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Viral and Prion Nervous System Diseases

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What diseases are involved with RABIES? Furious rabis and paralytic rabies
How do you acquire the disease? Through an animal vector
What is the process of the disease? 1. Bite 2. Replicate in muscle 3. Get to PNS via spinal cord 4. Encephalitis 5. SPREAD EVERYWHERE
Diagnosis of this disease is? Fourescent antibody assay on brain tissue
Treatment? Rabies Immune Globulin (RIG)
Prevention of disease? Vaccination and CDC watches for it
What are ENCHEPHALITIS arboro viruses? Mosquito borne viruses
What are the six types of encephalitis causing things? which is the worst? East, west, st. louis, california, venezuelan, and West Nile Virus; ALL ARE EQUALLY BAD
What conditions are associated with encephalitis and who is likely to be affected? symptoms include, chills, headache, fever, confusion, coma; elderly are most affected
How do we diagnose it? Indirect ELISA that detect IgM
Treatments? non, really...Antiinflammatory
How do we prevent infection? What is it specifically? Insecticides and repellents (DEET)
FUNGAL DISEASES FUNGAL DISEASES
How is CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS acquired? and from what location? Inhaled via pigeon droppings and is in urban areas
Where does it spread? CNS and meninges
What kind of virulence factor does it have? THICK capsule
What is a treatment for this FUNGAL disease? Amphotericin B and Flucytosine
How is it diagnosed? What are you testing for? Latex agglutination for crytopoccal antigens
What are some other CNS diseases that involve prions in animals? Sheep scarpie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow)
What is the infectious agent made of in BSE? Protein (not nucleic acid),
What is Kuru disease due to? Cannibalism in New Guinea
Creutzfeldt jakob disease causes what: How many cases p/y? What kind of symptoms associated with it? Holes in brain, 200 cases, and has alzheimer like sympotms
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