Microbiology: Microbial Mechanisms of Pathogenicity Flashcards

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Pathogenicity

Ability to cause disease

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Virulence

The extent of pathogenicity

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Three ways a MO can infect a host

  • Mucous membranes
  • Respiratory tract
  • GI tract
  • Genitourinary tract
  • Conjuctiva
  • Skin
  • Parenteral route

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Portals of Entry: Respiratory tract

  • Easiest
  • Colds, pneumonia, tuberculosis, flu, measles, smallpox

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Portals of Entry: Gastrointestinal tract

  • Ingesting
  • Most can be destroyed by stomach
  • Poliomyelitis, hep A, typhoid fever, amoebic dysentery, giardiasis, shigellosis, cholera

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Portals of Entry: Genitourinary tract

  • Sexually transmitted
  • May penetrate an unbroken mucous membrane
  • Others require a cut or abrasion
  • Herpes. HIV, genital warts, chlamydia, syphilis, gonorrhea

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Portals of Entry: Skin

  • Unbroken skin is excellent barrier
  • Some gain access through an open wound

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Portals of Entry: Parenteral Route

  • Deposited beneath the skin
  • Needles, punctures, bites, cuts, wounds, surgery

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True or False: If an organism enters the body, it will produce a disease

False. Organisms have a preferred portal of entry therefore will not always produce disease.

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ID50

Infectious dose for 50% of the test population (virulence)

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LD50

Lethal dose (of a toxin) for 50% of the test population (potency of toxin)

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Adhesion

  • Surface molecules on MO that allow the MO to adhere to host tissue
  • Glycocalyx, pili, fimbrae, flagella

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Bioflim

  • Communities of MO
  • Scum in pools, shower doors, teeth

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Capsule

  • Glycocalyx can resist phagocytosis, therefore increases virulence
  • Prevents adhesion of phagocytic cell

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M protein

  • Component of cell wall
  • Acid and heat resistant

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Extracellular enzymes

  • Coagulase
  • Kinases
  • Hyaluronidase
  • Collagenase
  • IgA proteases

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Coagulase

Coagulates blood

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Kinase

Digests fibrin clots

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Hyaluronidase

Hydrolyses hyaluronic acid

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Collagenase

Hydrolyzes collagen

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IgA proteases

Destroys IgA antibodies

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Antigenic variation

Alter surface proteins

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Invasins

Manipulate cytoskeleton allowing entry to cell membrane

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Ways Bacterial Pathogens Can Damage Host Cells

  • Use host nutrients
  • Direct damage
  • Producing toxins
  • Inducing hypersensitivity reactions

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Ways Bacterial Pathogens Can Damage Host Cells: Using host's nutrients

Siderophores: take iron from host iron-binding proteins

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Ways Bacterial Pathogens Can Damage Host Cells: Direct damage

  • Immediate area
  • Use of nutrients
  • Production of waste
  • Rupture of cells

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Ways Bacterial Pathogens Can Damage Host Cells: Toxins

  • Toxin
  • Toxigenicity
  • Toxemia

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Toxin

Poisonous substance produced by MO that contributes to pathogenicity

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Toxigenicity

Ability to produce a toxin

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Toxemia

Presence of toxin in host's blood

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Exotoxins

  • GRAM POSITIVE
  • Produced inside the bacteria and released to surrounding medium

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Toxoid

Inactivated toxin used in a vaccine

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Antitoxin

Antibodies vs. a specific toxin

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Characteristics of Exotoxins

  • Genes carried on bacterial plasmids
  • Soluble in bodily fluids
  • Easily transported throughout body
  • Among most lethal substances known
  • I mg Botulinum = enough ExoT to kill 1 million Guinea Pigs
  • Diseases are caused by ExoT, not bacteria themselves

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Three types of Exotoxins

  • B toxins (Type III)
  • Membrane-disrupting (Type II)
  • Superantigens (Type I)

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B toxins

  • Type III
  • Two polypeptide components
  • B for Binding
  • A is enzyme

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Membrane-disrupting toxins

  • Type II
  • Lyse host cells
  • Make protein channels in the plasma membrane
  • Disrupt phospholipid bilayer

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Superantigens

  • Cause intense immune response due to release of cytokines from host cells
  • Fever, nausea, shock, vomiting, diarrhea, death

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Classification of Exotoxins

  • Cytotoxins
  • Neurotoxins
  • Enterotoxins

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Cytotoxin

Kills cells or damages function

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Neurotoxin

Alter nerve impulses

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Enterotoxins

Affect GI tracts

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Endotoxins

  • GRAM NEGATIVE
  • Lipopolysaccharides from outer membrane of G- bacteria
  • All endotoxins produce same signs and symptoms
  • Fever, ache, nausea, shock, blood clotting and death

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Fever is caused by a

Pyrogenic response

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Interleukins

  • Released by macrophages
  • Causes temperature to rise by affecting the hypothalamus

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Ways virulence is enhanced

  • Plasmids
  • Lysogeny
  • Pathogenicity

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Viral Pathogenicity: Cytopathic effects

Observable signs of cell damage

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Viral Pathogenicity: Cytocidal effects

Cell death

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Fungi Pathogenicity

  • Don't have well-defined set of factors
  • Damage is usually by toxins
  • Aflatoxin: carcinogenic fungus on peanuts

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Protozoan Pathogenicity

  • Presence of and waste produce disease symptoms
  • Toxoplasma attaches to macrophages and gains entry by phagocytosis

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Helminth Pathogenicity

  • Presence produces disease
  • Elephantitis

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Algae Pathogenicity

  • Few produce neurotoxin
  • Saxitoxin: paralytic shellfish poisoning