JG Day 2- Immunity and Infection Flashcards
(123 cards)
What is the gram stain classifications?
- Gram +
- Gram-
- other (acid fast, nothing)
What are the shapes of bacteria?
- Cocci- spherical
- Bacillus- rods
- other- spiral
How do the oxygen requirements vary among bacteria?
- Aerobic- exposed to air (skin, resp tract)
- microaerobic- lil o2 needed (stomach)
- facultative anaerobic- anaerobes that can use O2 if available
- obligate anaerobic- O2 is toxic to them, live places deep in body
What is toxin formation by bacteria?
- Toxins produced by bacteria to kill other microbes
- endotoxin- from gram - bacteria, release by bacterial cell death i.e. LPS)
- Exotoxin - come from gram + bacteria, secreted from live bacteria, i.e. botulinum toxin)
- or no toxin produced
these toxins are not intended to harm us. most abx are toxins from microbes but they are not toxic to us
What is the spore formation by bacteria?
- Spores are formed by bacteria when bacteria is in danger (think like an escape pod)
- spores are VERY hard to get rid of
Are bacteria extra or intracellular?
Most are extracellular
intracellular bacteria are harder to get rid of
What is staphylococcus?
- Gram positive
- Cocci
- Aerobic
- in clusters
What is streptococcus?
- Gram positive
- cocci
- aerobic
- in chains/pairs
What is clostridium?
- Gram positive
- Rods
- Anaerobic
- spore forming
What is bacillus?
- Gram positive
- bacilli
- aerobic
- spore forming
first bacteria named- bacillis antracis which causes anthrax
What is listera?
- Gram positive
- Bacilli
- aerobic
- non-spore forming
Surgeon that discovered listera discovered that if you clean instruments between patients, patient outcomes are better
What is bacteroides?
- Gram negative
- rod
- anaerobic
most common cell in body
What is neisseria?
- Gram negative
- SPheres
- Pairs
Causes gonnorhea
What determines gram staining?
- Gram positive bacterium has a thick peptidoglycan layer
- gram negative bacterium has a thick peptidoglycan layer and an outer membrane
- this prevents the staining (usually purple violet) from entering peptidoglycan layer
gram staining dermines whether or not bacteria has outer wall
What is bacteria DNA like?
- one, single, circular, double stranded chromosome
- contains all genes that bacteria needs to code for whatever it needs to do
What are plasmids?
- Code for 1-6 genes
- carry a “superpower” for the cell
- the bacteria is able to share this superpower with other cells
- this is how we produce insulin.
- give DNA for producing insulin to bacteria. Bacteria share the plasmid by combining with other bacteria via a pillus
- then we harvest all the insulin made and kill the bacteria
- also make other peptide drugs via this method
What are viruses?
- True parasites
- needs to get INTO cell to do anything
- all intracellular
- needs to get INTO cell to do anything
- virion binds to cell, gains entrance.
- only gets into cell with that cell speicfic protein
- species and cell speicfic
- only gets into cell with that cell speicfic protein
- DNA of virus puts gene in our DNA and then replicates
- new viruses then use our plasma membrane and go off to another cell
What are 2 interesting methods where we can utilize viruses?
- gene therapy- can give cell a virus with copy of good gene, then virus will replicate good gene (i.e. for sickle cell to replicate good hemoglobin)
- if virus has protein that’s useful, we keep it
- 2% of genes come from viruses
What are the medically relevant fungi?
- Candida albicans
- normal gut flora
- cuases opportunistic infections- when you’re already not feeling good, yeast makes you feel worse”
- Aspergillis
- highly aerobic
- respiratory infection
- Tinea- not a speicifc fungus but gneeral term for skin fungus
- tinea cpitis- head
- tinea cruris- groin (jock itch)
- tinea pedia- feet (athelt’s foot)
What are megakaryocytes?
- pieces bud off to become platelets
- not immune cell
3 families of WBC?
- Mononuclea pagocytic system
- Polymorphonuclear leukocytes
- lymphocytes
What is a mononuclear phagocytic system?
- monocytes- when they leave blood they become macrophages
- macrophages- named based on where they are located
- kuppfer cell- liver
- microglia- brain
- dust cell-lungs
- osteoclast-bone. not immune cells but a lot of macrophages together to eat the bone
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multinuclear giant cell- kind of like osteoclasts but are immune cells
- if fighting off big infection, amcrophages aren’t big enough to handle it. a bunch of macrophages will then get together and form multinuclear giant cells
- Dendritic cell (NOT macrophages)
- langerhans cell-skin
What polymorphonuclear leukocytes?
- Neutrophil- most plentiful
- Basophil
- Eosinophil
- Mast cell
sausage shped nuclei which can squeeze through endothelial cells to get from blood to tissue
What are the 3 types of lymphocytes?
- B-cells
- T-cells
- NK- natural killer cells



