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BIO 2117 CHAP 13

HUMAN/MICROBE INTERACTIONS

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NORMAL FLORA BECOMES OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGEN ANTIBIOTIC OVERGROWTH(CANDIDA,C.DIFF) IMMUNOSUPPRESSION (AIDS,DRUGS) ORGAN DISEASE (CANCER, LIVER,DIABETES)
SURFACES (SKIN,G.I.TRACT,DISTAL URETHRA,EXTERNAL GENETALIA - NOT ORGANS OR FLUID)SPECIFIC TO A LOCATION NORMAL FLORA
THE ABILITY TO ESTABLISH ITSELF IN HOST AND CAUSE DAMAGE/ features that help pathogens cause a disease VIRULENCE FACTOR
STRESS, OLD AGE/EXTREME YOUTH, GENETIC DEFECTS, SURGERY/ TRANSPLANTS, CHEMOTHERAPY/ IMMUNOSUPRESSANT DRUGS, INFECTIONS PREDISPOSING FACTORS FOR SUSCEPTIBILITY TO OPPORTUNISTIC PATHOGENS
CAN CAUSE DISEASE IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS TRUE PATHOGENS
SYPHILIS,TOXOPLASMOSIS, OTHER DISEASES (HEP B,AIDS, & CHLAMYDIA), RUBELLA, CYTOMEGALOVIRUS, HERPES STORCH
SUBSTANCES THAT ARE TOXIC TO WBC'S LEUKOCIDINS
RELATIONSHIP/ ONE BENEFITS WITHOUT HARMING THE OTHER COMMENSALISM
MOST DIVERSE MICROORGANISMS ORAL CAVITY
LARGEST POPULATION NATURAL FLORA/ MOST ANAEROBES COLON
LIVES THERE SHORT PERIODS OF TIME (SKIN) TRANSIENT NORMAL FLORA
LIVES THERE ALL THE TIME RESIDENT NORMAL FLORA
SKIN, GI TRACT, RESPIRATORY, UROGENITAL, STORCH PORTALS OF ENTRY
4 WAYS MICROORGANISMS EVADE HOSTS IMMUNE DEFENSES CAPSULES(ANTI-PHAGOCYTIC), LEUKOCIDINS(CHEMICALS THAT KILL WBC'S),ANTIGEN SHIFT(EVADE MEMORY),MIMICRY(HOSTLIKE)
MUCINASE(DIGESTS MUCOUS), KERATINASE (DIGEST KERATIN), COLLAGENASE(DIGEST COLLAGEN), HYALURONIDASE (DIGESTS HYALURONIC ACID-MAKES PATHWAY BTWN CELLS TO GET TO DEEPER TISSUE) EXOENZYMES (RELEASED BY PATHOGEN)
SOURCE BOTH GRAM + & -, SECRETED BY LIVING CELLS EX. HOOPING COUGH: CILIA IN TRACHEA EXOTOXINS
PROTEIN, VERY SPECIFIC FOR TARGET CELL/TOXIC EXOTOXINS
SHED FROM OUTER MEMBRANE;LPS CHAINS GRAM - OUTER MEMBRANE/RELEASE USUALLY FROM DEAD CELLS/ NON-SPECIFIC (INFLAMMATION/FEVER) ENDOTOXIN
DISSOLVE BLOOD CLOTS KINASES
TOXIN IN BLOOD TOXEMIA
TOXIC BY INGESTION INTOXICATION
ORDER OF PROGRESS OF AN INFECTION: WHAT THREE THINGS HAPPEN FIRST? HAVE A PATHOGEN, INFECTIOUS DOSE AND PORTAL OF ENTRY
# OF PATHOGENS THAT ENTER/INTRODUCED TO HOST EX. TB=10 CELLS/CHOLERA=BILLION CELLS INFECTIOUS DOSE
HOW DO PATHOGENS ATTACH TO HOST? BY WAY OF: SLIME LAYER, CAPSULE, FIMBRIAE(E.COLI), SCOLEX,HOOKS, SUCKERS, SPIKES(VIRUSES)
