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Medical Microbiology
Fall Semester 2012
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 1
09/06/2012

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Term
Medical Microbiology: 
Definition

The study of small pathogens and the disease they cause.  

 

Pathogens are disease causing organisms.

 

Disease is something that interrupts homeostasis.  

Term
What are Prions?
Definition

Prions are infectious proteins that cannot be autoclaved or flamed.  

 

Prions cause spongiform encephalopathies with open areas of plaque.

 

Disease they cause: Mad cow disease, Kuru in cannibals, Creutzfeld Jakob disease (CJD).  

Term
What are viruses?
Definition
  • Viruses are non-living genetic elements/particles.
  • Obligate parasite that cannot replicate with host cell.
  • Survive outside hostcell(capsid coat, envelope)
  • Metabolically inert (no metabolism)
  • Examples: Influenza, polio, chicken pox, herpes, AIDS, measles, Ebola.

 

Term
Describe Virus structure and features:
Definition
  • Have DNA or RNA, not both, inside protein shell.
  • Viral genomes are generally linear.
  • Encode machinary for host subjugation.
  • Largest virus is about same size as smallest cell.
  • All cells have viruses.
Term
What are Fungi?
Definition
  • Saprophytes.
  • Single celled or multicellular.
  • Examples include:  molds, yeasts, mushrooms, parasites, saprovores.
  • Disease: yeast infections, athletes foot.
Term
What are the general characteristics of fungi?
Definition
  • Tough cells walls made of chitin sterols.
  • Physiology--saprophytes, acid/temp tolerant.
  • Yeast or mold morphologies, spore common.
Term
What are the differences between mold and yeast?
Definition
  • Molds are multicellular.
  • Yeast are unicellular, and sugar loving.
  • Many yeasts are dimorphic.
Term
Protists:
Definition
  • Motile, unicellular "animals"
  • no cell wall
  • fresh/marine water or parasites
  • Examples: Malaria, Toxoplasmosis, Giardia, Entamoeba, Montezuma's revenge.
Term
What are the different types of Immunity?
Definition

Non-Specific:  tears, skin, flow of liquids out, phagocytes, pH of tummy.

 

Specific:  Immunity=Immunology

  • Humoral: Antibody; protein molecules that bind to foreign material and inactivate it.
  • Cellular: cells interact with foreign with foreign material to kill also control immune response. CD4, CD8, etc.  
Term
Who was Robert Koch?
Definition

The man who developed the postulate for disease  etiology.

 

Studied TB, Anthrax, and Cholera.  

Term
What is Koch's Postulate for disease etiology?
Definition
  1. Associate with disease.
  2. Isolate in pure culture.
  3. Inject animal and get same disease.
  4. Recover in pure culture.  
Term
Who is considered the father of microbiology? Why?
Definition

Louis Pasteur

 

Developed attenuated vaccines for anthrax and chicken cholera.  He produced first vaccine for Rabies.  

 

Term
What was the first antibiotic discovered and by whom?
Definition

Penicillin

 

Fleming, Chain and Florey

Term
Definition of Virulent:
Definition
a quantitative measure of the ability of an infectious agent to cause disease
Term
Name and describe the 5 different relationships between infectious agents and humans:
Definition
  1. Free Living--couldn't care less.
  2. Commensal--"eat at the same table," no damage
  3. Symbiotic--both gain, eg normal flora
  4. Parasite--it harms you.  May or may not cause disease.  For disease there must be a PATHOLOGICAL change in the host.
  5. Saprophytic--lives on dead and decaying material.  
Term
What are the three things necessary for infectious agents to succeed?
Definition
  1. Transmission--get from host to host.
  2. Correct Portal of Entry 
  3. Find correct "niche"
Term
How does the tranmission infectious agents occur?
Definition
  1. Direct Contact--staph, herpes, athletes foot.
  2. Sexual or Veneral
  3. Respiratory--Strep, influenza
  4. Fecal/Oral--salmonella, giardia
  5. Water/Food
  6. Food--botulism, salmonella
  7. Fomite--inanimate objects (drinking fountain, forks)
  8. Vectors--orgnaims that transmit disease.  

 

Term
What factors are required for an organism to find the correct "niche"
Definition
  • Oxygen level (eg Areobic, Anaerobic)
  • Correct pH (Acidic or Basic)
  • Correct Nutrients
  • Overcome other organisms
  • Overcome host defenses.
Term
What are the four possible outcomes when we come into contact with a pathogenic agent?
Definition
  1. Most common--we control and destroy with no symptoms, Immune system protect us.
  2. We get sick and then recover, destroying the agent.
  3. We control it but we become carriers (eg typhoid Mary)
  4. It kills us.
Term

What are the different ways to classify infections?

 

Exogenous--from without

Endogenous--from within

Definition

Local--remains at one site (eg zit)

Focal--spreads to other sites from a point source (eg tetanus)

Systemic--throughout the body (eg Plague)

Primary--results from invading agent

Secondary--disease caused by other agents as a result of devility due to disease or therapy (eg chemotherapy, AIDS)

Mixed--two or more agents involved.

