9. Microbiology - Will Irving & Emma English Flashcards
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State 3 things about virus size
Small
Filterable agents
20-250nm
Virus structure
- State 2 things about virus structure
- What does a virus contain?
- Simple / no organelles
2. Nucleic acid + proteins + sometimes lipid envelope
Virus metabolism
State 3 things about virus metabolism
Metabolically inert
Relies on host cell
Obligate Intracellular parasites
Virus replication
- How are component parts synthesised?
- Where will this happen?
- Control?
- What happens next?
- Independently
- May be in separate parts of cell
- Under separate control
- Subsequent assembly into new particles
Mature virus particle
- Also known as?
- What 2 things is it always made up of? Give the other names for these 2 things.
- What thing may or may not be present?
- Virion
- Nucleic acid = genome
Protein coat = capsid - Lipid envelope
Viral components: nucleic acid
- DNA: how stranded? Shape? Size?
- RNA: how stranded? Ss polarity? Shape? Size?
- DNA
Ds or ss / circular or linear / 3-200kb - RNA
ds or ss/ ss can be positive or negative polarity / linear or segmented / 5-10kb
Viral component: Proteins
- Capsid formation: discuss the shape
- Attachment: what determines viral tropism?
- Enzymes: what do they mainly do?
- Interference with cell function: give an example.
- Symmetrical
- There is a specific interaction between the viral ligand and the cellular receptor
- Macromolecular synthesis
- Stop apoptosis
Viral component: lipid envelope
- What is it derived from?
- What must it contain?
- What will stripping of envelope lead to?
- Enveloped viruses are generally more what?
- Host cell membranes
- External attachment proteins
- Loss of infectivity
- Fragile
Name the 6 steps of viral replication
- Attachment
- Entry
- Uncoating
- Macromolecular synthesis
- Assembly
- Release
Viral replication
1. Step 1 is attachment. What two things attach to each other?
2. Step 2 is entry. What 2 ways can a virus enter a cell?
Step 3 is coating
3. Step 4 is macromolecular synthesis. Multiple copies of which 2 things are made?
4. Macromolecular synthesis requires production of what type of RNA?
Step 5 is assembly
5. Step 6 is release. What process allows for release?
- Viral ligand to cellular receptor
- Endocytosis and fusion
- Viral genomes and viral proteins
- Positive ssRNA
- Budding
State the 4 effect of viruses on cells?
Acute cell death
Chronic infection
Latency
Transformation
Effect of viruses on cells - acute cell death
Give 2 ways the cell can die
Give an example
Cytolytic / cytocidal
Influenza virus on respiratory epithelial cells
Effect of viruses on cells - chronic infection
What happens in this case?
Give an example
Cell continually produces virus but survives
Hep B virus infection
Effect of viruses on cells - latency
- Replication?
- Is the viral genome present? Is viral protein made?
- Once infected…?
- Virus replication?
- Types of infection?
- Give an example
- No virus replication
- Viral genome present
No production of viral proteins - Once infected, always infected
- Virus replication can be reactivated
- Primary and secondary infections
- All herpes viruses eg. Herpes simplex
Effect of viruses on cells - transformation
What is meant by transformation?
Give an example
Immortalisation of the cell
Epstein Barr virus
Give 2 examples of viruses that cause cancer
Hep B - hepato cellular carcinoma
Epstein Barr virus - lymphomas
What are the 2 types of virus infections of the respiratory tract?
How serious are they?
URTI = upper respiratory tract infections
Common + relatively trivial
LRTI = lower respiratory tract infections
Potentially life-threatening
Name the infections in the following places:
- Nose
- Throat
- Sinuses
- Ear
- Epiglottis
- Larynx
- Rhinitis
- Pharyngitis
- Sinusitis
- Otitis media/ otitis externa
- Epiglottitis
- Laryngitis
URTI
- How common?
- Usual aetiology?
- What kind of secondary infections are common? (Name 2)
- Very common
- Viral
- Bacterial and fungal
Viral URTIs
- Name 3
- What may this predispose to? Give 2 examples
- Rhinoviruses/ parainfluenza viruses/ adenoviruses
- Secondary bacterial infection
Bronchitis/ pneumonia
Name 2 things that can cause pharyngitis/ tonsillitis and give an example for each
Viruses = adenoviruses Bacteria = strep pyogenes
Give an example of 4 viruses that cause LRTI
Influenza virus
Respiratory syncytial virus
Varicella zoster virus
Measles virus
Influenza viruses
- Shape / polarity / type of genome?
- How many segments? How many proteins do they encode?
- Name 2 viral proteins
- Name the types? What 2 things is this on the basis of?
- Name the subtype? What is this on the basis of?
- Segmented negative ssRNA
- 8 segments encode 11 proteins
- Haemagglutinin and neuraminidase
- A / B / C
Based on internal proteins and matrix - A only
Based on surface proteins (HA/NA)
What are the 2 major components to the influenza?
Respiratory tract symptoms
Systemic symptoms