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1. What is the progression of disease in rabies infxn
Nucelocapsid - nucleic acid
Fever - malaise leading to agitation - photophobia - hydrophobia leading to paralysis - coma and death
Does not ferment sorbitol
Measles - koplik spots on buccal mucosa are diagnostic
2. Will show special structures
endoplasmic reticulum - definition
special staining of bacteria
C. diptheriae
Enterococci (E. faecalis - E. faecium) nl colonic flora - pen G resistant - cause UTI and subacute endocarditis
3. Minor changes based on random mutation
Antibody to HBeAg - indicates low transmissability
Synthesized dsDNA from RNA; dsDNA integrates into host genome
Genetic drift - epidemic
histoplasmosis
4. Thick peptidoglycan layer with teichoic acids
gram- positive cell wall
malaria prevention
endocytosis...
S. aureus
5. What does Anti HBcAg (IgM) indicate
Spongiform encephalopathy and dementia - ataxia and death.
Transformation or competence
Acute/recent infection
HSV - skin or mucous membrance contact
6. currant jelly sputum
CMV
Klebsiella
No cell wall
endocytosis...
7. What does listeria infection cause
Cleaves host cell rRNA (inactivates 60S ribosome) - also enhances cytokine release causing HUS - shigella and E. Coli 0157:H7
Sporothrix schenckii
In pregs - amnionitis - septicemia - spontaneous abortion - granulomatous infantiseptica - neonatal meningitis in neonates - immunoCised - meningitis - healthy people - mild gastroenteritis
IVDU
8. Tail fibers attach to outside of host cell
Metronidazole
B cells - fever hepatosplenomegaly - pharyngitis - lymphadenopathy
adsorption (B)
Reactivation HSV - cyrptosporidious - isospora - disseminated coccidioidomycosis - pneumocystis PNA
9. Which DNA virus does not replicate in the nucleus
Measles rubeola - measles
plasmid - definition
Pox - carries own DNA dependent RNA polymerase
Anti - HBsAb
10. Spherical
cilia - function
Toxplasmosis
coccus
Lepromatous - diffusely over skin and is communicalbe (immunoCised) tuberculoid limited to a few hypoesthetic skin nodules (immunoCtent
11. What OI/disease occurs in the mouth and throat of AIDS pts
Viridans is resistant and pneumo is sensitive - OVRPS (overpass)
biggest danger of toxplasmosis
RNA viruses - BOAR = Bunyavirus - Orthomyxovirus - Arenaviruses - Reoviruses
Thursh - HSV - CMV - oral hairy leukoplakia from EBV
12. What components make up the enveloped icosahedral viral structure
Fimbriae - cystitis and pyelonephritis; K capsule - pneumonia - neonatal meningitis - LPS endotoxin - septic shock
Surface protein - lipid bilayer - capsid - nucleic acid
Toxoplasmosis
Louis Pasteur
13. Eukaryotic and non - photosynthetic; can produce asexual and sexual spores
fungi
Toxoplasmosis
endocytosis...
Tinea pedis - cruris - corporis - capitis - dermatophytes: microsporum - trichophyton - epidermophyton
14. Non - enveloped virus is engulfed by host cell; enveloped virus fusion of the envelope with cell membrane
penetration (AV)
Pox - carries own DNA dependent RNA polymerase
Gonococci
Rash on palms and soles migrating to wrists - ankles and then trunk - headach fever - endemic to east coast
15. bloating - flatulence - foul - smelling fatty diarrhea seen in campers/hikers - infection - transmission - dx - and tx
Meningitis - waterhouse friderichsen -
Giardia - cysts in water - trophozoites or cysts in stool - metronidazole
Ancylostoma duodenale - necator americanus - larvae penetrate skin of feet - bendazoles or pyrantel pamoate
histoplasmosis
16. How is Hfr made
H. pylori
Food poisoning = Vibrio parahaemolyticus and V. vulnificus - wound = just vulnificus
E. coli 0157:H7
F+ plasmid can become incorportated into bacterial chromosome DNA
17. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium leprae
fungal infection examples (3)
medical important mycobacteria
chromosome - description
Toxoid vaccine
18. What species of trypanosoma other than bruceii cause african sleeping sickness
Gambiense - rhodesiense
Pasteurella multocida
three domains of microorganisms
malaria
19. Prokaryotes that lack peptidoglycan in their cell walls and often live in extreme conditions
Retrovirus - togavirus - flavivirus - coronavirus - hepevirus - calicivirus - picornavirus
archaea domain
structures of prokaryotic cell
Both are lactose fermenters - both invade intestinal mucosa and can cause blood diarrhea
20. What are possible sequelae of measles infxn
Spongiform encephalopathy and dementia - ataxia and death.
Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis is rare - and giant cell PNA in immunoCised
Acute bacterial endocarditis and osteomyelitis
Cryptococcus neoformans - also encephalitis
21. What does papillomovirus cause
Cryptococcal meningitis - toxoplasmosis - CMV encelphalopathy - AIDS dementia - PML from JC virus
HIV - malnutrition - death
Schistosoma - snail - cercariae penetrate skin of humans - praziquantrl
HPV - warts (1 - 2 - 6 - 11) - CIN - cervical cancer (16 - 18) vaccine available
22. This bacteria is a majore cause of bloody diarrhea - esp in children - fecal - oral transmission through mean (poultry - met unspasteurized milk
Campylocobacter jejuni
ADP- R AB toxin: inc cAMP by inhibiting Galpha1 - causes whooping cough - inhibits chemokine receptor - causing lymphocytosis
Francesco Redi - experiment
ribosomes (prokaryotic) - size
23. Osteomyelitis in sexually active people can be from
Rotavirus - adenovirus - norwalk virus
N. gonorrhoeae (rare) septic arthritis is more common
Staph make it - strep don't
Smallpox - yellow fever - VZV - Sabin's polio virus - MMR
24. How do sporothrix appear on microscopically
how many degrees celsius for mold?
Gummas (chronic granulomas) - aortitis (vasa vasorum destruction) neurosyphillis (tabes dorsalis) - argyll robertson pupils
Leptospria - borrelia - treponema
Cigar shaped yeast
25. Study of algae
Pneumonia - meningitis - sepsis in babies
algology
Severe bacteremia - death
SHiN - strep pneumo - h flu - neisseria
26. varicella - lots of spots
Herpesvirus; chickenpox and zoster
Yes
Protozoan - a TORCH infection
glycocalyx - description
27. Eukaryotic - unicellular - identified by means of locomotion
Reverse transcriptase - HIV - HTLV - T cell leukemia
protozoa (3)
Serratia
Characteristic cytoplasmic inclusion bodies in neurons infected with rabies virus; commonly found in Purkinje cells of cerebellum
28. Membrane- bound - cellular structures that perform a function - analogous to organs in the body
malaria symptoms
arrangements of bacteria
E. Coli
eukaryotic organelles - definition
29. What can cause food poisoning in poultry - meat and eggs
endocytosis...
Salmonella
cell membrane - function
bacteriology
30. Why are ELISA/Western blot test falsely positive in babies born to mothers infected with HIV
Anti gp120 crosses the placenta
N. gonorrhea - vancomycin (inhibits gram pos) polymyxin (inhibits gram neg) - nystatin (inhibits fungi)
rickettsia
Mycobacterium
31. genital warts and koilocytes - org and dz
10 to 12
HPV 6 and 11 - condylomata acuminata
endospores - definition
Site of endotoxin (LPS) - major surface antigen - lipid A induces TNF and IL-1 - polysaccharide is the antigen
32. How do group B strep respond to bacitracin
Group B are resistant - group A are sensitive - B- BRAS
Resistant
Site of endotoxin (LPS) - major surface antigen - lipid A induces TNF and IL-1 - polysaccharide is the antigen
assembly (B)
33. Unimmunized child with a rash beginning at his head and moving down with postauricular lymphadenopathy
Taenia solium - cysticercosis
Gonorrhea - septic arthritis - neonatal conjunctivitis - PID - fitz - hugh curtis
Rubella
Oral thrush - tinea pedis - reactivation VZV - reactivation TB - bacterial infxns (H flu - S pneumo - Salmonella)
34. yeast and mold
there can be a ___ stage and a ___ stage within the same genus and species
Transfer of just plasmid in F+ and transfer of plasmid plus some flanking genes in Hfr x F-
Doxycycline and ceftriaxone
flagella - function
35. 1673 - First to see microorganisms - marked beginning of microbiology - 'animalcules' - 'father of the microscope'
