Exam 1 - Week 1 Flashcards
Primary pathogens cause disease in - host while opportunistics cause disease in - host?
**Define a pathogen
- Primary pathogens cause disease in ANY HOST (whether healthy or sick)
- Opportunistics only cause disease in ONLY HOST WITH IMPAIRED/DAMAGED/WEAK IMMUNE/DEFENSE mechanism/system.
**Pathogen is any disease causing microorganism.
1-4. What is the difference between infection, virulence and avirulence? How does it differ from pathogen?
- What is the state where you get infected by a pathogen for a long period of time but you have no clinical symptoms? Give 1 example
- Infection - microbe enter host tissue - multiplies - damage tissue - cause host to respond - immune response (ability of microbe to infect you, not necessarily cause disease).
- Virulence; ability of organism to cause disease (degree to which microbe caused disease)
- Avirulence; organism can’t or do not cause disease
- Pathogen; disease causing organism
- Asymptomatic carrier e.g Typhoid Mary.
There are 3 general sources in which humans are exposed to pathogens (disease causing agents).
1. Give 3 ways that EXOGENOUS MICROBES can be transmitted human to human, diseases caused (and how these can be controlled?)
- Aerosols (respiratory or salivary spread - coughing, sneezing, yelling, cursing); TB, mycoplasma, legionella, cold viruses, influenza. Not readily controllable
- Fecal-oral spread. Controlled by public health measure (hepatitis?)
- Venereal spread; difficult to control cause of social factors (HIV from sex?)
There are 3 general sources in which humans are exposed to pathogens (disease causing agents).
- What is this called when exogenous microbes are transmitted from animals to humans ? (Zoonistic infections) or human to insect/vertebrate to human.
Identify the 3 types
- Ticks spread Rocky Mountain spotted fever called rickettsial and mosquitoes spread plasmodia, Zika and dengue virus (ant). 3 other diseases?
- dogs and bats spread rabies virus (animal).
- bubonic plaque spread from rat to fleas to man? (Ant - animal - man)
- Vector (biting arthropod - ant to man); malaria, sandfly fever, typhus (louse borne) (MST)
- Vertebrate reservoir (from animal) ; brucellosis, rabies, Q fever, lassa fever, salmonellosis (BRQLS)
- Vector-vertebrate reservoir; bubonic plague, trypanosomiasis, yellow fever. (PTY)
- Yellow fever can be gotten from what route of transmission? (Same as bubonic plaque)
- Sandfly fever?
- Q and Lassa fever?
- Flu? (What is best way of getting flu?)
- Typhoid? (Same for malaria)
- Salmonellosis?
- Shigella or salmonella?
- Mycoplasma, legionella? (*Hint same as TB)
- Vector-vertebrate reservoir (ant to animal to man)
- Vector - Biting arthropod (ant to man)
- Vertebrate reservoir (animal to man)
- Aerosols (human to human; most exposure from SNEEZING more than coughing.
- Vector (biting arthropod)
- Vertebrate reservoir (animal to man)
- Venereal spread (human to human genitals)
- Aerosols (human to human)
There are 3 general sources in which humans are exposed to pathogens (disease causing agents).
- What is the third and how can it cause disease?
ENDOGENOUS AGENTS part of NORMAL FLORA
- don’t normally cause disease except if damage result in gut contents leaking into adjacent tissues (SEVERE TRAUMA, SURGERY).
There are 9 specific MECHANISMS of transmission. Identify all
- Formites; inanimate objects e.g toys, toothbrush, towels, bedding
- Food and water; salmonellosis from picnic lunch, contaminated wells
- Insect vectors; ticks, mosquitoes
- Direct contact; hand shake spread enteric virus (GI tract infection)
- Sexual transmission; HIV, herpes, chlamydia, syphilis
- Social ills; shared needles (HIV, hep B)
- World travel; (spread infectious disease country to country)
- Compromised living conditions ; crowded, dirty, poor places
- Nosocomial infections; crowded dirty hospital - become antibiotic resistant. E.g klebsiella outbreak.
