M6 - Respiratory Infections

Question 1

What are the key bacteria of upper respiratory tract infections?

Answer 1

GAS, Bordetella pertisus, Corynebacterium diptheria, Haemophillus influenza

Question 2

What bacteria is responsible for whooping cough?

Answer 2

Bordetella Pertussis

Question 3

What does bordetella attatch to when it enters the respiratory tract?

Answer 3

Ciliated epithelial cell s

Question 4

What are the complications of whooping cough?

Answer 4

secondary bacteria pnuemonia, neurological complications

Question 5

What toxin associated with whooping cough kills leukocytes?

Answer 5

Petussis toxin

Question 6

What toxin associated with whooping cough causes inflammation and local necrosis?

Answer 6

adenylate cyclase

Question 7

What toxin associated with whooping cough kills ciliated cells?

Answer 7

tracheal cytotoxin

Question 8

What antibiotic treats whooping cough?

Answer 8

Erythromycin

Question 9

What diagnosis is a result of infected mucous membranes of tonsils ?

Answer 9

Diptheria

Question 10

What forms in diptheria?

Answer 10

psuedo membrane

Question 11

What key bacteria are responsible for diptheria?

Answer 11

toxigenic Corynebacterium diptheriae

Question 12

What protects bacteria from phagocytosis?

Answer 12

the capsule