Pyelonephritis - fever - chills flank pain - CVA tenderness - hematuria and WBC casts
Dimorphic: yeast with pseudohyphae in culture at 20C - germ tube formation at 37C (diagnostic)
Tapeworm larvae (intestinal infection) in pork or eggs (neurocystircercosis) in food/water contaminated with human feces
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
36. A semipermeable phospholipid bilayer containing proteins - carbohydrates - and sterols
Chlamydia trachomatis (D- K) - chlamydia
Mycobacterium
cell membrane - definition
Cryptosporidium - cysts in water - cysts on acid - fast stain - prevention (clean water) no tx
37. What viruses cause watery diarrhea
what envelope contains
Acute or chronic - vaccine is HBsAg - reverse transcriptase though not a retrovirus
Rotavirus - adenovirus - norwalk virus
algology
38. Sporulation
Enterotoxins - TSST-1 - exfoliatin which causes scalded skin syndrome
endospores are formed via
S. epidermidis
Herpes genitalis - neonatal herpes - sexual contact - perinatal
39. Which DNA virus is not icosahedral
Toxoid vaccine
Pox - complex
assembly (B)
Type B protease IgA
40. Microbes (yeast) are responsible for fermentation
C. diptheriae
interferon
Bacterial superinfection
production of beer and wine
41. What organisms do Giemsa stain pick up
Candidal esophagitis - toxoplasmosis - histoplasmosis
Rapid antigenic variation of pilus proteins
Borrelia recurrentis
Borrelia - plasmodium - tryapanosomes - chlamydia
42. perianal pruritis - parasite
Enterobius
Rabies - influenza - salk polio - HAV
Enterobius - ascaris - trichinella
Metronidazole
43. pruritic lesions with central clearing resembling ring - dz and organism
candidiasis
Tinea pedis - cruris - corporis - capitis - dermatophytes: microsporum - trichophyton - epidermophyton
HBsAg - anti - HBeAb - anti - HBcAb IgG
Oral thrush - tinea pedis - reactivation VZV - reactivation TB - bacterial infxns (H flu - S pneumo - Salmonella)
44. Animals - plants - fungi - and protists
Koch's Postulates 1
eukarya domain
cell wall - function
Vulvuvaginitis
45. 1861 - Disproved spontaneous generation to everyone's satisfaction by demonstrating that microorganisms are present in the air
Louis Pasteur
Pneumocystis jerovici
Herpesviruses - HBV - smallpox
Endosymbiotic Theory
46. What aspect of PID is a risk factor fo ectopic pregnancy - infertility - chronic pelvic pain - adhesion
Shiga like toxin - botulinum toxin - cholera toxin - diptheria toxin - erythrogenic toxin of s. pyogenes
HHV 6 - roseola
Salpingitis
S. pneumo - klebsiella - staph
47. Cellulitis - osteomyelitis from animal bite: cats and dogs
Alpha toxin - a lecithinase that acta s a phospholipase to cleave cell membranes and causes a gas gangrene
replication for prokaryotes
Taenia solium - ingestion of eggs - praziquantal
Pasteurella multocida
48. What other organism is involved in vaginosis from gardnerella
Mobiluncus - an anaerobe
bacteria domain
endospores are formed via
Pseudomonas
49. What OI's are HIV pos patients at risk for with CD4 < 50
The first 3 act via ADP ribosylation causing permenately activating adenylate cyclase - while anthrax edema factor is itself an adenylate cyclase causing an inc in cAMP
replication for prokaryotes
CMV retinitis and esophagitis - disseminated M avium intracellulare - cryptococcal meningoencephalitis
Bartonella sp
50. In what population does HCV cause hepaitits
IVDU
structures of prokaryotic cell
Can't make their own ATP - cause mucosal infections
Endothelium swells and narrows lumen - leading to mechanical hemolysis and reduced renal blood flow - damaged endothelium consumes platelets
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