The most common source of human infections is when microbes moves from their normal habitat to sterile areas of the body. What are the 3 sterile sites that normal flora (microbes) should NOT be found?
- Blood
- Alveoli
- Muscle (deep tissues)
**BAM (we are in trouble if microbes enter BAM)
Habitats are laden with microbes which have evolved to establish a symbiotic relation with host.
- Name 4 external surfaces that you find normal flora
- 11 general places you find normal flora
- Which part of body can you find normal flora that is pathogenic but do not cause disease
- Total cell density of normal flora range from 10^3 to the 10^10 per gram fecal material. Which part of GI has highest vs lowest density.
- Is there any group of normal flora present in high freq? (Most common)
- A) Skin (3). B) GI tract (1). C) Urogenital surfaces (2). D) Upper respiratory (5)
- General; scalp, teeth, throat, skin, nose, mouth, lung, intestine, urethra and vagina, groin and perineum, feet
- NASOPHARYNX (throat) e.g strep pyrogens and strep pneumonia
- Upper GI has lowest density of 10^3 per gram. Lower GI has highest density (make sense - rectum has poop so lots of bacterial).
- Yes. Especially in large bowel/poop 100% bactericides spp, E. coli etc.
Name 4 ways in which normal flora are beneficial to host (Important roles of normal flora **High yield)
- Source of NUTRIENTS (e,g Vit K)
- Occupy a NICHE; Block access to pathogens and consume nutrients so pathogens don’t grow
- Elaborate/EXPAND BACTERIAL TOXINS that kill potential pathogens. E.g bacteriocin like colicin can kill E.coli, normal flora have high pH that kill pathogen
- Stimulate host IMMUNE response; normal flora make colony that build up immune system.
Identify 3 mechanisms of opportunistic infection (host factors that lead to opportunistic infection).
- Compromised host; lower the immune response - age (newborn, child, old), cancer, nutrition status, genetic (inherited immune deficiency), immunosuppressants (to prevent transplant rejection), HIV
- Breach of normal barriers; cuts, surgery, burns, medical devices
- Use of antibiotics ; wipe out normal flora and cause C-diff.
** What is the reasoning behind Koch’s postulates (function?)
**What are the 4 Koch’s postulates
** To establish causality - conclusively show that a bacterium is responsible for a particular disease.
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1. Bacterium should be found in people and parts of body affected by the DISEASE. (Not in healthy people)
2. Bacterium should be ISOLATED from lesions of affected person and able to be maintained in pure culture
3. Should cause disease when inoculated into healthy organism (pure culture reproduce the disease symptoms)
4. Should be RE-ISOLATED in pure culture from intentionally infected organism.
Identify 5 limitations of Koch’s postulates
- Ignores the role of host (GENETICS); Susceptibility to disease is inherited e.g AID and TB. So if you are RESISTANT you will be asymptomatic. (Reduce correlation of postulate 1 that bacterium cause disease)
- Some organisms are FASTIDIOUS/FUSSY. Require lots of nutrients to grow. Some virus take long time to culture while some can’t be cultured at all. (Iimit postulate 2 cause you can’t isolate)
- Avirulent - VARIABILITY IN VIRULENCE of single bacterial species. Can acquire new virulence traits by genetic exchange e.g lysogenic conversion.
- Can’t do in humans (ETHICS) - postulate 4 (show disease in intentionally infected organisms)
- POLYMICROBIAL DISEASE - caused by various pathogens.
Identify 4 classes of organisms
- Fungi
- Parasite
- Virus
- Bacteria
Identify these group of cells
- include; archaebacteria and eubacteria
- Replicate by binary fission
- translation begins with N-formymethionine
- few introns
**identify 9 total xters; respiration? Differentiation? Repeated DNA? Ribosome type? Genetic material?
PROKARYOTES
- No nuclear membrane; lack membrane bound nucleus
- Replicate by binary fission
- Genetic material is DNA
- Limited amount of repeated DNA (1-5%)
- Very few introns (splicing can occur)
- 70S ribosomes (30S + 50S)
- Translation begins with N-formymethionine
- Respiration occurs in plasma membrane
- Limited capacity to differentiate.
