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What are the signs and symptoms of upper tract infection?

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→ Cough 
→ sneezing
→ Runny + stuffy nose
→ Sore throat
→ Headache
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What are the signs + symptoms of lower tract infections?

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→ Productive cough w phlegm
→ Muscle aches
→ Wheezing
→ Breathlessness
→ Fever
Fatigue
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What are the signs and symptoms of pneumonia?

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→ Chest pain
→ Blue tinting of lips
→ Severe fatigue
→ High fever

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What are the demographic and lifestyle risk factors for pneumonia?

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→ Age <2 years and >65 years
→ Cigarette smoking
→ Excess alcohol consumption

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What are social risk factors for pneumonia?

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→ Contact with children aged <15 years
→ Poverty
→ Overcrowding

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What are medical history risk factors for pneumonia?

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→ COPD
→ Asthma
→ Heart disease
→ Liver disease
→ Diabetes Mellitus
→ HIV
→ Malignancy
→ Hyposplenism
→ Complement or Ig deficiencies
→ Risks factors for aspiration
→ Previous pneumonia
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What are medication risk factors for pneumonia?

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→ Inhaled corticosteroids
→ Immunosuppressants
→ Proton pump inhibitors

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What are specific risk factors for certain pathogens for pneumonia?

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→ geographical variations
→ Animal contact
→ Healthcare contacts

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What are the bacterial causative agents of respiratory infections?

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→ Streptococcus pneumoniae
→ Myxoplasma pneumoniae
→ Haemophilus Influenza
→ Mycobacterium TB

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What are the viral causative agents of resp infections?

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→ Influenza A or B virus
→ Respiratory Syncytial Virus
→ Human metapneumovirus
→ Human rhinovirus 
→ Coronaviruses
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What are the 2 main ways of acquiring pneumonia?

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→ Community acquired

→ Hospital acquired

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What agents are the main bacterial causes of community acquired pneumonia?

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→ streptococcus pneumoniae (40%-50%)
→ myxoplasma pneumoniae
→ staphylococcus aureus
→ chlamydia pneumoniae
→ haemophilus influenzae
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What 6 agents are the main causes of hospital acquired pneumonia?

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→ Staphylococcus aureus
→ Pseudomonas aeruginosa
→ Klebsiella species
→ E.coli
→ Acinetobacter spp.
→ Enterobacter spp.
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What can community acquired pneumonia be further split into?

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→ Typical

→ Atypical

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What agents causes typical community acquired pneumonia? (Hint : SMH)

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→ Streptococcus pneumoniae
→ Haemophilus influenzae
→ Moraxella catarrhalis

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What agents cause atypical community acquired pneumonia? (hint : MCL)

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→ Mycoplasma pneumoniae
→ Chlamydia pneumoniae
→ Legionella pneumophilia

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What is the the most common method of hospital acquired pneumonia?

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→ Ventilator associated pneumonia

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What is pneumonia?

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Inflammation and swelling of alveoli

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What are the main mechanisms of damage of bacterial pneumonia?

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→ Lung injury
→ Bacteremia
→ Systemic inflammation
→ Can all lead to organ injury or dysfunction

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How is potential bacterial pneumonia graded?

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CRB-65 or CURB-65 scoring (1 point per item)
→ Confusion
→ Urea = 7 mmol/L (only added in hospital)
→ Respiratory Rate > 30 breaths/min
→ Blood Pressure < 90 systolic / 60 diastolic
→ 65 or older

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What are the supportive therapies for pneumonia?

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→ Oxygen (for hypoxia)
→ Fluids (for dehydration)
→ Analgesia (for pain)
→ Nebulised saline (may help expectoration = coughing up sputum)
→ Chest physiotherapist?
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What are the antibiotics classes mainly given for resp tract infections?

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→ penicillins

→ macrolides

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How does penicillin work?

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→Beta lactams that bind proteins in the bacterial cell wall to prevent transpeptidation

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How do macrolides work?

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Bind to bacterial ribosome to prevent protein synthesis

