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30 Cards in this Set
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Normal Microbial Flora |
Microorganisms usually found on/in human body |
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Dental Plaque |
Extensive growth on tooth surface |
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Streptococcus pyogenes |
Causative agent of "Strep throat" |
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
Causes "Diphtheria" - Stalls protein synthesis - Severe respiratory disease |
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Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Causes "pneumonia " |
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Bordetella pertussis |
Causative agent of "Whooping cough" - Pertussis is caused by this microbe |
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Herd Immunity |
If a high proportion of individuals are immune to an infectious disease, than the whole population is protected. |
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Common Cold |
Colds are caused by Viruses - Most common infectious disease. |
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Influenza |
Caused by orthomyxoviruses |
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Antigen Drift |
Minor changes in influenza virus antigens due to gene mutation (& selection/genetic drift) |
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Antigenic Shift |
Major changes in influenza virus antigens due to gene reassortment |
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Staphylococcus |
Non-sporulating facultatively aerobic, gram-positive cocci |
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Helicobacter pylori |
Colonized mucosa of stomach & upper intestinal tract. |
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Neisseria gonnorrhoeae |
Causative agent of "Gonorrhea" |
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Treponema pallidum |
Causative agent of "Syphilis" |
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Chlamydia trachomatis |
Causative agent of "Chlamydia" |
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Human immunodeficiency virus |
Causative agent of "Acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)" |
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Cut hunter hypothesis |
In the late 1990s, Vial of HIV + blood found in Kinshasa from 1959. - SIV in chimps |
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Kaposi's sarcoma |
A common nonmicrobial disease, a typical cancer. |
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Borrelia burgdorferi |
Causative agent of "Lyme disease" |
Vectored by : Black - legged ticks |
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Primary mammalian reservoirs |
Deer & white-footed mice |
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Rickettsia |
Genus of obligate intracellular pathogens. |
- Associated with blood sucking arthropods - Closely related to the mitochondria |
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Yersinia pestis |
Causative agent of "Plague" |
Vectored by fleas |
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Type III secretion system |
Helps resist phagocytic killing and inflammatory immune response |
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Bubonic plague |
Development of buboes on infected individuals. |
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The Justinian Plague |
Began 541 AD, killed >100M |
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The Black Death |
1346-1353, Spread to the whole Europe, Asia, & North Africa killed ~25M in Europe and ~25M in Asia |
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Borrelia burgdorferi |
Causative agent of "Lyme disease" - Vectored by : Black legged ticks - Otzi the Iceman has Lyme disease |
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Rickettsia prowazekii |
Causative agent of "Typhus" - Vectored by "Lice" |
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Yersinia pestis |
Causative agent of "Plague" - Vectored by Fleas - Contains type 3 secretion system |
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