Microbiology: Microbial Diseases of the Cardio & Lymph System Flashcards

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Lymph nodes contain:

  • Macrophages
  • B cells
  • T cells

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Sepsis

systemic inflammatory response

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Septicema

pathogens/toxins in blood

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Severe sepsis

sepsis + decreased blood pressure

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Septic shock

sepsis + uncontrollable decreased blood pressure

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Lymphangitis

  • Inflammed lymph vessels
  • accompany septicemia & septic shock

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gram-NEGATIVE sepsis (ENDOtoxins)

  • septic shock
  • ENDOTOXINS - decrease blood pressure
  • antibiotics can worsen

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Treatment for gram-NEGATIVE sepsis

protein C (anti-coagulant)

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gram-POSITIVE sepsis (EXOtoxins)

Nosocomial infections

  • antibiotic-resistant

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nosocomial infections

  • S. aureus
  • S. pyogenes
  • S. agalactiae (group B strep)
  • E. faecalis

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Puerperal Sepsis (Childbirth Fever)

S. pyogenes

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Bacterial infections of the heart

  • Endocarditis
  • Subacute bacterial endocarditis
  • Acute bacterial endocarditis
  • Pericarditis

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Endocarditis

(inner layer of heart)

Inflammation of the endocardium

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Acute Bacterial Endocarditis

S. aureus

  • from mouth

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Sub-acute Bacterial Endocarditis

Strep

  • from mouth

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Pericarditis

Strep

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Rheumatic fever is an autoimmune complication of

S. pyogenes infections (strep throat)

  • inflammed heart valves

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Tularemia

"rabbit fever"

Francisella tularensis

  • zoonosis (rabbits/deer)

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Tularemia is transmitted by:

deer fly (vector)

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Brucellosis

"undulant fever"

Brucella

  • grow in phagocytes
  • fever spikes each evening

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Brucellosis is transmitted via

milk or direct contact with infected animal

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Brucellosis:

  • B. abortus

elk, bison, cows

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Brucellosis:

  • B. suis

swine

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Brucellosis:

  • B. melitensis

goats, sheep, camels

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Anthrax

Bacillus anthracis

  • found in soil (aerobe)
  • cattle routinely vaccinated

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Gastrointestinal (GI) anthrax

  • ingest bad food
  • 50% mortality

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Inhalation (pulmonary) anthrax

  • inhale endospores
  • 100% mortality

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Gas gangrene

Clostridium perfingens

  • grows in necrotic tissue

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ischemia

loss of blood supply to tissue

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Necrosis

death of tissue

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Gangrene

death of soft tissue

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Systemic Diseases caused by bites & scratches

  • Bacteroides
  • Bartonella henselae
  • Clostridium
  • Fusobacterium
  • Pasturella multocida

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Bartonella henselae

Cat Scratch Disease

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Vector- transmitted Diseases:

  • Reservoir: Rodents
  • Vector: Arthropods (tick, flea)
  • Plague
  • Relapsing fever
  • Lyme disease
  • Typhus

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Plague

Yersinia pestis

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Bubonic plague

bacterial growth in blood & lymph

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Septicemia plague

septic shock

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Pneumonic plague

bacteria in the lungs

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Relapsing Fever

Borrelia

  • ticks

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T/F: successive relapses are less severe in Relapsing Fever?

True

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Lyme Disease

Borrelia burgdorferi

  • tick (vector)

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Lyme Disease:

3 phases of symptoms

  1. Bull's-eye rash
  2. encephalitis, irregular heartbeat
  3. arthritis

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Typhus

Rickettsia

  • obligate parasites

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Epidemic Typhus

R. prowazekii

  • louse feces rub in wound

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Endemic Murine Typhus

R. typhi

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

R. rickettsii

  • rash on PALMS & SOLES of hands & feet

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Viral Diseases of the Cardio & Lymph System:

  • Burkitt's Lymphoma
  • Infectious Mono
  • CMV
  • Chikungunya Fever
  • Yellow Fever
  • Dengue
  • Marbug Fever
  • Ebola
  • Lassa Fever
  • Hanta Pulmonary Syndrome

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What 2 viruses are caused by the EB virus (HHV-4)

  • Burkitt's Lymphoma
  • Mono

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Burkitt's Lymphoma

Epstein-Barr (EB) virus (HHV-4)

  • nasopharyngeal cancer
  • cancer in patients with Malaria or AIDS

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Burkitt's Lymphoma cancer in immuno-suppressed patients with:

  • AIDS
  • Malaria

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Mononucleosis (Mono)

Epstein-Barr (EB) virus (HHV-4)

  • transmitted via saliva

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Cytomegalovirus - CMV

HHV-5

  • cells swell (WBC)

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What are ways Cytomegalovirus is transmitted

  • across the placenta (causes mental retardation)
  • sex
  • blood
  • transplanted tissue

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VIRAL Hemorrhagic Fevers:

  • Yellow
  • Dengue
  • Marburg
  • Ebola
  • Lassa
  • Argentine & Bolivian
  • Hantavirus

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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers:

Yellow Fever & Dengue

Abroviruses

  • transmitted via arthropods

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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers:

Marburg, Ebola, Lassa, Argentine, Bolivian, Whitewater Arroyo:

Filovirus & Arenavirus

  • contact w/ blood

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Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers:

Hantavirus

Bunyavirus

  • inhalation of rodent excretions

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Protozoan Diseases of the Cardio & Lymph System:

  • Chaga's Disease
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Malaria

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Chaga's Disease (American Trypanosomiasis)

T. cruzi

  • kissing bug

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Toxoplasmosis

T. gondii

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Toxoplasmosis is transmitted by

  • bad food
  • contact w/ cat feces

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Congenital infection of Toxoplasmosis

  • stillbirth
  • neurological damage

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Malaria

Plasmodium (protozoa parasite)

  • P. vivax
  • P.ovale
  • P. malariae
  • P. falciparum

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Plasmodium - 4 forms

(malaria)

  • P. vivax
  • P.ovale
  • P. malariae
  • P. falciparum

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The host & vector of Malaria

Anopheles MOSQUITO

*control with bed nets

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Prevention (prophylaxis) of Malaria

  • Chloroquine
  • Malarone
  • Mefloquine

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Treatment for Malaria

Artemisin

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Bacterial Biological Weapons

  • Bacillus
  • Brucella
  • Chlaymdia
  • Clostridium
  • Francisella
  • Rickettsia
  • Shigella
  • Vibrio
  • Yersinia

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Viral Biological Weapons

  • Polio
  • Measles
  • Encephalitis
  • Hemorrhagic fevers
  • Influenza A
  • Monkeypox
  • Niphrah
  • Smallpox
  • Yellow Fever