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What is primarily required for a virus to initiate an infection?

  • Infection by multiple virus strains simultaneously
  • Susceptibility and permissiveness of host cells (correct)
  • High levels of antibodies in the host
  • Presence of virus particles in large quantities

Which type of interferon is primarily produced by epithelial cells during a viral infection?

  • IFN-α
  • IFN-β
  • IFN-λ (correct)
  • None of the above

Which component of the immune system is primarily responsible for lysis of infected cells?

  • Antibodies
  • Natural killer cells (correct)
  • Macrophages
  • B cells

What immune response is primarily affected in AIDS patients?

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What is the role of interferon-sensitive genes in viral defense?

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Which type of antibody is NOT typically produced in response to viral infections?

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How do natural killer cells contribute to the antiviral immune response?

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What mechanism is NOT involved in the adaptive immune response to viral infections?

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What is an important factor in determining a successful viral infection?

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What is one method by which viruses can evade host defenses?

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Which of the following best describes a chronic viral infection?

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What role do interferons play in the innate immune response to viral infection?

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Which virus is primarily associated with a persistent-latent infection?

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How do viruses typically evade the host immune response?

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What role does the innate immune response play in acute viral infections?

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Which virus is characterized by high mutation rates during genome replication, leading to immune evasion?

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In which type of viral infection does the virus remain dormant and can reactivate later?

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What is a characteristic of slow viral infections?

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What is the main characteristic of the adaptive immune response during acute viral infections?

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What is necessary for initiating a viral infection according to the processes involved?

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What type of viral infection involves an initiation of a non-cytopathic state to avoid an immune response?

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What role do dendritic cells play in the adaptive immune response to viral infections?

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Which of the following viruses is known for causing persistent-slow infections?

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What effect does an immunocompromised state have on viral infections?

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What characterizes chronic infections in persistent viral infections?

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Which of the following viruses is associated with persistent-latent infections?

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What is one way viruses evade the host immune response?

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Which of the following best describes slow persistent infections?

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How do high-frequency variations in antigenic epitopes aid viral persistence?

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What principle underlies the establishment of persistent viral infections?

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Which of the following pathogens is an example of a persistent-slow infection?

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What is a common feature shared by chronic, latent, and slow viral infections?

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Which mechanism is NOT involved in the direct subversion of the immune system by a virus?

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Which virus is associated with persistent chronic infection?

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What characterizes a latent virus infection?

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What occurs during the reactivation of a latent virus like Herpes simplex?

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Which virus is known to cause acute symptoms in its initial infection phase?

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Which of the following is a characteristic of persistent slow viral infections?

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What is the primary consequence of a virus directly infecting immune system cells like lymphocytes?

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Which of the following statements about herpes simplex virus is true?

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Which virus is associated with a slow infection that can lead to progressive neurologic deterioration?

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What type of infection is characterized by the detection of defective virus in the brain years after the initial infection?

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Which of the following viruses is primarily associated with a chronic persistent infection?

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In a persistent infection, what role do antibodies produced during an acute infection play?

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What is a characteristic feature of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)?

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Which of the following viruses has the potential to cause both acute and persistent outcomes?

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What factor primarily determines the outcome of a viral infection?

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What type of persistent infection involves the virus reactivating after latency?

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Which of the following is a potential symptom caused by direct cellular damage from a virus?

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What characterizes clinically inapparent acute viral infections?

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What term describes the first phase of an acute viral infection where the virus spreads from the initial site to the bloodstream?

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Which of the following viruses is known for causing multiple acute infections in succession?

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Which symptom is NOT typically associated with direct viral action on cells?

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What is a common characteristic of acute viral infections that contributes to public health challenges?

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What role do toxic viral proteins play in the pathogenesis of viral infections?

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In the case of an acute infection, what is a possible outcome of the immune response to a virus?

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What is a primary characteristic of acute viral infections?

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Which type of persistent viral infection is characterized by the virus remaining dormant and potentially reactivating later?

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What is one of the main roles of interferons in the context of viral infections?

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What mechanism do viruses commonly use to evade the host's immune response?

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How do natural barriers such as skin and mucus contribute to the prevention of viral infections?

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Which immune cells play a crucial role during the innate response to a viral infection?

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What defines a chronic persistent viral infection?

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Which of the following best describes the role of CD8+ T-cells during a viral infection?

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What role does cell-mediated immunity play in viral infections compared to humoral immunity?

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Which statement best describes the function of interferons during a viral infection?

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What is meant by the term 'tropism' in the context of viral infections?

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In the context of innate defenses against viral infections, what role do natural killer cells play?

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What is a potential consequence of congenital defects in cell-mediated immunity?

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What primarily induces the production of Type I interferons?

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Which antibodies are typically induced in response to viral infections?

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What is a common characteristic of immune evasion strategies employed by viruses?

