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Antimycobacterial Therapies I Flashcards

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Reduces the bacillary population rapidly thereby decreasing severity of the disease, preventing death and halting transmission

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Antituberculosis therapy

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Eradicates persisting bacilli in order to achieve durable cure (prevent relapse) after completion of therapy

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Antituberculosis therapy

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Source of streptomycin & other antibiotics

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Streptomyces griseus

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Indicated for multi-resistant TB, which is resistant to both isoniazid and rifampin

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Second-line anti-TBs

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Multi-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is resistant to both

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Isoniazid and Rifampin

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Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) is an MDR + resistance to a

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Fluoroquinolone and an injectable aminoglycoside

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Less effective and have significant toxic-side effects

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Second-line anti-TBs

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Kills Mtb by targeting arabinogalactan synthesis

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Ethambutol

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INH, ETA and PAS inhibit

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Mycolic acid synthesis

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Inhibits DNA synthesis and supercoiling by targeting topoisomerase

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Fluoroquinolone

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Inhibits RNA synthesis by targeting RNA polymerase

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Rifampin

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Inhibits protein synthesis by targeting the 30S ribosomal subunit

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Streptomycin

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Targets 23S ribosomal RNA, inhibiting peptidyl transferase

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Macrolides

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Inhibits protein synthesis in dormant bacteria Most likely has other targets

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Pyrazinamide

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Isoniazid, ethaionamide, and p-aminosalicylic acid inhibit

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Mycolic acid synthesis

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Inhibits cell wall synthesis (arabinogalactan synthesis)

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Ethambutol

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TMC-207 (bedaquiline) inhibits

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ATP synthase

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TB bacteria live (hide) within macrophages. As immunity decreases through aging and/or immune suppression, the dormant bacteria reactivate, causing

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Outbreak of disease

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4-9 months of treatment is needed for

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TB

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How long does it take to identify resistant strains of TB?

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3-8

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Natural resistance is always due to

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Chromosomal mutation

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For a smear-negative and culture-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in adults. The initial phase is

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2 months of INH, RIF, EMB, and PZA daily

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They are related to Gram-positives, but many members of the group have envelopes extremely rich in lipid and cannot be Gram-stained

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Mycobacteria

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Myobacteria cells, once stained, retain dye even under stringent decolorization with acid alcohol. Because of this they are designated

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Acid-fast becateria (AFB)

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Envelopes of Mycobacterium and related genera contain long-chain

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Mycolic acids

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A non-pathogenic genus of mycobacteria, and is the source of many antibiotics

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Streptomyces

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Fungi are the commercial source of

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B-lactams

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Gram-positive rods in which the long sides of the rods are not parallel, so cells are spindle- or club-shaped

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Corynebacterium

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On smears cells often form ‘V’ or ‘W’ forms.

-The group is large and taxonomically complex and its classification changes rapidly

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Corynebacterium

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Humans are its only host; transmission is by the respiratory route

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Causes Diphtheria, a severe inflammation of the URT with formation of a thick grey ‘pseudomembrane’ composed of fibrin, leukocytes, and dead cells, on the surface of its epithelium

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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C. diphtheriae secretes an AB toxin: the B subunit binds to tracheal cells, the A subunit enters the cytosol and ADP ribosylates

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EF-2

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Essential for the translocation step in protein synthesis and blocks protein synthesis

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Elongation Factor 2 (EF-2)

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C. diphtheriae forms black colonies on selective

-Cells are Gram-positive rods, in smears often in V- or L-shaped pairs

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Tellurite Agar

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35
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The DTP vaccine contains

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Diptheria toxoid

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Multiply intracellularly - cell-mediated immunity plays the major role in defense

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Mycobacteria

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Because of their lipid-rich envelopes, they are highly resistant to heat, cold, and drying, can persist for long times in the environment, and require high-level disinfection for killing

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Mycobacteria

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What are the three species of mycobacteria that are highly pathogenic for humans?

