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1. Contains genetic material (DNA) on chromosomes; largest organelle
Klebsiella
B anthracis - c. perfringens - c tetani (b cereus and c botulinum also form spores
Dysentery from shiga like toxin - O157:H7 is common serotype - produces HUS
nucleus
2. bloody diarrhea - reddish brown liver abcess - RUQ pain - flask shaped ulcer; dz - transmission - dx - and tx
Treponema - primary syphillis
smooth ER
Env - gp120 and gp41 - gag - p24 - pol - reverse transcriptase
Entamoeba his - cysts in water - serology/trophozoites or cysts in stool/RBC in cytoplasm of entamoeba - metronidazole and iodquinol
3. Osteomyelitis in most people is caused from
five fields of microbiology
Anaerobes
S. aureus
Conversion of a normal cellular protein termed prion protein (PrPc) toa beta pleated form (PrPsc) Which is transmissible - resists degradation and facilitates conversion of still more PrPc to PrPsc
4. Chronic watery diarrhea in HIV pos pt with acid fast cysts seen in stool
Cryptosporidium
Wuchereria bancrofti - femile mosquito - 9 months to 1 year after bite to develop symptoms - diethylcarbmazine
Elementary body
C. trachomatis - subactue - often undiagnosed - N. gono - acute with high fever; C. trachomatis is the most common STI in the US
5. What serum makers are present in acute HBV
RNA flavivirus - transmitted primarily via blood and resembles HBV in its course and severity
HBsAg - HBeAg - IgM - Anti - HBcAg
Spikes
rough ER
6. Which are the DNA enveloped viruses
Ceftriaxone - rifampin for close contacts
Pseudomonas
Herpesviruses - HBV - smallpox
chromosomes in nucleus are...
7. trematodes causing granulomas - fibrosis - inflammation of spleen and liver - org - host - transmission - tx
Candidal esophagitis - toxoplasmosis - histoplasmosis
Schistosoma - snail - cercariae penetrate skin of humans - praziquantrl
Often secondary to Abx use - diagnosed by detection of one or both toxins in the stool
candidiasis
8. What does the chylamidial cell wall lack
Acsaris lumbricoides (giant roundworm) - bendazole or pyrantel pamoate
Pleuritic chest pain - hemoptysis - infiltrates on imaging
spiral
Muramic acid
9. What species producing watery diarrhea produce St and LT toxins - and is the main cause of travelers diarrhea
Nematode in undercooked meat
Francesco Redi
Entertoxigenic E. coli
Lynn Margulis - gen. information
10. What bacteria are considered enterococci - where are they found - and What do they cause
trichomoniasis symptoms
ELISA test is sensitive but high false pos rates and low threshold - RULE OUT test - pos test are confirmed with western blot - High false neg - high threshold
Enterococci (E. faecalis - E. faecium) nl colonic flora - pen G resistant - cause UTI and subacute endocarditis
cilia - function
11. Where do CMV cells remain latent
Common cold and SARS
eukaryotic organelles (5)
Tinea pedis - cruris - corporis - capitis - dermatophytes: microsporum - trichophyton - epidermophyton
Mononuclear cells
12. What is HBcAg
Starts quickly and ends quickly
Ceftriaxone - rifampin for close contacts
Anti - HAVAb IgM
Antigen associated with core of HBV
13. What s. aureus infection is an imporant cause of serious nosocomial and community- acquired infections
MRSA - resistant to beta lactams due to altered penicillen binding protein
Caused by bacteria Rickettsia prowazekki - rickettsia typhi - rickettsia tsutsugamushi
Heat labile toxin
Elevated CRP and ESR
14. Many protein subunits called capsomeres
Surface protein - lipid bilayer - capsid - nucleic acid
capsid is composed of...
