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Diseases of the Respiratory Tract

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BACTERIAL INFECTIONS BACTERIAL INFECTIONS
DIPTHERIA DIPTHERIA
What organism is associated with diptheria? Corynebacgterium diphteriae
GRAM and BOTH SHAPES: Gram + rods; club shaped
What does diptheria have as SYMPTOMS? What do the symptoms CAUSE? lymphatic swelling--->formation of a membrane
How does it spread? If you have a culture present, does that mean you've got an infectio? Non-umminized people spread it. If you have culture, it could just be NORMAL FLORA.
What is an important virulance factor ? Endo or Exo? What does it cause by donig what? How does the virulance factor get formed? Diptheria toxin; exotoxin-->heart and kidney damage by blocking protein synthesis; formed by bacteriophage
How do you diagnose it? Throat swab and see what has the TOXIN
Treatment and prevention? prevent with DTP vaccine and booster with Td vaccine
DISEASES OF THE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE OF THE LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT
I want to culture a "bacteria" that is supposedly in a patient, how do I do it? SPUTUM from DEEP in lungs. I would look for < 10 epithilial cells and > 25 WBC
What bacteria causes whooping cough? Bordetella pertussis
PRIMARY PNEUMONIA caused by what organism? Streptococcus pneumonia
Gram stain, shape, and catalase it, MAIN characteristic Gram + diplococci, catalase negative, and pyogenic coccus (pus forming)
What kind of sputum are you looking for? Rust colored, with difficulty breathing and patient is VERY TOXIC
Prevention? Pneumovax and prevenar
PRIMARY ATYPICAL PNEMONIA OR WALKING PNEMONIA PAP (Walking pnemonia)
What bacterium is it due to? Mycoplasma pnemoniae
What are characterisitcs of the microbe No cell wall, PM (with sterols)
What is TB similar to? Only difference? Leprosy; note acid fast stain, intracellular, ONLY ADDED THING IS THAT IT MUST HAVE AIR AND CAN BE CULTURED
What unique thing does it form? What is its purpsoe? Tubercle; pont is to deactivate TB
What is TB sepsis chances of survival and AKA? Millitary TB-->DEATH
Who do we worry about and why? Immunosuppressed can't make tubercle!
What is the point of the tubercle? Deactivation
What are the 2 main methods of diagnosis? Skin and CT test
SECONDARY PNEMONIA SECONDARY PNEMONIA
What is it? Secondary to example? Any pnemonia that is the result of another infection; ex) flu
VIRAL INFECTIONS VIRAL INFECTIONS
VIRAL PNEMONIA VIRAL PNMONIA
Respiratory syncytial Virus (RSV) commonly infects? Infants
How is it different from the bacterial pnemonia? Not interstitial == no pus
In whom is it life threatening? elderly
Differentiate b/w antigenic drift and shift? Drifts are minor, shifts are EPIDEMIC
FUNGAL FUNGAL
HISTOPLASMOSIS is due to? Histoplasma capstulatum
When it is infecting us, what is its form? When it is not infecting us? Dimorphic; when it is NOT: mycelial
What does it infect and cause? Infect macrophages-->lung lesions
How is it spread? Who is at high risk? Bird and bat droppings...worry about AIDS
BLASTOMYCOSIS is due to? Blastomyces dermatitidis
Can it spread to the rest of the body? What does it cause(sympoms, i mean)? Yes, causes skin ulcers-->pnemonia sympoms
COCCIDIOMYCOSIS is due to? Coccidiodes immitis
How do you acquire it? Breath arthrospores when in pandemic area
Where does Aspergillosis grow? what does it cause? what is it? Grain and peanuts-->aflatoxins, which are carcinogen
Who gets this disese? what does it cause? Farmers and immnosuppressed-->lung infections
What is Pnemocystis pnemonia? due to? Pneumonycysitis jirovecii
Who is it a big concern with? AIDS patients
Created by: talkglitter2486
 

 



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