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Download MBBS General Medicine PPT 5 Spirochete Infections Lecture Notes

Download MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) General Medicine 2022 PPT 5 Spirochete Infections Lecture Notes

This post was last modified on 05 April 2022

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Approach to Infectious Diseases and their prevention

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Antibiotic stewardship practices

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Community-Acquired Infections

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Health Care?Associated Infections

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Gram-Positive Bacteria (part-1)

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Gram-Positive Bacteria (part-2)

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Gram-Negative Bacteria (part-1)

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Gram-Negative Bacteria (part-2)

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Spirochetal Diseases

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Diseases Caused by Atypical/Miscellaneous Bacterial Infections

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Revision-cum-exam on bacteria (Must to know type)

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Infections Due to DNA Viruses

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Infections Due to RNA Viruses (part 1)

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Infections Due to RNA Viruses (part 2)

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HIV/AIDS ? part 1

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HIV/AIDS ? part 2

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Fungal Infections

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Parasitic Infections (part 1)

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Parasitic Infections (part 2)

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Revision-cum-exam on Virus, Fungal, and Parasite (Must to know type)

Spirochaetales

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Leptospira species, which cause leptospirosis
Borrelia species, which cause relapsing fever and Lyme
Brachyspira species, which cause intestinal infections; and
Treponema species, which cause the diseases treponematoses

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The Treponema species include

T. pallidum subspecies pallidum, which causes venereal syphilis;
T. pallidum subspecies pertenue, which causes yaws;

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T. pallidum subspecies endemicum, which causes endemic syphilis; and
T. carateum, which causes pinta

T. pallidum cannot be cultured in vitro and only known natural host is the human
Jarisch- Herxheimer reaction is always a possibility in all spirochetes

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Nearly all cases of syphilis are acquired by sexual contact with infectious lesions

(i.e., the chancre, mucous patch, skin rash, or condylomata lata)

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Others: personal contact, infection in utero, blood transfusion, and organ

transplantation

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IP ? average 21 days
Rapidly penetrates intact mucous membranes or abrasions in skin and, within a few

hours, enters the lymphatics and blood to produce systemic infection

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Identification and examination of sexual contacts are most important for patients

with syphilis of <1 year's duration

The clinical appearance depends on the number of treponemes inoculated and on

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the immunologic status of the patient

Primary Syphilis - primary chancre
Secondary Syphilis - parenchymal, constitutional, and mucocutaneous manifestations

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Tertiary Syphilis ? gumma (a usually benign granulomatous lesion); cardiovascular

syphilis (usually ascending aorta and resulting in aneurysm); and neurosyphilis

(asymptomatic, meningeal, meningovascular, and parenchymatous (tabes dorsalis

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and paresis) syphilis)

Latent Syphilis - Positive serologic tests for syphilis, together with a normal CSF

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examination and the absence of clinical manifestations

Congenital Syphilis - fetal damage generally does not occur until after the fourth month

of gestation; most common clinical problem is the healthy-appearing baby born to a

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mother with a positive serologic test Routine serologic testing in early

Screening or diagnosis (RPR or VDRL)
Quantitative measurement of antibody to assess clinical syphilis activity or to monitor

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response to therapy (RPR or VDRL)

Confirmation of a syphilis diagnosis in a patient with a reactive RPR or VDRL test (FTA-

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ABS, TPPA, EIA/CIA)

Persons with newly diagnosed HIV infection should be tested for syphilis; conversely, all

patients with newly diagnosed syphilis should be tested for HIV infection

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An infant should be treated at birth

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if the treatment status of the seropositive mother is unknown;

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if the mother has received inadequate or nonpenicillin therapy;

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if the mother received penicillin therapy in the third trimester; or

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if the infant may be difficult to follow

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Leptospirosis

Recent outbreaks on virtual y al continents (mainly in the tropics and subtropics)

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By pathogenic species, L. interrogans designated as L. interrogans sensu lato

Underappreciated problem with a broad spectrum of clinical manifestations,

varying from asymptomatic infection to fulminant, fatal disease

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Rodents, especially rats, are the most important reservoir

Transmission may follow direct contact with urine, blood, or tissue from an infected

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animal or, more commonly, exposure to environmental contamination through cuts,
abraded skin, or mucous membranes

IP - 1 to 30 days

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Leptospiremic phase ? evade complement-mediated killing by binding factor H

Immune phase - bacteria persist in various organs


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Mild Leptospirosis - usually presents as a flu-like il ness, with fever, conjunctival

suffusion, pharyngeal injection, muscle tenderness, lymphadenopathy, rash,

meningismus, hepatomegaly, and splenomegaly

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Severe Leptospirosis - Weil's syndrome, encompasses the triad of hemorrhage,

jaundice, and acute kidney injury; Other syndromes include (necrotizing)

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pancreatitis, cholecystitis, rhabdomyolysis, and neurologic manifestations including

aseptic meningitis

Clinical diagnosis should be based on an appropriate exposure history combined

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with any of the protean manifestations

Definitive diagnosis is based on isolation of the organism, polymerase chain reaction

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(PCR), or seroconversion or a rise in antibody titer (by MAT/ELISA)

Nonoliguric hypokalemic renal insuf iciency is characteristic of early leptospirosis
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