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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  
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How do you acquire the disease?   Through an animal vector  
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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  
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Diagnosis of this disease is?   Fourescent antibody assay on brain tissue  
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Treatment?   Rabies Immune Globulin (RIG)  
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Prevention of disease?   Vaccination and CDC watches for it  
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What are ENCHEPHALITIS arboro viruses?   Mosquito borne viruses  
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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  
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What conditions are associated with encephalitis and who is likely to be affected?   symptoms include, chills, headache, fever, confusion, coma; elderly are most affected  
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How do we diagnose it?   Indirect ELISA that detect IgM  
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Treatments?   non, really...Antiinflammatory  
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How do we prevent infection? What is it specifically?   Insecticides and repellents (DEET)  
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FUNGAL DISEASES   FUNGAL DISEASES  
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How is CRYPTOCOCCUS NEOFORMANS acquired? and from what location?   Inhaled via pigeon droppings and is in urban areas  
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Where does it spread?   CNS and meninges  
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What kind of virulence factor does it have?   THICK capsule  
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What is a treatment for this FUNGAL disease?   Amphotericin B and Flucytosine  
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How is it diagnosed? What are you testing for?   Latex agglutination for crytopoccal antigens  
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What are some other CNS diseases that involve prions in animals?   Sheep scarpie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow)  
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What is the infectious agent made of in BSE?   Protein (not nucleic acid),  
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What is Kuru disease due to?   Cannibalism in New Guinea  
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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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