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Test 6
Test 6 misc
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 3
04/17/2013

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What infection is found in infected humans and primates?
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viral hemorrhagic fevers
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Where do you find the symptoms "from jane"
Definition
infective endocarditis
Term
What infection can you acquire from anything that allows bacteria into the blood?
Definition
infective endocarditis
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What infections do you have the lonestar tick and black legged tick?
Definition
ehrilichiosis
Term
What is the most common vector borne disease in the US?
Definition
lyme disease
Term
What is tularemia caused by?
Definition
tick bites
Term
What is the most common cause of non gonococcal urethritis?
Definition
chlamydia
Term
GAG
Definition
big protein that gets clipped to make the capsid
Term
POL
Definition
encodes the reverse transcriptase to be a retrovirus (polymerase)
Term
ENV
Definition
gets processed to be the GP120 and GP41 in envelope: lets you recognize T cells and macrophages
Term
Fungal opportunistic infection of HIV
Definition
histoplasmosis, cryptococcosis, coccidioidomycosis, candidiasis, neumocystis
Term
Bacterial opportunistic infection of AIDS just the main one
Definition
Mycobacterium avium is the main cause
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Viral opportunistic infection of HIV
Definition
cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, kaposi's sarcoma
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What antigen do you look for when you look for AIDS
Definition
p24
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How can you diagnose AIDS?
Definition
look for p24 antigen, antibody, detection of viral DNA or RNA, Western blot, AIDS
Term
What three things are in the HAART cocktail?
Definition
reverse transcriptase inhibitors (hits the virus at various stages), protease inhibitors (Inhibits the protease that cuts the gene), fusion inhibitors (preventing GP 120 from getting spread from cell to cell)
Term
What bug is associated with acute bacterial endocarditis?
Definition
S aureus
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what bug is associated with subacute bacterial endocarditis?
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alpha strep, staph
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What disease do you have stupor, sensitivity to light and delirium?
Definition
epidemic typhus feverq
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What is a defining symptom of ehrlichiosis?
Definition
confusoin
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What type of pathogens are ehrlichiosis?
Definition
obligate intraleukocytic pathogens
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Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Definition
found in septicemic plague
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