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1. Hemolytic- lyse erythrocytes and phagocytic cells
2. Exfoliative toxins (exotoxin)- split superficial epidermis from dermis. bullous impetigo and scalded shock syndrome
3. Super Antigen- toxic shock and food poisoning |
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| S. aureus enterotoxin which is not destroyed by heating, causing vomiting, cramps, and diarrhea |
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| S. aureus polymorphonuclear infiltrate |
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| S. aureus perforation of cardia valves |
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| Sup-epidermal bleeding and large areas of skin exfoliation in S. aureus |
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| Use of VAGINAL tampons, which become colinized with S. aureaus. Also due to infected surgical sites |
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| medical emergency, hypotension, renal failure, coagulopathy, liver disease, ARDS, erythematous rash, soft tissue necrosis at the site of infection. Fatal if untreated |
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| abscess of the hair follicle (S. aureus) |
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| several follicular abscesses; more deep situated creating skin necrosis and pus formation (S. aureus) |
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| develop in cases of special virulence or impaired host defenses (s. aureus) |
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| hidradenitis suppurativa (s. aureus) |
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| Abscess of the apocrine gland of the axilla. painful on nail bed or finger tips |
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| More often given by staph today than in recent decades when it was given by streptococci |
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| Infection of lymphatic ducts and nodes (s. aureus) |
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| Staphylococcal lymphadenitis |
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| a lipo granuloma of the Zeis and Meibomius glands embedded in the eyelid of fibrous tarsus (S. aureus) |
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| abcess around apex of teeth may produce fistulae to drain the pus to the skin (S. aureus) |
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| Spread of Staphylocoocal Infecitons |
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| Local-lymphatic-blood-sinus thrombosis-endocarditis-cerebral and liver |
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| Pharyngitis and Rash; scarlet rash appears from production of erythrogenic toxin |
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| Steptococcus pyogenes Scarlet Fever |
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| Pharyngitis complcations, peri tonsiller abscess; otitis media; meningitis |
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| Streptococcus throat - pyogenes |
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| Feet and facial erythematious papules with central necrosis covered by bee wax colored crusts |
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| Streptococcal Impetigo- pyogenes |
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| Diffuse cellulitis, cheeks, foot, more in obese women |
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| Erysipelas (streptococcus) |
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| Post abortum and post partum endometritis |
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| Puerperal Fever (streptococcus) |
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| Overwhelming neonate infection shortly after birth caused by Streptococcul infection |
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| Destroys CT of fascias, less seen in muscle |
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| Streptococcal Necrotizing Fasciitis |
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| Non infective immune complications of Streptococcus |
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| rheumatic fever; immune complex glomerulonephritis, erythema nodosum |
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| sepsis and meningitis in neonates and chorioamnionitis in pregnancy |
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| Enterococcus faecalis (D) causes |
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| Stertococcus Viridans (a-hemolytic) cause |
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| community acquired pneumonia and meningitis in adults |
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| Transmission of C. dipththeriae |
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| aerosols or skin shedding; asymptomatic carriage |
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| C. dipththeriae manifestations |
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| Skin lesions (tropics), croup with pharyngeal pseudo-membrane, and damage to heart and nerves |
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| Exotoxin from C. diphtheriae causes |
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| fatty myocardial change (myocarditis) and polyneuritis with myelin degeneration. |
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necrosis of epithelium, neutrophil infiltration, fibrin exudaiton, superficial pseudo-membrane causes suffocation.
May need emergency tracheostomy. |
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| Usually commensal in human oral cavity, GI, vagina, causes mainly opportunistic infections |
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1. Thoracic disease- lung abscesses, pulmonary fistula
2. Abdominal-genital- colitis and appendicitis
3. Oral-Cervical-fascial disease- lumpy jaw with osteomyelitis, pus discharge from angle of jaw |
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| Grossly visible yellowish colonies of organisms called sulfur granules. |
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| Inhalation of soil organism found in nosocomial hospital infections of chronically ill, organ transplants, or immune-suppressed |
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| Clinical manifestations of N. asteroids |
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| Skin lesions, lung abscesses, meningitis, cerebral, kidney, and liver abscesses |
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| Causes bacterial meningitis in 5-19 year olds |
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| respiratory route- outbreaks in crowded quarters, disease appears when hosts encounter new strains to which they have not been exposed |
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| Clinical form of fulminant meningococcemia |
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| Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrom- petechial rash, purpura, adrenal necrosis and hemorrhage, producing circulatory collapse and death |
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| Second most frequent commincuable disease in US |
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| N. gonorrhoeae only second to Chlamydia |
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| N. gonorrheae causes what in men |
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| N. gonorrheae causes what in women |
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| usually asymptomatic, pelvic inflammatory, sterility, and sclerosing peri hepatitis. |
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| If gonorrheae reaches blood stream |
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| meningitis; endocarditis; and suppurative arthritis |
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| Usual forms of infection in adults of H. flu |
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| lobar pneumonia and bronchopneumonia producing purulent arthritis |
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| suppurative meningitis- HiB |
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| Other complications of H. flu |
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Arthritis
Epiglotitis
Meningitis
Otitis media
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Local cellulitis
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Septicemia
also mentions- endocarditis and brain abscesses |
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| Highly communicable disease which has a virulent exotoxin causing inspiring cough |
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| Bordetella pertussis (whooping cough) |
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| Pathogenesis of Bordetella |
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| Adhesion to ciliated tracheal cells which paralysis the cilia, creating cough and increased mucus production. Lymphadenopathy and blood lymphocytosis in 90% of cases |
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| Respiratory infection not transmited from person to person |
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| Pneumonia from bacteria cultured in old filters of AC systems |
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| Legionella found in what group of individuals |
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| Men over the age of 55 who have high risks: respiratory problems, chemotherapy, or diabetes mellitus |
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| Macrophages within the vacuoles, grow and kill cell and infecting another macrophage. |
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| alveolar exudats with macrophages, neutrophils, and fibrin |
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| 5 day incubation with chest pain , death by respiratroy or renal failure, shock, or vascular coagulation. 15% die without treatment. |
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| Mild clinical form of Legionella with fever, diarrhea, cough, and abdominal pain |
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| immunofluorescent of lung aspiration or lung biopsy |
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| Deadly pathogen of patients with cystic fibrosis |
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| Pseudomonas aeruginosa causing necrotizing pneumonia |
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| Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a |
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| opportunistic and nosocomial infection |
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| P. aeruginosa found to cause external otitis, corneal keratitis in wearers of contacts, folliculitis in these individuals |
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| P. aeruginosa causes severe otitis; supporitive inflammation in urinary tracts, abdominal cavity in these individuals |
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| P. aeruginosa causes endotoxic shock, skin infections (ecthyma gangrenosum) in these individuals |
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| P. aeruginosa causes endocarditis and osteomyelitis in |
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| Morphology of P. aeruginosa |
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| Whitish necrotic centers and red peripheral. Walled off with blood vessels determining coagulation, necrosis, and vasculitis. |
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