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What is the function of Blood?
Transports nutrients to and wastes from cells
What is the function of WBCs?
Defend against infection
What is the function of Lymphatics?
Transport interstitial fluid to the blood
What is the function of Lymph Nodes?
Contain fixed macrophages, B cells and T cells.
How does the lymph nodes monitor foriegn antigens?
As the blood blows 1% of the fluid doesn't re-enter and goes to the lymph and passes through the lymph nodes to be monitored
What is Sepsis?
Bacteria growing in the blood( causes monocytes in the blood to phagocitize the bacteria)
What is the result of Severe Sepsis?
Decrease in blood pressure
What is Septic Shock?
Low blood pressure cannot be controlled?
Gram Negative Sepsis:
1) is what kind of toxin?
2) Present where?
1) Endotoxin
2) Present in the outer membrane of G- cells
Gram Positive Sepsis:
1) what kind of infection?
2) Caused by what 2 microbes?
1) Nosocomial
2) Staphylococcus Aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes
Puerperal Sepsis:
1) AKA
2) Caused by what?
3) how is it transmitted?
1) Childbirth Fever
2) Streptococcus Pyogenes
3) Transmitted to mother during childbirth by attending physicians and midwives
As a result of Puerperal Sepsis Semmelweis said what?
Wash Hands and instruments in chlorinated lime
Endocarditis is what?
Inflammation of the endocardium (lining of the heart)
Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis:
1) Develops over?
2) Caused by what?
1) Weeks of months
2) alpha hemoliytic streptococci from mouth
Acute Bacterial Endocariditis:
1) Destruction in?
2) Caused by what?
1) few days or weeks
2) Staphylococcus aureus from mouth
Pericarditis is caused by what?
Streptococci
How did Rheumatic Fever get its name?
Name from 30% of the patience developing a noduale below the elbow which looks like rheumatiod arthritis
Rheumatic Fever:
1) Inflammation of what?
2) What kind of complications?
3) What kind Hemolysis?
1) heart valves
2) Autoimmune complication of Streptococcus pyogenes infection
3) Beta Hemolytic Strepcoccus
How does Rheumatic Fever cause an inflammatory process?
Antibody verses Streptococcal M protein cross reacts with heart muscle. When antibody attaches to the heart muscle it causes inflammation
Anthrax:
1) Caused by what?
2) G+ or G-
3) Found Where?
4) Significance of their rods
5) What if Routinely Vaccinated?
6) Treated with what (2)
1) Bacillus Anthracis
2) G+
3) In soil
4) Endospore forming aerobic rod
5) Cattle
6) Ciprofloxacin; Doxycycline
Gastrointestinal Anthrax:
1) Cattle pick up spores where?
2) How is it Transmitted?
3) What percent mortality?
4) What happens to the blood?
1) Grass
2) Ingestion of undercooken food contaminated food
3) 50%
4) Blood gets infected it turns black and cold
Inhalational Anthrax:
1) Inhalation of what?
2) What percent mortality
3) Aerosol size?
4) Droplet size?
5) Is their a vaccine?
1) endospores
2) 100%
3) 1-2 microlmeters (u)
4) 10-100 micrometes (u)
5) no
Cutaneous Anthrax:
1) Endospores enter through what?
2) What Percent mortality?
1) minor cuts
2) 20%
Gangrene:
1) AKA
2) Caused by what?
3) G+ or G-
4) Significance of rods?
5) Grows where?
1) Gas Gangrene
2) Clostridium perfringens
3) G+
4) Endospore-forming anaerobic rod
5) Necrotic Tissue (dead tissue)
Treatment of Gangrene? (2)
1) surgical removal of necrotic tissue
2) Hyperbaric Chamber (gives the patient a high level of oxygen)
Plauge:
1) Caused By what?
2) G+ or G- rod
3) Reservoir (3)?
4) Vector (2)
5) What did the vectors carry?
1) Yersinia pestis
2) G-
3) Rats, ground squirrels, and Prairie dogs
4) Rat and Flea
5) Xenopsylla cheopsis
Bubonic Plauge:
1) Bacteria Grows where?
2) Called Bubonic Plauge because?
1) in blood and lymph
2) because you turned blue
Septicemia Plague:
1) Caused what?
