ETEC
Widespread disease consisting of watery diarrhea and no fever, is most commonly found in less developed countries
What is traveler's disease?
EHEC is also called
What is STEC (shiva toxin E.coli)?
What is Salmonella, Yersinia, shigella?
Attachment of EPEC to this part of the gastrointestinal tract leads to severe diarrhea
What is small intestine?
Treat by rehydration, no anti-diarrheal and only in severe cases antibiotics
What is dysentery?
Toxin of ETEC that modifies adenylate cyclase leading to osmotic stresses
What is labile toxin (LT)?
Most common cause of acute renal failure in children
What is hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)?
Enterobacteriaceae that are pathogens _______ in bile salts
What is survival?
These are used to bind the bacterial cells to the surface of the intestinal epithelial cells by forming a network of fibers that bind together the individual organisms
What is bundle-forming pili?
What is hemorrhagic colitis?
Antigens that are essential for ETEC binding to the GI tract to avoid being completely passed without colonization
What is colonization factor antigens (CFA)?
EHEC translation inhibitor cleaves what part of the ribosome
What is 28S?
Type of diarrhea results in blood but no tissue damage
What is hemorrhagic?
EPEC causes alterations in the small bowel epithelial cells, which can result in this substance in the stool
What is mucus?
Characterized as liquid, bloody stool occurring within the large intestine with tissue damage present
What is bloody, watery diarrhea?
Peptide toxin that spans the membrane and acts to change GTP levels
What is stable toxin (ST)?
Attachment of EHEC to this part of the gastrointestinal tract leads to hemorrhagic diarrhea
What is large intestine?
Type of secretion system enterobacteriaceae use
What is type 3 secretion systems?
These are formed on small intestinal enterocytes and are characterized by localized destruction of microvilli
What is attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions?
Common culprit of watery stool
What is ETEC strain and vibrio cholera?
Toxin produced by ETEC that acts as an AB toxin
3 signs of hemolytic uremic syndrome
What is microanglopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia, and renal insufficiency?
All Enterobacteriaceae have that is recognized by the immune system
What is Enterobacterial common antigen?
EPEC involves this beneath bacteria, resulting in the bacteria sitting on raised pedestal-like structures
What is actin polymerization?
Bloody, mucous covered stool, occurs within the large intestine with tissue invasion
What is dysentery?