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16 Cards in this Set
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upper respiratory system |
nose, throat (pharynx), middle ear, auditory tube, sinus ducts |
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lower respiratory system |
larynx, trachea, lungs, bronchi tubes, aveoli |
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strep throat |
streptococcus pyogenes |
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scarlet fever |
streptococcus pyogenes with a lysogenized phage |
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diphtheria |
corynebacterium diphtheriae |
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exotoxin diphtheria |
produced when a phage enters bacterias and incorporates its DNA inhibits protein synthesis back of throat forms leather like membrane inactivated toxin for vaccine |
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otitis media |
infection of middle ear pus builds up behind ear drum |
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common cold |
50% are rhinovirues and 15-20% are coronaviruses |
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whooping cough or pertussis |
bordetella pertussis causes loss of ciliated cells in trachea which enables mucus to build up exotoxins and endotoxins as part of cell wall vaccine contains highest level of endotoxin |
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tuberculosis |
mycobacterium tuberculosis tubercles are small inflammatory nodule that forms when the immune system builds a wall around the TB bacteria in the lungs. isoniazid and rifampin are used to treat it |
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pneumonia |
inflammation of lung tissue atypical- caused by something other than streptococcus pneumoniae |
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Q-fever |
coxiella burnetti drinking unpasteurized milk q= query |
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viral pneumonia |
cause by a number of viruses |
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respiratory syntactical virus |
most common cause of viral respiratory diseases in infants |
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influenza |
caused by influenzavirus and mutates alot H spikes -hemaggutinin - 500 N spikes- neuraminidase - 100 |
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fungal infections of respiratory |
increasing over last 15 years histoplasmosis coccidioidomycosis |