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Which virus is known for rapidly evolving its antigenic targets to evade the immune system?

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How does a virus like herpes simplex manage to avoid robust immune responses?

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Which of the following describes a persistent-latent viral infection?

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What is a major consequence of an immunocompromised host during a viral infection?

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Which of the following viruses is primarily associated with acute viral infections?

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What distinguishes a slow viral infection from other types of viral infections?

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Which mechanism is employed by viruses like influenza to evade immune system defenses?

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What is a characteristic feature of latent virus infections?

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Which of the following best describes the initial infection symptoms of Herpes Simplex virus Type 1?

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What mechanism is frequently employed by viruses to inhibit the immune response?

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Which of the following viruses is known for its ability to cause persistent-latent infections?

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What is NOT a common effect of direct infection of the immune system by viruses?

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Which of the following represents a persistent-slow viral infection?

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Which statement about viral infections and immune system interactions is accurate?

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What is a typical outcome of a virus that has successfully evaded host immune defenses?

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What outcomes can arise from viral infections?

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Which virus is known to cause a slow infection leading to progressive neurological deterioration?

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What is a characteristic of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)?

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What role do antibodies produced during an acute infection play in persistent infections?

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Which of the following symptoms is associated with a slow viral infection like SSPE?

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Which of these viruses is classified as having a persistent-chronic infection?

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How long may pass between the initial contact with certain viruses and the development of fatal disease in slow infections?

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Which of the following statements is true regarding latent viral infections?

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Flashcards

Acute Viral Infection

A short-term viral infection with a relatively rapid onset and resolution.

Persistent Viral Infection

A viral infection that remains in the body for a prolonged period, potentially for life.

Chronic Infection

A type of persistent infection where the virus is continuously present and replicating.

Latent Infection

A persistent infection where the virus exists in the host without active replication, but can reactivate later.

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Slow Persistent Infection

A persistent infection where the virus gradually accumulates and causes disease over a long period.

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Immune Evasion

Strategies viruses use to avoid or suppress the host immune response.

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Viral Life Cycle

The series of steps a virus takes to replicate inside a host cell.

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Viral Pathogenesis

The process by which a virus causes disease in the host.

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Viral Infections

Infections caused by viruses that replicate inside host cells.

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HSV

Herpes simplex virus.

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CMV

Cytomegalovirus.

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EBV

Epstein-Barr virus.

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Immune Response (Adaptive)

The body's controlled response to foreign substances and pathogens including viruses and infected cells.

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Innate Immune Response

The body's first line of defense against viral infections, acting quickly.

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Viral Evasion

Ways viruses avoid the host's immune system.

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Viral infection susceptibility

A virus requires a susceptible host cell and an absence of local antiviral defenses to initiate an infection.

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Viral tropism

Viral tropism determines the pattern and severity of infection, and viral survival.

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Interferon response

Type I and III interferons (IFN-α, IFN-β, IFN-λ) are antiviral cytokines produced by cells in response to viral infection.

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Natural Killer (NK) cells

NK cells destroy infected cells through lysis.

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Antibody-mediated immunity

Antibodies (IgG, IgM, IgA) neutralize viruses, trigger complement activation, and promote phagocytosis.

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Cell-mediated immunity

Crucial for controlling most viral infections, playing a more important role in virus control than antibody-mediated immunity.

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AIDS & Viruses

AIDS weakens the immune response, leading to opportunistic virus infections that may have been dormant in the body due to the body’s immune system.

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Antibody functions

Neutralization, complement activation, opsonization, and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) are the primary functions of antibodies in preventing infections.

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Slow Infection

A persistent infection that develops slowly and progresses over a long period.

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Immune Privileged Sites

Areas of the body shielded from immune system surveillance, allowing viruses to hide.

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Antigenic Variation

Frequent changes in the virus's surface proteins, making it hard for the immune system to recognize it.

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Virus Inhibition of Immune Response

The virus stops the body's immune system from working properly.

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Viral Shedding

The release of infectious virus particles from an infected host, allowing transmission to others.

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Acute Infection

A short-term viral infection with a rapid onset and resolution, often accompanied by clear symptoms.

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Persistent Infection

A long-term viral infection where the virus remains in the body for an extended time, even if symptoms are not always present.

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Measles SSPE

Subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a slow infection caused by the measles virus that develops years after initial infection, leading to brain damage and death.

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Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies (TSEs)

Fatal brain diseases caused by infectious proteins called prions, leading to sponge-like lesions in the brain.

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Immune System Subversion

Strategies used by viruses to directly interfere with the host's immune system, preventing a proper response.

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MHC Class I/II Inhibition

Viruses can block the presentation of antigens by MHC I and II molecules, making it difficult for immune cells to recognize and target infected cells.

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NK Cell Lysis Inhibition

Viruses can inhibit the natural killer (NK) cells, preventing their destruction of infected cells.

