Ascaris lumbricoides

Chlamydophila pneumoniae
Phylum: Chlamydiae
Pathogens in the Lungs Phylum: Nematoda
-common parasitic round worm
-Small, Gram negative, obligate intracellular
Symptoms: pharyngitis, bronchitis, atypical pneumonia
By: Jeffrey Delgadillo found in humans
-can reach up to 35 cm
Transmission: person to person through inhalation of droplets
Symptoms in lungs: asthma, pneumonia
Life Cycle: Infectious droplets travel to the lungs where they undergo
Transmission: person in contact with soil containing human feces with ascaris eggs
phagocytosis and enter the cell within an endosome as an Elementary
(poor sanitation)
body (form that allows for entry into cell but not replication).
Life Cycle: Eggs ingested and are usually hatched in the
The bacteria then turns into a reticulate body (transformation
small intestine where larvae penetrate the intestinal
that allows for it to replicate but not infect other cells) and The lungs are essential for respiration as air passes wall. They travel through the bloodstream or lymphatic
begins to replicate within the through the mouth or nose to the oropharynx, system and make their way to the lungs and alveoli
endosome using some host cell nasopharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, through the portal veins where they then cause
replication machinery. The bronchioles, and finally ending in the alveoli. The pulmonary symptoms of pneumonia, asthma, coughing
reticulate body then turns back main function of the lungs is to inhale oxygen from and wheezing. They then make their way to the throat
into an elementary body and is the atmosphere and get it into the bloodstream, where they are coughed up and re-ingested. They
released from the cell to infect and to then exhale carbon dioxide. make their way back to the intestines where they
new cells.
mature into either males or females. They then
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/297351-overview#a1 typically mate in the small intestines, where the
http://www.mesothelioma-asbestosis.info/Lung-Diseases/chlamydi females lay their eggs and the eggs are then expelled in
a-pneumonia human feces.
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ascariasis/DS00688
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/788398-overview#a0101

Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV)

Family: Paramyxoviridae Mycoplasma pneumoniae
-Negative-sense, single stranded RNA virus Phylum: Firmicutes
Symptoms: common cold, bronchiolitis, pneumonia Class: Mollicutes
Transmission: person to person through inhalation of -Gram positive bacillis, obligate, and motile
droplets Symptoms: community acquired pneumonia
Life Cycle: RSV has 10 genes encoding 11 proteins that Transmission: close contacts through inhalation of
attack the respiratory epithelium. They bind to droplets.
epithelial cells by G and F (fusion) proteins on its outer Natural Functions to Fight Infection Pathogenicity: Affinity for respiratory epithelial cells,
membrane. RSV fuses and enters into the cell -Mucus production in order to maintain sterility production of hydrogen peroxide, and filamentous tips
cytoplasm causing epithelial and catch bacteria/unwanted airborne pathogens. allowing for burrowing between cilia
cell necrosis reducing the -Immunoglobulin-A bronchiole secretion Life Cycle: M. pneumoniae attaches to the mucosa in the
number of ciliated cells in -Cilia and mucociliary escalator
r activity to trap espiratory tract where it reproduces by binary fission as it
the lungs. bacteria and remove them from the respiratory extracts nutrients. It has
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov system. gliding motility which allows
/pubmedhealth/PMH0002531/
http://www.merlot.org/merlot
it to burrow between cilia
viewMaterial.htm?id=259061 and cause sloughing of
respiratory epithelial cells.
http://s99.middlebury.edu/BI330A/projects/
Howard/Mpneumoniae.html
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/19419