week 13 Flashcards
the BIG 3 diseases
TB. HIV, and malaria
pertussis (whooping cough)
- uncontrollable cough, cyanosis, produces toxins that destroy epithelial tissue and impact electrolyte balance
TB (mycobacterium tuberculosis)
nigh sweats, weight loss, cough
Lyme
skin lesions
- heart inflammation, arthritis, demyelination of neurons
Plague (Yersinia pestis)
buboes (enlarged lymph nodes)
Tetanus (Clostridium tetani)
paralysis
- lockjaw, convulsions, death
Syphilis (Treponema pallidum) has 3 stages
chancre, rash and hair loss, and gumma (lesions)
smallpox (Variola virus?)
red spots w/ thick pus-like fluid
mononucleosis
STD, Epstein barr virus
malaria (Plasmodium falciparum)
-protist
- shaking chills, anemia, spleen and liver enlarged
diptheria (Corynebacterium diptheria)
- cough (airborne)
- exotoxin, destroys cardiac, kidney, and nervous tissues, prevents protein synthesis
Legionnaires Disease ( Legionella pneumophilia)
- muscle aches, SOB, all the other stuff of being sick
Meningitis ( N.meningitidis)
inflammation of brain or spinal cord meninges
Gas Gangrene (Clostridial Myonecrosis)
- tissue damaging (skeletal muscle) enzymes
chlamydia (Chlamydia trachomatis)
- vaginal discharge, burning while peeing, pelvic inflammatory disease
Gonorrhea (Neisseria gonorrhoeae)
- creamy pus, sterility, ectopic pregnancies
Staphylococcal diseases (Staphylococcus aureus)
- abscess, low blood pressure, redness of eyes, mouth and vagina
strep
look at pic
Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
- the neurotoxin prevents release of acetylcholine
- poor appetite, respiratory failure, death
Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
- abdominal muscle cramps
E.coli (Escherichia coli)
- diarrhea hemorrhagic colitis
Anthrax (bacillus anthracis)
- bleeding, septic shock, death
Gastroenteritis (Campylobacter jejuni)
- ulceration fo the intestines, bloody stools
2 types of flus
- drift: small changes -> antigen changes
- shift: bigger changes in the linear part of the RNA genome
Measles (Rubeola)
- Koplik’s spots (red lesions w/ bluish-white specks)
HIV
acute: rash, lymphadenopathy (swelling of lymph nodes)
asymptomatic: effects immune function, cancer
Polio (Poliomyelitis)
- paralysis
Ebola (Ebolavirus)
multisystem syndrome
Rabies (Rabies virus)
- anxiety, irritability, depression, sensitivity to light and sound, paralysis, destroys region of brain that controls breathing
features that help cause infection
- euk cell walls, arthropod vectors (direct contact of cont. food and water), agents has alternate life stages outside of the host
