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23 Cards in this Set
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Legionella big facts
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INTRAcellular pathogens
Disease of techology: grows in amoeba which are usually in warm water Usually seen as OUTBREAKS of disease |
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Mycoplasma
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Atypical pneomoniae
Walking pneumonia, smallest free living organims URI Genital disease |
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Mycoplasma epidemiology
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Easily transmitted: family/close confine outbreaks
Pronounced cough Multiple lobes |
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What are cold agglutinins?
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IgM Ab against Red cell antigens, clumping of RBCs at 4 celsius
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Mycoplasma treatment
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Cell wall agents dont work
Give macrolides for comm acquired peumoniae |
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Chlamydia trachomatis
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Most prominent C. species world wide
Causes ocular trachoma, leading cause of world blindness |
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STDs from C. trachomatis
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Salpingitis, cervicitis, infertility, ectopic pregnancy
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C. pneuomniae aka TWAR
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15 percent of community acquired pneumonia., usually infects young adults
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C. psittaci
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Dealing with birds, treat with Ab that enter cells
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Major causes of atypical pneumoniae
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Mycoplasma
Legionella Chlamydia |
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Too narrow for light microscopy, cardiolipin in cell membrane taken from host
Gram - rods |
Treponema pallidum
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Ab to cardiolipin AKA tests for syphilis
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RPR
VDRL |
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Signs of primary syphilis
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Painless lesion
most will develop secondary |
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Secondary syphilis
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Systemic, disseminated spread over the body
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Tertiary syphilis
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Neuro signs like tabes dorsalis, stroke with no hypertension
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Maculopapular rash on palms and soles
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2 Syphilis
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Cause of lyme disease
Reservoir Vector |
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Rodent reservoir vector ixodes tick |
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Lyme disease stages
caused by B. burgoderi(spirochete) |
1: erythema chronicum migrans
2: CNS, CV, skin joints 3. Arthritis, encephalopathy |
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Symptoms of Lyme Disease
BAKE a KEY Lyme Pie |
BAKE a Key LYME pie
Bells palsy Arthritis Kardiac block Erthyma chronicum migrans |
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5 top gram - ZOONOTIC infections
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1. Ricksettial Disease
2. Ehrlichial disease 3. Pasturella multocida 4. Capnocytophaga canimorsus 5. Brucellosis |
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Zoonotic, intracellular
infects endothelium, RASH, fever caused by ricksettia ricksetti Increases vascular permeability Doxycycline is drug of choice |
Rocky mountain spotted fever
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Like rickettesia but infects WBC
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Ehrlichial disease
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Brucellosis how is it usually transmitted? Bruce the cow
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unpasteurized animal products
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