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Strep Throat
- Upper Respiratory Bacterial
- streptococcus pyogenes
- inflammation of throat, enlarged lymph nodes, fever, tosilitis, earache
- ELISA
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Scarlet Fever
- Upper Respiratory Bacterial
- advanced strep throat (erythrogenic strains)
- red rash, high fever, enlarged tounge
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Erythrogenic strains
strains of Strep that are lysogenized by phage
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Diptheria
- Upper Respiratory Bacterial
- Corynebacterium diptheriae
- exotoxin is produced when bacteria is lysogenized by phage
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Otis Media
- Earache
- Upper Respiratory Bacterial
- strep pyogenes, s. aureus, strep pneumonia, haemophilus influenzea, moraxella catarrhalis
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The Common Cold
- Upper Respiratory Viral
- Usually Rhinovirus, over 200 others
- sneezing, nasal secretions, congestions
- usually in winter because of more indoor contact and dry air
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Pertussis (Whooping Cough)
- Lower Respiratory Bacterial
- Bordella pertussis
- cold-like but with deep cough
- can last for months
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Tuberculosis
- Lower Respiratory Bacterial
- Mycoacterium Tuberculosis
- Acid-Fast (resistant to drying and disinfectants)
- Lesions formed by dead machrophages and m. tuberculosis. apperas Ghons complex in x-rays.
- Explodes and new infection goes through blood and lymph
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Bacterial Pneumonias
- Lower Respiratory Bacterial
- usually caused by streptococcus pneumonia but can be others
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Melioidosis
- Lower Respiratory Bacterial
- Burkholderia pseudomallei
- transmitted by inhalation, injestion or puncture wound
- leads to pneumonia, spesis and encephalitis
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Viral Pneumonia
- Lower Respiratory Viral
- usually influenza
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Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)
- Lower Respiratory Viral
- most common cause of pneumonia in infants
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Influenza
- Lower Respiratory Viral
- Caused by A, B, or C
- and characterized by H or N spikes embedded in lipid bilayer
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H1N1
sever strain called Spanish Flu that killed 50 million people in 1908
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H3N2
- Hong Kong in 1968
- moderate
- First modern pandemic originating in China in 1889
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Drugs effective against influenza A
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Antifungal drug
Amphotericin B
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Histoplasmosis
- Lower Respiratory Fungal
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- sub-clinical, mild, occansionally severe
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Coccidiomycosis
- Lower Respiratory Fungal
- coccidiodes immitis
- usually subclinical
- in immunocomprimised patients may look like TB
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Pneumocystis Pneumonia
- Lower Respiratory Fungal
- pneumocytis jirovecii (normal flora of lungs)
- in immunocompromised people only
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Blastomycosis
- Lower Respiratory Fungal
- Blastomyces dermatitidis
- begins in lungs and can spread to cause extensive absesses
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Oppurtunsitc Fungii
- Include Aspergillus, Rhizopus and Mucor, but can be others
- will cause lung diesase if given the chance
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Streptococcus Mutans
- major cause of acid production from fructuse on oral cavity
- acid eats away enamel and causes cavities
Also produces dextran from glucose wich allows organisms to form biofilm and stick to teeth as plaque
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Amount of microbial cells shed in fecal mass
40%
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Mannitol, sorbitol, xylitol
- low calorie sweetners that microbes down use
- used in sugar free gum and other prodcuts
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Mouth
large #s of bacteria
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Intoxication
eating endotoxins that bacteria produce in food instead of the bacteria themselves
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Periodontal Disease
- inflammation of gums, bone loss and tooth loss
- caused by streptococcus species, actinomyces and anaerobic gram neg bacteria
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Botulism
- BACTERIAL INTOXICATION
- clostridium botulinum
- fever (gram neg), diarrhea, gastroenteritis
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Staphylococcal Enterotoxicosis
- BACTERIAL INTOXICATION
- S. aureus
- ingesting food containing an enterotoxin from s. aureous
- s.a. is heat/salt resistant so it grows easly on left out food
- abdominal cramps, vomiting, diarrhea
- recovery in 24 hours
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Shigellosis (Bacillary Dysentry)
- 4 species of Shigella bacteria that produce Shiga toxins
- digestive
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Salmonellosis
- septic shock in infants and elderly
- make sure all eggs and poultry are fully cooked
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Typhoid Fever
- Salmonella Typhi
- much more serious than salmonellosis
- carriers can harbor pathogen in gallbladder and shed
- Typhoid Mary
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Cholera
- huge loss of fluids from vomiting/diarrhea
- without treatment 50% MR
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Non-cholera vibrios
- V. parahaemolyticus
- V. vulnificus
- gastroenteritis from eating raw shellfish (esp. oysters)
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E. Coli Gastroenteroitis
- E. coli O:157, H:7
- causes bleeding of colon, hemmorhagic colitis and can lead to shutdown of kidneys in children
