Host-Pathogen Interactions — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is painful pharyngitis caused by the presence of adult liver flukes on the posterior pharyngeal wall after eating raw sheep liver.

Answer: Halzoun

Flashcard 2: _____ bodies are amorphous eosinophilic nuclear inclusions associated with yellow fever

Answer: Torres

Flashcard 3: PAS-positive macrophages containing bacilli is diagnostic of _____ disease,

Answer: Whipple's

Flashcard 4: The granulomas of a Ghon focus are _____ granulomas,meaning they have a central area of necrotic macrophages

Answer: caseating

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Answer: samples for CBNAAT

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Flashcard 6: 9b73b326df1f48018198c53149c5274e-ao-2

Answer: sputum grading for TB under microscope

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Flashcard 7: 2beac1d544f14e59a1ee5f0f3ac533f4-ao-3

Answer: paucibacillary vs multibacillary leprosy

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Flashcard 8: _____ is the most sensitive test for testing of HIV

Answer: ELISA

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Flashcard 9: bacterial load is high in _____ leprosy

Answer: lepromatous

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Flashcard 10: VAPP (vaccine-associated paralytic polio) occurs due to _____

Answer: reversion of the attenuated vaccine virus to neurovirulence

Extra: VAPP (Vaccine-Associated Paralytic Polio) occurs when the live attenuated virus in the OPV (Sabin vaccine) undergoes genetic mutation or reversion back to a neurovirulent phenotype. This leads to paralysis in the vaccine recipient or a close contact. It is a direct viral effect, not an aberrant immune reaction.