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Mutual relationship.. Partners what... Ex.. Microbes supplied with

Both benefit



Some bacteria in large intestine synthesize Vit K and certain B vitamins



Nutrients and energy Sources

Commensal relationship... Partners... Ex..

One partner benefit but the other remains unharmed



Bacteria living on skin which are neither harmful nor useful to human host but benefit by gaining food

Parasitic relationship... Benefits... All pathogens are

One partner benefits at expense of other



Parasites

Normal flora... Def... Types... Where is no Microbial flora

Population of microorganisms found growing on body



Resident


Transient



Blood w internal Organs w lower respiratory Tract (sterile Sites)

Resident flora w transient .. Def... ex. . .

Microorganisms that are always present on or in human body


Microorganisms that are temporarily present under certain conditions



Skin w oral cavity w upp respiratory Tract w Intestinal Tract


Contamination of skin by pathogenic organism

Time of colonization... Story .... Origin

A Healthy human fetus is sterile until rupture of Protective membranes surrounding it



It begins during passage through birth canal

Principles of Infectious diseases...

Most of them are Initiated by colonization



Colonization : Microbe becomes established and multiplying on body Surface

Results of microbial colonization

1)Elimination of organism by host defenses without affecting host


2) organism become part of normal flora


3) infection in which :


A) subclinical or unapparent infection occurs > no Apparent signs or symptoms


B) infectious disease

Pathogenecity.. Def

Ability to cause disease

Virulence.. Def

Degree of pathogenecity

Pathogens.. Types

1ry :


That are able to cause disease in Healthy persons ex: that cause diphteria and tuberculosis


Opportunistic : causes disease only in immunosuppressed hosts or when introduced into abnormal Location

Source of infection

Endogenous


Exogenous

Endogenous... From... Commensal organisms May become.... Ex

From patient himself



Pathogenic under certain conditions



Commensal microbes in mouth as during tooth extraction

Exogenous include

Human


Animal


Inanimate (soil)

Carrier more Dangerous than patients bec

Not easily detected (asymptomatic)


Mix freely with others


Difficult in treatment

Diseases from animals to human known as:..... Ex

Zoonotic diseases



Intestinal tuberculosis


Q Fever

Inanimate Source mainly for.... Ex

Spore forming organism



Tetanus

Method of transmission of infection

Air-borne


Ingestion


Blood


Sexual transmission


Arthropod - borne infection

Air borne... Def.. Respiratory diseases

Small Droplets from mouth or nose during coughing or sneezing are Transmitted by air



Transmitted by this route ex influenza.. Diptheria

Ingestion... Occ in... Affect

Food or water or milk borne infections



GIT w cholera, bacillary dysentery, typhoid fever

Blood... Through

Blood transfusion ex hepatitis w AIDS

Sexual transmission ex

AIDS w gonorrhea w syphilis

Arthropod borne through

Mosquitos ex malaria w Q Fever

Factors aff

Host factors


Microbial factors