- undercooked gound beef
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Camplyobacter
- most common cause of diarrhea in US
- cows milk
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Yersinia
can grow at refridgerated temps (4 degrees C)
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Clostridum Perfrenges
- bacterial-digestive
- exotoxins produced in IT cause symptoms
- associated with cooked meats held at room temp for too long (spores survive cooking then germinate)
- self limiting abdominal pain and diarrhea
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Clostridium Difficile
- mostly in hosptials and nursing homes after extensive use of antibiotics
- wipes out competing bacteria in flora
- diarrhea but can be deadly
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Bacillus cereus
- bacterial digestive
- fried rice
- two types: diarrhea, or emetic (nausea, vomiting)
- self-limiting
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Mumps
- viral-digestive
- enters through respiratory tract
- vaccination available
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Hepatitis
- inflammation of liver
- loss of appetitie, malaise, fever, jaundise
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Hepatitis A
- grows throughout body
- shed in feces (fecal oral route)
- vaccine available esp for foreign travelers
- 50% subclincal
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Hepatitis B
- blood bourne
- serious chronic can lead to liver cirrosis or chancer
- blood is checked for HBV before transfusions
- vaccines available
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Hepatitis C
- blood transmitted
- usually mild but can become chronic like hep B
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Viral Gastroenteritis
- Rotovirus and Norovirus
- usually shorter incubation time than bacterial
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Ergot Poisioning
- claviceps purpurea (fungus-digestive)
- grows on cereal grains stored with too much mositure
- in Midevil Europe entire towns were going crazy (possible Salem Witch Trials)
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Aflotoxin
- asperigillus flavus (fungal) INTOXICATION
- potent liver carcinogen
- especially on peanuts
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Giardia
- protozoan
- prolonged diarrheal disease
- common during camping/swimming seasons
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Cyclosporiasis
found in contaminated produce
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Cryptosporadiasis
- in contaminated waters
- hard to get rid of
- protozoan-digestive
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Ameobic Dysentery
- entamoeba histolytica (protozoa)
- ameobas feed on gastrointestinal tissue and RBC's
- can result in absesses in large intestine
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Tapeworms
- Helmith-digestive-cestodes
- undercooked beef and pork
- taena genus worms have head (scolex) that attaches to IT, eggs are shed in feces
- humans are definitive hosts
- sub clincial
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Hookworms
- nematode
- larvae can bore right through skin and migrate to intestinal tract
- helmith-digestive
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Ascariasis lumbricoideses
- helmith-digestive
- acquired by ingesting eggs esp from undercooked fish (sushi)
- nematode
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Trichinellosis
- helmith-digestive
- nematode
- from undercooked pork
- worms mature in intestinal tract, lay eggs which migrate to muscle tissue
- high fever, swelling around eyes, GI distress
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Nematodes (roundworms)
- pinworms: enterobius vermicularis
- humans are definitve hosts
- helmith
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Hydatid Disease
- Echinococcus granulosis
- dogworm from kissing dogs
- humans are intermediate hosts-dogs, wolves and foxes are definitive hosts
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Pyelonphritis
- e. coli (75% of the time)
- inflammation of one or both kidneys
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Leptospirosis
- found in urine contamited water
- chills headaches, fever, muscle aches
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Gonorrhea
- bacterial
- most common reportable STD in US
- newborns are protected with antibiotic on eyes to kill gonorrhea and chlaymidia
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Cystitis
- Inflection of bladder
- usually e.coli or staph but can be many other gram neg organisms
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Non-Gonorrheal Urethritis (NGU)
- most caused by chalmydia trachomatis (bacterial)
- Most common STD
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Pelvic Inflammatiory Disease
- bacterial!
- inflammation of uterine tubes
- if untreated can cause sterility
- caused by n. gonorrhea, c. trachomatis and others
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Syphillus
- treponema pallidum (bacteria-spirochete)
- 3 stages (primary, secondary and tertirary)
- tertirary affects brain
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Lymphogranuloma Venerum (LGV)
- tropical and subtropical
- Chlamydia (intracellular bacterial)
- lymph system swells
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Chanchroid
- haemophils ducreyi
- bacterial reproductive
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Vaginosis
- gardenella vaginalis
- bacterial reproductive
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Genital Warts
- Human papillomavirus
- vaccines available
- can lead to cervical cancer
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Genital Herpes
- Herpes simplex virus (HSV-1 and HSV-2)
- most people keep this in check with immune system
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Candidasis
- fungal (candida albicans-has both mold and yeast characteristics)
- NGU
- predisposing factors: pregnanacy, diabetes, tumors, broad spectrum antibacterial chemotherapy
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Trichomonasis
- Protozoan (trichomonas vaginalis)
- pH of vagina = too alkaline
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