Micro Final Flashcards
(195 cards)
rhinovirus
- causes common cold
-nonenveloped single stranded positive sense RNA virus - antibodies that neutralize one strain of rhinovirus will not neutralize a different strain
-100 known serotype
serotype
different antigenic structure
Influenza
-not rhinovirus
-single stranded negative sense segmented RNA Genome
-undergoes antigenic shift
antigenic variation
-variation of antigens on the envelope/ capsid protein
-associated with rhinovirus immune avoidance
antigenic shift
- 2 strains of influenza virus infect the same cell and the genomes get mixed
-makes it dramatically different
-associated with influenza immune avoidance
Antigenic drift
-random mutation that can occur within the cell that a virus infects, creating small changes in virus proteins
error prone polymerase
-really bad at making copies of itself
-viruses are error prone polymerases
HPV
-DNA Viruse
-60 types
-can cause warts
HPV division
-has viral protein E7
-chaperones human protein pRb toward degradation (stamps it with ubiquitin)
-causes ubiquitination
Human Herpes Viruse and Latency
- after primary infection it replicates in epithelial cells
-eventually becomes latent in host cells in 2 ways:
1. DNA circularizes and exists as an episome
2. DNA integrates into host cell genome
Latent Virus reemerging
- after years of latency can cause a new active infection
MicroRNA’s
-small RNA’s made by the herpes virus interfere with the host cell’s apoptosis program
-not proteins, so they can’t be recognized by the immune system
antigenic masking
some protozoans coat themselves in host antigens to avoid detection by immune system
antigenic variation
- it can vary the antigens on the cell envelope of capsid protein
2 types of protozoa pathogenesis immune avoidance
1.antigenic masking
2.antigenic variation
What does plasmodium use?
antigenic masking
Types of skin rash spread
-exanthem and enanthem
What is a skin rash
-change in color and texture of the skin
-caused by an infectious agent
exanthem
-widespread skin rash accompanied by systemic symptoms (fever, malaise, headache)
enanthem
-rash on mucous membrane
Types of skin rash
1.Macular
2.Papular
3.Pustular
4.Maculopapular
5.Vesicular
Measles
-rubeola
-negative senses, single stranded RNA virus
-vary contagious (8-10 day incubation)
- portal of entry is respiratory or conjunctiva
-replicates in the lungs(moves to regional lymph nodes and produces a viremia that spreads throughout the body)
-prodromal period starts with cold/ flu symptoms
-high fever (40/ 104 degrees Celsius)
-koplik’s spots (whites spots on buccal mucosa on inner cheeks)
viremia
-pathogen enters bloodstream
pathognomic
-definitive indicator of a disease
-measles= koplick spots