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Apoptosis Interference

Viruses can stop infected cells from committing programmed cell death (apoptosis), allowing the virus to continue replicating.

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Cytokine Action Inhibition

Viruses can block the action of important signaling molecules like interferon, preventing proper immune responses.

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Immune System Mimicry

Viruses produce molecules that resemble normal immune system components, confusing or suppressing immune responses.

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Lymphocyte/Monocyte Infection

Viruses can infect immune cells like lymphocytes and monocytes, weakening or destroying them.

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Latent Viral Infection

A type of viral infection where the virus remains dormant in the host for extended periods without active replication, but can reactivate later.

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Viral Stability

The ability of a virus to survive and remain infectious in the external environment.

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Host Immune System Role

The host immune system prevents viral infection through natural barriers, innate responses, and adaptive responses.

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Viral Replication Requirements

A successful virus infection requires sufficient viral particles, a susceptible host cell, and the absence of antiviral defenses.

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Immune Evasion Strategies

Methods used by viruses to avoid or suppress the host immune response.

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Antiviral Defenses

The host's immune system is designed to combat viral infections, but these defenses can be weakened or absent, allowing viruses to more easily infect and replicate.

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How does a virus cause an infection?

For a virus to cause an infection, it needs three things: 1. Susceptible cells to infect, 2. Permission to replicate in those cells, and 3. Weak or absent local defenses.

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Role of Antibody

Antibodies, part of the adaptive immune response, play a crucial role in fighting viral infections. They can neutralize viruses, activate complement, and enhance phagocytosis.

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Viral Immune Evasion

Strategies viruses use to avoid or suppress the host's immune response, allowing them to survive and replicate.

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Blocking Immune Defenses

Certain viruses interfere with specific immune responses, such as blocking antibody production or inhibiting the activity of immune cells.

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Non-Cytopathic Infection

Some viruses cause infections without visibly damaging the host cells, delaying or avoiding a strong immune response.

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Direct Cellular Damage

Viruses can damage cells directly through cell lysis, toxic viral proteins, or by triggering the immune system to kill infected cells.

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Secondary Infections

When a primary viral infection weakens the body, it increases the risk of getting another infection, often bacterial.

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Clinically Inapparent Infection

A viral infection where the body successfully controls the virus without showing any symptoms.

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Poliovirus Spread

Poliovirus spreads from the gut to the bloodstream, then to the nervous system, potentially causing paralysis.

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Acute Viral Epidemics

A rapid spread of an acute viral infection within a population.

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Primary Viraemia

The initial entry of a virus into the bloodstream after it infects the first cell.

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Secondary Viraemia

The second wave of virus entering the bloodstream after it multiplies in internal organs.

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Target Tissues

Specific organs or cells that a virus specifically attacks and replicates in.

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What are the different types of persistent infections?

Persistent infections can be classified as chronic, latent, or slow. Chronic infections involve continuous viral replication, while latent infections have periods of dormancy and reactivation. Slow infections exhibit a gradual progression of the disease over a long period.

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How does the outcome of a viral infection depend on the host?

The balance between the host's defenses and viral properties determines the outcome of an infection. Different outcomes, such as acute, persistent, or slow infections, can have varying implications for pathogenicity, public health, and treatment.

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Study Notes

Viral Infection Patterns

  • Viral infections are successful when a balance exists between the host's defenses and the virus' properties.
  • Characteristic outcomes include acute, persistent (chronic, latent, and slow persistent).
  • Some viruses exhibit a combination of these outcomes.
  • The different outcomes have implications for pathogenicity, public health, and treatment.

Overview of Viral Infection

  • Factors determining successful viral infection: viral and host immune determinants.
  • Acute viral infections detail: definition, host defense and viral pathogenesis, importance.
  • Persistent viral infections detail: definitions (chronic, latent, slow persistent), host defense evasion, latent infections, and slow infections.

Intended Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the host immune system's role in preventing viral infection.
  • Describe general patterns of viral infection.
  • Describe the typical acute infection pattern and host/viral interactions that lead to disease.
  • Understand the significance of acute infections.
  • Understand persistent infection types (chronic, latent, and slow).
  • Explain how viruses evade the host immune response for persistent infections.
  • Describe latent infection characteristics and provide examples.
  • Define slow infections and provide examples.
  • Identify specific types of infections as well as describe general patterns.

Viral Life Cycle

  • The viral life cycle involves attachment, penetration, uncoating, replication, assembly, and release.
  • Host functions during this cycle include transcription and translation.

Infection: A Delicate Balance

  • Human defenses include natural barriers, innate response (interferons, NK cells, macrophages, apoptosis), and adaptive response (dendritic cells, CD4+ T-cells, CD8+ T-cells, antibodies).
  • Viral factors include establishing infection, regulating gene expression, antigenic variation, immune evasion, and immune subversion.

