Zoonoses-Haemophilus-Listeria Flashcards
Yersenia pestis gram
negative
Yersenia pestis cause of?
black death
Yersenia pestis source
zoonotic disease/ unsanitary conditions
sylvatic plaque
Yersenia pestis transmitted from rodent to flea and back and forth, usually no severe affects on the rodent
urban plaque
result of rodent flea with Yersenia pestis biting rat and then becoming associated with humans through unsanitary conditions, bites human and causes infection
can lead to bubonic or septicemic plaque
bubonic plague major characteristic
mortaility?
bubo: infected lymph node with pus, NOT CONTAGIOUS
50-75 mortality if not treated promptly
can progress to septicemic plague
speticemic plague can progress to?
pnemonic plague, spread to lungs
HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS WITH AERSOLS AND POSSIBLE HUMAN FLEA
near 100 mortality
vascular shock leads to blackened extremities
Yersenia pestis virulence factors
Pla
yops
F1
LPS
pla of Yersenia pestis
protease, activates plasminogen activator to destroy C3b and C5a
yops of Yersenia pestis
loss of this?
interferes with phago
loss of yops= loss of virulence
F1 of Yersenia pestis
forms anti-phago capsule
LPS endotoxin Yersenia pestis
causes inflammatory symptoms
treatment/ prevention of the black death
antibiotics
vax for short-term protection
avoidance of rodents
Francisella tularensis gram
negative
Francisella tularensis pathgenicity
oppurtunistic zoonosis (animal/tick bites) possible bioterrorism
Francisella tularensis virulnce factors
intracellular growth in macrophages
thin capsule
Francisella tularensis intracell growth
prevent?
can lead to?
prevention of phago lyso fusion, leads to bacteremia
Francisella tularensis thin capsule actions
anti complement and weak LPS endotoxin
Francisella tularensis diseases
“rabbit and tick fever”
ulceroglandular and oculoglandular tularemia
pulmonary tularemia
Brucella gram
negative
Brucella pathogenicity
oppurtunistic zoonosis by B. melitensis
bioterrorism
Brucella disease
undulant fever/ Bang’s disease= systemic bacteremia satrting at LN
waves of symptoms that resolve then recur