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What are the 3 general ways bacteria cause disease?

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  1. bacterial proliferation an dinvasion
  2. toxin production
  3. host immmun response damage
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What are the 3 general ways viruses cause diasease?

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  1. cytopathic effect - disrupt normal cell physiology and lead to cell death
  2. host immune response damage
  3. tumorigenesis
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What infections are considere upper respiratory tract infections?

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otitis externa and media, sinusitis, rhinitis, pharyngitis, epiglottitis, laryngitis/croup

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What infections are considered lower respiratoyr tract infections

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bronchitis
bronchiolitis
pneurmonia

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What are the 5 main features of the respiratory tract that help rid the system of potential pathogens?

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  1. mucociliary lining of the nasal cavity
  2. change of direction of the airway from the sinuses to the pharynx (location of adenoids)
  3. The ciliary elevator
  4. Normal flora competition (in upper)
  5. Alveolar macropahges and IgA in the lungs (in lower)
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What are the two main obstacles that a microorganism must overcome in order to initiate infection in the respiratory tract?

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  1. avoid or survive in the mucous layers

2. Avoid phagocytosis or be able to survive/multiple in the phagocytic cell

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Describe what the turbinates do for avoiding infection?

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they’re battle plates covered in mucous that will collect particles not filtered by nasal hairs

their shape causes air to swirl as it passes over them, making pathogens more likely to hit the wall and stick

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What are the two physical characteristics of hte mucociliary escalator that allow it to trap particles and get them out?

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It two basic parts: mucous-producing goblet cells and ciliated epithelium

the cilia beat to push the ucous up and into the throat for swallowing

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What effect does smoking seem to have on the mucociliary escalator?

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it paralyzes the cilia, so you don’t get movement of mucous up and out

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What are 4 infection conditions that must be met in order to establish a respiratory tract infection?

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  1. must be sufficient “dose” or microorganism
  2. infectious particles must be airborne
  3. airborne particles must be viable in the air
  4. organism must be dpeosited on tissue susceptible to infection in the host
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What is the most common upper respiratory infection?

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rhinitis, or the common cold

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What causes the vast majority of rhinitis?

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they’re almost viral, with the majority being rhinoviruses

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What are some other viruses that cause rhinitis?

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next top two are coronarviruses and adenoviruses

also parainfluenza, influenza C virus, coxsackie A and B, and adenoviruses

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Why do the rhinitis viruses typically cause only upper respiratory infections and not lower respiratory infections?

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they preferentially replicate at 33 dC (tempr of the nose and upper airway) and not at 37 d C (temp of the lungs0

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Descrive the symptoms of rhnitis.

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Just a head cold - nasal congestion, sneezing, HA, tiredness, lacrimation, sore throat, slight fever, anorexia, cough

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How to rhinoviruses adhere to the epithelium of the repsiratory tract?

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they have receptors that can bind to ICAM-1 of the nasal passage and pharynx cells

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What family of viruses are the rhoniviruses in?

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the picornaviridea (pico RNA)

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What happens to the cilliated epithelial cells in rhinovirus infections?

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inflammation and lytic infection kills them - destroying the mucociliary escator

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When do the ciliated epithelial cells become regenerated? What does this set you pu for?

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it takes 14 days for them to regenerate

this means secondary bacterial infections by normal flora is possible in the time just after a head cold

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What symptoms would suggest you have a secondary bacterial infection?

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nasal secretion becomes more purulent and fever gets bad

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For rhinovirus: DNA or RNA? Capsid? Envelope or nonenveloped? Genome?

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RNA
icosahedral
nonenveloped
SS+ nonsegmented (class 4)

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For Coronavirus: DNA or RNA? Capsid? Envelop or nonenveloped? Genome?

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RNA
Helical (with corona)
Enveloped
SS+ nonsegmented (class 4)

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FOr Adenovirus (mastadenovirus): DNA or RNA
Capsid?
Enveloped?
Genome?

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DNA virus
icosahedral
nonenveloped
DS linear DNA (Group 1)

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Parainfluenza viruses use what surface protein to form multinucleated giant cells?