Identify group of cells that have defined nucleus
**9 xters
EUKARYOTES
- Well defined nucleus (membrane bound)
- True mitotic apparatus
- Genetic material is DNA
- Lots of repeated genome (10-40%)
- Most genes have introns
- 80S ribosomes (40S + 60S)
- Methionine
- Respiration occur in mitochondria
- Many cell types in multicellular species.
Identify the class of organisms
- UNICELLULAR prokaryotic organisms
- lack nuclear envelope and membrane-bound organelles
- *Does this Class all have cell wall?
- *Another name fo this class? (9 Xters?)
BACTERIA
- most have cell wall (not all)
- bacteria and PROKARYOTE used interchangeably
Yeast and molds are under what class of organisms? Difference btw yeast and mold
- what group of cells?
- 9 xters?
**What is unique to this class of organism?
FUNGI; include yeast (unicellular), molds (multicellular with filament), and dimorphism fungi (switch between yeast to mold). E.g of dimorphism fungi is Candida albicans.
**EUKARYOTES; fungi are eukaryotes that have well defined nucleus, membrane bound cytoplasmic organelles and A CELL WALL.
***Remember; Prokaryote with a cell wall is bacteria. Eukaryotes with a cell wall is Fungi.
Identify organism
- prokaryote, eukaryotes or virus that require a living host for at least part of their cycle and cause disease in the host
3e. g - unicellular or multicellular EUKARYOTES that require a living host for at least part of their life and cause disease in host.
PARASITES (broad definition); obligate intracellular bacteria, viruses, parasitic worms.
PARASITES (narrow definition) ; parasitic amoebae, plasmodia, worms
- Give examples of multicellular parasites you can see with naked eye
- Give examples of single cell protozoan and bacteria you need microscope to see
- Tape worm and other worms like larval worm. **Anything below 10^-3 need microscope
- Protozoa, bacteria, virus (biggest to smallest)
Identify organism
- intracellular parasites that lack cell structure
- consist of nucleic acid genome surrounded by a protein coat
- require a cellular host for replication
**Describe xters of the genome (genetic material, size, structure - what protects genome form degradation? What surround outer coat and what is it made of (polar/nonpolar?)
VIRUSES
**included in broad definition of parasite
VIRAL GENOME
- either DNA or RNA (bot NOT BOTH)
- genome range in size form 5-200kb
- structure; CAPSID is a primary outer structure that protects genome from degradation and mediates attachment to host cell proteins called HOST CELL RECEPTORS. Some virus have additional outer coat that surround capsid called ENVELOPE
- ENVELOPE is a LIPID bilaterally embedded with glycoproteins (spikes).
There are 2 types of viral infection
Identify this
- few viruses infect a cell, replicate within and produce 1000s of viruses which can be released by lysing the host cell
- animal cells are not lysed but rather harbor viral genome or allow the replication of low number of viruses (what is a similar phenomenon?)
- Lytic cycle
- Persistent/latent infections; similar phenomenon called LYSOGENY - occurs for bacteriophage which can lie dormant within the host bacterium.
Simpler than virus
- RNA only (mostly in plants) - can get hepatitis delta from this
- protein only (no DNA or RNA). Still capable of causing disease - mad cow, scrapie (consume your brain), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
- Viroids
2. Prions
Identify 3 physicochemical properties of drugs and how they are determined?
- Molecular size
- size is determined by number and type of atoms present in drug molecule and how they are arranged in space (straight or branched chains, stereochemistry).
- small size is important for passing through pores (e.g channels) and spaces between cells. - Fat and water solubility
- determined by overall polarity (function of the chemical groups present in the molecule eg -OH, -Cl, -COOH)
- measured by determining PC - Charge (ionic character)
- determined by acidic, basic and neutral character of drugs.