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Topic 1: Definitions, sources of infection, influencing factors Flashcards

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What is an infectious disease

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disorders caused by an agent (lower ranked, bacteria, virus etc), which acts on a host (higher ranked)

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Agent

Exposition

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Lower ranked
Virus, bacteria, Protozoa fungi etc

exposition: needed from the agent, must be able to cause the disease - host must eb exposed to the agent

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Host

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Higher ranked organism

  • from host, we need a disposition
  • must be infected by the agent, and therefore will cause the disease
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5 phases of infection

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  1. Entry (agent enters host)
  2. Colonisation (agent must find the optimal place to colonies host)
  3. replication (agent must propagate in the host)
  4. Damage (with the help of the agents metabolites . toxins etc, must damage the host
  5. transmission (to other susceptible animals
    - host will excrete agent
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Direct transmission

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  • Not so common
  • infected hosts tissue contacts susceptible host
  • bite, sexual transmission
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Indirect

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  • more common
  • involvement of excretions and secretions
  • drinking water, feed
  • products of animal involvement
  • soil, environment
  • aerogenic
  • arthropods
  • iatrogenic
  • nosocomial
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Aerogenic transmisson

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  • coughing, sneezing
  • excretion in particle form
  • indirect, as air is involved in transmisson
  • less than 5 micrometers; can get into the alveoli
  • 5 - 10 micrometres ; can get into the bronchiole
  • over 10 micrometres ; better situation fr the host, can only get into the nasal cavity
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Arthopod transmission

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  • important for agents that would not survive in the environment
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Iatrogenic infefctions

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contaminated surgical tools, gloves, equipment

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Nosocomial

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hospital infections, eg salmonella in Equine clinics

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Vertical Transmisson

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  • from one age group to another, usually parent to offspring
  • germinative, Intrauterine and galactogenic
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Germinative transmission

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  • vertical
  • rare in mammals, as infected embryos are often not viable
  • infected eggs in birds can be hatched
    eg. avian leucosis
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Intrauterine transmission

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  • if it is generalised int he mother, it will reach uterus and the embryo, replication, death or birth
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Galactogenic transmission

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Nb infected through mothers milk

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Horizontal Transmisson

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animal to animal, where they are kept together

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Type of Zoonoses

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Orthozoonoses
Cyclozoonoses
Metazoonoses
Sapronoses

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Orthozoonoses

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from animal to humans, and humans to animals

eg rabies

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Cyclozoonoses

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  • Focal infection, maintained by a host and arthpod is involved
  • infection circulating btw them
  • Lyme borrelisos
    Maintaining host: small rodent
    ticks= arthopod
    humans can enter the cycle through a tick bite
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Metazoonoses

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From animals to humans via wound infections

  • Erysipelas, usually occurring in pigs
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Sapronoses

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not a zoonoses
- same disease occurring in animals and humans
source of the infection is the same

Tetanus, CL. tetani
- spores present in soil, both humans and animals can eb infected

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Routes of infections

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Natural orifices; PO, intranasal(aerogenic), Sexual transmisson, udder

Conjuvtical, Per cutan (arbo), wounds

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Optimal entrance

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which requires the least amount of agent to cause the infection

APP in swine; aerogenic is optimal, (PO possible, but a larger amount of agent required to cause disease)

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Types of infection

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Simple: agent enters, host is infected
Reinfection:
Exacerbation: when agent is isolated in a lesion (tubercle) in aerogenic infections
Superinfection; infection occurs after initial infection

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Secondary Infection

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primary than secondary infection

primary infection causing immunosupression, secondary can colonise and cause disease

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Mixed infection
infections happen at the same time, eg kennel cough, parainfluenza 2 and bordetella bronchiseptica
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Agent relationship with host
Symbiotic: live in the the presence of each other, on skin or MM Mutualism: both parties benefit, eg enteric gut flora Commensalism: bacteria benefits from host, but is neither beneficial or harmful to host Parasitism: when the agent can cause a disease ***Normal microflora are not necessary for the host to live, can live fine without it**
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Pathogenicity
the ability of an agent to cause a disease Obligate; do not need PDFs to cause disease, if the animal is infected and not immune, disease will occur. eg bacillus antracis, anthrax will be the result Faculative; need PDF, eg bad management, nutrition or primary infection with a virus
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Host spectrum
Stenoxenous agents: narrow host range, ASF only infects swine Euryxenous: wide host range, eg B anthracis
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Virulence
the different strengths of pathogenicity found with a bacterium or viral species virulence isn't stable and usually decreases because they lose their virulence factors Highly virulent; cause severe disease Mildily; do not cause severe disease, or need a high amount of agent to do so Avirulent; pathogenic by species, but not able to cause disease --> used for vaccines
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Virulence factors
Capsule; protects bacteria Toxins, endo or exotoxins extracaelluar enzymes surface proteins the more virulence factors, the more virulent an agent
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Measuring virulence
LD50, amount of agent that will kill 50% of animals | MLD, minimal lethal dose: less reliable
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Invasiveness
Genrealised infection, eg herpes, anthrax spread in host Local; eg papillomatosis, local lesions in the skin IC/ extracellular; IC much more protected from the immune system response, so increase pathogenicity
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Amount of agent
has. different effect on different species one spore of bacillus anthracis can kill a sheep but several needed to kill a pig
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Henle - Koch postulates
When can we say an agent is responsible for a disease? 1. agent can always be detected in infected animals 2. it can always be isolated from the animals 3. it can then be replicated with a culture and will cause the same clinical signs
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Species specific resistance
ASF cannot infect horses
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age
regarded a PDF
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race, individual resistance
Canine ehrlichiosis is frequent in GSD, other breeds more resistant
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Non specific resistance
Skin, mm, excretions, macrophage, complement system,, properdin, opsonin, IL, IF, TNF (Cannot target specific cells, can only recognise non self)
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Passive immunity
natural; maternal protection t birth door new born animals Artificial; Its in the hyper immune set protects young animals
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Active immunity
natural; if the animal survives an infectious disease, in the immune system creates AB against it induced; vaccine Humoral (IgA,G etc)
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Immune rxn of Nb
Calf Ig 4-32 days Calf/ piglet, local immune rxn immdieatelt, but no immune memory cellular immune rxn, after 2 weeks colostrum contains lymphocytes and iG
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Management, Technology, Physiological factors
overcrowding, important pdf weaning, grouping, treatment, castration, all stress factors farrowing increases cortisol, host resistance decreases

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