1) Septic SHock
Peumonic Plauge:
1) Bacteria is where?
2) What gave it a higher mortality rate?
3) What kind of Secretions
1) lungs
2) Because it stayed in the lungs and not in the blood stream
3) Nasal
Plauge:
1) Was what in the western United States?
2) Wiped out how much of the population
3) immunity to plague meant what?
1) endemic
2) 3/4
3) Immunity to HIV (delta Factor)
Lyme Disease:
1) Caused by what?
2) Morphology of the Cause of Lyme Disease?
3) Reservior?
4) Vector?
5) Takes how long for vectors to transmit the virus?
1) Borrelia burgdorferi
2) Spirocyte
3) Deer
4) Ticks (Lone start tick)
5) 4 hours
Lyme Disease:
1) First Symptom?
2) Second Phase?
3) Third Phase?
1) Bull's eye rash (can be treated with penicillin)
2) Irregular heart beat, encephalitis
3) Arthritis (no treatment)
Lyme Disease:
1) Started Where
2) Unoticed till When
3) What military base is close by
1) New Lyme Conneticut
2) Deer showed up having it
3) Plum Island
Infectious Mononucleosis:
1) Caused By what?
2) Childhood infections are?
3) Transmitted via what?
4) Infects what?
5) Characterized by what?
6) Symptoms are what?
1) Epstein barr virus (HHV 4)
2) asymptomatic
3) saliva
4)B Lymphocytes
5) Proliferation of B and T lymphocytes
6) Tired and Weak
Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma:
1) Caused by what?
2) Cancer in what kinds of people?
1) Epstein-barr virus (HHV 4)
2) Immunosuppressed individuals, and malaria and AIDS patients
Yellow Fever:
1) is what kind of Viral hemorrhagic Fever?
2) Caused by what kind of virus?
3) Caused by what?
4) Reservoir?
1) Classic
2) Flavivirus
3) Aedes aegypti
4) Monkeys
Dengue and DHF:
1)is what kind of Viral hemorrhagic Fever?
2) Caused by what kind of virus?
3) Caused by what?
4) Reservoir?
1) Classic
2) Flavivirus
3) A. aeypti and A. alcopictus
4) None
Marburg:
1) Is what kind of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2) Caused By what kind of Virus?
3) Reservior?
1) Emerging
2) Filovirus
3) Monkeys
Ebola:
1) Is what kind of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2) Caused By what kind of Virus?
3) Reservior?
1) Emerging
2) Filovirus
3) Monkeys
Lassa Fever:
1) Is what kind of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2) Caused By what kind of Virus?
3) Reservior?
1) Emerging
2) Arena virus
3) Rodents
Argentine Hemorrhagic Fever:
1) Is what kind of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2) Caused By what kind of Virus?
3) Reservior?
1) Emerging
2) Arenavirus
3) Rodents
Bolivian Hemorrhagic fever:
1) Is what kind of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2) Caused By what kind of Virus?
3) Reservior?
1) emerging
2) Arenavirus
3) rodents
Hantavirus Pulmonary syndrome:
1) Is what kind of Viral Hemorrhagic Fever
2) Caused By what kind of Virus?
3) Reservior?
1) Emerging
2) Hantavirus
3) Rodents
Dengue:
1) Transmitted by what?
2) How many Kinds of Viruses?
3) What makes the virus worse?
4) Where is the virus concentrated?
1) Mosquitoes
2) Four
3) If you are infected with more than one the second exposure makes it worse if you have antibodies for one of them
4) South America
Hanta Virus:
1) First victim was a what?
2) What happened in 1918?
3) What did the medicine man in the tribe show?
4) What is strange about the virus?
1) Triathelite
2) 30 million people died of influenza
3) it was comming from rats
4) In the korean war it infected the kidneys and not it infects the lungs
Ebola Virus:
1) 1st Appeared where?
2) What about its size?
3) What about its outbreaks?
4) What about its infections?
1) 1976 Sudan
2) Largest virus known
3) Occur simultaneoulsy durring rainy season in different places but it is strange because it is unkown how it travels in the rain
4) No massive infection it just dies out
Marburg virus got its name from what?
causing an epidemic in Marburg Germany