PERMANENT DAMAGE TO TISSUE/ORGANS RESULTING FROM INFECTIOUS DISEASE SEQUELAE
NO SIGNS OR SYMPTOMS/ DORMANT STATE EX. HERPES SIMPLEX/HIV LATENCY PERIOD
% OF POPULATION THAT HAS A DISEASE PREVALENCE
# OF NEW CASES (COUNT ONCE) INCIDENCE
PRESENT IN PREDICTABLE #'S/ ALWAYS A PARTICULAR GEOGRAPHIC PLACE ENDEMIC
UNPREDICTABLE #'S/ UNPREDICTABLE TIME FRAME/IRREGULAR/RANDOM SPORATIC
LARGE # OF PATIENTS IN A SPECIFIC PLACE EPIDEMIC
WORLD WIDE EPIDEMIC EX. HIV, TB(1 IN 3 WORLDWIDE), MALARIA PANDEMIC
STUDY OF FREQUENCY OF DISEASE, APPLY STATISTICAL ANALYSIS EPIDEMIOLOGY
INFECTION AQUIRED IN HOSPITAL OR OUTPATIENT SETTING (UTI 40%, SURGICAL SITES 19%-STAPHYLOCOCCUS /STREPTOCOCCUS, RESPIRATORY 15%) NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION
FOMITES(DOOR KNOBS), FOOD, H2O, BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS, AIR(DROPLET NUCLEI), AEROSOLS(DUST) INDIRECT TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE
MUCOUS TO MUCOUS(KISSING/SEX), DROPLETS (WITHIN 3'), VERTICAL(MOTHER TO CHILD), VECTORS (REGURGITATING /DEFECATING INTO BLOOD) DIRECT TRANSMISSION OF DISEASE
MILD SIGNS & SYMPTOMS/'OFF DAY' BEFORE ONSET PRODROMAL STAGE
GREATEST SYMPTOMS HEIGHT OF INFECTION
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS APEX & PLATEAU PERIOD OF INVASION
SIGNS & SYMPTOMS ABATE CONVALESCENT PERIOD
PATHOGEN RESTRICTED TO ONE SITE EX. BOIL LOCALIZED INFECTION
PATHOGEN SPREADS THROUGHOUT CIRCULATION/MANY SITES SYSTEMATIC INFECTION
INITIALLY LOCALIZED,THEN CIRCUMSTANCES CAUSE TO SPREAD SYSTEMATICALLY FOCAL INFECTION
SAME SITE, MORE THAN ONE MICROBE EX. SINUITIS MIXED INFECTION
WHERE PATHOGENS LIVE RESERVOIR
WATER, SOIL, FOOD NON-LIVING RESERVOIR
NON-LIVING SURFACE THAT HARBORS PATHOGEN EX. DOOR KNOB, BED PAN, CONTAMINATED CATHETERS FOMITE
INFECTION INDIGENOUS TO ANIMALS ALSO TRANSMITTABLE TO HUMANS ZOONOSIS
NOT INFECTED/ A VEHICLE EX. MEDICAL PERSONNEL NOT WASHING HANDS PASSIVE CARRIER
WITHOUT SYMPTOMS EX.GONORRHEA, GENITAL WARTS ASYMPTOMATIC CARRIER
SIGNS/SYMPTOMS OVER, PATHOGEN RESIDES IN BODY EX. 'THYPHOID MARY', HERPES, TB CHRONIC CARRIER
HUMAN OR ANIMAL CARRIER LIVING RESERVOIR
PATHOGEN LIVES IN INSECT BIOLOGICAL VECTOR
PASSIVE CARRIER/A VEHICLE EX. A HOUSE FLY MECHANICAL VECTOR
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