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What is treatment is given for a CAP patient with a CURB-65 score of 0?
Amoxicillin or clarithromycin / doxycycline if penicillin allergic
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What is treatment is given for CAP and a CURB-65 score = 1 or 2 ?
Amoxicillin + Clarithromycin (or doxycycline)
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What is given for a patient with CAP and a CURB-65 score of 3-5?
Benzyl penicillin IV + clarithromycin. PO (or teicoplanin + clarithromycin)
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What is given for a patient with a HAP and a CURB-65 score of 0-2?
Not severe | Doxycycline PO
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What is given to a patient with HAP and a CURB-65 score of 3-5?
Severe so give tazocin (piperacillin-tazobactam) IV +/- gentamicin IV
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What is present in our oropharynx?
``` → Strep viridans → Coagulase neg. Staph → Veronella → Fusiforms → Treponena spp. → Beta-haem → Strep (Haemophilus spp. Staph. Aureus Strep. Pneumoniae) ```
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What is present in our nose?
``` → Coagulase neg. Staph → Haemophilus spp. → Staph. aureus → Strep. Viridans (Strep. Pneumoniae) ```
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What is our human microbiome?
the microbial cells that populate our body at every barrier surface
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What is our microbiota?
Ecological communities of microbes found inside multicellular organisms
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What is commensal?
→ Microbes that live in a “symbiotic” relationship with their host → Providing vital nutrients to the host in the presence of a suitable ecological niche
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What is an opportunistic pathogen? What is a pathobiont?
→ microbe that takes advantage of a change in conditions (often immuno-suppression) → microbe that is normally commensal, but if found in the wrong environment (e.g. anatomical site) can cause pathology.
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How do viral infections result in disease?
→ mediator release → cellular inflammation → local immune memory → damage to epithelium: which results in loss of cilia, bacterial growth, poor barrier to antigen, loss of chemoreceptors
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How do viruses result in severe disease?
→ Highly pathogenic strains → Absence of prior immunity → Predisposing illness/conditions
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What determines where a virus infects the respiratory tract?
Depends on what cell it binds to? | they like to bind to upper tract if they have existed in humans for a prolonged time
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What is the first line of defence in the respiratory tract?
Respiratory Epithelium
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What features of epithelium are useful as the first line of defence against resp epithelium?
→ Tight junctions – prevents systemic infection → Mucous lining and cilial clearance – prevents attachment, clears particulates → Antimicrobials – recognise, neutralize and/or degrade microbes and their products → Pathogen recognition receptors – recognise pathogens either outside or inside a cell. → Interferon pathways – activated by viral infection. Promotes upregulation of anti-viral proteins and apoptosis.
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What are serotypes?
pathogens which cannot be recognized by serum (really antibodies) that recognize another virus – implications for protective immunity
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What is anti-body mediated immunity?
→ Humoral immunity → Adaptive, so dependent on prior exposure → B cells activated to differentiate into antibody secreting plasma cells → Different antibody classes provide different biochemical properties and functions
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What antibodies are common in the upper tract? What features make it so?
IgA : → High frequency of IgA-plasma cells → ECs express poly IgA receptor, allowing export of IgA to the mucosal surface → Homodimer is extremely stable in protease rich environment
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What antibodies are common in the lower resp tract? What features make it so?
IgG: | → Thin-walled alveolar space allows transfer of plasma IgGs into the alveolar space
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How is does our immunity hold up against influenza?
No re-infection by the same strain
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Do we have vaccinations for influenza?
Imperfect vaccines: • Vaccine-induced immunity rapidly wanes • Mainly homotypic immunity • Annual vaccination required
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How does our immunity hold up against RSV?
recurrent re-infection with similar strains
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Do we have vaccines for RSV?
No vaccine • Poor immunogenicity • Vaccine-enhanced disease • Very active research field
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How does our immunity hold up against COVID-19?
no prior immunity
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Do we have vaccines for COVID-19?
Newly licensed vaccine • Waning immunity • Potential for re-infection • Unclear what vaccination regime will be required
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What effect does RSV bronchiolitis have on infants?
* Leading cause of infant hospitalization in the developed world * 50% of children infected in year 1 of life, all children by year 3. * 1% develop severe bronchiolitis. * Can repeatedly infect children.
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What are the risk factors for infants for RSV?
* Premature birth | * Congenital heart and lung disease
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List UR tract infections, LR tract infections and pneumonia in order of most frequent to least.
→ Upper Resp TI → Lower Respiratory → Pneumonia
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List UR tract infections, LR tract infections and pneumonia in order of most severe to least.
→ Pneumonia → Lower Resp → Upper Resp
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What is the breakdown of viral + bacterial causes of lower respiratory tract infection mortality in 28-365 days old?
``` Out of 20.1% : → Rhinovirus = 6.7% → Hib = 4.4% → Pneumonia = 3.4% → Influenza = 2.8% → Other = 2.8% ```
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What is the breakdown of viral + bacterial causes of lower respiratory tract infection mortality in 2-5 year olds?
``` Out of 12.4% : → Pneumonia = 3.4% → Other = 3% → Hib = 2.7% → Influenza = 1.8% → RSV = 1.6% ```
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Wha tare the symptoms of RSV bronchitis in an infant?
``` → nasal flaring → chest wall retractions → hypoxemia → cyanosis → croupy cough → expiratory wheezing + prolonged expiration → rales + rhonci → tachypnea with apneic episodes ```
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How does RSV affect adults?
→ Repeated colds. → Transmitters. → Very rarely severe
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How does RSV affect young children?
→ infantile bronchiolitis → casually related to wheeze → older siblings are transmitters usually
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What are the supportive therapies available for COVID?
``` • Oxygen (for hypoxia) • Fluids (for dehydration) • Analgesia (for pain) • Nebulised saline (may help expectoration) • Chest physiotherapy? ```
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What are the vaccination options for COVID?
- Major surface antigen – spike protein - Viral vector (e.g. adenovirus vaccine e.g. Oxford/AZ) - mRNA vaccines (e.g. BioNtech/Pfizer)
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What anti-inflammatory treatments are used for COVID?
- Dexamethasone (steroids) - Tocilizumab (Anti-IL6R) or Sarilumab (anti-IL6)
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What anti-virals are used to treat COVID?
- Remdesivir – broad spectrum antiviral – blocks RNA- dependent RNA polymerase activity - Paxlovid – antiviral protease inhibitor - Casirivimab and imdevimab - monoclonal neutralising antibodies for SARS-CoV-2
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How do respect infections interplay with chronic lung disease?
• Viral bronchiolitis is associated with the development of asthma • Rhinoviruses are the most common cause of asthma and COPD exacerbations • High likelihood of secondary bacterial pneumonia after viral infection • 55% of rhinovirus-infected COPD patients also have bacterial infections

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