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What are zoonotic viruses |
viruses that have jumped species barriers |
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what is SARS |
severe acute respiratory syndrome |
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viral genomes are enclosed within |
capsids (coat proteins) |
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What are cytopathic viruses? |
lyse host cells by inducing apoptosis or autophagy |
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What are latent viruses |
viruses that can infect cells without producing infectious virions until immunity wanes or until reactivated by various physiological signals |
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Example of a latent virus |
herpes |
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example of a cytopathic virus |
poliovirus influenza |
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what are non cytopathic viruses |
replicate without destruction of cells |
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example of non cytopathic virus |
hepatitis B |
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Example of intestinal virus and how it enters |
poliovirus enter via antigen sampling M cells |
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example of respiratory virus and how it enters |
influenza and rhinoviruses establish infection in the epithelial cells of the airways |
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viruses that require insect vectors |
dengue hepatitis B |
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example of bloodbourne virus and how it enters |
HIV and hepatitis B invade through mucosa or epithelia following physical trauma |
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Example of virus that displays tissue tropism |
HIV |
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major innate immunity is mediated via |
type 1 interferons, complement and NK cells |
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what are type 1 interferons |
groups of proteins that induce host cell enzymes that affect transcription and translation of viral genes |
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appearance of virus is followed rapidly by a massive expansion of virus specific |
CD8 T cells and to a lesser extent CD4 |
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after infection with cytolytic viruses what is produced |
neutrilising antibodies |
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The C1q/r/s complex is a |
pentraxin that couples antibody binding to the classical pathway of complement. |
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What is the low affinity lgG Fc receptor, expressed on circulating neutrophils, natural killer (NK) cells, and tissue macrophages |
FCgammaRIII |
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What does AIDS stand for |
Accquired immune deficiency syndrome |
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AIDS is caused by |
HIV |
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what does HIV stand for |
human immunodeficiency virus |
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AIDS was originally known as |
GRID |
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What does PCP stand for |
pneumocystis carinii pneumonia |
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The vast majority of human AIDS infections is caused by |
HIV-1 |
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What is PCP? |
a form of pneumonia, caused by yeast like fungus pneumocystis jirovecii |
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PCP is normally seen in people who |
are undergoing chemotherapy,, or have HIV/AIDS or are using medications that affect the immune system |
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HIV-1 originated from |
a simian immunodeficiency virus (SIVcpz) - retrovirus infects non human parasites |
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SIVcpz was introduced into humans via |
bushmeat - subsequent mutations into HIV |
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The docking glycoprotein of HIV is known as |
gp 120 |
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The transmembrane glycoprotein of HIV is known as |
gp41 |
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HIV-1 can cross mucosal surfaces via |
M cells or binding to galactosylceramide and CCR5 (via gp120) |
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In the vagina HIV gains access via |
langerhans cells |
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How does HIV transport to the lymph nodes |
C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) on dendritic cells bind high mannose N linked oligosaccharides on gp120 |
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Once in lymph nodes what does HIV do |
re-exposed to the surface and displayed to T cells |
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The site of replication for HIV is |
the small intestine |
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gp120 binding to a receptor leads to |
a conformational change in gp120 that exposes gp41 |
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what are the 3 classes of influenza viruses |
A, B and C |
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which classes of influenza are majr causes of human disease |
A and B |
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which classes of influenza are responsible for pandemic outbreaks |
A |
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Influenza A is covered with 2 spike like glycoproteins known as |
Trimeric hemagglutinin (HA) Tetrameric neuraminidase (NA) |
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What does Tetrameric neuraminidase (NA) do |
cleaves sialic acid and promotes viral release from cells |
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Influenza subtypes in birds are what |
HA (H1-H15) NA (N1-N9) |
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Human infections are limited to viruses that express what subtypes |
H1,H2,H3 N1,N2,N8 |
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The spanish flu was caused by |
a Influenza A strain of H1N1 |
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What is hypercytokinemia |
a systemic expression of a healthy vigorous immune system |
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hypercytokinemia is caused by |
release of >150 inflammatory mediators |
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) viruses are expressing which subsets |
H5, H7 or H9 |
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Ebola infects |
endothelial cells of blood vessels, monocytes, macrophages dendritic and liver cells |
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GP encodes |
Ebola virus glycoprotein |
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What are the two forms of GP |
Trimeric trans membrane complex soluble dimeric form (sGP) |
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What does soluble dimeric form (sGP) do |
secreted after infection - prevents neutrophil activation |
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What does Trimerictrans-membrane complex do |
targets virus to cells via receptor binding - allows virus to introduce its contents into macrophages leading to inflammatory cytokine dystregulation |