Zoonosis Flashcards
Which disease is transmitted through direct contact with products of conception?
Brucellosis
Which is disease is transmitted through direct contact with infected bone meal or hide?
Anthrax
Which disease is transmitted through direct contact with fish handler?
Erysipeloid
Which disease is transmitted through direct contact with Abbatoir worker?
Q fever
Which disease is transmitted through inhalation of dropping?
Psittacosis
Which disease is transmitted through inhalation of spores in wool?
Pulmonary anthrax
Which disease is transmitted through inhalation of secretions?
Brucellosis
Which disease is transmitted through ingestion of food and milk products? (5)
Salmonella, Campylobacter, Brucella, Q FEVER, Toxoplasma
Which disease is transmitted through saliva of bites or licks from infected animals?
Rabies, Pasteurella multocida
Which disease is transmitted through faeces?
Salmonellosis, Hyatid disease, Tetanus
Which disease is transmitted through Urine?
Leptospirosis
Which disease is transmitted through blood or life tissues? E.g. animal house attendants, zoo and lab workers: direct handling or inhaling aersols from infected body or tissue of monkeys
Marburg virus disease, Yellow fever
Brucellosis Clinical Features (7)
Fever Arthritis Splenomegaly Hepatomegaly Orchitis CNS (Meningitis). ———->> FASHOCE Endocarditis
Brucellosis Treatment (2)
Rifampicin and Doxycycline
Anthrax Organism Characteristics (4)
Bacillus anthacis
Gram positive Bacilli
Spore-former (spores survive for years)
Disease of Cattle, Sheep
How is Anthrax acquired?
OCCUPATIONAL disease ———> workers handling contaminated hides, hair, wool of sheep, bone meal
Anthrax pathogenesis (2)
1- CAPSULE
- POLYPEPTIDE —-> D-GLUTAMIC ACID
(inhibits opsonization, phagocytosis)
2- PLASMID ENCODED TOXIN (Binary Toxin)
- Protective Factor —> Bind to receptor on macrophage - Lethal Factor —> Inhibit cell function - Oedema Factor —> Increase vascular permeability —> Shock
Cutaneous Anthrax
- Malignant pustule*
- Due to direct inoculation of skin from infected animal or it’s product
Acquired:
1- Industrial: Leather workers, Bone meal factories
2- Non-industrial: Those that work with animals
Pulmonary Anthrax
WOOL-SORTERS DISEASE
Inhaling spores in worker’s handle contaminated wool
Fever, Respiratory distress, Death
High Mortality rate
Gastrointestinal Anthrax
Ingestion of spores
Lethal
Anthrax Treatment and Prevention
Treatment - Penicillin
Prevention - Vaccinate workers at risk
Plague Animal Reservoir
Rat fleas suck blood of rodents e.g. rats —>bites human
Bubonic Plague
Painful enlargement of inguinal lymph nodes
High mortality rate —> HAEMORRHAGIC SEPSIS
Pneumonic Plague
Inhalation of infected respiratory secretions —> Fatal
Spread from one person to another