Microbiology Disease Of The Cardio/lymph

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What is septic shock

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Lowering of blood sugar due to sepsis ( Bacterial infection of the blood)

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What causes sepis in gram negative sepsis?

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Exotoxins

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Name the the five organisms listed that cause gram positive sepsis

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1.S. Aureus, 2.Streptococcus Pyrogens 3. Group B Strep 4. Enterococcus Faecium 5. E. Faecallis

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How is puerperal sepsis caused by S. Pyrogen Transmitted?

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Transmitted to the mother during child bearing by attending physicians and nurses

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How is Gram positive Sepsis Treated?

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Vancomycin

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What is the meaning of Endocarditis?

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Inflamation, infection of the endocardium.

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What are the two types of endocaditis mentionned in class?

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Sub-acute endocarditis and acute endocarditis.

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What causes sub-acute endocarditis?

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Alphaemolytic strptococci form the mouth.
Signs include heart murmure, fever, anemia

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What is the causative agent of acute bacterial endocarditis?

How is it treated?

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Staphylococcus aureus

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What organism causes rheumatic fever?

How is it treated?

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Streptococcus pyrogens


Treated with penicilin

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What causes tularemia?

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Francisella Tularensis.

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Rabits and deer are the Reservoir and flies the vector for__________

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Franscisella tularensis

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Tularemia is treated with

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Streptomycin

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Brucella
B. Abortus
B. Suis
B. Melintensis cause

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Bruceolis (undulant fever

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How is bruceolis transmitted

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via milk of infected animals

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Bruceolis is treated by

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Streptomycin and tetracyclin

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Gram posistive, endospore forming aerobic rod found in the soil and can be used as a chemical weapon

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Bacillus Anthracis

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What are the reservoir for anthrax

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Grazzing animals

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How is anthrax treated?

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Ciproflaxin and docicyclin

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Clostridium perfingens is the causative organism for

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Gangrene

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yersinia pestis

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causative organism for plague

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What is the vector for plague?

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Xenopsylla Cheopsis

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Rats, ground squirells and prairie dogs are all reservoirs of

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the plague

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The plague can be treated with

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Streptomycin and tetracycline

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What causes relapsing fever?

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Borrelia Spirochete

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What is the reservoir for relapsing fever?

What is the vehicle

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Rodents

Ticks

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Lyme disease is caused by

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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Deer are the reservoir and ticks (Ixodes scapularis) the vector of this disease

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Lyme disease

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How is Lyme disease treated?

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Pennicilin

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What causes Erlichiosis

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Gram - Ehrlichia, intracellular obligate

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What are the reservoirs for Erlichia?

Vector

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Deer, Rodents

Ticks

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How is Ehrlichosis treated?

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Doxycicline

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What is the causative agent for Typhus?

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1.Ricketsia prowazekii

2.Ricketsia Typhi

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Pediculus humanus corporis found in loouse feces is the vector of this disease

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Typhus

Reservoir: Rodents.

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How is typhus treated?

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Tetracyclin and clorophenacol

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What other disease has the same vector as the plague

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Typhus.

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Rickettsia Rickettsi is the causative organism
Treated with Chloramphenicol and tetracyclin

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Spotted fevers/Rocky mountain spotted fever

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What individuals are more susceptible to burkett lymphoma HPV 4?

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Immunosupressed individuals, malaria and aids patients.

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Infectious Mononucleosis, Burkitt lymphoma are both caused by

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The Epsein Barr virus (HPV-4)

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This disease can cause retardation of the new born

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Cytomegalic inclusion disease.