HSV-2 - genital herpes
mitochondria - function
15. Lytic phage infects bacterium - cleavage of bacterial DNA and synthesis of viral proteins - parts of bacterial chromosome may become packaged in viral capsid
Generalized transduction - a packaging event
molds
nucleic acid
8 - orthomyoxovirus
16. What bugs can cause food poisoning from contaminated seafood - and which of these can cause wound infections from contact with contaminated water or shellfish
H flu
Food poisoning = Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus - wound = just vulnificus
icosahedron
Clostridium - bacteroides - actinomyces - lack catalse and superoxide dismutase and susceptible to oxidative damage
17. Which bacteria grow pink colonies on MacConkey's agar
smooth ER
Lactose fermeting enterics - citrobacter - klebsiella - E. coli - enterobacter - serratia
fungi kingdom
Viral gastroenteritis
18. Bugs in hospital acquired PNA
CMV retinitis
Staph or enteric GNR
Heterophil antibodies detected by agglutination of sheep RBCs
CMV retinitis and esophagitis - disseminated M avium intracellulare - cryptococcal meningoencephalitis
19. trypanosoma - tricky Ts
Protozoan - causes chagas dz - or african sleeping sickness
gram stain - definition
fungi
plasmid - definition
20. bloating - flatulence - foul - smelling fatty diarrhea seen in campers/hikers - infection - transmission - dx - and tx
Acute or chronic - vaccine is HBsAg - reverse transcriptase though not a retrovirus
Giardia - cysts in water - trophozoites or cysts in stool - metronidazole
DNA hepadnavirus
Heat labile toxin that inhibits ACH release from NMJ causing a flaccid paralysis
21. trematode causing inflammation of the biliary tract leading to pigmented gallstones - org - transmission - associated cancer - tx
Clonorchis sinensis - undercooked fish - cholangiocarcinoma - praziquantel
Smallpox - yellow fever - VZV - Sabin's polio virus - MMR
myc/myo means
Severe bacteremia - death
22. tissue nematode causing skin inflammation and ulceration - org - transmission - tx
Dracunculus medinensis - in drinking water - niridazole
Theory of Biogenesis
Encapsulated or not - positive if encapsulated bug is present; capsule swells when specific anticapsular antisera are added
Viridans is resistant and pneumo is sensitive - OVRPS (overpass)
23. What species causes bloody diarrhea is a protozoan
Genetic drift - epidemic
Entamoeba histolytica
Pox - complex
algology
24. Clusters
Active hepatitis - cirrhosis and HCC
Schistosoma - snail - cercariae penetrate skin of humans - praziquantrl
Hepadna - herpes - adeno - pox - parvo - papilloma - polyoma
arrangements - staphylo
25. Viruses are not considered living; they need to be in a cell; and they do not grow on artificial media
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26. In which population does most osteomyelitis occur
HBV (antigen = recombinant HBsAg) HPV (6 - 11 -16 -18)
what peptidoglycan is composed of
Children
Trichamonas vaginalis - trichomoniasis
27. fever - lymphadenopathy - skin rashes - condylomata lata - org and dz
Treponema - 2ndary syphillis
Kaposi's Sarcoma in HIV pts - sexual contact
Mediate adherence of bacteria to cell surface;sex pilus forms attachment between 2 bacteria during conjugation - glycoprotein
genus
28. What are the cause causes of meningitis in HIV
A second - different antigenic determinant of the HBV core - HBeAg indicates active viral replication and therefor high transmissability
Can cause pneumonia and disseminate - all are dimorphic fungi except coccidiodomycosis Which is a spherule in tissue - tx is fluconazole/ketoconazole for local and amphotericin B for systemic - can mimic TB except no person to person infxn
Rickettsia - legionella - chlamydia (lacks muramic acid in cell wall)
Cryptococcus - CMV - toxoplasmosis (brain abscess) - JC virus (PML)
29. What are the top bugs for PID and what distinguishes them
Toxoplasma - cysts in meat or cat feces - serology/biopsy - sulfadiazine + pyrimethamine
Mycobacterium avium intracellulare
C. trachomatis - subactue - often undiagnosed - N. gono - acute with high fever; C. trachomatis is the most common STI in the US
HIV - malnutrition - death
30. Substance inside the plasma membrane (80% water)
SHiN - strep pneumo - h flu - neisseria
cytoplasm - definition
Measles
Taenia solium - ingestion of larvae encysted in undercooked pork - praziquantel
31. What is the fxn and chemical composition of cell wall/cell membrane in gram positive bacteria
Major surface antigen - peptidoglycan for support - teichoic acid induces TNF and IL-1
Rash on palms and soles migrating to wrists - ankles and then trunk - headach fever - endemic to east coast
Spastic - trismus (lockjaw and risus sardonicus)
Coccidiodiomycosis - southwestern US - CA - San Joaquin Valley valley fever - spherules
32. burns or air
Parainfluenza - croup - RSV - bronchiloitis in babies - Rx - ribavirin - Rubeola (Measles) Mumps
Treponema - tertiary syphillis
fungal infection examples (3)
Pseudomonas
33. May carry genes for antibiotic resistance - toxin production - synthesis of enzymes