Inapparent or subclinical--you have an immune response with no symptoms.

Term
EMIAS--bugs in the blood.  What are the six different types we talked about in class?
Definition

Bacteremia--transitory state where bacteria are in blood moving to another place.

Septicemia--blood is the infected tissue.

Pyemia--pyogenic bacteria in blood (eg staph/strep)

Toxemia--poison in blood (eg Tetanus)

Viremia--virus in blood

Parasitemia--parasite in blood (eg Malaria)

 

Term
What are the factors of the infectious agent?
Definition
  1. Ability to invade (enzymes)
  2. Capsules (polysaccaride, antiphagocytic)
  3. Toxins (endo and exo)
  4. Motility (cilia, flagellum)
  5. Adherence (velcro for a microbe)
  6. Antigenic variation (ability to change surface at high rate to confuse IR)
Term
What factors of the host affect our resistance to a disease?
Definition
  1. Premunition (ability to resist infection due to generations of contact)
  2. Age (hard on very young and very old)
  3. Genetic ability to resist disease
  4. Nutrition/Health
  5. Occupation
  6. Other diseases
Term
What are the portals of entry to the body?
Definition
  1. Skin--Integument
  2. Mucous Membranes
  3. Ears
  4. Nasopharynx
  5. Oropharynx
  6. Respiratory Tract
  7. Eye
  8. Gut
  9. Urogential Tract
Term
What defense does the body have at the portals of entry?
Definition

Skin--salinity, pH 5, normal flora

MMs--neuramic acid, mucous

Ears--ear wax

Nasopharynx and Oropharynx--mucous expectorant, oro--lysozyme, Naso--hair

Eye--mucous, tears, lysozyme

Gut--pH, normal flora

Urogential--flushing with urine, pH, normal flora

Term
What other ways does the body protect itself?
Definition

Chemical--acids, bases, bile salts, enzymes, 

 

Mechanical--flow of tears, saliva, urine blood is all out!  Washes organisms away.

 

Normal Flora--organisms that live within us cover up sites, produce antimicrobial agents.  

Term
What is blood?
Definition
An organ that constitutes about 50% of cells.  
Term
Define Plasma and Serum
Definition
Plasma is the fluid portion of the blood.  Serum is the when all of the clotting factors have been removed from the plasma.  
Term
Why does plasma leave the blood?
Definition
Plasma leaves the blood to bathe tissues with O2 and nutrients.  If too much plasma enters there is swelling (edema).  Fluid is returned to blood by lymphatic system.  
Term
What are the two types of white blood cells?
Definition

Granulocytes--have granules

 

Agranulocytes--no granules.  

Term
What are the three types of granulocytes?
Definition
Eosinophils, Basophils, Neutrophils
Term
Define Eosinophiles
Definition
Granules stain red with acid eosin.  Involved in down regulating inflammation, allergic reactions and controlling  parasitic disease.  
Term
Define Basophils
Definition

Grandules stain purple with basic dye.  Grandules are mainly HISTAMINE, the stuff of inflammation.  Up-regulate inflammation.

 

If they become bound or fixed in endothelium they are called Mast Cells.  

Term
Define Neutrophils
Definition
Most abundant whtie blood cell.  Grandules stain pink in neutral dye.  Grandules are lytic enzymes, alkaline phosphate and such.  Phagocytic cells.  Can exit blood in pursuit of bad stuff.  
Term
What are the four agranulocytes?
Definition
  1. Monocytes
  2. Lymphocytes
  3. Platelets
  4. Natural Killer Cells
Term
Define Monocytes:
Definition
Monocytes are large phagocytic cells.  Macrophage.  Can enter and leave blood.  Involved in initiating immune response and are critical in destroying foreign material.  
Term
Define Lymphocytes:
Definition
Cells that mediate specific immune response.  
Term
Define platelets:
Definition
Very small cells involved in blood clottings.
Term
Define natural killer cells:
Definition
subset of lymphocytes that can directly kill foreign cells. They bind to carbohydrates on the surface of virus infected and cancerous cells.  They also participate in antibody dependent cell mediated cytotoxity.  
Term
What is lymphatic system?
Definition
A passive circulatory system that returns plasma (lymph) to the blood.  
Term
What is the reticuloendothelial system (RES)?
Definition
A system of fixed and circulating phagocytes (macrophage).  Fixed in lymph nodes, spleen and liver.  
Term
What is oxidative killing?
Definition

Increase in metabolism leads to O2 being converted to O2- (superoxide) which spontaneously generates H2O2.  

 

H2O+ Cl- = HOCl (hypochlorite)

Term
What is inflammation?  
Definition

Response to tissue damage.  Short term (good) long term (bad).

 

Tissue damaged mast cells release Histamine and other pharmacological mediators.  

