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Microbiology: Microbial Interaction with Humans

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What is an organism that lives on or in another organism and causes disease?   Parasite  
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What is normal flora?   collection of microbes normally found within a healthy body  
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Pathogen   Disease causing parasite  
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Opportunistic pathogen   Causes disease in the absence of normal host resistance  
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Pathogenicity   Ability of parasite to cause disease  
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What is the quantitative measurement of an organisms ability to cause disease?   Virulence  
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Our body is not uniform describes the differences in   temperature, osmotic pressure, water availibility, nutrients, and oxygen availability  
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Epithelial cells have ___ to help wash away microorganisms   mucus. But some microbes have receptors that bind to epithelial cells and go into the cells.  
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Where can microbes grow on the outer surfaces   Moist areas like sweat glands  
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Why is skin good against microbe growth   dry and acidic  
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Eccrine glands   Main sweat glands that are responsible for thermoregulation  
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Apocrine glands   Wherever there is hair  
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Skin Flora: Transients   Organisms that don't grow but are contaminants  
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Skin flora: Residents   Able to grow on skin, most G+ Examples: Staphylococcus, corynebacteria, and P. acne  
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Mouth Protection: Lysozyme   Breaks glycosidic linkages in peptidoglycan  
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Mouth Protection: Lactoperoxidase   Produces toxic singlet oxygen and kills bacteria  
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Normal flora around teeth   Streptococci and Lactobacilli, when teeth grow in we get colonies  
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Dental plaque   Thick layer of bacteria and polymers that they secrete  
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Steps in plaque growth   1.Deposition (settling) of glycoproteins 2.Attachment of facultative bacteria 3.Colonies form of facultative bacteria and secondary growth 4.decalcification of enamel  
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What are the facultative bacteria of the teeth?   Strepococcus sangula, S. sobrinus, S. mutans, S. mitis  
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what are the secondary growths or the teeth?   Fusobacteria and actinomyses  
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What are the two responsible bacteria causing plaque?   Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus  
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S. mutans   Grows in cracks/crevices between teeth. Produces a very thick glucose polymer.  
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What enzyme does S. mutans use to grow glucose polymer?   Dextransucrase  
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Helicobacter pylori   Causes stomach ulcers  
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Duodenum   Nearest the stomach, fairly acidic, similar flora of stomach  
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Jejunum and Ileum   pH is more alkaline and more bacteria; Enterococci and Lactobacilli  
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Large Intestine Facultative Enterobacteria   E. coli and Enterococcus faecalis  
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Large Intestine Obligative Anaerobes   Bascteroides, Clostridium, and long fusiform (long G- rods)  
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Bioconversions in the large intestine are responsible for   Gas and odor products  
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What are produced in the large intestine?   Vitamin B12 and K and steroids  
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Streptococcus pyogenes   Strep throat and flesh eating bacteria  
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Staphylococcus aureus   Staph infections and boils  
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Corynebacterium diptheriae   diphtheria  
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Steptococcus pneumoniae   pneumonia  
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Smoker's cough   Caused by paralysis of ciliary action by nicotine and other cytotoxins, causes accumulation of mucus and bacteria in the lower respiratory system.  
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Lactobacillus scidophilus   Colonizes the vaginal epithelium and normal flora  
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Onset of puberty in vagina causes secretions of   Glycogen and Lactobacillus  
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Tissue specificity   Organism targets specific type of tissue  
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Host Specificity   Organism only infects only a certain host  
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How is specificity of an organism possible?   Glycocalix (polysaccharides on cell surface) and fimbriae (binds to glycoproteins on cell surface- mannose)  
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Colonization factor antigen (CFA)   fimbriae-like proteins that allow organism (E. coli) to attach to the mucosa of the small intestine  
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Enteropathogenic E. coli   Have CFA's and toxins that produce diarrhea. Large intestine.  
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Transferrin and Lactoferrin   Proteins that bind tightly to iron. So if bacteria want iron they have have to have even stronger siderophores.  
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Siderophores   Iron or ferrin (Fe) binding proteins  
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Aerobactin   Plasmid that carries gene for siderophore and allows bacteria to remove iron from host  
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Localization of infection   pathogens grow locally and do not spread out  
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Bacteremia   Extensive growth in tissue happens some of he organisms can overflow into the blood  
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Septicemia   or systemic infection; continued growth and infection in the blood.  
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Virulence is determined by   toxicity and invasiveness  
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Clostridium tetani   produces a highly toxic exotoxin that makes it very virulent  
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Streptococcus pneumoniae   Highly invasive and multiplies rapidly in lung tissue  
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LD50   Lethal dose to kill 50% of population  
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ID50   Infectious dose to infect 50% of population  
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Virulence factors   Any extracellular proteins that are produced by pathogen and is essential for disease causing  
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Salmonella   Combines toxins, invasiveness and virulence factors to be more pathogenic  
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Cytotoxin   Substance having a specific toxic effect on certain cells  
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Enterotoxin   a cytotoxin specific for cells of intestinal mucosa  
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Endotoxin   Toxin produced by certain bacteria and released upon destruction of bacterial cell  
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Attenuation   Bacterial virulence decreases because of mutation of virulence factors (not needing them)  
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Hyaluronidase   breaks down hyaluronic acid that acts as a cell cement, and allows organisms to spread through tissue  
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Collagenase   Breaks down collagen in the tissues causing them to become loose and allows the organism to spread  
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Streptokinase   Dissolves clots and allows organism to spread- used in heart attack victims  
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Coagulase   Promotes fibrin clotting and stops defense from reaching cells  
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Hemolysis   Proteins that lyse cells (best seen in RBC)  
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Leukocidins   Lyse WBC and decrease host resistance  
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Exotoxins   Protein toxins produced and released outside of the cell. Heat sensitive.  
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Diphtheria toxin   produced by C. diptheriae. Inactivates elongation factor 2 that is required in protein synthesis in eukaryotes.  
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Phage beta in C. diptheriae   Unless incorporated into gene C. diptheriae does not produce the toxin  
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Tetanus toxin is produced by   Clostridium tetani in anaerobic wounds, potent neuortoxin by blocking the release of glycine causing spastic paralysis  
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Botulinum Toxin   Produced by clostridium botulinum, grows in food not humans, toxin kills you by blocking acetylcholine release and causes flaccid paralysis  
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Enterotoxins   Form of exotoxins in small intestine and cause massive secretion of fluid into intestine  
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Food poisoning bacteria   Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium perfringens, and Bacillus cereus  
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Intestinal pathogens   Vibrio cholerae, enteropathogenic E. coli, and Salmonella enteritidis  
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Cholera   Diarrheal disease by cholera enterotoxin (Vibrio cholereae, G-, comma shaped)  
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Endotoxins   G- bacteria produce toxic lipopolysaccharides and are cell bound, but released when cells lyse.  
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Limulus assay   Tests for endotoxins, will lyse amoebocytes in medium  
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Specific host defenses   Against a particular organism or group of organisms  
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Nonspecific host defenses   against all pathogens  
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Tissue Specificity   Organism must colonize specific tissue to survive  
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