Toxins quiz

  1. Bacillus anthracis
    • Anthrax toxin     Disrupts cell signaling, cell
    •                         cell migration, and cell death.
    • Protective antigen   cell-binding domain
    • edema factor        edema
    • lethal factor        pulmonary edema, anti-pagocytic
  2. Bordetella pertussis
    • Adenylate cyclase toxin    Antiphagocytic, kills 
    •                                       leukocytes
    • Pertussis toxin                 many hormonal effects
    • Tracheal cytotoxin            kills cillia-bearing cells
  3. Campylobacter jejuni
    enterotoxin             Diarrhea
  4. Clostridium botulinium
    botulin toxin            flaccid paralysis
  5. Clostridium difficile
    • ec
    • Enterotoxin               Hemorrhagic diarrhea
    • Cytotoxin                  cell lose filaments
  6. Clostridium species
    • alpha                necrosis in gas gangrene, cytolytic
    •                         lethal
    • beta                 necrosis enteritis
    • enterotoxin       food posoning; diarrhea
  7. Clostridium tetani
    tetanospasmin       spastic paralysis
  8. Corynebacterium diptheriae
    • Diptheria toxin            cytolysis (cell death), kills 
    •                                  cells
  9. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
    • Exotoxin A          cytolysis (cell death) kills cells
    • Type 3 cytotoxins        Modulate cell physio
  10. Shigella dysenteriae
    shiga toxin(enterotoxin)         cytolysis, kkills cells
  11. Escherichia coli
    • Heat-labile enterotoxin    Diarrhea
    • Cytotoxin                       Hemorrhagic colitis
    • Heat-stable enterotoxin   Diarrhea
  12. Legionella pneumophila
    cytotoxin       Cytolysis, lyses cells
  13. Listeria monocytogenes
    Listeriolysin           cytolysis, lyses cells
  14. Staphylococcus aureus
    • alpha       hemolytic, leukocytic, paralysis
    • beta        cytolytis (cell death)
    • delta       cytolytis  (cell death)
    • enterotoxins       Food poisoning: emesis, diarrhea
    • toxic shock syndrom   farnh
    • Exfoliative toxin     slouphing of skin, scalded skin
  15. Streptococcus
    pneumolysin       cytolysis
  16. Streptococcus pyogenes
    • streptolysic o         cytolysis
    • erythrogenic toxin   fnr (fever, neutropenia, rash)
  17. Vibrio cholera
    choleragen          diarrhea (secretory diarrhea)
  18. Yersinia enterocolitica
    • heat-stable enterotoxin     diarrhea
    • type 3 cytoxins                 modulate host cell
    •                                        physiology
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Toxins quiz
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