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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