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| Tight Shell of protein around virus |
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| Viruses that acquire an outer lipoprotein coat by "budding" through the host cell membranes |
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| messenger RNA is transcribed from viral DNA |
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| Cary RNA polymerase, which directs both transcription and replication of RNA genome |
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Reverse Transcriptase
Makes DNA out of RNA |
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Plaque forming unit
Lyse monolayer (makes hole) |
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Focus Forming Unit
Similar to a wart
Lose inhibition to growth |
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Live
Can infect
Both humeral and cellular immunity |
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Dead
Can't infect
Primarily a humoral response |
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further categorized into subtypes
Multiple |
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no subtypes
undergo antigenic drift less rapidly than type A
Human/Pig |
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results from point mutations
creates new influenza virus variants |
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| Guillain-Barre's Syndrome |
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(GBS)
Nerve damage, polio-like paralysis, and coma
Complication of influenza, usually occurs after recovery or immunization |
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| Child complication of Influenza or Chicken Pox |
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innactive
several strains of A and B |
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Picornaviruses
Grow best at 33 degrees C
110 serotypes
Can spread: otitis media, sisusitis, pneumonia |
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made way childhood viruses spread
Airborn droplets |
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1/3 of "colds"
SARS occurs when virus encompasses lower respiratory tract |
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Flu like symptoms
42 human serotypes
Can cause pertussis syndrome (sounds like whooping cough)
Sign: fever, can cause conjunctivitis
May be oncogenic
Enduces obesity in animals |
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Respiratory Syncytial virus
Main cause of infant hospitalization |
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| Respiratory Syncytial Virus |
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RSV
Main cause of infant hospitalization
common cause of bronchiolitis and pneumonia |
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| Fifth disease/Erythema Infectiosum/Slap Cheek Disease |
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Erythema Infectiosum
"Slap Cheek Disease"
Grows in stem cells
Lacy appearance
Can cause Aplastic crisis in people with chronic anemia
Can cause Hydrops Fetalis |
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"Chicken Pox"
VZV
Member of Herpesviridae family
Reye's syndrome may occur during recovery
May cross placenta and cause fetal damage
Given as a live vaccine |
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"Shingles"
Caused by chickenpox
Virus remians in nerve roots and emerges years later to cause illness
More common after 50 |
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Picornaviridae
3 types
Vaccine today is inactive |
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Polio Type 1
Major number of epidemics
Sometimes causes paralysis |
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Polio Thype II
Occurs Sporatically
Invariably causes paralysis |
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Polio Type III
Usually remains in intestines
Can cause paralysis |
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Where does the Polio disease strike?
How often does it cause paralysis? |
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Infectious Hepatitis
Caused by ingestion of fecal matter
Can be acquired from shellfish |
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Serum Hepatitis
Caused by contact with infectious blood, semen, and other bodily fluids.
Primarily contracted from sexual contact, birth to infected mother. |
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Non A/B hepatitis
Most commonly contracted through blood contact.
Can be sexually transmitted |
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subunit vaccine
contains surface antigen |
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Serious liver disease
Needs to piggy back on HBV |
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common illness
explosive onset of diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, low-grade fever, cramps, headache, and malaise |
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REO= Respiratory Enteric Orphan Enters Oropharynx by age 16 50-80% have Ab to all 3 types
A cause of Viral Gastroenteritis |
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Common cause HOSPITALIZATION among children.
Vomiting and watery diarrhea for 3-8 days |
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Picornaviridae family
noroviruses
coxsackie viruses
echovirus |
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"Norwalk virus"
Common on cruise ships |
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Hand Foot Mouth Disease
A and B groups
cause many conditions
Rash on hands, feet, and pharynx
vesicles to ulcers, heal without crusting |
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| associated with diseases with vesicular lesions |
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| Most frequently associated with myocarditis and pleurodynia |
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ECHO= Enteric Cytopathogenic Human Orphan
Viable in sewage and water. |
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Tree virus, Mosquito-born viruses
West Nile, Dengue fever, Yellow fever |
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Serious symptoms in 1/150 people that contract it.
