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Viruses Affecting the Central Nervous System Flashcards

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What is a neurotropic virus?

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Capable of replicating in nerve cells

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What is a neuroinvasive virus?

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Capable of entering/infecting CNS

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What is a neurovirulent virus?

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Capable of causing disease within nervous system

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What is encephalomyelitis?

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Inflammation of brain and spinal cord

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What is primary viral encephalitis/acute viral encephalitis?

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Direct viral infection of spinal cord and brain

Can be focal or diffuse

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What is secondary encephalitis/post-infectious encephalitis?

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From complications of current viral infection

Virus spreads to brain

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What is the most common route viruses take to the brain?

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Blood

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What is more common: viral or bacterial meningitis?

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Viral

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What is more severe: viral or bacterial meningitis?

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Bacterial

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What is the presentation of meningitis?

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Headache
Fever
Neck stiffness
\+/- vomiting
\+/- photophobia
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What is the main viral cause of meningitis?

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Enteroviruses

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How do enteroviruses enter the body?

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Via mouth

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What are some other viral causes of meningitis, that aren’t enteroviruses?

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Mumps
VZV
Influenza
HIV
HSV 2
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What is more severe: viral or bacterial encephalitis?

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Viral

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What is the presentation of encephalitis?

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Like meningitis, but also

  • Personality and behavioural changes
  • Seizures
  • Partial paralysis
  • Hallucinations
  • Altered state of consciousness
  • Ultimately coma and death
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What are the most common causes of viral encephalitis?

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HSV 1 and 2
Rabiesvirus
Arboviruses (insect-borne)
Enteroviruses

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17
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Can mumps virus meningitis also cause encephalitis?

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Yes but is generally mild

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What is post-infectious encephalomyelitis?

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Occurs few days after infections
No virus present but
- Inflammation
- Demyelination
Possibly autoimmune in nature
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Which viruses can cause post-infectious encephalomyelitis?

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Measles
Chickenpox
Rubella
Mumps

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What is Guillain-Barre syndrome?

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Acute inflammatory demyelinating disease after infection with several viruses
Partial/total paralysis in 75% of people
Full recovery within weeks
Doesn’t need active infection

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Which viruses can cause Guillain-Barre syndrome?

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EBV
CMV
HIV

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What is Reye’s syndrome?

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Post-infection with influenza or chickenpox in children
25% case-fatality rate
Cerebral oedema but no inflammation
Association with administration of aspirin during initial fever

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What are chronic demyelinating diseases?

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Very rare
Eg: sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
- Late sequel (30 yrs) to measles infection

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What is AIDS encephalopathy/AIDS dementia complex?

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HIV infection > immunodeficiency > neurovirulent

50% of patients develop progressive dementia

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How do some viruses avoid the blood-brain-barrier and enter the CNS?

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Travel up axon fibres of peripheral nerves to CNS

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What are some viruses that infect the CNS via peripheral nerves?

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Rabiesvirus
Yellow fever virus
HSV 1 and 2

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How are virions transported in the peripheral nerves?

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Whole virions or uncoated nucleocapsids carried passively via anterograde or retrograde transport

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Why aren’t viruses found by CD8 T cells?

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Nerve cells express very few MHC I molecules

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Where do viruses replicate in a neuron?

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In cell body

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How do virions travel from neuron to neuron?

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Can cross synapse

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31
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Which viruses use blood to enter the CNS?

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Poliovirus
Mumps virus
Measles virus
Coxsackievirus

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32
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How does HIV reach the CNS?

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Via monocytes

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33
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What structures carry viruses into the CNS?

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Cerebral blood vessel
Direct spread from adjacent structures
Meningeal blood vessel
Peripheral nerve ending
Nasal mucosa
Blood vessel in choroid plexus
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34
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Which viruses enter through the olfactory bulb?

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Coronavirus

HSV

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Which viruses cause inflammatory diseases?

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Those that directly kill neurons

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What are the sequelae of extensive loss of neurons because of a viral infection?

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Mental retardation
Epilepsy
Paralysis
Deafness
Blindness
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37
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Which cells do viruses replicate in that cause demyelination?

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Oligodendrocytes

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38
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Does the immune response also cause damage during inflammation?

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Yes

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Does rabiesvirus need nerve cells for its life cycle?

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What is the neuroinvasiveness and neurovirulence of rabiesvirus?

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High neuroinvasiveness

High neurovirulence

41
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Describe the structure of rabiesvirus

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Bullet shaped
-ve ssRNA
Helical capsid
Envelope

42
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Does rabiesvirus hide from the immune system when it’s in nerve cells?

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No, rabies glycoproteins displaced on cell surface because exits cell via budding

43
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What kind of rabies is present in Australia?

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Classical rabies not present

Related lyssavirus of bats

44
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What are the symptoms of rabies?

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Aggression - causes animal to bite and spread virus
Thirst
Muscle spasm and terror upon attempt to drink water

45
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What is the pathogenesis of rabies?

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  1. Virus entry: day 0
    - Bite of rabid animal
    - Infected saliva injected
  2. Striated muscle: day 1-60
    - Virus replicates in myocytes
  3. Peripheral nerves: day 10-60
    - Enters nerve endings
    - Nucleocapsid carried by fast axonal transport to spinal cord
  4. CNS: day 12-60
    - Travels along neurons processes > spreads > replicates
    - Neuronal dysfunction
    - Clinical rabies: day 50-70
    - Death
  5. Peripheral nerves: day 30-70
    - Travels from CNS
    - Invades salivary gland
  6. Salivary gland: day 40-70
    - Replicates in acinar cells
    - Discharged in saliva
46
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Can you vaccinate against rabies after infection?

