RNA Viruses (cont.)

Question 1

2 RNA viruses that cause Diarrhea?

Answer 1

Norovirus

Rotovirus

Question 2

What RNA virus tends to cause Diarrhea on cruise ships?

Answer 2

Norovirus

Question 3

Rabies is a ____ shaped RNA

Answer 3

Bullet

Question 4

How is Rabies transmitted?

Answer 4

Through the bite and saliva of a warm blood animal

Question 5

From the bite of a Rabies infected animal, how does the disease progress?

Answer 5

It travels up the nerve axon to reach the CNS

Question 6

Symptoms of a Rabies infection?

Answer 6

Hydrophobia, agitation, aggression, paralysis, death

Question 7

Hydrophobia

Answer 7

Intense fear of swallowing water due to it causing throat spasms
- seen with rabies infection

Question 8

Rabies is almost always ____

Answer 8

Fatal

Question 9

4 Flaviviridae?

Answer 9

Yellow Fever
Dengue Fever
Zika Virus
West Nile Virus

Question 10

Flaviviridae are caused by?

Answer 10

Mosquitos

Question 11

Yellow Fever

Answer 11

• Caused by mosquito

= Jaundice and hepatitis

Question 12

Dengue Fever

Answer 12

• Caused by mosquito

= Break-bone fever

Question 13

Zika Virus

Answer 13

• Caused by mosquito

= fever, rash and joint pain

Question 14

Zika Virus is especially dangerous for?

Answer 14

Babies in utero

Question 15

What will the Zika virus cause in babies in utero?

Answer 15

Microcephaly

Question 16

West Nile Virus

Answer 16

• Caused by mosquitos

= Fever, headache, meningitis

Question 17

What does the Polio Virus attack?

Answer 17

Anterior motor neurons

Question 18

Polio Virus symptoms/cascade?

Answer 18

• Aseptic Meningitis
• Flaccid Symmetric paralysis
  = Loss of reflexes, paresthesia and ‘plegias

Question 19

Aseptic Meningitis that causes flaccid symmetric paralysis?

Answer 19

Polio Virus

Question 20

HIV

Answer 20

Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Question 21

Most common cause of HIV worldwide?

Answer 21

Heterosexual contact

Question 22

Most common cause of HIV in the U.S?

Answer 22

Homosexual contact

- needle sticks, perinatal transmission as well

Question 23

What cells does HIV bind and kill?

Answer 23

CD4+ T cells

Question 24

What is the diagnostic factor of HIV?

Answer 24

P24 caspid

Question 25

P24 caspid diagnoses?

Answer 25

HIV

Question 26

P24 caspid diagnoses?

Answer 26

HIV

Question 27

How long after exposure to HIV will symptoms arise?

Answer 27

1 month after

Question 28

What are the first symptoms with HIV?

Answer 28

Mononucleosis like = sore throat, fever, lymphadenopathy

Question 29

When is the latency period with HIV?

Answer 29

7-8 years after initial symptoms

Question 30

Once the latency period is done for HIV, what symptoms arise?

Answer 30

More lymphadenopathy

Weight loss and night sweats

Question 31

As the CD4+ T cell count DECREASES, opportunistic infections will ____

Answer 31

INCREASE

Question 32

What defines AIDS?

Answer 32

Less than 200 CD4+ T cells

Question 33

Less than 200 CD4+ T cells

Answer 33

AIDS

Question 34

AIDS

Answer 34

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

Question 35

What 3 neoplasias are those with HIV at risk for?

Answer 35

B cell lymphomas
Kaposi Sarcoma
Cervical Carcinoma

Question 36

HIV (+) with B cell lymphoma must have?

Answer 36

Epstein - Barr Virus

Question 37

HIV (+) with Kaposi Sarcoma must have?

Answer 37

HHV-8

Question 38

HIV (+) with Cervical Carcinoma must have?

Answer 38

Human Papilloma Virus