TB Flashcards
- In 1882, how many humans died of tuberculosis?
a. 1 in7
- How many people in the world were infected with tuberculosis in 1882?
a. 1/3 of the population
- Where is the human T.B thought to have evolved from ~15,000 years ago?
a. M. bovis
- What contributed to the first and second major endemic outbreaks of TB?
a. When villages of 200-4000 people were established
b. When cities where established
- What type of microorganism is T.B?
a. A mycobacterium
- Is TB a gram positive or gram-negative bacterium?
a. Gram-positive
- Does TB produce spores?
a. NO
- Is TB aerobic or anaerobic?
a. Obligate aerobe because it requires oxygen for it metabolism and reproduce
b. Can remain dormant for a long time in an anaerobic environment
- Is TB mobile? How does it move around?
a. NO
b. Moves in the macrophages
- What shape is TB?
a. A baccilus
- What is the generation time of TB, and is this considered fast or slow?
a. 15-20 hours
b. Slow
- What is 50% of TB dry cell weight?
a. Mycolic acid
- What kind of stains can a TB bacterium hold?
a. Acidic stains
- What can TB confer resistance to?
a. Detergent
b. Antibacterial agents
- What is responsible for many of the TB bacterium’s properties?
a. Mycolic acid
- What type of bacterium is TB?
a. Myobacterium
- What mycobacterium causes the majority of TB infections in humans?
a. M. tuberculosis
- What are the mycobacterium that cause TB in humans (5)? and what is one that does not cause infection in humans but birds?
a. M. Tuburculoisis
b. M. Bovis
c. M. Africaum
d. M. microti
e. M canetti
f. M avium
- What macrobacterium do not cause TB in humans?
a. M. avium
- How many species of mycobacterium are there?
a. 137 species
- What names did TB go by in the past?
a. Consumption
b. Wasting disease
c. White plague
- Until when did people think that TB was hereditary?
a. 1800s
- What year did Jean antoine-villemin demonstrate that TB was contagious?
a. 1865
- In 1882 ___________ discovered M. tuberculosis was caused my a bacterium.
a. Robert Koch
- Before antibiotics in 1940, were did most people with living people with TB get sent?
a. Sanatoriums
- What treatments di those who got sent to sanitoriums get?
a. Bed rest
b. Open-air
c. Sunshine
- What happened to those who couldn’t afford sanatoriums?
Grave
- During what time period were antibiotics that treat TB discovered?
a. 1940 – 1950
- Drugs to treat TB are ______ discovered in 1943 and _______ & _______discovered in 1952.
a. streptomycin
b. Isoniazid
c. P-aminoaslicyclic acid
- In what decade did the majority of TB sanatoriums close?
a. 1970s
- What decade was there a resurgence of TB?
a. the 1980s
- Why was there an insurgence of TB in the 1980s (5)?
a. No funding for TB control
b. HIV epidemic
c. Immigration
d. Homeless shelters and prisons
e. Multidrug resistance
- In what year did increase in government (WHYTE) funding for TB programmes begin?
a. 1992
- Is TB eradicated?
a. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- How is TB transmitted?
a. Person to person in air via droplets
- How are the TB droplets expelled from a person?
a. Cough
b. Sneeze
c. Speak
d. Sings
- TB is a facultative intracellular _________ ?
a. Pathogen
- What immune cell does TB manipulate?
a. Phages
- How does TB interact with phages?
a. Uses the phagocytic vacuole for survival and replication
b. Uses multiple ligand-receptor interactions to promote phagocytosis
c. Prevents fushion of the phagosome with lysosome
- What advantages does the TB haver by being phagocyosed (4)?
a. Protexction form explution
b. Less hostile environment
c. Supplied with nutrition
d. Allows for mobility
- What effects the possibility of transmission?
a. Infection levels of the sick individual
b. Environment which exposure occurs
c. Length of exposure
d. Virulence of the tubercle bacilli
- What are the best ways to prevent transmission?
a. Isolate infected people
b. Treat infected people
- When infected with TB, the immune system is effective resulting in __________ or its is ineffective and __________.
a. Effective: infection limited to small area of the lungs
b. Ineffective: multisystem infection
- What is the infection rate of people exposed to TB_______ not infected and ________ infected?
a. 70-90% not infected
b. 10-30% infected
- Of those infected with TB What are the two routes of infection?
a. Latent and active
- What percentage of those infected with TB develop latent TB?
a. 90%
- What percentage of those infected with TB are infected with the active form of TB?
a. 10%
- What symptoms do those infected with the latent formof TB present with?
a. Never develop active disease
- If an individual has the active form of TB and is not treated some will survive, how long can someone live with TB for who die?
a. 2 years
- If you are treated for the active form of TB can youstill die?
a. HELL YEAH you can
- How many people in the world had TB in 2018?
a. 30% of the population
- How many globally new cases a year are there of TB?
a. 10 million
- How many people globally dies each year from TB?
a. 1.8 million deaths
- What percentage of the USA population has TB?
a. ~3-5% infected
- How many new cases of TB is there in the united states?
a. _12,000
- What is the mortaility rate of people ing the US from TB?
a. 5-7%/ 600 people per year
- What is latent pathogenicity with TB?
a. Tuburcle baccili are int eh body, but the immune system is keeping them under control
- How is latent TB tested for?
a. Skin scratches Mantoux tuberculin skin test
b. Blood tests: interferon ganna release assays
- Are people with laten TB infectcious?
a. qNOOOOOO
- How long canit take for symptoms of TB to develop?
a. Years
- What percentage of people with latent TB develop active TB
a. 10%
- What is inhaled to be infected with TB?
Droplet nuclei containing tubercle bacilli
- Where do the Droplet nuclei containing tubercle bacilli travel to once inhaled?
a. The alveoli
- Where do the TB reproduce in the lungs?
a. Alveoli
- Can TB spread through the body, and if so how does it?
a. Yes
b. Blood stream
- The majority iof TB infections are _________ infections and affect which organ?
a. Pulmonary
b. Lungs
- What organs and tissue are affected by extrapulmonary TB infections?
a. Larynx
b. Lymph nodes
c. Pleura
d. Brain
e. Kidneys
f. Bones and jopints
- Who is at higher risk of extrapulmonary infections?
a. HIV
b. Immunosupressed
c. Children