47
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At what stage can you vaccinate against rabies without sequelae?

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When in striated muscle

48
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At what stage can you vaccinate against rabies with minor sequelae?

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When in peripheral nerves but not in CNS

49
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Which virus causes coldsores?

50
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Which virus causes genital warts?

51
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What are some viruses that belong to the herpesvirus family?

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HSV 1 and 2

VZV

52
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Do herpesviruses need nerve cells for their life cycle?

53
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What is the neuroinvasiveness and neurovirulence of herpesviruses?

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Low neuroinvasiveness

High neurovirulence

54
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Describe the structure of herpesviruses?

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Linear dsDNA
Icosahedral
Envelope

55
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What is the normal maintenance cycle of HSV?

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Primary infection in mucosal surfaces >
Latent infection in sensory and autonomic ganglia >
Reactivation from ganglia to mucosal surfaces

56
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What are the pathways leading to serious disease with HSV?

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Viremia from primary infection > disseminated infection in organ systems > latent infection in ganglia OR deadly CNS infections
Latent infection in ganglia > deadly CNS infections

57
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How does HSV 1 enter the body?

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Contact with infected saliva

Enter via cut/abrasion

58
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What site do primary infections of HSV 1 typically involve?

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Mouth and/or throat

59
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What is the possible presentation of HSV 1 in children?

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Gingivostamatitis

  • Ulceration in mouth
  • can spread to other areas of face in severe cases
60
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Is infection with HSV 1 always apparent?

61
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Where does skin/mucous membrane break to allow HSV entry?

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HSV 1: mouth, throat, eyes

HSV 2: genital region

62
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What proportion of HSV infections cause primary disease?

63
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What proportion of HSV infections cause inapparent infection in the lymph nodes?

64
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What ganglia does HSV inhabit?

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HSV 1: trigeminal

HSV 2: sacral

65
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What can reactivate a latent HSV infection?

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Stress
UV
Declining immunity

66
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Where does HSV infect in the CNS?

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Neurons and glia in temporal lobe

67
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What is the case fatality rate of HSV encephalitis?

68
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What causes most cases of HSV encephalitis: reactivated or primary infections?

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Reactivated

69
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How many people have a latent infection with HSV in their ganglia?

70
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How is the HSV genome maintained in a latent infection?

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As episome coated with histones

71
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What does the latent genome of HSV express?

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Latency activated mRNA transcripts (LATs)

72
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How do CD8 T cells help maintain the HSV genome in a latent state?

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Kill any viruses that move out of latent state

73
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How does VZV spread during chickenpox?

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Haematogenously

74
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How does VZV enter the nerves?

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Via vesicular rash

75
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How does VZV enter the body?

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Conjuctiva and/or mucosa of URT

76
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Where does VZV first replicate?

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Regional lymph nodes

77
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What happens during the incubation period in a VZV infection?

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Replication in regional LNs
Primary viremia
Replication in liver and spleen
Secondary viremia

78
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What is the incubation time for VZV?

79
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When does the vesicular rash appear in VZV?

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Day 10 after infection

80
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Where does VZV reside during its latent phase?

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Dorsal root ganglia

81
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What causes shingles?

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Reactivation of VZV in a dermatome

82
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Why is shingles more likely in older people?

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CD8 T cells deplete with age

83
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Does poliovirus need nerve cells as part of its life cycle?

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What is the neuroinvasiveness and neurovirulence of poliovirus?

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Low neuroinvasiveness

High neurovirulence

85
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What is the structure of poliovirus?

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+ve ssRNA
Icosahedral
No envelope

86
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What is the genus of poliovirus?

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Enterovirus

87
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What familydoes poliovirus belong to?

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Picornavirus

88
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Is poliovirus cytocidal?

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What is the pathogenesis of poliovirus?

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  1. Faecal-oral spread - ingested: day 0
  2. GALT: day 0-3
    - Tonsils and Peyer’s patches
    - Invades possibly via M cells
    - Possibly replicates in monocytes
  3. Regional LNs: day 3-5
    - Replicates
  4. Blood: day 5-15
    - Viremia
  5. BBB: day 8-12
    - Rarely
    - Crosses
  6. Spinal cord: day 10-30
    - Replicates in anterior horn cells
    - Cell destruction
    - Paralysis
  7. Gut: day 5-45
    - Normally stays here
    - Excreted in faeces
90
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How quickly can poliovirus cause total paralysis if it enters the CNS?

91
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How many cases of polio occur before 3?

92
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How many poliovirus infections lead to irreversible paralysis?

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Less than 1%

93
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Which limbs are affected more in polio?

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Lower > acute flaccid paralysis

94
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What happens in the most severe cases of polio?

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Attacks motor neurons of brainstem

  • Reduced breathing capacity
  • Increased difficulty swallowing
  • Impedes speech
95
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What is the route of transmission of enteroviruses?

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Faecal-oral

96
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What causes enterovirus meningitis?

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All coxsackie B types
Coxsackie A7 and A9
Many echoviruses

97
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When does enterovirus meningitis often occur?

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Summer

Autumn

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