SPIROCHETES

Question 1

how do spirochetes differ from other bacteria in terms of cell wall

Answer 1

flexible and have several wound fibrils

Question 2

in contrast with both treponema and borrelia organisms, the spirals are _____

Answer 2

very close together so the organism may appear to be a chain of cocci

Question 3

zoonotic ________ contaminate water or mud when shed in the urine of infected animals and often enter the human host through small breaks in the skin or intact mucosa

Answer 3

leptospirales

Question 4

causative agent of Lyme borreliosis

Answer 4

borrelia

Question 5

relapsing fever is characterized by acute febrile episodes that subside spontaneously but tend to recur over a period of weeks

Answer 5

borrelia recurrentis

Question 6

endemic relapsing fever

Answer 6

tickborne

Question 7

epidemic relapsing fever

Answer 7

louseborne

Question 8

causative agent of yaw

Answer 8

T pallidu subsp. pertenue

Question 9

causative agent of pinta

Answer 9

treponema carateum

Question 10

causative agent of endemic syphilis

Answer 10

Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum

Question 11

causative agent of syphilis

Answer 11

Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum

Question 12

known as the great imitator, explain why

Answer 12

syphilis

it has a wide variety of clinical manifestations

Question 13

after incoculation, the spirochetes multiply rapidly and disseminate to local lumph nodes and other organs via blood stream, what stage of syphilis is this

Answer 13

primary

Question 14

the lesion of syphilis is called as

Answer 14

hard chancre

Question 15

generalized lumphadenopathy,
rashes

what stage of syphilis is this

Answer 15

secondary

Question 16

all lesions of the skin and mucous membranes are highly infectios

what stage of syphilis is this

Answer 16

secondary

Question 17

relapses of secondary syphilis occur in about % of untreated patients

Answer 17

25%

Question 18

latent syphilis

what stage of syphilis is this

Answer 18

tertiary stage

Question 19

latency within 1 yr of infection of syphilis is referred to as

Answer 19

early latent syphilis

Question 20

latency after 1 yr of infection of syphilis is referred to as

Answer 20

late latent syphiis

Question 21

development of granulomatous lesions called gummas in skin, bones, and the liver

what stage of syphilis is this

Answer 21

tertiary

Question 22

patients in this stage are usually not infectious

what stage of syphilis is this

Answer 22

3rd

Question 23

2 non treponemal tests widely used today are

Answer 23

VDRL and RPR

venereal diseae research laboratory
rapid plasma reagin