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Viral fusion (F) protein

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Although paraifluenza is one of the causes of rhiitis in adults, what can it cause in chidlren?
croup and pneumonia
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How does parainfluenza adhere to the respiratory tract to start infection?
infects the larynx mcuosa via contact of viral hemagglutinin envelop protein with sialic acid on cell surfaces (leads to endocytosis)
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What protein does parainfluenza virus ahve to cleave the hemattlutinin bound to sialic acid in order for viral spead?
neuroaminidase
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What is the treatment for parainfluenza rhinitis? Croup?
rinitis - just supportive | croup - supportive and corticosteroids and oxygen in severe cases
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How can you clinically distinguish a coronavirus rhinitis form a rhinovirus rhinitis?
you can't
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What are the two big scary coronarviruses in the news?
SARS and MRS
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How does influenza C virus differ from influenza A and B?
1. has 7 RNA segments instead of 8 2. Less virulent than A 3. No animal reservoir 4. Doesn't respond to amantadine or rimantadine
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How does influenza C establish and maintain an infection in the respiratory tract?
like parainfluenza.... inhaled via aerosols infects the larynx mucosa via contact between viral hemagglutinin envelop protein with sialic acid on cell surface replicates inside and kills cell viral neuroaminidase cleaves HA bound to sialic acid permitting viral spread
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Most viruses cause rhinitis more in the fall and winter. which is more common in the summer and fall?
coxsackie A and B
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Why are adenoviruses called that?
latent virus can often be found in the tonsillar adenoids following infection
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Done with rhinitis.... What is sinusitis defined as?
inflammation/infection of the mucosa of the nasal passages and at least one of the paranasal sinuses that typically lasts no longer than 4 months
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What are the two most common causes of community acquired acute BACTERIAL sinusitis? WHat are two other possibilities?
streptococcus pneumoniae haemophilus influenzae streptococcus pyogenes and straph aureu
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Fungal sinusitis is rare and usually identified after antibiotics fail. What's the most ocmmon cause of fungal sinusitis?
aspergillus fumigatus
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How do you deal with a fungal sinusitis?
you have to mechanically remove it
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Is sinusitis usually bacterial or viral?
usually just viral at first
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What percentage of adults and kids have viral rhinosinusitis that progresses to bacterial infection?
2% of adults and 10% of kids
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When do you usually give a diagnsis of bacterial rhinosinusitis as opposed to viral?
THey're hard to differentiate Bacterial if an adult has moderate symptoms that persist beyond 7 days or severe symptoms of any duration with facial swelling or tooth pain Bacterial if kid has moderate symptoms longer than 10-14 days or when there's severe symptoms including a fever over 102 degrees with facial swellign or pain
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Do we typically use narrow or broad spectrum antibiotics for bacterial sinuitis?
broad spectrum - amoxicillin or azithromycin
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Describe the morphology and characteristics of Srep pneumoniae.
``` gram positive diplococci catalase negative alpha hemolytic bile-sculin negative optochin susceptible ``` quellung reaction
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90% of pharyngitis in adults and 60-75% of pharyngitis in children are caused by what?
viruses
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What is the most common bacterial cause of acute pharyngitis?
streptococcus pyogenes
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What are some symptoms that suggest a viral cause for a pharyngitis?
``` counjunctivitis cough hoarseness inflammation fo the mucous membrane diarrhea ```
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How do patients with strep pyogenes pharyngitis commonly present?
with fever and sudden onset severe pain upon swallowing HA, N/V, Adb pain may be present red tonsils with/wouthout exudate and enlarged tender cervical lymph nodes often present
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What test do we do if we susepct strep pyogenes pharyngitis?
rapid strep test
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Even though strep pyogenes pharyngitis is usually self limited, we always try to treat with ABx within 9 days of the first signs of infection. Why?
to avoid development of glomerulonephritis and rheumatic fever
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What are some of strep pyogenes virulence factors?
streptokinase to ocnvert plasminogen to plasmin for fibrinolysis M protein to resist pahgocytosis hyaluronidase to break down CT DNAse to break down DNA
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What is the morphology and characteritics of strep pyogenes?
gram positive cocci in chains catalase negative beta hemolytic bacitracin sensitive
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What antibiotics do we typically give for a bacterial pharyngitis?
penicillin or erythromycin
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How do certain strains of S pyogenes cause scarlet fever?
they secrete streptococcal pyogenic exotosins SPeA, SpeB, SpeC and SpeF - encoded by a lysogenized bacteriophages (not be the bacteria itself)
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What do these streptococcal pygoeni exotosins do?
they're superantigens that will trigger diffuse overactivation of T cells
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What are the typical symptoms of scarlett fever?
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If staph bacteria use catalase to deal with hydrogen peroxide, what do step bacteria use?
peroxidase
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What is the morphology and characteristics of corynebacterium diphtheriae?
gram positive bacillia non-spore forming non-motile
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What kind of toxin does diphtheriae have?
an A-B exotosin from genes on a lysogenized phage
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What will diphtheria toxin do?
It disrupts EF-2 which is necessary for protein synthesis in cells if it reaches the blood it can cause myocarditis, heart failure, and neuritis with temporary paralysis of limbs, soft palate and diaphragm
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What forms in the back of the throat in diphtheria? What should you do with it?
a pseudomembrane of bacterial cells WBCs and dead tissue don't disrupt it because that could cause bleeding ad allow the diptheria toxin to get in the blood
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What medium do we grow C. diphtheria on to identify?
potassium tellurite it will reduce the postassium tellurite, making it change color to black
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What is the bigger term for croup?
laryngotracheobronchitis
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What are the symptoms of croup?
mild fever, restlessness, SOB, nasal congestion, sore throat, harsh bark-like cough, respiratory stridor
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Are most croup infections viral or bacterial?
viral
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What is the most common viral cause of croup?
respiratory syncytal virus
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What protein is important for viral ttachment in RSV?
G surface protein
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What RSV protein makes infected cells fuse to form syncytia?
F protein
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For RSV: DNA or RNA, envelope? genome?
RNA helical enveloped SS- nonsegmented

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