Caused by Brucellosis, a major ungulate pathogen (in goats, sheep, and cattle)

It causes chills and fever, alternating daily for months

Brucellosis can be transmitted via the placenta and testes

Through the testes it can be transmitted via semen from wild to domestic or via pasture contamination from the placenta making it spread quickly throughout the herd when they eat the grass

The dog version of Brucellosis

10% of strays infected

It can take out an entire kennel

Botulism prevents ACh release causing flaccid muscle paralysis

The infant kind is refered to as "Floppy Baby"

They get it from honey (Clostridium botulinum can stay on the can if it isn't sterilized properly) because they don't have any native flora to fight off the bacteria

Botulism caused by drug injection

Botulism caused by Clostridium botulinum

Like the "Botox" parties (fine in low concentrations, but can be deadly if it isn't just right)

Virus that causes mono

Transmitted via saliva

In the herpesvirus family

The test for mono

Tests for random antibodies produced by the body

See if the patient's serum agglutinates ox RBCs (a random animal antigen)

Inflammation of the brain

Most the cases are transmitted via mosquito bites (can't spread human to human)

Caused by flavivirus (St. Louis and W. Nile encephalitis)

When a host gets infected with a virus, but because it has low levels of viremia it cannot be transmitted to other hosts of the same species

Like West Nile where it can be transferred to humans through mosquites, but humans cannot spread it to one another

This is what Rabes does

The virus replicates most rapidly in the CNS so they get there via axonal transport in the opposite direction (Axon --> Cell Body)

This happens in rabies

When the virus is able to replicate in the CNS it can spread via this mechanism to the salivary glands and cornea

Often this IgG is given passively to patients infected with rabes in addition to the vaccine

(The vaccine works after exposure because it can take a long time before the virus replicates and causes problems)

This is what the rabes virus, rhabdovirus, produces in the CNS

A characteristic of rabies

The causative agent of Malaria

It is a sporozoan

There are 4 species of this

This the first thing that is produced when the merozoites infect RBCs

Involved with Malaria

This is what forms after the ring forms form in the RBC

For Malaria

This is what forms after the trophozoite forms in the RBC (will form merozoite again, so it can enter new RBCs and lyse them)

Associated with Malaria

When the gametes of the mosquitos come together and form this

In gut wall

The next thing the zygote of the mosquito develops into

In gut wall

The next thing the ookinate develops into

In mosquitos/Malaria

In gut wall

A treatment used to kill early ring cells for Malaria

Costly treatment