Brucellosis Dem Dem

Question 1

What animals does brucellosis affect

Answer 1

Farm animals( cattle sheep swine goats

Question 2

How do they generally acquire the disease

Answer 2

Through direct contact with infected animals , drinking unpasteurized milk and whatnot

Question 3

What are the symptoms

Answer 3

Flu like
Fever weakness malaise and weight loss

Question 4

Which groups of people are at greater risk

Answer 4

People who work in labs containing such bacteria , also abbatoirs and their employees

Question 5

About the Brucella spp
Gram n or p

Answer 5

Negative

Question 6

What is the shape

Answer 6

Coccobacillus

Question 7

Respiration

Answer 7

Facultative intracellular

Question 8

This spps presents with environment persistence?

Answer 8

T ( harsh weather drying, freezing , dust soil)

Question 9

Clinical presentation
What is perculiar about their existence

Answer 9

Flu like symptoms .. muscle pain joints pain
Fatigue
Note that some signs and symptoms may persist and others may never go away or reoccur

Question 10

Incubation period

Answer 10

Variable
5 days to three months

Question 11

It does not affect any organ or organ system

Answer 11

T or false

Question 12

Isolation of organsism is by what specimen

Answer 12

Blood, bone marrow

Question 13

Other diagnosis

Answer 13

Serum agglutination test
Immunofluorescence
PCR

Question 14

Treatment

Answer 14

Doxycycline
Streptomycin
Rifampicin

Question 15

What do you use in pregnancy

Answer 15

Rifadin + co trimoxazole

Question 16

Talk about causes involving the CNS

Answer 16

Treat 6-9 months
Same for endocarditis

Question 17

Prognosis
If treated
Case fatality rate if the untreated
% of relapsed cases and why

Answer 17

Rarely Fatal if treated
2%
5% - failure to complete treatment and superimposed infections that require surgical intervention

Meaning it has a good prognosis

Question 18

What is the major cause of death of this disease

Answer 18

Endocarditis and meningitis

Question 19

Is there is a vaccine for humans and animals

Answer 19

No human vaccine but there is a vaccine for young goats and sheep and calves

Question 20

What is the causative organism for meloidosis

Answer 20

Burkholderria pseudomallei

Question 21

Gram stain and is prevalent in which country has

Answer 21

Negative … South East Asia

Question 22

What is it characterized by

Answer 22

Sepsis and abscess formation

Question 23

Mortality rate and who does it affect

Answer 23

40%
People who are in regular contact with soil and water

Question 24

It is a seasonal disease prevalent in which season

Answer 24

Rainy season

Question 25

It is oxidase ________

Answer 25

Positive

Question 26

How do you identify the organism

Answer 26

Oxidase positive Inability to assimilate Arabinose Colony morphology ( metallic sheen)

Question 27

Talk about the antimicrobial drug susceptibility

Answer 27

Resistant to gentamicin and colistin Susceptible to amoxicillin clavulanic acid

Question 28

The organism is specific for which test

Answer 28

Latex agglutination IHA

Question 29

What are the advantages of latex agglutination

Answer 29

Rapid simple to learn and inexpensive

Question 30

What is the organism for pertussis

Answer 30

Bordetella pertussis