called person-to-person
  5. fecal-oral
  6. Vectors
  7. Mechanical
  8. Biological
  9. airborne
  10. parenteral (
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16
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most common mode of transmission

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respiratory droplets

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17
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objects mode of transmission

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fomites

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touching, kissing, sex

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Direct contact a.k.a. person-to-person

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19
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this mode of transmission examples are ticks, mosquitoes, fleas

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Vectors

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20
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this mode of transmission can survive drying, ex. TB

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airborne

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21
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mode of transmission directly into blood

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parenteral

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22
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the site at which a pathogen enters

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Portal of Entry

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Portal of Entries of a Pathogen

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  1. Skin
  2. Mucous membranes of resp tract, GI, and GU
  3. Respiratory tract (lungs) is easiest
  4. bloodstream
  5. placenta
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Likelihood of infection (2 types)

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  1. Infectious Dose (ID 50)
  2. Lethal Dose (LD 50)
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25
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number of organisms necessary to cause illness in 50% of infected individuals

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Infectious Dose (ID 50)

26
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number of organisms necessary to kill 50% of infected individuals

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Lethal Dose (LD 50)

27
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the degree of pathogenicity of an organism

28
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It’s not enough to get there, you have to stick and stay stuck to cause disease

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Adhering to a body surface

29
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Pathogens make adhesions (also called _______) that
bind to cell surface receptors (viral “________”, pili, bacterial capsules, specialized attachment structures)

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  1. ligands
  2. “spikes”
30
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Examples of pathogen adhesion

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  1. whooping cough
  2. Streptococcus mutans
31
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Some pathogens stay where they stuck (ie whooping cough)
and don’t invade. Others move into new cells and tissues or into the bloodstream

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Invading the body

32
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some make _________ which stimulate phagocytosis

33
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invasions that stimulate phagocytosis

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TB, shigella, salmonella

34
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some secrete ___________ to break down surrounding cells and tissues

35
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It includes phagocytosis and the immune system

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Host defenses

36
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the capability of a pathogen in evasion of phagocytosis

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  1. Evading the body’s defense mechanisms
37
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strains of bacteria with the thickest capsules are
most _______

38
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Evading the body’s defense mechanisms

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a. Host defenses include phagocytosis and the immune system:
b. Evasion of phagocytosis
c. Capsules
d. Ability to live after being phagocytosed
e. Immune System (antibodies)
f. Evasion via antigenic variation
g. Secretion of enzymes to destroy antibodies

39
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Pathogen starts to obtain nutrients and begin to reproduce

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Multiplying in the host

40
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reproduction of the pathogen that causes disease

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Multiplying in the host

41
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how pathogens damage tissue and cause disease

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Pathogenesis

42
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this secretion breaks down cells and tissues, and stimulates inflammatory response

43
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most damage in causing disease is done by

44
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poisonous substances produced by certain bacteria

45
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two kinds of toxins

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  1. Exotoxins
  2. Endotoxins
46
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are proteins, secreted by living bacteria

47
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Secreted proteins from certain types of bacteria (gram positive and gram negative)

48
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this toxin is extremely toxic

49
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this toxin is secreted outside the cell

50
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this toxin has highly specific effects on host depending on the type of toxin

51
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Examples of Exotoxins

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  1. Botulinum toxin
  2. Tetanus toxin
  3. Salmonella enterotoxin
52
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Usually the main cause of pathogenesis when they are present

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Exotoxins:

  • Botulism
  • tetanus
  • cholera
  • pertussis
  • anthrax
53
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are lipids, released from the cell
membrane when cells die

A

Endotoxins

54
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Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) portion of cell membrane of Gram-negative bacteria

A

Endotoxins

55
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Endotoxins are the ___________ portion of cell membrane of Gram-_______ bacteria

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lipopolysaccharide, negative

56
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T or F

All endotoxins produce the same signs and symptoms

57
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T or F
Exotoxins stimulate release of cytokines

A

False

Endotoxins

58
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T or F
Pathogen leaves through a “Portal of Exit” to reach yet another organism

59
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Portals of Exit (Often the same as the portal of entry)

A

nose, anus, genital tract, blood

60
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Saliva usually contains a mixed flora of about __________.

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108 organisms per milliliter

61
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It carries the most prolific flora in the body

62
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In the adult, feces are ___% or more bacteria by weight (about ______ organisms per gram).

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25%

1010 organisms/g

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