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Bacteriology Quiz #5
Clostridium through Erysipelothrix
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10/28/2007

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Term
Clostridium Perfringens
Definition
Inflictions: clostridial myonecrosis, gas gangrene, enteritis signs of domestic animals; severe entiritis, dysentery, toxemia, high mortality in calbes, pigs, foal, and lambs (lamb dysentery); gas gangrene in humans

Endogenous to soil or intestine

5 "toxin types"

Term
Clostridium haemolyticum
(C. novi type D)
Definition

Infliction: redwater disease in ruminants

Introduced as spores from contaminated soil or carcasses

Term
Clostridium novyi
Definition
Inflictions: nongaseous, nonhemorrhagic, edematous swelling of head, face, and neck of young rams; black disease in sheep and cattle (death due to necrotic hepatitis)

Introduced
Term
Clostridium difficile
Definition

Inflictions: diarrhea in neonatal swine, mesocolonic edema; antibiotic therapy related diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis in humans; works in concert with C. perfringens as enterocolitis in horses

Introduced via contaminated soil for animals and nosocomial (from hospitals) in humans

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