HSS 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mycoplasma Pneumonia, Mycoplasma Hominis, Chlamydia Trachomatis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 1101
• Professor: Tien Nguyen

Document Summary

First form, tiny , infectious form (actively seeking a host cell to infect), no growth or replication: reticulate body (800-1000 nm) Eb form turns into reticulate body (double size), replication and growth! Once inside cell, starts to multiple, increase in number until entire host cell is now filled with rb, once cell dies and lysis, they get out of cell and turn back into. Most common std in canada and us. Many patients asymptomatic and untreated: can"t culture, can"t stain, so small = limited diagnostic tools, untreated mmale: prostatitis, epididymitis, untreated female: worse, pid, tubal infertility, ectopic pregnany, chronic pelvic pain. Trachoma: chronic ocular infection, leading cause of blindness in middle east, north africa and south east asia. Resp tract infections, mild pneumonia, sub clinical infenctions. Bird pathogen, can transmit to humans (pet birds), pneumonia or endocarditis (very rarely) Chalmydia is super common, and can cause other types of infection!