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| bacteria which are found in animal reserviors |
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| G + rod acquired through exposture to animals or animal products |
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| Three major syndromes: cutaneous, inhalational, and GI |
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| Papule-vesicle-edema forms around and regional lymphodenopathy. Vesicle ruptures and an ulcer remains surrounded by a black eschar |
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| Spores are inhaled, phagocytosed and carried to lymph nodes by phagocytes where spores germinate and release toxin. Hemorrhagic mediastinitis |
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| Bacteremia with Anthrax leads to... |
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| anthrax meningitis and may lead to shock |
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| Uncommon, eating undercooked meat contaminated with this pathogen. Causing severe, bloody diarrhea, mortality greater than 50% |
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| G- coccobacillus, transmitted by direct contact with skin of deer, cattle, rabbits, rodents and BITE OF A TICK OR DEER FLY |
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| Main types of febrile illnesses (ocular-grandular, pneumonic, ulcero grandular |
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| G- facultative intracellular transmitted by fleabites or aerosols. |
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| Killed hundreds millions of people in history and tens of millions in India, china at the beginning of the twentieth century |
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| Great Pandemics and BLack Death of Y pestis |
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| Y pestis skin inoculation causes |
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Lymph node enlargement-buboes
sepsis and neutrophils |
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| Bubo shows massive proliferation, exudate with tissue swelling, tissue necrosis, hemorrhage and thrombosis |
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| 3 clinical forms of Y pestis |
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| Bubonic (skin), Septicemic (no buboes), Pneumonic (inhalation) |
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| Small G- rods infecting monocytes and macrophages in humans and mammals. |
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direct contact with animals
inhalation of aerosols
eating contaminated meat or milk |
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| Generalized infection of Brucellosis involves |
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| Reticulo-endothelial system generating hepatosplenomegaly |
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| lung, heart, GI, spondylitis, neurological, with waxing and waning fever, and fatigue |
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| G + rod found in domestic animals and birds and causes food borne infections from dairy products, chicken, and hot dogs. Invade both phagocytic and non-phagocytic cells |
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| Listeria in pregnant women |
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| bacteremia crosses placenta into amnionitis and may result in abortion |
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| neonatal sepsis with cutaneous rash |
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| Listeria in elderly and immunosuppressed |
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| Anthropod borne disease named after a connecticut town, caused by Ixodes deer ticks. |
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| Borrelia burgdorferi-lyme disease |
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| erythema chronicum migrans (bulls eye), fever, lymphadenopathy, neck stiffness |
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| Stage 2 of Lyme disease (early dissemination) 4-12 wks |
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| hematogenously spread, cardiac arrhythmias, meningitis, with cranial neuritis (bell's palsy) |
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| Stage 3 of Lyme disease (late dissemination) 2-3 years |
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| chronic arthritis and encephalitis |
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| Morphology of Lyme disease |
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| skin and sinovial biopsy specimens show infiltration with lymphocytes, plasma cells, and histiocytes, edema, and arteritis. |
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| Insect transmitted disease produced by a spirochete, characterized by recurrent fevers during bacteremia. |
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| Borrelia recurrentis (relapsing fever) |
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| Epidemic relapsing fever transfered by |
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| body louse which only infects humans |
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| endemic relapsing fever is transmitted from rodents to humans through |
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| bites of soft bodied ticks |
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| Enlarged spleen with congestion and hypercellularity, focal necrosis (neutrophils and spirochete) |
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| Lesptospira in swine and cattle |
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| Leptospira affecting renal tubules of rodents |
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| Transmission of Leptospira |
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| rats urine contaminated water, mud penetrate abraded skin |
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| High fever, jaundice, hepatitis, meningitis, acute tubular necrosis and renal failure (Leptospira) |
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| Obligate intracellular parasite gram neg bacteria |
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| Difficult to grow in cultures |
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| Sensitive to large spectrum antibiotics but not penicillin |
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| Infectious form released from infected host cell enters cell via endocytosis. (form of Chlamydia) |
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| Form of Chlamydia which replicates within the host cell vacuoles |
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| In what cell are intra-cytoplasmic inclusions of chlamydia |
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| Ch. pneumonia is transmitted by |
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| Reservoir of Ch. psittaci |
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| avian causing atypical pneumonia |
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| Transmission of Ch. psittaci |
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| aerosols through inhalation of dried excreta (birds); bite of a bird and direct contact with a patient |