Mild flu-like symptoms in 20% that contract it.
No symptoms in 80% that get it.
at least 19 mosquitoes types carry it in US |
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Caused by any of 4 related dengue viruses
Carried by Aedes mosquitoes
Person can be infected by two, if not all four types in lifetime.
Fever and near full body Rash |
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Yellow fever virus (flavivirus group)
Aedia aegypti Mosquito spread
20% death rate |
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Herpesviridae family
Implicated in:
African Burkitt's Lymphoma
B-cell latency
Infectious mononucleosis
Berkitt's lymphoma
Anaplastic nasopharyngeal carcinoma
B-cell lymphomas
Downey Cells |
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"Kissing Disease"
spread mouth to mouth, fomites, droplets
No symptoms in children
Epstein Barr is responsible |
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EBV infects B cells establishing latent infections
Transformed into immortal, continually dividing cells |
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| B-cell lymphoma edemicto Africa and New Guinea |
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Family: Herpesviridae
Virus most frequently transmitted to a developing child before birth. Can cause hearing, mental deficiencies
If aquired after birth there are few symptoms.
Dormant in body for life.
Recurrent disease rarely occurs |
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| Previously infected people intermittently shed in bodily fluids. |
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| Indication of Rabies infection |
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Rhabdoviridae family
Highest mortality rate of any human disease
Travels up nerve to brain |
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Family Herpesviridae
Lipschutz bodies
Worst effects are social/mental
cold sores, genital herpes is toublesome |
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Cutaneous lesions: confined to skin
Generalized infections: Life threatening. disseminates throughout organs
Encephalitis: (Direct infection of brain tissue, life threatening) |
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100 different strains
Cause cutaneous warts on skin, and mucosal warts (genital, oral, and conjunctival)
More than 30 STD's
50% of sexually active acquire genital HPV |
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| spore - hyphae - mycelium - spores |
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| fungi posessing a cell wall |
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| Potent carcinogen produced by Aspergillus spp. of mold |
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Causes Tinia versicolor AKAPityriasis vesicolor
Normal flora lipophilic yeast |
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trichomycosis or tinea nodosa
black growths (pietdra) on hair |
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| Three genera of dermatophytes |
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Epidermatophytes
Trichophyton
Microsporium |
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Dermatomycoses
Keratinase enzyme allows to adhere to skin
Causes ringworm |
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Causes Hitoplasmosis AKA:
Darling's disease, Cave disease, spelunkers disease
Endemic in land that drains into ohio and Mississippi rivers
Usually flu like, can mimic TB |
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Chicago disease, Gilchrist's disease, North American blasomycosis
Lollipop conidium
can cause lesions of skin and bones |
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| Paracoccidioides brasilienses |
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Paracoccidioidomycosis, South American blastomycosis, LutzSplendore-Almeida disease
fungus may grow as yeast in tissues
Can cause ulcer like lesions
"Ships wheel" formation |
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Coccidioidomycosis AKA San Joaquin Valley Fever, AKA Destert Rheumatism and Posada disease
Barrel shaped infectious arthospores
Type B blood have greater risk of dissemination |
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Causes:
Cryptococcosis AKA
Toulosos (yeast) AKA
European Blastomycosis AKA
BusseBuschke disease
worldwide thanks to dang pigeon droppings
May be mistaken for lung cancer
Primary cause of fungal meningitis |
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Opportunistic Mycoses
Result in: candidiasis, yeast infections, moniliasis, thrush |
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| Aspergillus species, especially A. flavus and A. fumigatus |
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cause asperfillosis
produces alphatoxin |
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black bread mold
Infection requires underlying condition |
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atypical
once considdered a protazoa
causes a form of pneumonia
common cause of death in aids patients |
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