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It is characteristic of respiratory diseases to occur in ____ form- appears explosively and attack large number of people in short times. Increases during winter when people are in crowded quarters.
epidemic
causative agents are transmitted ____ thru secretions or ______ by fomites.
directly. indirectly
We control respiratory infections by ______ contact between carriers and cases and increase resistance by getting _______, good nutrition, and personal hygiene.
minimize, immunized
This pathogen is important because it cuases many severe infections and also because of the complications that can occur after recovery from an acute infection.
streptococci
This disease cuases more different kinds of diseases than any other group of organisms?
hemolytic streptococcal infections
These are viridans (green) colony surrounded by green halo, incomplete hemolysis.

a. alpha hemoytic
b. beta hemolytic
c. gamma
a.
this cology is surrounded by clear, wide colorless zone of complete hemolysis.

a. alpha hemoytic
b. beta hemolytic
c. gamma
b.
these colones show no hemoysis or color change

a. alpha hemoytic
b. beta hemolytic
c. gamma
c.
The most virulent and usually associated acute fulminating infecitons

a. alpha hemoytic
b. beta hemolytic
c. gamma
b.
usually nonpathogenic.

a. alpha hemoytic
b. beta hemolytic
c. gamma
c.
chronic low grade infections- although some like subacute bacterial endocarditis are serious also causes tooth abcesses and sinus infections.

a. alpha hemoytic
b. beta hemolytic
c. gamma
a.
Reacts with sterols in hosts WBC membrane and causes release of lysosomes resulting in degranulation and death of WBC.

A. Streptolysin S
B. Streptolysin O
b.
This inhibits chemotaxis and phagocytosis. Killsy phagocytic cells. Extracted from cell with serum also stable in atmospheric o2.

A. Streptolysin S
B. Streptolysin O
a.
Streptolysin S and O produced by Beta Group A.

a. hemolysins
b. streptokinase
c. streptdornase
d. hyaluronidase
e. erythrogenic toxins.
a.
fibrinolysin

a. hemolysins
b. streptokinase
c. streptdornase
d. hyaluronidase
e. erythrogenic toxins.
b.
acids in the liquefaction of thick exudates (pneumonia)

a. hemolysins
b. streptokinase
c. streptdornase
d. hyaluronidase
e. erythrogenic toxins.
c.
increases permeability of tissues to bacteria and toxins

a. hemolysins
b. streptokinase
c. streptdornase
d. hyaluronidase
e. erythrogenic toxins.
d.
prduces erythema or redness

a. hemolysins
b. streptokinase
c. streptdornase
d. hyaluronidase
e. erythrogenic toxins.
e.
If you have strep once you are immune to it?
t or f
false
What type of strep infection does have immunity? Immunity is only against its toxin?
scarlet fever
This is an acute, communicable hemolytic strep infection usually group A, have sore throate and rash caused by the erythrogenic toxin. Does not attack infants under 6 months or adults over 50.

a. scarlet fever
b. rhuematic fever
a.
Check for immunity inject toxins. positive tests indicates susceptibility to scarlet fever- positive test is no inflammation because antitoxins present neutralizes the toxin.
DICK test
This disease is cuased by B hemolytic strep- group A. comes in 3 stages.

