Mycoplasma, Chalmydia, Legionella

Question 1

Mycoplasma pneumonia havewhat type of cell wall?

Answer 1

trick question, bitch. No cell wall.

Question 2

Mycoplasma attaches to the surface of the respiratory epithelium but never enters host cells nor penetrates the surface, it just interacts with toll like receptors to produce inflammatory cytokines

Answer 2

truth

Question 3

What causes the disease symptoms

Answer 3

ALveolar macrophage activity

Question 4

Highest rate of pneumonia in what agge group

Answer 4

5-20

Question 5

Symptoms

Answer 5

slowly worsening dry cough, diagnosis….non-specific

Question 6

Chlamydia microbiology

Answer 6

Gram negative, obligate intracellular

Question 7

Describe chlamydia’s biphasic lifecycle

Answer 7

Elementary body is endocytosed, prevents phagolysosome fusion, changes to the metabolically active reticular body, this divides and goes back to the EB which is released to infect other cells.

Question 8

Chlamydia presentation

Answer 8

scant sputum, infection seems mild, prominent cough, hoarseness

Question 9

Treat chlamydia with

Answer 9

Doxy

Question 10

Chlamydia trachomatis transmission

Answer 10

Contact with eye secretions or STD

Question 11

presentation of chlamydia trachomatis

Answer 11

conjunctivitis