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Treponema pallidum
gram
shape
LPS?

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Gram−
spirochete
no LPS

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Treponema pallidum flagella/axial filament

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flagella (3/pole) in an axial filament (between inner &outer membrane)

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Treponema pallidum metabolism

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microaerophile (never grown in culture: host-dependent metabolism)

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Treponema pallidum transmission

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fragile (only survive transmission without exposure):

sexual and congenital (placental) transmission in body fluids and mucous membranes

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Treponema pallidum virulence

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host response causes disease symptoms

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Treponema pallidum virulence factors, what causes symptoms?

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Ø membrane adhesins
Ø hyaluronidase
Ø antiphagocytic coat (fibronectin)
(host response causes symptoms)

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Syphilis from?

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new world to old world

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Syphilis transmission

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sexual or congential

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syphilis localities

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local
desimminated
gummas

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local syphilis

infectious?

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hard chancre/ulcer at site of infection; infectious

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disseminated syphilis

infectious?

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rash, aches; mucous membrane lesions

(“the great imitator”); infectious

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gummas
can occur where?
infectious?
form in which stage of disease?

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damage to blood vessels, eyes, CNS; insanity; not infectious

These form in tertiary syphilis granuloma lesion = inflammatory mass which can perforate, e.g. roof of mouth or any other tissues.

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syphilis stages

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primary
asymptomatic stage
secondary
possible tertiary

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Primary syphilis:

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2-6 weeks; chancre, which heals spontaneously, giving false sense of relief.

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Asymptomatic period:

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2-24 weeks

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Secondary syphilis:

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2-6 weeks; 50% of primary infections go on to secondary; symptoms typically resolve spontaneously (but recurrence in 25% with 1 yr)

Microbe persists for 2/3 of secondary infections, with 1/2 exhibiting tertiary syphilis

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Tertiary syphilis presentation

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diffuse, chronic inflammation

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congenital syphilis
prevention
lethality
dental abnormalities

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[completely preventable by penicillin treatment early in pregnancy!):

high lethality in-utero OR when initially born without symptoms: high lethality typical of young children (e.g. 2 yrs old) with facial and dental abnormalities like “Hutchinson’s incisors” and “mulberry molars”.

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treatment of 1 and 2 syphilis, vax?

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penicillin for 1º and 2º infections, which contain actively growing spirochetes
No vaccine

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Borrelia

gram and shape

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Gram−

spirochete

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Borrelia burgdorferi causes what disease?

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lyme disease

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lyme disease cycle

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zoonosis: caused by Ixodes sacpularis tick
most common in spring/summer as the females lay eggs that hatch into larvae
larvae attach to rodents and acquire B. burgdoferi> detatch and molt into nymphs that can transmit the bacteria to more rodents or to humans

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Borrelia burgdorferi virulence factor

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adhesion proteins

some species with antigenic variation

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Borrelia burgdorferi transmission/ reservior

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ticks

• reservoir: rodents, deer

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lyme disease stages

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local
disseminated
chronic

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local lyme disease

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Erythema migrans rash at bite, fever

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disseminated lyme disease effects on nn and heart, time frame?

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nerve paralysis with heart arrhythmia (2-8 wks)

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chronic lyme disease

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arthritis and CNS paralysis due to persistent immune response
(>6 months)

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lyme disease vax?

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none

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Relapsing Fever of Borrelia spp.due to

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Relapsing fever due to effective immune response to antigenic variation (small pathogen population maintained)

31
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Borrelia spp of relapsing fever

where from?

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B. recurrentis: from body louse of humans

B. miyamotoi: from soft shell tick from animals

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Borrelia sp. treatment

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penicillin
tetracyclines
ceftriaxone

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Rickettsia gram

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negative

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Rickettsia
intra or extracellular?
escape?
result?

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obligate intracellular parasite: entry into endothelial cells, escape into cytoplasm by phospholipase, slow proliferation, cell lysis and vascular hemorrhages (no laboratory culture)

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Rickettsia Virulence Factors:

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intracellular growth

rapid cell-to-cell spread (from cell projections by actin-rockets and through cell lysis)

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rickettsia transmission

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zoonosis:
• wood tick (including transovarian transmission from adult ticks into tick eggs)
• reservoir: wild rodents

37
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever due to?

species involved?

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CTL immune disease due to rickettsia

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Rocky Mountain spotted fever disease presentation/ progression
dissemenation?
mortality without treatment?

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  • rash of extremities, then trunk
  • hemorrhagic lesions (with disseminated vascular CTL lysis of endothelial cells) ► spots
  • dissemination to heart, kidneys, etc ► shock, death (mortality = 20-40% if no treatment)
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever vax

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none

40
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Rocky Mountain spotted fever treatment

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doxy or flouraquinolones

41
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Chlamydia trachomatis gram

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negative

42
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Chlamydia trachomatis agent of? commonality?

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Agent of chlamydia

The most frequent sexually transmitted infection

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Chlamydia trachomatis intra/extracellular?

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Obligate intracellular parasite (no laboratory culture; “ATP”-parasite)

44
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Chlamydia trachomatis peptdioglycan

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no synthesis of this/ low LPS

45
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what causes Chlamydia trachomatis disease symptoms

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Inflammatory cytokines released from infected cells cause disease= damaging cell-mediated immune response in various tissues

46
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Chlamydia trachomatis
different forms/bodies
cell infection/ spread

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elementary body (stable, infectious)
 reticulate body (replicating, fragile, non-infectious)

EB: epithelial cell adhesion to microvilli ► RB in phagosomes (no fusion with
lysosomes) ► replication and division ► EB ► cell lysis / exocytosis

47
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Chlamydial diseases caused by:

A

CMI response

48
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Chlamydial gonorrheal-like sexual disease

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caused by 8 serotypes
• Mucopurulent urethritis, cervicitis, salpingitis (fallopian tube infection)
• mobility by adhesion to sperm (► epididymitis prostatitis in men)
• PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) ► scarring ► ectopic pregnancy+ decreased fertility

49
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other chlamydial diseases

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3 serotypes: lymphogranuloma venereum

4 serotypes: trachoma (endemic chronic eye infection: blindness), ophthalmia neonatorum with conjunctivitis and pneumonia

50
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treatment of chlamidyal diseases

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  • azithromycin: 1 dose

* tetracycline or erythromycin treatment

51
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immune protection/ reinfection of chlamidya

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no immune protection

reinfection: stronger CMI

52
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C.pneumoniae strain causes

A

walking pneumonia

53
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leading bacterial infection species

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Chlamydia trachomatis

54
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae gram
cell wall?
membrane?

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non gram staining: (no rigid cell wall: no effect of

penicillin or lysozyme); strong membrane (due to sterols)

55
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae sterilization

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cannot be done with filtration (too small)

56
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smallest prokaryote

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Mycoplasma species are smallest prokaryote (M.

genitalium 580,070 bp – 475 genes)

57
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae O2 use? preference for what tissue

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strict aerobe (preference for bronchial mucosa)

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae Virulence Factors:

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Ø P1 adhesin for ciliated respiratory epithelium:
loss of ciliated cells: no mucus clearing from lungs
Ø slow growth

59
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae disease

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atypical, mild pneumonia, the leading cause in schools, students,
and military: aerosol transmission in crowded conditions
• often (>15%) combined with otitis media

60
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae vax/ immunity

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no vaccination; fading protective immunity after recovery

61
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pneumonia species, which can be vaxxed against?

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only pneumococcal can be vaxxed

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