Transports nutrients to and wastes from cells

Body's defense against infection inside blood

Severe sepsis

Gram negative sepsis

• Endotoxinx caused blood pressure to decrease
• antibiotics can worsen condition by killing bacteria

Gram positive sepsis

• staphylococcus aureus
• streptococcus pyogenes
• group B streptococcus
• enterococcus faecium and E. faecalis

Streptococcus pyogenes

Disease transmitted to mother during childbirth by attending physicians and midwives

Puerperal sepsis (childfever) - streptococcus pyogenes

• Causes inflammation of heart valves
• autoimmune complication of streptococcus pyogenes
• grows nodules on the body

• Transmitted from rabbits and deer by deer flies
• bacteria reproduce in phagocytes

Tularemia (francisella tularensis)

Bruceliosis (undulant fever)

B. abortus

goats, sheep, camels

Disease that has a fever that spikes to 40 degrees celcius each evening and is fine during the day. It is transmitted via milk from infected animals

brucellosis (brucella)

• bacteria found in soil

• disease where endospores enter through minor cut.
• 20% mortality

• Type of bacillus anthracis where ingestion of undercooked food contaminated food cause disease
• 50% mortality

• Type of bacillus anthracis where there is inhalation of endospores.
• 100% mortality

• Clostridium perfringens, gram-positive, endospore-forming anerobic rod
• grows in necrotic tissue

• surgical removal of necrotic tissue
• hyperbaric chamber - chamber rich in oxygen

• pasteurella multocida
• clostridium
• bacteroides
• fusobacterium
• bartonella hensellae

The black plague

Yersinia pestis comes from what type of reservoirs?

• rats
• ground squirrels
• prairie dogs

T or F?

Successive relapses are more severe

joint arthritis

Type of Human herpes virus: 

• Childhood infections are asymptomatic
• transmitted via saliva
• characterized by proliferation of monocytes

Infectious mononucleosis

Type of Human Herpes Virus 4:

• Nasopharyngeal carcinoma
• cancer in immunosuppressed individuals and malaria and aids patients

Human herpes virus 5

• Infection that has infected cells that are swollen
• latent in white blood cells
• may be asymptomatic or mild
• Transmitted across the placenta; may cause mental retardation
• transmitted sexually by blood or by transplanted tissue

• Ebola
• marburg
• Lassa

rodents

opossums

armadillos