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C. difficile: Bacteriology and Pathogenesis

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  • Ingested spores survive gastric acid barrier and germinate in the colon
  • Associated with acid-reducing agents
  • Colonization occurs after alteration of normal

intestinal microbiota, usually by antibiotics

• 1/3 to 2/3 of colonized patients develop clinical

symptoms

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Bacillus spp. characteristics

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Aerobic Gram-positive, large rods

  • Spore forming
  • Predominantly found in soil
  • Can be contaminants in laboratory cultures but can also cause infection in compromised hosts
  • B.cereus group includes Sub-sp B.cereus, B.thuringiensis, B.anthracis.
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Necrotising Soft Tissue Infections pathogens

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  • Group A strep is principal cause
  • Klebsiella spp.
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • E. coli
  • Staphylococcus aureus
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Noroviral acute gastroenteritis timeline

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  • Incubation period 24- 48h
  • Infectious period – 4h before symptoms to

48h after resolution of symptoms

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Noroviral acute gastroenteritis sx

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  • Clinical features: nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting ( projectile), watery diarrhoea, fever, myalgia, headache..
  • Sometimes just nausea and ? indigestion,

sometimes only diarrhoea, and sometimes

no symptoms but still infected (asymptomatic infection)

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Chikungunya Virus: Epidemiology

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  • Humans and Primates are the reservoir
  • Usually endemic in Africa, India, Fiji Islands, Mauritius and SE Asia
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Chikungunya Virus: Diagnosis, prevention and control

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  • Diagnosis by virus isolation, RT-PCR and serology
  • Prevention, No Vaccine is available, mosquito control
  • Asprin is not recommended
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C. difficile prevention

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  • Rational Anti-infective prescribing
  • Reduced use of acid-reducing agents
  • Commodes & the environment must be clean…
  • Hand washing by staff
  • Hands of patients can be the vector
  • Food services including food from relatives
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NDM-1 organism characteristics

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Gram-negative bacteria like Klebsiella

6
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C.difficile tx

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metronidazole or vancomycin

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New Opportunities for Pathogens: Ecological Changes

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9
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What is NDM-1?

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New Delhi metallo-ß-lactamase-1, or NDM-1 for short, is a gene carried by bacteria that makes the strain resistant to carbapenem antibiotics.

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C. difficile structure

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Gram-positive, spore-forming anaerobic bacillus

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Chikungunya Virus: Pathogenesis

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  • Incubation, 1-12 days (2-3 days common)
  • Causes fever (400C/ 1040F), arthritis, Rashes (maculopapular or petechial) and encephalitis
  • Counters type I(α andβ) INF by viral NS2 protein
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BSE- vCJD characteristics

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Origin is scrapie infected sheep or by mutation in cattle

  • Either way, animal concentrates fed to cattle triggered the outbreak of BSE
  • BSE jumped the species barrier ( if from scrapie) and triggered vCJD
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Chikungunya Virus characteristics

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Ss+ polarity RNA (Baltimore class IVb)

• Family: Togaviridae

– Genus: Alphavirus (Semliki Forest virus

complex

– Virus:Chikungunya virus

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Norovirus another name

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Norwalk

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MERS-CoV: Epidemiology

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4 groups;

– Alpha: Bats

– Beta: Bats

– Gamma: Birds

– Delta: Birds

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MERS-CoV: Pathogenicity

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  • Infects bronchial epithelium
  • Evades immune attack
  • Antagonistic to INF
  • Attaches to CD26 (DPP4) peptide expressed in the bronchial epithelium and the kidneys
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Norovirus characteristics

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possess single-stranded positive sense RNA genomes.

• Now detected by nucleic acid amplification

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MERS-CoV: Virus characteristics

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• Ss+ Polarity RNA (Baltimore class IV)

Possibly zoonotic in nature

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Hospital water-borne infections

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  • P. aeruginosa
  • Enteric gram-negatives
  • Legionella
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Opportunities increasing emerging diseases

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–Changes in land use

–Rural to urban migration

–Internal displacement

–Globalization of people and goods, travel, international migration

–Medical technologies