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Module 4.1.1 - Communicable Diseases, Disease Prevention & The Immune System Flashcards

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What is a gram positive bacteria?

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Looks purple/blue under light microscope
Stained with crystal violet

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What is an example of a gram positive bacteria?

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MRSA

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What is gram negative bacteria?

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Looks red under a light microscope
Stained with safranin

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What is an example of a gram negative bacteria?

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E.coli

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What are the 4 different shapes of bacteria?

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Cocci (spherical)
Vibrio (curved)
Bacilli (rod-shaped)
Spirilli (spiral)

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What are the problems with bacteria reproducing so quickly?

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Food spoilage & spread of disease

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How do bacteria cause disease?

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Release toxins (from antigens on bacteria)
- cause symptoms by cell damage
- damage cell membranes/enzymes or genetic material

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What are some examples of bacterial diseases and what bacteria causes them?

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Tuberculosis - Mycobacterium Turberculosis
Bacterial meningitis - Streptococcus Pnuemoniae
Ring rot - (gram positive) Clavibacter Michiganesis

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What is the structure of a bacteriophage?

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Protein coat
Loose genetic material
Tail plate
Injection tube

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What are the stages of bacteriophages invading living cells?

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1) virus attaches itself to specific host cell
2) the genetic material from the virus is injected into the host cell
3) the viral genes cause the host cell to make new viruses
4) the host cell splits open, releasing the new virus

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What are some examples of viral diseases?

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HIV/AIDS - Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Influenza - orthomyxoviridae spp.
Tobacco Mosaic virus

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What is the structure of a fungi?

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Cell wall
Nucleus
Cell membrane
Cytoplasm
Vacuole
Mitochondria

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How do fungi reproduce?

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Asexually - by budding

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What are some examples of fungal diseases?

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Cattle ringworm - Trichophyton Verrucosum
Athlete’s foot - Tinia Pedia
Black Sigatoka - Mycosphaerella Fljensis

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What is the structure of protoctists?

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Unicellular
Nucleus

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What are some examples of protozoan diseases?

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Blight in potatoes/tomatoes - Protoctist Ommycete
Malaria - Plasmodium

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What are the direct ways of transmission between animals?

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Direct contact (transmission through bodily fluids)
Inoculation (break in the skin - animal bite/puncture wound/sharing needles)
Ingestion (taking in contaminated food or drink/transferring pathogens from hand to mouth)

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What are the indirect ways of transmission between animals

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Fomites (inanimate objectes)
Droplet infection (breathing in saliva/mucus from the air that is expelled from someone when sneezing/coughing)
Vectors (e.g. mosquitoes for malaria)

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What are the factors that increase the transmission of communicable diseases in animals?

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Over population
Poor disposal of waste
Malnutrition
Globalisation
Infrastructure
Climate change
Invasive species
Culture
Access to healthcare
Socioeconomic factors

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What are the ways of direct transmission in plants?

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Direct contact (Healthy plant touches any part of an infected plant)

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What are the ways of indirect transmission in plants?

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Soil contamination (infected plants offer pathogens in the soil which can affect the next crop)
Vectors (e.g. wind/water/animals/humans)

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What are the factors that increase the transmission of communicable diseases in plants?

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Climate change
Overcrowding
Damp & warm conditions
Poor soil/mineral nutrition
Plant varieties susceptible to disease

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What are the physical defences of plants against pathogens?

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Cellulose cell wall - physical barrier, lignin thickening cell walls (waterproof & ingestible)
Waxy cuticle - prevents water collecting on the surface (pathogens need water)
Guard cells - close stomata
Callose - large polysaccharide deposited into sieve tubes at the end of the growing season (blows flow so pathogens can’t spread)

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What are the chemical defences of plants against pathogens?

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Terpenoids - antibacterial & antifungal properties (some create a scent)
Alkaloids - nitrogen compounds with a bitter taste (e.g. caffeine/nicotine/cocaine/morphine), stops herbivores feeding on them - less grazing = less exposure