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| Microscopy of Ch. psittaci |
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| Intra-cytoplasmatic boies with alveolar damage, consolidation, pulmonary edema |
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| Lethality of Ch. psittaci |
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| focal necrosis and mononuclear infiltrates in liver, spleen, kidneys, heart |
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| Diagnosis of Ch. psittaci |
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| Rise in specific antibodies |
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| Up to 10% of all people carry the bacteria in the reproductive tract |
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| Chlamydia urethritis and cervicitis |
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| 70% of infected women have ______on the cervix |
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| asymptomatic carriage of Chlamydia |
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| Most prevalent STD in USA |
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| Infants born by infected mothers get (chlamydia) |
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| conjunctivitis and neonatal pneumonia |
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| cervicitis, salpingitis, PID, proctitis |
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| prostatitis and epididymitis |
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| Has serotypes of A B and C causing follicular kerato conjunctivitis; leading global cause of blindness through scarring |
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| Transmission of Chlamydia trachomatis |
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| Direct contact, flies, fomites |
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| Suppuration, lymphoid cell follicles, ulceration, vascular invasion, fibroblast ingrowths, eventually scarring leading to blindness |
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| Has serotypes L1, L2, L3 causing lymphogranuloma venereum, which is an STD (Nicolas Favre disease) |
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| Stage 1 of Ch. trachomatis -lymphogranuloma venereum |
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| small ulcer, with neutrophil and granuloma at base, chlamydial inclusions in cells |
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| Stage 2 of Ch. trachomatis-lymphogranuloma venereum |
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| Buboes, supporative with matted nodes, stellate abscesses, and fistulae discharging pus |
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| Stage 3 of Ch. trachomatis-lymphogranuloma venereum |
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| Chronic inflammatory infiltrate, dense fibrosis, with later stages of rectal stenosis and chronic genital lymphedema |
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| Small pleomorphic rod or coccoid, obligate intracellular gram negative bacteria |
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| ticks, mites, fleas, lice |
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| Transmission of Rickettsia |
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| Arthropod bite/ contact with aerosols from animal excreta |
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| Induced endocytosis; multiply in several cell types; do not generate any toxins but causes immune response. |
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| Immune response from Rickettsiae |
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| Cytolytic T lymphocyte dependent; gamma ingerferon antibodies- can convey passive protection |
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| skin biopsy (RMSF) and immunofluorescent staining; specific serum antibody titers, direct culture of rickettsiae. Weil Felix reaction (Typhus) for some |
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| Morphology of this bacteria is a skin rash, skin eschar= well circumscribed nodular, dark crusted lesion |
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| Man-Louse-Man cycle causing epidemics with poor sanitation and over crowding |
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| Transmission is from the louse feces penetrate skin abrasions from scratching or inhalation |
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Feaver, maculopapular rash, fever
Also: apathy, stupor, coma |
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| Typhus nodule with small vessel lesion in brain and other organs, focal infiltration of leukocytes |
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| Clinical form of typhus; reinfection typhus with rickettsiae dormant in spleen |
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| Sporadic typhus - Brill Zinsser disease |
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| Bite of blood sucking ticks (Dermacentor); the ticks are both the vectors and the reservoir. Found in US |
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| Main clinical signs of RMSF |
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| rash including palms and soles spreading from extremities to trunk, eshcar at bite site, 2-12 days incubation |
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| Endothelial lesions underlying the rash cause arteritis and thrombosis, generating necrosis |
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| Tiny pleomorphic bacteria that lack a cell wall, called PPLO's; commonly causes disease of fowl and cattle |
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| Non-gonococcal urethritis- frequent and poor diagnosed, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease |
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| Mycoplasms may produce _____which means the infection of the placenta, dreadful condition for the pregnancy and the life of the pregnant woman |
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| Transmission of Myco pneumo |
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| Aerosol, droplets, (3-10%) exposed become infected; most in close living quarters |
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| Pathogenesis of M. pneumonia |
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| disruption of cilia producing cold agglutinins and complement fixing antibodies. These antibodies may cause false positive serological tests for syphilis |
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| Microscopy of M. pneumonia |
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| Interstitial pneumonia, alveolar air spaces empty with thickened walls, intra septal inflammation with mononuclear infiltrate |
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| Also called walking pneumonia |
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| Peri-orificial, ecto-dermitis, formed by ulcerated papule which can be bacterial super- infected. associated with M. pneumonia |
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| Myocarditis, miringitis, transverse myelitis are complication of this bacteria |
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