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What are antigenic epitopes (antigenic determinants)?
An antigen is composed of many molecular units to which an antibody binds. A single antigen may be composed of many antigenic epitopes.
Cross-reactive epitopes
Antigenic epitopes can be shared among different bacteria and host cell
Composition of G+ bacteria wall
Peptidoglycans
Composition of G- bacteria wall
Thin lippolysacharides (endotoxin)
Antigenic structures of bacteria
G+: peptidoglycans wall cell G-: Lippoporisacarides wall cell Capsule: polysaccharides Pili Flagella: Flagellin Nucleic acids
Antigenic structures of virus
envelop or capsule
What is antigenicity /immunogenicity?
degree of immune response induced by an antigen
Characteristics that contribute to potent antigenicity
Forein versus self antigens
Size
Biochemical structure and complexity (Proteins>lipids/carbohydrates)
Stability and degradability
What is the first line of defence?
External body surface
The second line of defence?
Macrophage-monocyte lines
Phagocytic cells of the myeloid
Time of life of Neutrophils
12 h in circulation but longer in tissue
Phases destruction of antigens by neutrophils
Phagocytosis
Respiratory Burts
Neutrophils can present antigens to lymphocytes?
NO
NETosis
neutrophil cell death
Neutrophils are activated by
LPS
TNF-alpha
IL-8
What are NETs
neutrophil cellular traps
Release during NETosis
Lyme disease (borreliosis)
B. burgdorferi
The tick in Lyme disease (borreliosis)
Ixodes scapularis
In Lyme disease the transmission in the ticks
is transstadial but not transovarial
Lyme Borrelia spp
Spiral-shaped, motile, G- spirochetes
Lyme disease (borreliosis) cause
Arthritis
Nephritis
Diagnostic test for Lyme disease
PCR
SNAP-4DxPlus test
C6Quant test Idexx
SNAP-4DxPlus test
Heartworm antigen Antibodies: Ehrlichia canis E. Chaffensis E. ewiingii Anaplasma phagocytophilum A. platys
C6Quant test Idexx
Gives a quantitative result