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Infectious diseases B7 Flashcards

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1/4 of patients with AIDS will develop what?

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CMB retinitis

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What is #1 infectious disease related cause of blindness?

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Trachoma! (important)
caused by chlamidya trachomatis (sp?)
Chlamidya trachomatis A B and C

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Presence of microbe on or in the body

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Colonization

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Is infection required for bacterial-related disease?

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NO

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True/False: A virus that infects your eye may have trouble infecting other parts of your body

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True

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Non living infectious particles

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Viruses

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Pathogen present in diseased animal
Pathogen isolated and grown in culture
INoculation of healthy animal with isolated pathogen causes disease

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Koch’s postulates

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What are some exceptions to Koch’s postulates?

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we tend not to do this to people (we recover pathogen, or see evidence that a person is infected)

  • difficulty isolating the virus
  • ethical probs
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True/False: An STD can affect the eye.

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True

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True/False: The inner part of the eye is sterile.

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True

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What are some sterile body sites?

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Blood
CSF
Pleural fluid
Tissues
Lower respiratory tract
Bladder
Inner part of eye
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What are some non-sterile body sites?

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Eye/Mouth/Nose/Upper respiratory
Skin
Gastrointestinal tract (GI)
Urethra

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If we find coagulase negative staphloccocus in a patient what do we consider?

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assumed it is a contaminant until we have proved that it is a pathogen

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Have a healthy dose of doubt about the gram stain you are sent. (FYI)

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Use it as a clue but don’t take it to the bank. After the culture is old it gets hard to read

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Wet preparations include what?

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KOH dissolves protein tissue, doesn’t work on fungal wall.

Calcoflour white: fungi turns it fluorescent

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Most common lab diagnostic stain used for bacteria?

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Gram stain

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Acid fast stain is for TB, what names are there for it

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Ziehl-Neelsen or (Kinyoun)

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Blood smear for white blood cell, epithelial inclusion bodies, protozoans. Can stain icanthomoeaba…

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Wright-Giemsa stain can stain it in your eye

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Potassium hydroxide (KOH)

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10% KOH Dissolves keratin but DOES NOT DISSOLVE FUNGI CELL WALL (IMPORTANT)

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Calcoflour white (CWF)

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10% KOH and CWF dissolves tissue (KOH) and binds to chitin in fungal wall (fungi appear bright white)

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Gram stain process

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Put sample on slide
Heat fixed to seal organisms on the slide
Flood slide with crystal violet stain
Iodine- (yellos, mordant, seals bacterial cell wall, seals thick walls well, but doesn’t seal thin walls)
Between every stage wash with water
Then use alcohol for decolorization
Then use safranin to Counter stain

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Gram stain which colors are positive and negative?

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Purple= Gram positive
Red= Gram negative
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Thick peptidoglycan is what kind of grain stain?

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Gram positive (purple/blue)

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Thin peptidoglycan is what kind of grain stain?

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Gram negative (Red)

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ETOH can wash away crystal violet safranin counterstains in _______________.
thin peptidoglycan
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Spheres are called what? | Rods are called what?
COCCI | BACILLI
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All cocci are what?
Gram positive!! (except Neisseria and Morazxella, both can be in eye)
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Vast majority of pathogens are what?
gram-negative rods
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If you are debating whether a bacteria microbe is cocci or bacillus and it is small what is it likely?
likely a bacillus because Cocci are big
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Pair of spheres
Diplococcus
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Chains of spheres
Streptococcus
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Clusters of spheres
Staphylococcus
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All gram positive rods are ____.
big
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True/False: Gram positive rods can be coccobaccili.
True
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Spiral has 3 forms what are they?
Vibrio: coma shapped Spirochetes: thin walled helical, w/o flagella Syphillis is a spiral rod, won't see it on gram stain... (CANNOT SEE SYPHYLIS ON GRAM STAIN) Treponema pallidum
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If you test negative for disease, and you dilute it out and repeat it and its positive, it could be what?
Prozone
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Gram stain red means what? | Acid fast stain red means what?
``` Gram stain= positive Acid fast= negative (use acid alcohol to have a very rough acid to strip out and damage cell wall except for acid fast cells) Use carbolfuschin Used on mycobacterium tuberculosis ```
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Gram stain red means what? | Acid fast stain red means what?
``` Gram stain= negative Acid fast= positive (use acid alcohol to have a very rough acid to strip out and damage cell wall except for acid fast cells, because of lipid) Use carbolfuschin Used on mycobacterium tuberculosis ```
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Chlamydia producess intracellular pockets called ______________.
inclusion bodies (FRIED EGG LOOK) KNOW IF Chlamydia positive or chlamydia negative from stains. -Chlamydia are obligate and intracellular -Seen with wright giemsa stain and also seen with iodine stain
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A person who has shingles has to have had what?
chicken pox Vericella zoster follows dermatome -bad things happen if get into eye
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What is a problem with cultures?
Positive cultures generally more meaningful than negative cultures -Neg may be false neg, positive may be contaminant
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What are two unculturable bacteria?
chlamydia, syphilis
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How is chlamydia virus like? (important)
Intracellular (can see it with inclusion bodies)
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If coagulase negative staph what is it probably?
Probably contaminant (know it)
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What agar supports a broad range of bacteria? What agar contains extra growth nutrients? What agar contains substances that prevent growth of some but not others What agar gives visual clues to identification?
General Enriched Selective Differential
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IF i want to identify acid fast, what agar? | If i want to identify fungi, what agar?
Lowenstein Jensen's Agar | Sabouraud's dextrose agar
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Agar used for bacteria, IS DIFFERENTIAL and will show you homolysis.
Blood Agar
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Overcooked blood agar, doesn't show homolysis, for Haemophilus and Neisseria.
Chocolate agar, fastidious bacteria
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What only grows Neisseria?
Thayer-Martin
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This agar grows gram negative rods, but not all of them.
MacConkey Agar
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What agar grows staphylococci? Won't grow strep?
Mannitol salt
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What agar rules out TB?
Lowenstein-Jensen
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What grows fungi?
Sabouraud Agar
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What is an example of most common coagulase negative staph?
Staph epidermidis (USUALLY CONTAMINANT) very common skin contaminant
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Do not clean arm for blood cultures with what? we instead use what?
Dont use alcohol | Use ETOH because it can cause contaminant of coagulase negative staph. (important)
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Why do you try to minimize exposure to air with wound cultures?
Wound cultures often have anaerobes (cannot tolerate oxygen).
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_________ is caused by chlamydia in the conjunctiva causing scaring and affecting the eyelids, the eye lids then lay on the cornea (entropia) which can scar the cornea.
Trachoma
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OBJ! Developed countries: whats the leading cause of death? Developing countries: whats the leading cause of death?
Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) | Lower respiratory infection (LRI)
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Bacteria is being __________ where the broth is clear. Minimal drug used to kill the bacteria is __.
inhibited | 1
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MIC is what? | MBC is what?
NO visible growth | MBC is dead (MBC not usually given from hospitals, and can never be more than MIC)
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This probes for antigen with a single labeled antibody
Direct ELISA
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This probes for antibody to an antigen... labeled antibody binds to an unlabeled antibody.
Indirect ELISA
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Antigen is "sandwiched between 2 antibodies.
Sandwich ELISA (most common)
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Best liver test?
ALT
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Kidney function test?
BUN and Creatinine

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