Term
What is histamine?
Definition
  • Chemotatic for PMNs and Macrophage.
  • increase vascular permeability (bring plasma to site)
  • increase vascular dilation (bring core blood to site)
  • Constricts smooth muscle, compresses area to restrict motion of bad guys.
  • Causes pain
  • Macrophages compound the reaction by releasing longer acting cytokines such as leukotrienes and prostaglandins.  
Term
What are th four cardinal signs of inflammation?
Definition
  1. Heat--increased blood flow
  2. Pain--pressure of plasma and cells, histamine causes pain
  3. Swelling--bolume of plasma, swollen vessels and cells 
  4. Redness--increased blood flow
Term
What is the immune response?
Definition
state of resistance to foreign material characterized by specific and memory.  mediated by lymphocytes and macrophages.
Term
What are the important cells in the immune response? 
Definition

Macrophage--large phagocyte

 

Thymus derived lymphocytes (T-cells)--cellular immunity and immune regulation

Term
What does the CD4+ cell do?
Definition
  • Thelper that up regulate the IR (TH)
  • Tdelayed type hypersensitivity Effector Response (TDTH)
Term
What do the CD8+ cells do? 
Definition
  1. T-Suppressor that down regulates the (TS)
  2.  T-Cytotoxic that directly kill cells (TC)
Term
What is the difference between and afferent and efferent response?
Definition

Afferent responses are the reactions that lead to an immune response.  An example would be a foreign material gains access and is ingested by a macrophage. 

 

Efferent responses are those reactions which result from the immune response.  An example would be after be immune response triggerged to destroy all of the foreign material.  

 

 

Term
What is the difference between an immunogen and a antigen?
Definition

Immunogen--afferent; stimulates immune response; must be foreign, complex, ridged, large, epitope density; proteins are the best, carbohydrates and nucleic acids; lipds are poor.

 

Antigen--efferent molecule; any molecule that reacts with the immune system.  

Term
What are the three efferent responses?
Definition
  1. Antibody--glycoprotein released by B-cell bind specifically to antigen.  
  2. Cell-mediated immunity--CD4+ delayed hypersensitivity T-cells + macrophage; Cytotoxicity-CD8+ cytotoxic T-cells
  • Afferent reactions take time to product effector response.  Non-specific defense mechanism must protect body during this time.
  1. tolerance--a specific non-response to self-antigens.
Term

What are the fiveclasses of antibodies?

Definition
  1. IGM--largest Ab
  2. IGG--serum Ab
  3. IGA--secretory or mucousal
  4. IGD--B-cell receptor
  5. IGE--binds ot mast cells, immune mediated inflammation.  
Term
How do the antibodies bind to the antigen and protect us?
Definition
  • Neutralization--cover up toxic sites
  • Opsonization--antibody enhanced phagocytosis.
  • Precipitation/Agglutination--cross linking (make antigens stick together)
  • Complement Fixation--activation of 11 serum proteins thalt burst cells.
  • Immobilization--binding to motility structures.  
Term
What is the difference between the primary and secondary response?  
Definition

The primary response encompasses afferent branch activities.

 

The secondary response encompasses efferent branch activities.  

Term
What are the difference types of passive immunity? 
Definition
  • Natural--(fetus during utero and breast milk)
  • Artificial--(body is injected (anti-toxin, gamma globin)
Term
What are the potentially harmful effects of a vaccine?  
Definition
  1. Hypersensitivity (tissue damage occurs as a result of the normal response)
  2. Autoimmunity (attack on self)
  3. Toxicity (vaccine preparation is poisonous)
  4. Reversion (revert back to virulance)
  5. Immunocompromised host (patients immune system can't handle, dies)
Term
What is an adjuvant?
Definition
Any material which enhances immune response to an immunogen.  Only one is approved for use in humans--aluminum potassium sulfate.  
Term
What is the method of action for an adjuvant?
Definition
  • Enahnced phagocytosis.
  • Prolonged antigen release.
  • non-specifically enhance immune reactive cells
Term
What is a subunit vaccine?
Definition

A sub-unit vaccine is an immunogen which incorporates a single component or molecule to stimulate a protective immune response.  Examples include Hepatitis B and Influenza.  

 

A lot of work is going into developing peptide or epitope vaccines which offer the ability to focus the immune response to a minimal exposed portion of the protective antigen.  

Term
What are recombinant vaccines?  
Definition

Vaccines which employ recombinant DNA techniques to produce and or deliver defined immunogens.

 

Hope to develop single does multi-disease vaccines to focus on local needs.  

 

Disadvantes:  expensive, only one approved: Hep B

Term
Distinguish between natural and artificial immunity:
Definition
—Natural: The fetus receives IgG from the mother in uteroand IgA from colostrum (breast milk).

—Artificial: Antibody is injected (antitoxin, gamma globulin)—good example is Rh disease, where the mother gets shots to prevent the second Rh+ baby’s blood from triggering an immune response in the mother.
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