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One of the most important cause of mortality & morbidity among children & infants
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Diarrhea
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What r the two types of food poisoning?
Explain the difference |
Food infection: presence of bacteria/ colony, usually 24-72hrs
& Food intoxication: presence of toxins, do not require colony, <12hrs |
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Disease & bact. responsible for stomach ulcer
pH habitat uniqueness |
Pectic Ulcer disease, Helicobacter pylori (gram-, curved rod)
Acidic environtment of stoma. & duodenum (weakens their lining) secretes mucinase & urease which results in C14, acid neutralizing agents |
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Multiply within the phagosome
Disease of Zoonotic origin Pathogenesis |
S Enterica
Salmonellosis(reptiles) penetrate and multiply in intestinal epith. cells, may enter the blood stream: bacteremia $ septicemia |
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typhoid fever is caused by..
symptoms Which cells r most affected treatment |
S enterica Typhi(most dangerous of genus)
High spiking fever & shaking shills intestinal M cells 2 vaccines r available |
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Multiply within the cytoplasm through actin polymerization which is the most common isolated in the Us:
Disease named: |
S. dysenteria/ flexneri/ boydii/ soneii
S soneii Shigellosis/ Bacillary Dysentery |
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STD infection of the genitourinary tract r caused ... agents
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exogenous agents
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What is the most common agent form community acquired and nosocomial UTI’s
which disease is it responsible for? |
E.coli, UPEC
responsible for cystitis |
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T or F
UTI r more common in men. All STD need to not be reported |
F, in women
F, must report |
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What is the most common vaginal disease in the US?
how? |
Bacterial vaginosis
a shift in normal flora, strong fishy odor |
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what is the 2nd most common bacterial STD in the US?
Other name? Why is it special? |
N gonorrhea ( the clap), need to be reported if not in a newborns eyes (child abuse)
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what is the most common STD in US?
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Chlamydia trachomatis
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What does treponema pallidum cause?
Why is it special? |
Syphillis has hard chancres: 3 stages: 2nd: skin rashes & ulcers, tertiary: gummas, blindness, insanity; for congenital may result in Saddle nose, Hutching’s teeth
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What does H. ducreyi cause?
Why is it special? |
Chancroid: (soft chancres) Caribbean people
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the most dangerous sevorar of the genous of salmonellosis
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S. enterica typhi, Typhoid fever
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the most commonly isolated Shigella species in the US
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S. soneii
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Most common cause of traveler’s diarrhea
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ETEC (enterotoxigenic)
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Bloody, high volume diarrhea
do not ferment sorbitol |
EHEC (E.coli O157:H7)
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Leading cause of bacterial diarrhea in the US
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Campylobacter jejuni
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profuse “ rice-water stool” diarrhea, 20 L per day, cyanosis, sunken eyes & cheeks, dry rubbery skin
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Vibrio cholera
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Food intoxic.:
example |
no fever, no leucocytes, no blood in stool
Bacillus cereus |
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Pseudomembranous colitis
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C. difficile gives Pseudomembranous colitis(not an infection), shift in normal flora because of ANTIBIOTICS, foul smelling
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Most common site for pathogenic microbes
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(mostly Viral): URT
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talk about Strep throat
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Pharyngitis or (Strep throat) by Steptococcus pyogenes, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever (strawberry tongue), acute glomerulonephritis
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whooping cough or...
bacteria |
Pertussis or whooping cough, toxin-mediated disease (same for SSSS), by Bordella pertussis, cough of 100 days
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More death in US than any other infectious disease
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Pneumonia by Steptococcus pneum
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walking pneumonia or..
bacteria... similar to... cough... |
Primary atypical pneumonia or walking pneumonia: dry non-productive cough (mono-like) by mycoplasma, chlamydophila, legionella
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Legionnaire disease
get it from:... |
L pneumophila = Legionnaire disease: necrotinizing pneumonia;
(bacillus antrax) r both zoonotic |
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R the major cause of meningitis in the US:
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B, C, Y
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The most common agent that differs by age group
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Bacterial meningitis
adult: Steptococcus pneumoniae, neisseria meningitidis children: HIB, N. meningitidis, Neonate: Strep. agalactiae, E coli |
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Most preventable form of blindness in the world:
STD or not |
Chlamydia trachomasis, not an STD
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Lockjaw
improper preparing of can food |
tetanus
Botulism, can be fatal |
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HACEK
Listeria causes |
endocartitis, more common in neonates and AIDS
bacteremia, gram + |
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the most common fatal tick borne disease
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Rocky mountain S F by Rickettsia rickettsii
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more than 90% of all reported vector borne disease
bacteria |
Lyme disease
Borrelia Burgdorfei |
