BIOL 4376 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, Colistin
3 Jul 2020
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Symptoms come on within 12 hours to 3 days. Estuarine (where saltwater meets freshwater) bacterium, especially in the gulf coast. Skin infections if one goes in infected water. High antibiotic resistance, may need to use colistin. Vaccine available, especially for patients without a spleen and young adolescents. Transmitted from flea bites which were on infected rodents. Symptoms: high fever, swollen lymph nodes, buboes necrotic lymph nodes. Type b is worst offender of flu but actual flu caused by virus. Vaccine available, given to infants/toddlers and unvaccinated adults without a spleen. Arboviruses arthropod has blood meal from infected vertebrate, virus infects arthropod, arthropod can now infect other vertebrates. Reservoir animal (i. e. birds) which hold virus for another arthropod to uptake. Dead-end host humans or horses which cannot give virus back to another arthropod. Causes la crosse virus, aka california encephalitis virus. Typically in tropics or subtropics of africa and south america. Bleeding, jaundice, in severe cases liver and renal dysfunction.
