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| This means that microorganisms are mutliplying in or on the host in-apprppriatly |
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| Infection or Colonization |
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| This microoranism normally lives on your body, they can become pathogens if your health and immunity are weakended |
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| What are examples of infectious agents? |
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| Prions, Viruses, Bacteria, Spirochetes, Mycoplasma, Fungi, Parasites |
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| These are protiens that are mutated and become abnormal. They are resistant to proteases, and are transmissible. |
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| This is protien coated nucleic acid, have no metabolic enzymes. They insert their own genome into a host cells dna to replicate. |
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| This is most commom infectious agent, has no nucleous, one celled, and lives in a colonie? |
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| Spiraled shapped anaerobe |
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| This lacks a cell wall and lives within a host cell and is hard to kill. Takes serveal ATB |
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| Their are two types yeasts and mold. This is most infectious on skin r/t need for lower body temp. Can be systemic and life threatening |
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| These are animals that are infected and cause diseas in other animals |
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What is the Chain of infection?
What is the nurses responibility with this chain? |
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- Reservor
- Portal of Exit
- Mode of transmission
- Portal of Entry
- Suseptible Victim
Nurse has to break this chain |
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What are the 3 direct pathways for a pathagen to enter body?
What are the three types of contact?
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1. Ingestion, Inhalation, Penetration
2. Zoonosis(animal),nosocomial(hospital)fomite(object) |
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| What happens during Syptomatology? |
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- You get an infection
- Inflamatory and immune response attack agent
- Specific/nonspecific signs
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| What are the stages of an infection? |
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- Incubation-invade and starts to reproduce
- Prodromal-1st n/s sign
- Acute- worst s/s
- Convalescent- s/s start to relieve
- Resolution- all better
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| Alter or inactive cellular processes or structrures of the host that result in cell death |
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| Activate regulatory systems of the cell clotting imflammation |
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| What are the adhesion factors? |
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- Lectin0 connect CHO/ bacteria to cell
- Hemagglutins- conect viruses to cell
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| Diagnostic test to detect infectious agents? |
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| After exsposure to an infectious agent the body produces antibodies. This causes a rise in the titer. |
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- Cell wall synthesis
- Protien Synthesis
- Nucleic Acid Synthesis
- Bacterial Metabolism
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| How do Bacteria fight back? |
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- inactivate antibiotics
- change ATB binding site
- different metabolic pathways
- synthesize antagonist
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| Antiviral agents kill viruses by? |
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- Block viral binding
- block rna/dna synthesis
- block production of protien coats
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