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| Area endemic to the plague |
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| rodent-to-rodent transmission (rural/wild) |
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| sylvatic or urban plague transferred by infected fleas |
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| bacteremic spread to lungs via droplet spread |
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| Yersinia pestis virulence factor; disrupts actin filaments |
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| Y. pestis virulence factor: depolymerizes actin microfilaments |
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| prvents platelet activation through thrombin |
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| pathophysiology of bubonic plague |
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| portal of entry through skin, bubo forms (enlarged lymph node), bacteremia and metastatic foci |
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| pathophysiology of pneumonic plague |
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| either metastatic bubo or inhalation from another person |
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| how you get septicemic plague |
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| direct inoculation of bacteria into blood by flea |
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| flea bite, couple day incubation, rapid spike in temp, a sore at bite site and inflamed lymph node at groin |
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| Bubonic plague (y. pestis) |
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| short incubation, respiratory problems, fever, dyspnea, death in 2/3 days |
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| bipolar-staining bacilli, pleomorphic, requires AAs |
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| ticks and deer flies, extremely infective if direct entry, high fever that relapses |
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| ulceroglandular tularemia (clin presentation) |
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| papule becomes pustular then ulcerates, pneumonia occurs or granuloma |
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| typhoidal tularemia; temp pulse dissociation |
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| usually from bacteremia but can be acquired via aerosolization |
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| diagnosis of Francisella tularensis |
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| serologic tests using sulfhydryl compounds; bacterial agglutination |
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| treatment for fransicella tularensis |
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| most invasive, produces severe illness |
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| meat processing plants, undulating fever, long incubation |
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| penetration, migration to lymph, enter blood circulation, go to organs |
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| host response to brucella |
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| mental problems, vague complaints |
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| avirulent B. abortus used for vaccination that causes illness |
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| Lab diagnosis of Brucella |
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| bone marrow culture, 4-fold rise in titer |
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| small, nonmotile, non spores, aerobic, gram=negative coccobacilli, slow growing |
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| Brucella antigen A found on which species |
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| antigen M predominates in which species |
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| treatment for brucellosis |
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| tetracyclin + streptomycin |
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| small, aerobic bacilli, weakly gram neg, obligate intracellular parasites, endocytosed into cell, arthropod vector |
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| rickettsia, ehrlichia, coxiella |
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| Diagnosis of rickettsia, ehrlichia and coxiella |
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| Weil-felix reaction + Indirect fluorescence antibody |
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| Rocky mountain spotted fever |
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| Eastern US vector for rickettia |
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| Western US vector for rickettsia |
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| weeklong incubation, headache, fever, rash after 2 days that begins on wrists/ankles and spreads to trunk within a few hours |
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| vector for and bacteria of Rickettsialpox |
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| Initial local lesion --> papulovesicular rash, biphasic infection, severe fever and headaches |
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| Louse-borne typhus: vectora nd bacteria |
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| human body louse (man is natural reservoir), Rickettsia prowazekii |
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| headache, fever, maculopapular rash, visited south america/africa |
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| recrudescent epidemic typhus, R. prowazekii |
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| mild epidemic typhus, gulf states, cuased by rat flea |
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| Murine/endemic typhus = Rickettsia typhi |
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| spore, Australia, sheep, subacute endocarditis |
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| chronic Q fever: C. burnetii |
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| inhalation of organism, livestock, headache fever, no rash, 3 week incubation |
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| acute Q fever: Coxiella burnetii |
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| Southeast/southcentral USA, from deer tick, headache, fever, no rash, thrombocytopenia |
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| E. chaffeensis, infects monocytes |
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| granulocytic ehrlichiosis |
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| similar to rickettsia but NOT an obligate intracellular parasite |
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| cats, initial pustule, single node adenopathy |
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| bacillary angiomatosis (creation of new blood cells |
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| trench fever, human body louse |
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| smallest free living bacteria, no cell wall |
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| transmission of Mycoplasma |
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| Young adult, walking pneumonia, insidious onset and slow resolution |
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| Pelvic inflammatory disease, pyelonephritis, postpartum fever |
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| urethritis, cold agglutinins serology |
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