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What is active immunity?
Happens when you have a cellular response e.g. T&B cells & antibodies
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What is Natural Active immunity?
Happens when a pathogens enters your body - cellular response
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What is Artificial Active Immunity?
Vaccines that are injected into you that have a long term effect
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What is Passive Immunity?
When antibodies are injected/digested into you - you didn’t make them
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What is Natural Passive Immunity?
Happens when babies drink their mothers milk/antibodies passed through the placenta to the foetus Colostrum - packed with antibodies
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What is Artificial Passive Immunity?
Having an injection that is temporary (antibodies don’t last forever)
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What is an Autoimmune disease?
When an organs immune system is unable to recognise its own cells & launches an immune response on the organisms own tissues
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What are some examples of autoimmune diseases?
Lupus Arthritis
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What is herd immunity?
Where unvaccinated people are protected because the occurence of the disease is reduced by the number of people who are vaccinated
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What is a vaccine?
A substance used to stimulate immunity to a particular infectious disease/pathogen Made from dead/weak forms of the agent
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What is immunisation?
The action of making a person/animal resistant to a particular infectious disease/pathogen typically by vaccination
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What is an epidemic?
A widespread occurence of an infectious disease in a community at particular time
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What is a pandemic?
An epidemic of an infectious disease that as spread across a large region e.g. continents
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What is antigenic variability?
The antigens of some pathogens are constantly changing. Each antigen causes its own immune response.
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What is the non-specific primary immune defence?
Refers to an immune response which happens regardless of which pathogen it is - general response to a foreign molecule
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What is the primary defence?
The body preventing pathogen’s entry
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What is the barrier method?
Skin
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What is the chemical defences in the body?
Mucus & lysozymes (enzymes that digest pathogens)
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What is the third primary defence for the body?
Blood clotting
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What is the secondary defence in the body?
The response that happens after the pathogen has entered the body
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What are the secondary defences in the body?
Inflammation & phagocytosis
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What is inflammation?
The immune response of vascular tissues when they are infected - activates the mast cells to produce 2 chemicals
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What 2 chemicals do the mast cells produce?
Histamines - dilate blood vessels (redness), localised heat (prohibits pathogen reduction) & makes the blood vessels more leaky/permeable (increase of white blood cells to the site - swelling & pain) Cytokines - cell signalling (attract phagocytes - increase of phagocytosis)
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When a plant detects infection what happens?
The pathogen releases pathogenic chemicals into the plant cells & digests the cell wall The nucleus responds by sending a cascade of reactions to counteract the chemicals Pathogenic chemicals can travel across the plasmodesmata & spread to the rest of the plant (damage) so the plant produces callose which deposits onto plasmodesmata/along the cell wall/onto sift plates in the phloem/signals more lignin production Plant may release antibacterial/fungal chemicals Plant can signal to other cells that they’re under attack - chain effect
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How can a pathogen get into the body?
Ears Eyes Nose (inhaling droplets of contaminated saliva) Mouth (eating contaminated food) Genital Hands (putting hands in mouth after touching contaminated substances) Skin (cuts/grazes)
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What are phagocytes
Specialised white blood cells
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What are the 2 types of phagocytes?
Neutrophils & macrophages
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What is the structure of a neutrophil & what do they do?
Have a lobed nucleus Takes approximately 10 mins to engulf & destroy a pathogen (can get through the pores in the capillaries)
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What is the structure of a neutrophil and what do they do?
Have a rounded nucleus When a pathogen is destroyed its antigens combine with glycoproteins in the cytoplasm (major histocompatability complex) which takes the antigen to the cell surface membrane - now an APC (antigen presenting cell) & can stimulate a specific response
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What is phagocytosis?
The process of which a phagocyte engulfs & destroys a pathogen
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What happens during phagocytosis?
1) the phagocyte recognises antigens on invading bacterium as foreign by chemicals 2) the phagocyte engulfs the pathogen & encloses it in a phagosome - the cell membrane of the phagocyte fuses around the bacterium engulfing it into the phagosome 3) the phagosome combines with a lysosome to form a phagolysosome - empties it’s digestive system to digest the microbe 4) enzymes from the lysosome digest & destroy the pathogen - antigens are presented on the cell surface membrane. Useful products are taken into the cytoplasm (diffusion/AT) & wasted products exocytosed
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What are the different components of blood?
Red blood cells (erythrocytes) White blood cells (leucocytes) Platelets (thrombocytes)
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What makes up white blood cells?
Granulocytes Agranulocytes
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What white blood cells are granulocytes?
Neutrophils Eosinophils Basophils
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What white blood cells make up agranulocytes?
Lymphocytes Monocytes
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What is a T lymphocyte?
A white blood cell made in the blood marrow but matured in the thymus
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What is a B lymphocyte?
A white blood cell made & matured in the bone marrow
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What are the 4 different types of T lymphocyte?
T-Helper T-Killer T-Regulator T-Memory
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What is a T-Helper lymphocyte?
A white blood cell that detects an APC using CD4 receptors & binds to the AG-MHC complex on the APC to be alerted of the attack & detect MHC - knows it is an APC not a pathogen that needs to be destroyed
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What chemicals to T-Helper cells produce and what do they do?
Interleukins (type of cytokine) - stimulates B cells to make antibodies & other T cells to divide Stimulate macrophages - increase in phagocytosis
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What is a T-Killer lymphocyte & what does it do?
A white blood cell that destroys cells by releasing perforin - makes holes on the cell surface membrane
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What is a T-Regulator lymphocyte?
A white blood cell that suppresses the immune system using interleukins
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What is a T-Memory cell?
A white blood cell that has an immunological memory of antigens to produce a rapid secondary immune response

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