Rhabdovirus, reovirus, birnavirus Flashcards
rhabdoviruses of interest
- rabies
- vesicular stomatitis virus
reoviruses of interest
- blue tongue virus
- African horse sickness virus
- rotavirus
birnaviruses of intrest
- infectious bursal dx virus
rhabdoviridae general characteristics
- neg sense RNA
- enveloped
- distance bullet shape
rhabdoviridae life cycle
- entry = membrane fusion, take up by endocytosis and that acid of endoscope -> triggers fusions
- raps rna in nuceloprotein; can’t produce any protein until transcribe genome -> mrna which can turn into varied of different proteins
- exit= via budding
rabies distribution
- worldwide distribution
rabies transmission
- biting, primarily by bat bite
rabies presenations
- urban: dogs
- syllabic rabies: wildlife (primarily what we see in us)
sylvatic rabies effects who
- bats
- racoons
- foxes
- skunks
- woodchucks
raccoon out during the day
- rv and distemper
rabies pathogenesis
inoculation from bite of rabid animal -> local replicaiton -> attachment and infection or peripheral nerves at motor end plate -> retrograde spread w/ in axoplasm of peripheral nerves -> spread to spinal cord and brain -> replicate in brain -> centrifugal spread from brain to salivary glands and other tissues -> secretion into saliva and transmission via biting
how does rabies gain access to cns
neurons endocytosis through cell body then gain access to cns then spreads neuron to neuron;
what happens if rabies infects through sensory nerve endings
gets stuck in dorsal root ganglion
rabies gross id
normal appearance brain and spinal cord
rabies histopathology
- mild changes
- cytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusion bodies in neurons of hippocampus and cerebellum- negri
rabies pathology
- mild perivascular cuffing and mononuclear cell infiltrates
- no neuronal loss, see disorganization axon and dendritic connections
- no gross changes
- no histopath
incubation period of rabies
- 14-90 days
- up to 2 years
length incubation period depends on where bitten
phases of rabies
- prodromal phase
- one of two forms (furious rabies or dumb/ paralytic rabies)
prodromal phase
change in temperament (normally friendly animal -> dnt recognize owner, aggressive, normally fearful animal seems friendly)
two forms of second phase or rabies
- furious rabies
- dumb or paralytic rabies
furious rabies signs
- restlessness, nervousness, aggression
- loss fear humans
- hypersalviarion
- hypersensitivity to sound/ light
- hyperesthesia
dumb or paralytic rabies
- depression
- paralysis
- seizures
- coma, resp arrest, and death
- harder to pin this down as rabies, tend to see this is larger animals ie cows and horses
laboratory diagnosis of rabies where require what
- approved labs
- require whole brain
lab diagnostics of rabies tests
- direct immunofluorescence (detect rabies antigen)
- RT-PCR (detect viral rna in brain)