• caused by ticks
• spirochete shaped
• uses dark field microscopy
• cause disease in three stages, in third brain is infected
• Lyme's disease

• strep throat
• in a chain of cocci

• can form endospores
• gram positive
• very resistant to environment
• spores found everywhere in soil
• famous spore former disease
• eubacteria
• anthrax

• everywhere in soil
• can form spores
• all muscles start to flex
• prevelent and ubiquitous
• get vacinnated every 10 years
• will make a neuro toxin
• eubacteria

• uses flagella stain
• found in guts of animals
• see a lot in hospitals
• bad if immunocompromised

• gonnorrhea
• diplococci
• sexually transmitted infections
• caused by protozoans

Bacillus cereus

• food poisioning 
• endospores
• gram positive
• famous spore former disease
• rod shaped

Clostridium botulinum

• food poisioning
• endospores
• present everywhere in soil
• famous spore former disease
• relaxes all your muscles

Clostridium perfringers

• problem for soldiers
• melts away tissues
• endospores
• fermenting, skin bubbling up
• famous spore former disease
• gas gangrene

Streptococcus pneumonia

• penumonia
• can form a capsule

Mycobacterium leprae

• have mycolic acid layer
• acid fast stain positive
• somewhat resistant to dehydration, antibiotics, phagocystosis
• leprosy

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

• TB
• mycolic acid layer
• acid fast stain positive
• aerosol route
• most infectious bacteria disease
• granulama in lung tissue
• regions of calcification
• also called consumption

Giardia lamblia

• lacks ER and golgi
• caused by protozoa
• can be treated with antibiotics that also treat bacteria
• eukaryotic microbe
• water borne
• fecal oral route
• ingest cysts
• giardia

Rhizopus stolonifer

• bread mold
• made of hyphae and fruiting bodies that produce spores
• looks black
• spores
• dangerous for immunalcompromised
• can go in blood stream and be deadly

Direct Contact Mycoses

Ringworm

• fungal disease
• Tinea corpus- on body
• Tinea pedis-athletes foot
• Tinea unguium-nails
• Tinea capitis-scalp
• cutaneous, subcutaneous, superficial

Systemic Mycoses

Cryptococcus neoformans

• fungal disease
• large yeast cell, heavily encapsulated
• starts in lung from inhaling pigeon droppings
• pneumonia like
• worldwide distribution
• meningitis, can spread to CNS
• airborne transmission 
• common in AIDS

Systemic Mycoses

Histoplama capsulatum

• fungal disease
• worldwide in soli containing bird and bat poop
• endemic in central US river basins
• looks like TB
• airborne transmission
• self limiting cough, fever and joint pains
• infect lung macrophages
• calcified lung

Opportunistic Mycoses

Candida albicans and C. glabrata

• fungal disease
• part of normal flora GI, respiratory tract, mouth and vagina
• dimorphic lifestyle
• thrush
• diaper rash
• vaginal yeast infections

Opportunistic Mycoses

Pneumoncytisis carinii

• fungal disease
• alveoli fill with frothy exudate
• immunosuppressive drugs, radiation therapy, and AIDS people at risk
• looks like pneumonia
• most exposed by age 3

Opportunistic Mycoses

Aspergillius

• fungal disease
• found everywhere esp in soil, dust, some foods and water
• not usually a problem for healthy
• invasive disease in immunocompromised 50-100% mortality rate
• usually causes allerigic sinusitis, allergic bronchitis and mild lung infection

Amebiasis

• caused by protozoa
• gastrointestinal disease
• ingest cysts
• endemic in warm climates
• painful bloody diarrhea
• water borne

Cryptosoporidiosis 

• caused by protozoa
• cysts found in 75% of river waters
• can be fatal in AIDS patients
• watery diarrhea-severe
• water borne

• worlds most prevelent infectious disease
• mosquito borne protozoa
• red blood cells lysis-anemia
• fragile, engorged spleen
• Malaria

Toxoplasma gondii

• present in cats, birds
• pregnant women can abort
• caused by protozoa
• dont change kitty litter

Trichomonas vaginalis

• sexually transmitted disease
• flagellated protozoan
• males can be asymptomatic
• irritation, sex painful, has odor, can discharge