a. scarlet fever
b. rheumatic fever.
b.
Name the 3 stages of rheumatic fever?
acute strep infection
latent phase
swelling joints, tenderness, and fever
The symptoms of rheumatic fever represent and ____ reaction to strep infection. ____ titer is elevated.
allergic. ASO
The characterisitc of rheumatic fever is an inflammatory process in the heart.. small nodules called ___ ___ form in the heart valves.
aschoff bodies
This is a infrequent complication of streptococcal symptom is hematuria with high blood pressure. it is an autoimmune disease strep has or produces an antigen that crosses and reacts with the glomerual basement membranes of hte kidney- or the strep deposits antigen-antibody compleses on the basement membranes of the kidney.
glomerulonephritis
Demineralization occurs when dense masses of bacteria adhere to the tooth, they are called ____ ____
dental plaques
This film is from the adsorption of glcyoproteins from saliva?
1st acquired pellicle
_____ ____ has the greatest affinity to pellicle
strep sanguis
The principle etiologic agent in the dissolution of tooth enamal is ?
streptococcus mutans
When strep ferments fructose, and lactic acid is formed this cuases what of the tooth?
decalcification and decay
This disease occurs around the tooth and inovles the gigiva and the alveolar bone which supports the teeth.
peridontal disease
plaque extends into the gigival sulcus if not removed by flossing and brushing calcium is deposited and forms a rough stony crust called?
tarter or calculus
when extension of calcus to the bottom of the gingival sulcus causes inflammation what can happen?
loss of attatchment to the tooth surface and causes bleeding
With the reabsorption of hte alveolar bone structure surrounding he roots of hte tooth, eventually the tooth may what?
fall out
Infection of hte skin. See in young children.
impetigo
This Groups strep is bacitracing sensitive

a. B
b. A
b.
what type of test is this? antibodies to the C carbohydrate of group A strep are bound to latex beads- use organisms from a direct throat swab- observe agglutination.
quick strep- latex test
if this titer is high it indicates recent B hemolytic strep infection.
ASO titer
This Group strep has been found that 25% of all women have this group in vaginal flora?


a. B
b. A
a
what is the name of this organism? it is a gram positive dipolococcie distal ends of each pair are lancet shaped, are encapsulated, non-motile and cause alpha hemolysis
Strepto pneumonia (lobar pneumonia) diplococcus pneumonia
There are 80 serological types found, but we only have vaccine based on __ of these types for strep pneumonia.
23
This disease is sudden and onset with chills, fever, and pleural pain, incubationperiod is 1-3 days, causes middle ear infections, and also the second most common cause of meningitis in adults.
pneumococci
Most charactgeristic feature of pneumococcal infections are the abundance of ___ in the areas of inflammation
fibrin
differentiate pneumococcus and streptococcus?
pneumo- bile soluble, femrent inulin, inhibited by optochin, has capsules
what do you treat step and pneumonia with that works the best?
penicclin
mycoplasma pneumonia also primary atypical pneumonia caused by PPLO and often confused with viral pneumonias is also called?
walking pneumonia
What do you treat mycoplasma pneumonia with?

a. tetracycline
b. penicillin
c. sulfonamides
d. eryhtromycin
a
d
with mycoplasma pneumonia.. during 2nd or 3rd week _____ agglutinins appear in serum
cold
IGM is what infection and IGG is what type of infection

which one is accute or chonic
accute, chronic
This is a fastidious organism, disease is dry cough and chest pain also abdominal pain and gasytrointestinal symptoms. name came after the disease was caught by people in american legion. It is a gram - organism and has been isolated from air-conditioning towers. organism hard to grow. do serological tests
legionella pneumophila
This diesease is characterized by catarrhal inflammation of hte respiratory tract with paroxysmal cough that ends in a whoop.

a. strep
b. mycoplasma pneumonia
c. whooping cough
c.
children under 5 years of age and females are usualy the infected with this disease.
whooping cough
the etiolical agent is bordetella pertussis, it is fastidious, small non-montile, gram negative rod.
whooping cough
bordetella only grows on this media

