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Gram Positive Cocci,
Coagulase Positive,
30% Carry as normal flora in nose,
Main cause of staph infection |
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Gram Positive Coccus,
Causes Strep Throat, |
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Gram Positive Cocci,
Found in genital tract,
main cause of neonatal sepsis and meningitis, |
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Gram Possitive Cocci,
Alpha-hemolytic Strep and viridans strep,
40% of infections by DRSP |
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gram positive cocci,
GI tract,
VRE
grow in high salt/bile conc. |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
Causes food infections, meningitis,
stimulates macrophage response,
use tumbling flagella action to move |
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| Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
Creates a "Pseudomembrane" in the trachea to block off air,
Creates an A-B toxin to damage heart and other organs |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
endospores gain entry through cuts or mucous membranes,
zoonosis pathogen,
encapsulated - resist phagocytosis, |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
causes foodborne intoxication,
endospores cause damage,
produces powerful neurotoxin by the vegetative cells, |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
widespread in soil, feces, animals, vagina,
endospores must be present and in anaerobic environment |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
anaerobic,
problem in nursing homes,
bloody diarrhea progress to inflammation of the mucosa and the formation of a pseudomembrane abscess |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
endospores gain entry through cuts scrapes injury and wounds,
produces powerful neurotoxin,
muscles receive constant stimulation |
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| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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Gram Positive Bacilli,
obligate aerobe,
slow growing generation time of 12-20 hrs,
modified cell wall |
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Gram Negative Bacilli,
Aerobic,
useful in bioremediation,
flagellum fast,
chills fever shock |
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Gram Negative Bacilli,
Aerobic,
Motile,
soil & water,
breathe aerosolized water contaminted, |
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Gram Negative Bacilli,
Aerobic,
most common vaccine preventable disease,
whooping cough, |
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Gram Negative Bacilli,
Facultative Anaerobic,
widespread food borne infection,
very motile,
O-antigens and a capsule |
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| Enterobacteriaceae Salmonella |
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Gram Negative Bacilli,
Facultative Anaerobic,
Not normal GI,
Very motile,
long fimbriae |
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| Enterobacteriaceae Shigella |
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Gram Negative Bacilli,
Facultative Anaerobic,
several species,
not normal flora,
contaminated water,
traveler's disease |
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Gram Negative curved Bacilli,
Motile,
Single flagellum,
serotype O-antigens,
Acute, diarrheal illness,
survive in all kinds of water |
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Gram Negative Coccobacillus,
Capsule Virulence,
induce and inflammatory response,
mistaken for the "flu" |
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| Spirilliaceae Cmplylobacter |
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Gram Negative Spiral Shaped,
carried by non-ill birds,
most common cause of diarrhea,
associated with raw poultry |
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| Spirilliaceae Helicobacter |
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Gram Negative curved rod,
causes most gastric and duodenal ulcers,
flagella actively motile,
burrows into mucin lining of stomach |
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Gream Negative Cocci,
very soccessful pathogen,
worldwide epidemic,
non-motile, diplococcal |
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Gram negative Cocci,
close contact + droplet,
very contagious,
deadly |
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