Salk/sabin - IPV/OPV respectively
plasmid - function
Neisseria
Flulike (acute) - feeling fine (latent) - falling count - final crisis
34. ____ do no treat viral infections
ImmunoCised - or their close contacts
Leptospria - borrelia - treponema
antibiotics
fungi kingdom
35. What is the organism for rocky mountain spotted fever (tick)
Klebsiella
Rickettsia rickettsii
Nonspecific antibody test that reacts with beef cardiolipin - used for screening of syphillis but many biologic false pos including viral infection (mono or hepatitis) some drugs - rheumatic fever - SLE and leprosy (V=viruses - D =drugs R = rheum fev
Neurologica like bell's palsy and cardiac AV block
36. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae
E. Coli
Pox - complex
Serratia marcescens
medical important mycobacteria
37. What species causing bloody or watery diarrhea produces a pseudomembranous colitis
glycocalyx - description
C. diff
Topocal miconazole - selenium sulfide
Side of oxidative transport of enzymes - lipoprotein layer
38. protozoa causing spiking fevers - hepatosplenomegaly - pancytopenia - dz - org - transmission - dx - tx
Visceral leishmaniasis - donovani - sandly - macrophages containing amastigotes (lack flagella) - sodium stibogluconate
HEV
Pneumocystis jerovici PNA - TB - histoplasmosis
some fungi produce ______ that are toxic to humans
39. Allows nutrients in - waste out
Meningococci
cell membrane - function
glycocalyx - function
Brucella sp
40. In which population do paramyxovirus cause disease and What do they cause
Taenia solium - ingestion of larvae encysted in undercooked pork - praziquantel
Surfers in the tropics
Children; parainfluenza (croup seal like barking cough) - mumps - measles and RSV (bronchiolitis - PNA) in infants
Measles - koplik spots on buccal mucosa are diagnostic
41. Mycology - bacteriology - virology - algology - protozoology
five fields of microbiology
Mumps virus - mumps
S. pneumo - H. flu - Anaerobes - viruses - mycoplasma
S pneumo - GNR - listeria
42. cestode causing intestinal tapeworms - org - transmission - tx
Pseudomonas
PHV
Taenia solium - ingestion of larvae encysted in undercooked pork - praziquantel
Catalase pos organisms - remove H2O2 leading to infection - staph
43. Extrachromosomal piece of genetic information - can be genetically engineered
German measles - fever - posauricular tenderness - lymphadenopathy - arthralgias - fine truncal rash - mild disease in children but serious congenital disease (a TORCH infxn)
plasmid - definition
ASO titer
Killed/inactivated
44. What C. diptheria grows on...
Black necrosis surrounded by edematous ring - caused by letha factor and edema factor
botulism
Tellurite agar
Rotavirus - dsRNA reovirus - villous destruction with atrophy leads to dec absorption of Na and H2O - day care centers and kindegartnes
45. What is the fxn and chemical composition of bacterial pilus/fimbria
Mediate adherence of bacteria to cell surface;sex pilus forms attachment between 2 bacteria during conjugation - glycoprotein
Rickettsia and chlamydia - can't make out ATP
Cleaves host cell rRNA (inactivates 60S ribosome) - also enhances cytokine release causing HUS - shigella and E. Coli 0157:H7
Degrades H2O2 before it can be converted to micorbicidal products by the enzyme myeloperoxidase
46. Plasmodium (4 different species) - transmitted to humans by Anopheles mosquito - organism is on a biology clock (multiple of 24 hours)
viral shapes
ABC
malaria
B cells
47. intestinal nematode causing infection - eggs are visible in feces - org - tx
Oral thrush - tinea pedis - reactivation VZV - reactivation TB - bacterial infxns (H flu - S pneumo - Salmonella)
E. coli - shigella - salmonella - yersinia - klebsiella - proteus - enterobacter - serratia - vibrio - campylobacter - helicobacter - pseudomonas - bacteroides
Acsaris lumbricoides (giant roundworm) - bendazole or pyrantel pamoate
spiral - vibrio
48. All the material from the nuclear membrane to the cell membrane - contains cytosol which is the liquid portion and cytoskeleton which are the internal structures
cytoplasm - definition
Cytoplasm - except influenza and retroviruses
Toxin permanently activates causing rice water diarrhea via induction of cAMP - turns the on on
Lazzaro Spallanzani
49. What two toxins does C. diff produce andw What do they do
Pos leukocyte esterase test = bacterial UTI - pos nitrate test = gram neg bacterial UTI - except S. saprophyticus
Haematobium - bladder
Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis - lung cavity aspergilloma 'fungus ball' invasice aspergillosis in immunoCised pts and those with chronic granulomatous disease
Toxin A - enterotoxin binds to brush border of the gut - Toxin B - cytotoxin - destroys the cytoskeletal structure of enterocytes - causing pseudomembranous colitis
50. What species causing bloody diarrhea often causes outbreaks in days care centers and can cause pseudoappendicitis
Gambiense - rhodesiense
Yersinia enterocolitica
Aerosal - from environmental water source
gram- negative stain - color
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