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BI 203 medical microbiology
Diseases
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Biology
Undergraduate 2
06/17/2010

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Term
Dermatophytes (ringworm)
Definition

Facultative parasites (fungal)

- produce keratin digesting enzymes

-restricted to keratin producing surfaces

Term
Candida Albicans (Candidiasis)
Definition

Candidiasis - symptomatic infections of body surfaces

*likes warm moist areas (vagina, diaper rash)


Term
chronic mucocutaneous cadidiasis
Definition

Occurs with defective cell-mediated immunity 

*candida grows within cells

Term
Systemic candidiasis
Definition

occurs with severe immunodeficiency disorders (AIDS, cancer)

 

 

*fatal and rarely responds to treatment

Term
Eye infections
Definition

Bacterial Conjuctivitis (pink eye)

 

Inclusion conjuctivitis

-Chlamydia trachomatis

-tranchoma (keratoconjuctivitus)

 

Neonatal gonorrheal opthalmia

 

Term
Viral eye infections
Definition

andenovirus and enterovirus

 

herpes simplex virus

herpetic keratitis - infection and ulceration of cornea

Term
Normal microflora of systems 
Definition

E. Coli, staphylococcus, corynebacterium, haemophilus, streptococcus, lactobacillus, mycobacterium smegmatis.

 

 

A.     Female vagina is heavily populated with microbes (Lactobacillus, Clostridium, Bacteroides, Candida albicans, Fusobacterium)

 

Term
Prostatitis
Definition

urgent and frequent urination

 

caused by many microbes, including neisseria gonorrhoeae

Term
cystitis
Definition

painful, frequent urination

 

many microbes cause this including E. Coli

Term
pyelonephritis
Definition

fever, flank pain

 

many causative agent including E. Coli

 

*kidney infection

Term
UTI 
Definition

any parts of the urinary system

 

many causitive agents including E. coli, Pseudomonas spp., Proteus spp., Kleibsiella spp.

Term

Vaginitis 

 

Balantitis (penis)

Definition

vaginal irritation and discharge are symptoms

 

trichomonas vaginalis, candida albicans, gardnerella vaginalis

Term
Salpingitis/oophoritis
Definition

fever, abdominal pain, scarring, infertility

 

neisseria gonorrhoeae, chlamidia trachomatis

Term
Number 1 cause of UTI's
Definition
incomplete emptying of the bladder
Term
Number 1 bacteria that causes UTI's
Definition
E. Coli
Term
Leptospirosis
Definition

caused by leptospira interrogans

 

tranferred by zoonosis

Term
Toxic shock syndrome
Definition
causative agent: staphylococcus aureus
Term
Vaginitis (define)
Definition
Opportunistic pathogens that multiply when normal flora is distrupted.
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Syphillis
Definition
Treponema Palladium
Term
Chancroid
Definition
Haemophilus ducreyi
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