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| Streptococcal pharyngitis bacteria |
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| S. pyogenes; Group A streptococci |
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| pathogenicity of strep pharyngitis |
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| enhanced by resistance to phagocytosis, polysaccharide capsule, M protein; streptokinase and streptolysis |
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| Strep Pharyngitis diagnosis |
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| rapid GAS test: Enzyme Immuno Assay (EIA) |
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| antibiotic therapy immediately |
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| post GAS syndrome, production of erythrogenic toxin- a phage encoded producte |
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| red rash and spotted tongue, having a strawberry-like appearance; upper layerof skin on tongue lost |
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| gram positive, aerobic pleomorphic rod |
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| sore throat and fever, malais and swellin of neck; appearnace of pseudomembrane clote in throat (dead epithelial cells, fibin, bacteria) can totally block airway |
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| caused by aerosol droplet; |
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| all symptoms of disease; blocks protein symthesis in eukaryotic cells; fatal if high enough dose; encoded on bacteriophage |
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| antibiotics and anti-toxin to be effective |
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| gram negative, fastidious aerobic cocco-bacillus |
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| inhalation of aerosol droplet, attaches to ciliated epithelial cells of airway |
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| destroys celilated cells negatively impacting the respiratory elevator; toxins produced which kill these cells nd also neutrophils and othe rphagocytes |
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| enters blood stream responsible for systemic symptoms |
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| symptoms like common cold |
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| prolonged sieges of coughing with characteristic gasping for air "whooping" sound |
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| not effective after onset of paroxysmal stage but will reduce spread |
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| obligate aerobic slender rod-shaped acid fast bacterium; facultative intracellular bacteriaT |
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| requires heat to impregnate waxy mycolic acid coate |
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| carbol-fuchsin followed by acid-alcohol decolorization; Tb remains stained, this "acid-fast" |
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| inhalation; reaches lunch the ingested by macrophage |
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| tubercule (granuloma) formed where organism is walled off within alveoli as hard nodule |
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| due to many small tubercles formed in various tissues |
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| skin test- intradermal injection results in delayed reaction to antigen; fals positive if ever recieved vaccine |
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| if + skin and + x ray then what? |
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| prophylactic drug treatment for 6 months- 1 yr |
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| aerobic gram negtive rod, facultative intracellular parasite; parasites of protozoa in nature |
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| fever, nonproductive cough, general lobar pneumonia symptoms |
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| legionnaires' progression |
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| later stages of pneumonia include neurological symptoms such as confusion, delirium etc. |
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