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M. Tuberculosis, M. bovis, and M. Leprae

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Exclusively a human pathogen, transmitted by the respiratory route.

-Not strikingly contagious, transmission requires prolonged close contact

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M. tuberculosis (MTB)

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40
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Primary infections occur by inhalation of respiratory droplets

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MTB

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Infection develops at foci in well-aerated parts of the lung

-Acute inflammation develops at these sites and bacteria spread to local lymph nodes

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MTB

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Occurs at the initial foci and lymph nodes, forming the ‘tubercules’ [= small lumps] for which the disease is named

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Granulomatous inflammation

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A granuloma is a site of persistent cell-mediated inflammation. The chief inflammatory cells are macrophages. The exterior of the lesion contains

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Mononuclear cells and fibroblasts

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The center of the lesion becomes necrotic and the periphery fibrotic and ultimately calcified. These calcified lesions are the spots picked up by

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Chest X-ray

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If a cavity erodes into an airway, exudate from the lesion, containing bacteria, is coughed up, and the person becomes

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Infectious to others

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Active tuberculosis is a chronic, slowly progressive disease. The characteristic cachexia [weight loss] is thought to produced by cytokines released by activated

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Macrophages and T lymphocytes

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TB can present as a disease of any

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Organ

48
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Prevents healing of primary lesions so infection proceeds directly to cavitary and/or disseminated disease

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Defective cell-mediated immunity

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Chronic fever and weight loss, Bloody sputum [hemoptysis]. and Chest pain are symptoms of

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MTB

50
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Which three laboratory tests do we want to order, in order of speed, if we suspect TB?

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Acid-fast stain, chest x-ray, and skin test

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In the classic acid-fast technique the red dye carbol-fuchsin is caused to penetrate the cells by

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  1. ) Heat (Ziehl-Neelsen)

2. ) Detergent (Kinyoun)

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After de-colorizing with acid alcohol, a blue or green counterstain is applied; bacteria appear

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Brilliant Red

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Most labs now use a fluorescent dye [such as Auramine O]: this improves contrast and allows slides to be scanned at

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Lower power

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With auramine O, bacteria apear

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Yellow against a black background

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Presence of more than one acid-fast bacterium is considered significant in a

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Sputum smear

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Tuberculin testing detects the cell-mediated immune response to

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MTB

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The current gold-standard for TB testing is the

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Mantoux test

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In immunocompetent persons induration of more than 10 mm is taken as

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Positive

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This demonstrates prior infection with M. tuberculosis but not necessarily active disease. A person becomes tuberculin-positive only

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1-2 months after ifnection

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Patients with advanced tuberculosis may be tuberculin-negative , i.e.

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Anergic

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A tuberculin test does not provide enough antigen to cause conversion to a tuberculin-positive state, but it is sufficient to ‘boost’

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Pre-existing immunity

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Sputum cultures for TB grow slow. Colonies maynot appear for 3-4 weeks, and cultures are considered negative only after

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8 weeks of incubation

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What is the standard solid media for TB sputum culturing?

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Lowenstein-Jensen and Middlebrook agars

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Both contain antibiotics and the dye malachite green to inhibit other bacteria and fungi

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Lowenstein-Jensen and Middlebrook agars

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Prefer fatty acids as a carbon/energy source and a source of these is added (for example, egg yolk)

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Mycobacteria

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Results are often positive in 7-14 days, faster than standard culture

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BACTEC system

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The BACTEC system relies on the ability of mycobacteria to metabolize

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Long-chain fatty acids

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The BACTEC system can be used to determine

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Antibiotic sensitivity

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Causes disease by virtue of its ability to cause intense inflammation and persist in the face of it.

