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Respiratory system has 2 parts |
Upper Lower |
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Upper respiratory system |
head and neck nose, nasal cavity, pharynx, epiglottis
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Lower respiratory system |
chest |
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Goblet cells produce |
mucus that traps air borne dust/particles including microbes |
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Mucociliary escalator propels |
mucus, trapped particles out of respiratory tract |
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(3) parts of the ear |
inner, middle, external |
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Infection termed conjunctivitis |
no resident bacteria |
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otitis medias |
swelling of middle ear |
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itis |
inflammation |
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laryngitis |
swelling of larynx |
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pneumonitis |
inflammation of lungs |
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pneumonia |
alveoli fill with pus and fluid |
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causative agent of streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat) is |
Streptococcus pyogenes |
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streptokinase breaks |
blood clots one of the first things used for heart attacks |
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chorea (rheumatic fever) |
uncontrollable body movements |
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Carditis can lead to |
chronic rheumatic heart disease |
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signs and symptoms of diphtheria |
swelling of neck formation of pseudomembrane on tonsils |
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diphtheria causative agent |
corynebacterium diphtheria |
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diphtheria primary reservoir |
humans |
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treatment for diphtheria |
injection of antiserum |
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conjunctivitis |
tears, redness, swollen eyelids, sensitivity to bright light, pus |
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sinusitis |
facial pain, pressure; headache, malaise, thick green nasal discharge may develop |
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pathogenesis of conjunctivitis |
likely from airborne respiratory droplets or contaminated hands |
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pathogenesis of otitis media |
usually preceded by infection of nasal chamber and nasopharynx that spreads through eustachian tube |
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sinuses form around |
8 years old |
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malaise |
"I feel sick" feeling |
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Viral infections of upper respiratory system allow for |
more serious bacterial infections |
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common cold reservoir(s?) |
ONLY humans |
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Common cold needs how many virions to infect? |
only a few |
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"death protein" (from adenoviral respiratory tract infections) cause |
host cell lysis |
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Lower respiratory system infections |
whooping cough, tuberculosis, Legionnaires' disease, lung infections |
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S. pneumonia accounts for about ______% of adult pneumonia patients requiring hospitalization |
60 |
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Mycoplasma pneumonia (walking pneumonia) is spread through |
inhalation of infected droplets |
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mycoplasma pneumoniaelack cell walls which means |
penicillins won't work (they prevent cell walls from forming |
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catarrhal stage in pertussis (whooping cough) |
inflammation of mucous membranes |
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causative agent of pertussis (whooping cough) |
bordetella pertussis |
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bordetella pertussis |
tiny encapsulated aerobic gram negative rods |
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acid fast bacteria help with |
TB Leprosy |
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Tuberculosis easily killed by |
pasteurization |
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Test for tuberculosis using |
a skin test |
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Tuberculosis is becoming |
very hard to treat |
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Legionnaries' disease loves |
still water |
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Type ____ influenza is the most serious |
A B less C lesser |
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Glycoprotein spikes projecting from the envelope (2) |
hemagglutinin antigen (HA) neuraminidase antigen (NA) |
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Antigenic drift in influenza |
minor mutations in HA and NA genes, often of a single amino acid responsible for seasonal influenza |
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Antigenic shift in influenza |
uncommon, concurrent infection by different viruses allows mixture of 8 RNA segments causes pandemic influenza |
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Animal strains of influenza can |
infect humans |
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hantavirus pulmonary syndrome treatment |
no treatment proven disease is highly fatal |