a. mcconkies
b. blood agar
c. cooked blood agar
c.
with whooping cough you use what type of plate?
cough
T or F. there is no natural immunnity but after an attack there is permanent immunity of whooping cough
true
TB is caused by ______ tuberculosis. These bacteria are closely related to ____. We use an ___- ____ stain for this.
mycobacterium. fungi. acid fast
We use this to treat TB.
INH, INH with PAS and SM
TB is hard to grow and use only on special media. Grows best at body temp. and we use this specialized sealed tupe to supress the growth of bacteria.
malachite green
3 strains of TB. and only 2 can cause TB in humans
human, bovine and avian
human and bovine
IN TB infecction occurs primarily through inhalation of _____
droplets
THis disease is associated with poverty (overcrowding, poor ventilation)
TB
The inflmmatory process of TB is produced by the presence of the bacilli this process uses uses wandering tissue phagocytes.
info
The skin test of TB is based on robert kochs discovery of the tuberculin reaction. we use ___ intradermaly injected mulitpled puncture. A positive skin test inlcudes?
ppd, induration of 5 mL or more hard and red
TB is called ___ fast bacilli we use this Ziehl-Neelsen stain.
acid
These are acid fast organisms that cause a pulmonary disease that mimicks TB. M. kansasil, m intracellularis, M. serofulaceum, m. fortuitum.
unclassified mycobacteria
This disease is not common in the US, it is shaped as pleomorphic, straight and some club-shaped.have chinese characters when divide bacteria have tendency to snap apart an stained smears show cells at sharp angles to each other. metacomatic granules when stained methylane blue
cornybacerium diptheria
These organisms grow on loefflers or chocolate agar with tellurite- colonies grow grey to black.
cornybacterium diptheria
Diptheria bacilli owe their pathogenicity to their _____ toxin. These exotoxins blocks cellular sythesis of ____ _ an enzyme important in tissue respiration.
extracellular. cytochrome B
Cornybacterium diptheriae is highly pathogenic. it forms a ______ a superficial lesion on mucous membrane that forms fribrin and as it precipitates it entraps leucocytes, RBC, bacteria and dead epithelial cells.
psudeomembrane
3 clinical forms of cornybacterium this one may cuase suffocation

a. faucial
b. larnyngeal
c. nasal
b.
bacili that have a microscopic resemblance to corynebacterium do not produce toxins and are non pathogenic
diptheroids
to immunize for corynebacterium we use _____ toxoid
diptheria
this test is used for diptheria toxin injected intradermally.
shick test
Systemic mycoses appear entirely differen in tissue compared to cultures.. therefore they are _____
diphasic. Invitro= mold
This disease is chornic has similar symtoms to tuberculosis. The fungus involved also causes infections, especially in the skin, lungs and bone. thought that most systemic infections occur by way of the respiratory tract and caused by blastomyces dermatitidis.. found in N. america ans is recovered from soil samples.

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
a.
caused by paracoccidioides braziliensis. most common in brazil,central and south america. found in soils, drug of choice is amphotericin B.

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
b.
This is known as valley fever san joaquin fever. A primary infection which is an acute self-limiting respiratory disease. Cuased by coccidioides imitis

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
c.
man and animal infected by inhaling spore- bearing dust in the aird southwestern US. once in the body is found as a large thick walled spherule filled with endospores. Coccidiodin skin test and is diphasic.

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
c.
This is localized involving nail, foot as mycetoma, otomycosis, common- fungi live on earwax external auditory canal or eye.

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
d.
aspergillus flavus produces these toxins whish are teoxic substances that cuase cancer of the liver. mostly affects animlas.
aflatoxins
This is an subsacute or chornic infection of lungs involving primarily the brain and meninges, lungs, skin and skeleton. Also known as torulosis. Only encapsulated yeast to invade the CNS. India ink is used to stain.

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
e.
This is found in skin, feces of normal people and pigeon dung.

a. north american blastomycosis
b. south american blastomycosis
c. coccidioido mycosis
d. aspergillosis
e. cryptococcosis
e.
This is an accute or chronic disease that shows lessions in mouth , or vaginia. Caused by cnadida albicans. The factors that favor the developement of this disease is diabetes, antibiotic therapy or debilitating diseases.

a. candidasis
b. histoplasmosis
a.
This is known as the darlings disease. It involves the reticuloendothelial system. causes by histoplasma capuslation andis very common. Isolated from soils especially around chicken houses, bat quano or areas used by starlins. found in Central missisippi valley ohio valley and appalachians.

a. candidasis
b. histoplasmosis
b.