-It can multiply within macrophages and kill them

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M. tuberculosis

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Attention has focused on MTB’s lipid-rich impermeable envelope. It contains high molecular weight polysaccharides, some of which are covalently-linked to

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Peptidoglycan

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Polysaccharides heavily substituted with long-chain mycolic acids, long-chain branched fatty acids containing 60-90 carbon atoms, are thought to form an “outer membrane” of MTB, analogous to that of

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Gram-negative bcteria

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Virulent mycobacteria grow in

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Serpentine cords

73
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This is associated with presence in the envelope of

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‘Cord factor” (Trehalose dimycolate)

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Toxic to phagocytes and other cells and antibody to it is protective

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Cord Factor

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A fraction prepared from the envelope of MTB that contains lipid, polysaccharide, and fragments of peptidoglycan; it is highly stimulatory to the immune system, especially to TH cells

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Wax D

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Ability of macrophages to kill mycobacteria depends on their activation by

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TH1 cytokines

77
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The primary drug for treatment of tuberculosis.

  • Inhibits mycolic acid synthesis
  • Prophylaxis for recent converters to tuberculin-positive status, for 6-12 months
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Isoniazid (INH)

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Must be converted to an active form by a bacterial enzyme, catalase/peroxidase

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INH

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INH-resistant mycobacteria lose this enzyme activity by mutation, and maintain resistance to oxidants by overproduction of a second enzyme, a

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Hydroperoxidase

80
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Analogue of nicotinic acid.

-Active only against TB, not other mycobacteria

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Pyrazinamide (PZA)

81
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Inhibits transfer of arabinose to cell-wall polysaccharides.

-Mutations in genes encoding membrane proteins confer resistance

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Ethambutol

82
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Inhibits prokaryotic ribosomes

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Streptomycin

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Resistance to single agents arises frequently in M. tuberculosis but appearance of resistant strains is prevented by

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Multiple Drug Regimens

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Multiply-resistant strains are thought to arise through successive mutations. Failure to follow a treatment regimen may allow emergence of a strain resistant to

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One Drug

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“Multi-resistant’ strains of MTB are defined as those resistant at least to

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INH and RIF

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Many TB patients in the U.S. are alcoholic, drug-addicted, or homeless, and in the face of such problems compliance with treatment plans is often poor and drug-resistance is common. In such groups, what is recommended?

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Directly-Observed Therapy (DOT)

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An attenuated strain of M. bovis, used as a vaccine in many countries

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‘Bacillus of Calmette and Guerin’ [BCG]

88
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Its use reduces TB cases by about 75%. It does not prevent infection but does prevent progression to active disease

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BCG vaccine

89
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Divides mycobacteria into four groups, based on pigment synthesis and growth rate

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The Runyon Classification

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Runyon group I are slow growers that pigment only when grown in light (photochromogens). The important species are

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M. marinum and M. Kansasii

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Runyon group II are slow growers that pigment when grown in either light or dark. The important species are

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M. avium and M. Intracellulare

92
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Inhabits fresh or salt water. Infections follow skin trauma, produce local ulceration and/or nodules that progress up the local lymphatics

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M. marinum

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Tend to occur in people who engage in boating or water sports, or who keep aquaria [“fish-tank granulomas”]

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M. marinum infections

94
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Widespread, especially in the SE U.S., where up to 80% of the population is skin-test positive

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The M. avium/M. intracellulare complex [MAI]

95
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Common in AIDS patients in whom it proceeds directly to disseminated disease

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MAI infection

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Resistant to most anti-TB drugs

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MAI

97
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Its temperature optimum is below body temperature, so it grows best in the cooler parts of the body.

-In vivo its doubling time is about two weeks

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M. Leprae

98
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Arise from the tropism of M. leprae for Schwann cells

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Peripheral neuropathy and sensory loss

99
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The inflammatory response of the host is responsible for the nerve and tissue damage which occur over years of

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M. Leprae infection

100
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Immunity dominated by a TH1 response leads to

-lesions are few and circumscribed and contain small numbers of bacteria

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Tuberculoid disease

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