Initiation of Infection

  • Basic requirements for infection include sufficient virus and environmental stability.
  • Virus particles need susceptible host cells for infection.
  • Tropism influences the infection pattern and viral survival.
  • Host defenses can be overwhelmed, for example by massive viral loads (aerosol droplet), or through injuries and compromised immunity (cuts, abrasions, organ transplantation).
  • Immune evasion helps establish persistent infections.

Innate Defence Against Viral Infections

  • Type I and III interferons act as antiviral cytokines.
  • IFN-α, IFN-β, and IFN-γ are produced by various cells, targeting viral infections, often in response to dsRNA.
  • Interferon signaling triggers the transcription of interferon-sensitive genes.
  • Natural killer cells are crucial in the lysis of infected cells.

Adaptive Defence Against Viral Infections

  • Antibody responses target viral infections, including neutralization, complement activation, opsonization (for phagocytosis), and antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC).
  • Cell-mediated immunity also plays a role in controlling viral infections.
  • Congenital defects in cell-mediated immunity can predispose individuals to viral infections, rather than bacterial infections.
  • AIDS involves a reduction in the ratio of CD4+ to CD8+ T cells, making individuals susceptible to opportunistic viral infections.

Cell-Mediated Defence Against Viral Infections

  • This defense mechanism involves non-specific (e.g., NK cells) and specific (e.g., CTL) killing of infected cells.
  • Immune cells target virus-infected cells through: non-specific killing (not MHC-restricted, like from NK cells, that release perforin); and specific killing.

Successful Viral Infections Evasive Strategies

  • Antigenic target evolution (e.g., reassortment and mutation) is common among viruses to avoid the host immune response.
  • Viruses may block specific immune defenses or initiate non-cytopathic infections to delay or avoid a significant immune response (as seen in Herpes viruses, HIV, adenoviruses, and Papillomaviruses).

General Patterns of Viral Infection – Types and Outcomes

  • Viral infections exhibit varied outcomes:
    • Acute: high viral load, rapid onset (e.g. SARS-CoV-2, influenza virus, poliovirus).
    • Persistent (Chronic): ongoing infection (e.g., hepatitis B and C).
    • Persistent (Latent): virus remains dormant (e.g., herpes simplex, varicella zoster).
    • Persistent (Slow): gradually progressive (deterioration) and often fatal (e.g., HIV's progression, measles SSPE).

Types of Persistent Viral Infections of Humans

  • Information provided in a tabular format depicting persistent viral infections, their related viral agents, and the sites of persistence.

Evasion of the Host Immune Response

  • Strategies for immune evasion include infecting immune privileged sites (e.g., eye, brain, and central nervous system).
  • Viruses control antigen production.
  • Antigenic variation can occur in high frequency.
  • Viruses may hide from the host's immune system.
  • Direct subversion of the immune system, production of compounds mimicking normal immune system functions, and directly infecting immune cells are some mechanisms of evasion.
  • Direct subversion includes inhibiting MHC class I and class II restricted antigen presentation, natural killer cell lysis, interference with apoptosis, and the inhibition of cytokine action (e.g., interferon).

Clinically Inapparent Acute Viral Infections

  • Some acute viral infections produce no disease symptoms despite sufficient virus production.
  • Host immune systems promptly control these infections.
  • This response may be detected through antiviral antibodies.

Multiple Acute Viral Infections

  • A single infection can be followed by secondary viral infections, potentially leading to a second acute infection or a different disease pattern (e.g., poliovirus).

An Acute Infection: Human Poliomyelitis

  • Includes the stages of invasion, multiplication, and the path of this viral infection in the host.

Acute Infections and Public Health

  • Acute viral infections often have a significant impact on public health and safety, manifested by outbreaks.
  • Difficulty arises from diagnosing the virus before it spreads to other hosts.

Latent Viral Infections

  • Characteristics of latent viral infections are: non-replicating cells, reduced or eliminated immune detection of infected cells, absent or inefficient expression of viral genes for virus particle production, and persistence of the viral genome.

Disease Herpes Simplex—Type 1

  • Includes primary infection, latent, and reactivation phases, describing the symptoms and the viral presence.

Slow Infections

  • Some fatal brain diseases result from extreme persistent viral variations.
  • Many years may pass between initial infection and disease onset.
  • Well-known viruses associated with other diseases can result in slow diseases.
  • Unconventional agents such as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) cause slow diseases (examples: Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, Scrapie, and bovine spongiform encephalopathy).
  • Measles virus may result in subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE).
    • This involves a chronic form of the measles virus disease and neurological deterioration and death.

Summary

  • Summarizing the key aspects of viral infections and the components required for their pathogenesis.
  • Host defenses and viral properties determine the outcome of viral infections.

Further Reading

  • Provides relevant books for in-depth study of the subject.

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