Viruses Flashcards
Where do enteric viruses primarily replicate?
distal ileum
What enteric infections are agammaglobulinemia patients prone to?
chronic EV infections of CNS
Typical EV incubation period? Exception?
- 3-6 days
- acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis = 1-3 days
Who gets asymptomatic EV infections?
50% - usually older kids and adults
MOst common EV clinical manifestation?
non-specific febrile illness
Which EV causes herpangina and stomatitis/anterior mouth lesions?
Coxsackie A strains and Cox A16 (HFMD)
What is pleurodynia?
- Bornholm disease = resp EV manifestation
- fever, sharp episodic pain in chest/upper abdomen
- young adults
- Cox B3, B5
How common are GI Sx in EV infections?
- 1/3 patients
- vomiting and diarrhea are common but are rarely severe
What 2 virus types can commonly cause hemorrhagic conjunctivitis?
EV and adenoviruses
CV manifestations of EV infections?
- pericarditis, myocarditis, or both
- young adults/adolescents
- Cox B5, Echo 6
- commonly arrhythmias, usually recover completely but may be linked to chronic cardiomyopathy
Viral exanthems are common with EV infections. Who gets them?
expression inversely related to age
What is the most common neurologic manifestation of EV infections?
- aseptic meningitis –> EV accounts for 80-92% of AM cases
Who gets aseptic EV meningitis? When?
- summer and fall
- <1 year but also older children
Course and prognosis of aseptic meningitis?
- 7-14 days presenting with fever/irritability or fever/headache (photophob, NV, rash, pharyngitis)
- <70% have nuchal rigidity
- excellent prognosis
What is the most profound of serious EV disease? Mimics?
- severe neonatal infection
- may mimic bacterial sepsis, disseminated/CNS HSV infection
How and who gets severe neonatal EV infection?
- perinatal from mother with EV infection in week before delivery (late infection so no maternal AB yet)
- <10 days (immune deficient)
Common viral cause of gastroenteritis in children worldwide?
Rotaviruses (decreasing due to vaccination, especially in US)
Morphology of rotaviruses?
- reoviridae
- segmented, non-enveloped, dsRNA
- 2 shell nucleocapsid containing structural proteins
What ages get most severe RV GI disease?
3-24 months, milder disease throughout life
Contagious and shedding of RV illnesses?
- highly contagious
- high viral concentrations in stool - shedding begins a few days BEFORE illness and can persist for 3+ weeks
Pathophysiology of RV infections?
- attach to villus epi cells (enterocytes) in small intestine
- replications leads to dec absorption of salt/water and failure to process/absorb complex sugars –> inc osmotic load in gut lumen
What is a toxin associated with RV?
non-structural protein 4 = enterotoxin (acts on epi receptor to potentiate Cl- secretion = secretory diarrhea)
Course of RV GI?
- incubation 1-3 days
- lasts 3-8 days (longer in IC)
- fever and vomiting followed 24-48 hours by diarrhea (dehydration)
Which 2 caliciviruses are associated with disease in humans?
- norovirus
- sapovirus
What is most common cause of outbreaks of gastroenteritis in closed populations?
norovirus
Who do sapoviruses commonly occur in?
children with sporadic diarrhea
Morphology of caliciviruses?
- non-enveloped ssRNA
- diverse genetically and antigenically
- classified into genogroups and genotypes
Most common cause of foodborne illness and foodborne disease outbreaks in US?
norovirus
When do calicivirus infections occur?
cold months
Course of calicivirus infections?
- older = more vomiting
- V and D; usually don’t have fever and lasts 1-4 days
- incubation 12-48 hours
Shedding of calicivirus?
- viral excretion peaks 4 days after exposure and may persist for 3 weeks (worse in IC)