Respiratory System Infections (Microbiology)

Recall cards on the respiratory system infections of microbiology. Anatomy and normal microbiota: the nares, nasal cavity, sinuses, pharynx and its regions, larynx, trachea, bronchi, bronchioles, and alveoli, plus the defenses of the mucociliary escalator, goblet cells, alveolar macrophages, secretory IgA, lysozyme, and defensins, and the naming of inflammations from rhinitis to pneumonia. Bacterial infections: strep throat and scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, otitis media, diphtheria, and the bacterial pneumonias caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Klebsiella, Mycoplasma, the chlamydiae, Legionella, and Coxiella, along with pertussis and tuberculosis. Viral infections: the common cold, influenza and its antigenic drift and shift, RSV, SARS and MERS, measles, rubella, and varicella-zoster. And the respiratory mycoses: histoplasmosis, coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis, aspergillosis, Pneumocystis pneumonia, and cryptococcosis.