Chapter 24 Flashcards
(36 cards)
Define oncogenic
Cancer-causing
Define teratogenic
Can cross placenta and cause damage to fetus
What are the DNA enveloped viruses?
Poxviridae, Herpesviridae, and Hepadnaviridae
What are the DNA naked viruses?
Adenoviridae, Papillomaviridae, Parvoviridae
What are the RNA naked viruses?
Picornaviridae, Caliciviridae, Hepeviridae. Reoviridae
What is caused by Poxviridae?
Smallpox and molluscum contagiosum
What is smallpox?
A DNA enveloped virus, which has now been eradicated by vaccine. Causes rash
Reservoir of smallpox?
Human
Transmission of smallpox?
Respiratory
Family of smallpox?
Poxviridae
Types of smallpox?
Variola major and variola minor
Last case of Variola major?
1975, Bangladesh
Last case of Variola minor?
1977, Somalia
Who is Jenner/what is he associated with?
Cowpox/smallpox
What is molluscum contagiosum?
Monkeypox and cowpox
What is Herpesviridae?
A DNA enveloped virus.
8 different types (2 are combined for our class, so 7 separate kinds)
Lasts forever, latent, can reactivate
What is HHV-1?
Cold sores. Spread via saliva. Trigeminal/cranial nerve #5, can reactivate on lips or eyes
Can cause encephalitis in babies
What is Herpetic kratitis?
Herpes in eye
What is Herpes labialis?
Cold sores
What is HHV-2?
Genital herpes. Sexual transmission
Sacral/lumbar region latency
Can be spread without visual lesions.
What do HSV-1 and HSV-2 have in common?
Both can be reactivated by stress, fever, injury, and UV radiation. And both can damage a baby, requiring C-section
What is HHV-3?
VZV, or Varicella-Zoster virus.
Varicella - chickenpox
Zoster - shingles
DNA enveloped virus
Vaccine exists!
Chickenpox is a prerequisite for shingles
Rash - trunk -> head -> extremities
What type of pox is not a Poxviridae?
Chickenpox, it is a Herpes
How is chickenpox/shingles transmitted?
Respiratory/reactivation