MIC 401 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Chlamydia Trachomatis, Treponema Pallidum, Lyme Disease
30 Mar 2016
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Epidemiology incidence, distribuion and prevalence of disease. Disease abnormal body condiion characterized by an ideniiable group of signs and/or symptoms. Chlamydia trachomais cause chlamydia (genital) and trachoma (ocular) Does not have classic gram (-) cell wall. The only one species that cause human disease. Cannot be grown in ariicial medium hard to manipulate. Unique cell wall contains outer membrane with lipopolysaccharides (lps) but lack pepidoglycan. Cause two diseases: trachoma (associated with blindness) and chlamydia (sti) Elementary bodies (eb) non-replicaing infecious paricles released when infected cells rupture (e for exit) Reiculate bodies (rb) non-infecious intracytoplasmic form, involved in replicaion and growth (r for replicaion) Both forms can occur within phagosome of a host. Known as the silent epidemic because majority of women are asymptomaic. Even when chlamydia causes no symptoms it can cause permanent damage to the reproducive system. Women may get a lymophogranuloma verereum (lgv) infecion of lymph nodes and lymphaics.
