HSS 1100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Zoonosis, Psychrophile, Epididymitis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1100
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Plasmodium (causes malaria, transmitted by mosquito, spiking chills and fever) Bacillus anthracis (causes anthrax) infection through contact with animal furs or soil. Two plasmids: px01 codes for three sub units of anthrax exotoxin, px02 codes for the capsule, capsule is protein based (rare) Bacillus cereus (makes enterotoxins that cause problems) create heat stable and heat labile. Spore forming: clostridium: difficile (exotoxins cause pseudomembranous colitis and diarrhea, botulinum (botulism: neurotoxin, causes bilateral, top-down paralysis; problems with improperly canned food, perfringens (gangrene, problem with soldiers, tetani (tetanus, opposite of botulism, prolonged muscle contraction) Listeria monocytogenes (psychrotrophic, can cross the three protective barriers: gi tract, blood- brain barrier, and infant-placental barrier) Corynebacterium diptheriae (diphtheria, exotoxin damages heart and neural cells) Salmonella and e. coli (salmonella doesn"t ferment lactose, e. coli ferments lactose: coli h7-o157 (flagella 7, antigen 157, hamburger disease, causes hemolytic uremic syndrome, causative agent of traveler"s diarrhea) Salmonella (two cause enteric fever, typhi and paratyphi, one causes enterocolitis, enteriditis.