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Microbiology
Undergraduate 1
06/04/2011

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thoses whose incidence in humans have either increased in past 30yrs or threaten to increase in the near future
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emerging in infectious diseases
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diseases that were previously controlled but now has returned
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reemerging infectious diseasees
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genetic changes can occur through this process. an organisms genes reRRange themselves and causes changes in the characteristics of human
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reassortment
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changing occured when people began to live close 2 one another in crowded places, allowing easy transmission of disease
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crowd transmission
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the second transmission occurred in classical times in european civalizations when they
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came into contact w/ other societies through war or trade
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the third transmission coincided w/ worldwide exploration and colonizaton from the yr 1500 and onward. ex
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when humans came in contact w/ disease they never seen b4
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the four transition is currently underway and can be clssified as ______
increase in desensely populated settelments coupled w/ poverty, land clearence, and climate changes contributing to the emergence and reemergence of dangerous diseases
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global urbanization
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changing patters in human behavior and changinf ecology on our planet contribute to the emergence of infectious diseases in 2 ways
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increased animal to human infections because greater exposure
increased oppurtunity for transmission from human to another once a person is infected
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a pathogen can overcome 2 major hurdles to replicate successfully in a human host.
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in must adapt in such a way it can replicate in human cells. this can be a complex problem for a pathogen.
it must be able to configure itself so that it can be easily transmitted from one human to another
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can cause infection of the lower respiratory trsct accompanied by fever, malaise, and lymphopenia, involving T cells
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pathogenesis of SARS
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although the levels of inflammatory ____________, are elevated in patients w/ SARS, theres a prolonged immunological impairment during these disease
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cytokines and chemokines
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the virus is transmitted to humans in the saliva of the mosquito
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west nile virus
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the west nile virus can cause an invasive neurological disease ____________
fever headache, backpain, myalgia and anorexia, fatigue and rash
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west nile fever
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are somne of the more exotic emerging dieases and are characterized by fever bleedding in circulatory shock. some of theses diseases in particular Ebola and Marburg are frequently fatal
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viral hemorrhagiv fever
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transmitted both arthropod and rodent vectors. have developed the ability to be transmitted from human to human, usualy through infected blood or fluids.
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pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic fever
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transmitted both arthropod and rodent vectors. have developed the ability to be transmitted from human to human, usualy through infected blood or fluids.
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pathogenesis of viral hemorrhagic fever
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