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| Most common bacterial infection of the skin. |
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mutates quickly
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adapts to environment quickly
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produces dozens of exotoxins and harmful enzymes
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develops drug resistance quickly
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| Four characteristics of Staph related to pathogenicity. |
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Nasal discharge from healthy carriers
Contact with skin abscesses |
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| How Staph aureus is transmitted. |
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necrotizing toxins
enterotoxins
exfoliating toxins
toxic shock toxins
hemolysins
leukocidins
coagulase
collagenase
hyaluronidase
penecillinase
methicillinase
vancomycinase |
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| Examples of 12 toxins and enzymes Staph aureus produces. |
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| What necrotizing toxins do... |
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| Cause skin layers to separate and peel away from each other. |
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| What exfoliating toxins do... |
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| Cause skin and blood damage. |
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| What toxic shock toxins do... |
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| Destroy white blood cells... |
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| Breaks down cell membranes |
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| What hyaluronidase does... |
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| Break down antibiotics... |
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| What penicillinase, methicillinase and vancomycinase do... |
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Pustules (acne)
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Furuncles (boils)
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Carbuncles (small sores in scalp)
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Abscesses of skin
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Impetigo
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Necrotizing fasciitis
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Scalded skin syndrome
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Systemic Infection
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Accidental and post surgical wound infections
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Toxic shock syndrome
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Burn infections
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Food poisoning
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| 12 infections caused by Staph aureus |
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| Causes abscesses of most major body organs. |
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Burn wound infection
Accidental and Post surgical infection
Food poisoning |
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| Three infections that Staph is the leading cause for... |
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| Skin blisters and peels away |
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| Symptoms of scalded skin syndrome |
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| Also known as the flesh eating disease. |
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| Symptoms of carbuncles due to Staph infection. |
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| Pustules are acne and furuncles are boils. |
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| Difference between pustules and furuncles. |
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Antibiotics
Doxycycline, azithromycin
not penicillin, not methicillin, not vancomycin
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| Treatment for Staph aureus |
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| Nasophanrynx secretions from Strep infected person. |
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| How Group A Beta Strep is transmitted. |
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| Respiratory and skin infections |
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Definition
| Two main infections that Group A Beta Strep causes. |
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Impetigo
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Scarlet fever
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Necrotizing fascilitis
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Toxic shock syndrome
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Erysipelas
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Puerperal sepsis
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| Six skin infections that Group A Beta Strep causes. |
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rash, blood vessel damage,
high fever in women following birth |
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Exotoxins:
- necrotizing toxins
- hemolysins
Some species: erythrogenic |
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| Toxins produced by Group A Beta Strep |
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Penicillins
Azithromycin
Ciprofloxacin |
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| Treatment for Group A Beta Strep |
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| Disease caused by the bacteria Borrelia burgdorferi |
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| Morphology of Borrelia bergdorferi |
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| How Lyme disease is transmitted |
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| Incubation period for Lyme disease |
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| When Borrelia infects skin and blood vessels |
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| When symptoms for Lyme disease appear... |
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"Bullseye" rash
Joint inflammation |
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| Initial symptoms of Lyme disease |
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Blood vessel damage
Low blood pressure
High blood pressure
Endocarditis
Neurological changes |
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| Later symptoms of Lyme disease |
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Depression
Mental changes
Dementia |
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| Three neurological changes caused by Lyme disease |
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1st appears in joints closest to rash
Farther joints will be involved
Lasts weeks possibly months
Recurrent arthritis can be severe |
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| Four characteristics of arthritis caused by Lyme disease |
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Antibiotics ASAP
Doxycycline, tetracycline, erithromycin, azithromycin |
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| Treatment for Lyme disease |
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| None: no human vaccinations exist |
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| Prevention of Lyme disease |
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Anthrax
Tetanus
Gas Gangrene
Leprosy
Pseudomonas |
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| 5 additional bacterial infections of the skin besides Staph, Strep and Borrelia |
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| How long it takes Anthrax to germinate after being inhaled or making contact with the skin... |
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| Destroy cells on skin and in the lungs |
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| What the necrotizing toxins produced by Anthrax do... |
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Skin: sores and blisters
Lungs: sores and bleeding that may lead to hemorrhage |
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| Symptoms of Anthrax on skin and in lungs |
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| Secondary infection that may be caused by Anthrax infection |
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| Penicillins, ciprofloxacin, azithromycin |
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| Gram positive anaerobic spore formers |
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| constant muscle spasm due to Tetanus |
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| Chemical that the neurotoxins from Tetanus block to cause harm... |
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| How long after infection tetanus can cause respiratory failure. |
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| Antitoxin antibodies before symptoms begin |
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| Tetanus toxoid vaccination |
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Acids soften the tissue
Gas discolors and stretches the tissue |
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| How fermentation by bacteria can cause harm in Gas gangrene infection... |
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Necrotizing toxins are produced
Massive tissue death
Spreads into vital organs |
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| Harm caused by Gas gangrene |
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- Antibiotics
- Removal of dead tissue
- Amputation
- Hyperbaric O2 Chamber
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| 4 Treatments for gas gangrene |
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| azithromycin, doxycycline, ciprofloxacin |
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| Antibiotics used to treat Gas gangrene |
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| Causative organism for leprosy |
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| Morphology of Mycobacterium leprae |
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| When bacteria enters a skin wound from an insect or from the soil. Rarely transmitted from human to human. |
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| How leprosy is transmitted. |
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| Incubation period of leprosy |
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| Is a tropical climate infection. |
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Skin infection on arms, legs, face and neck
Scar tissue causes lumps to form
Bone infection - causes bone weakness
Nerve infection - anesthesia
Years later - lung infection |
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| Infections caused by Mycobacterium leprae |
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| Lung infection caused by long term leprosy infection. |
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| Lack of sensation or feeling. |
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| symptoms of anesthesia associated with Leprosy |
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Antibiotics (will slow disease not cure)
Sulfa drugs, Dapsone, streptomycin, rifamycin |
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Gram negative rod
Thermophile
Opportunistic |
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| Morphology of Pseudomonas |
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| Normal or healthy skin and in intestines |
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Definition
| Normal habitat of Pseudomonas |
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- Skin rash
- UTI
- Diaper rash
- Swimmer's ear
- Burn infections
- Hot tub infections
- Pneumonia in hospital patients
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Definition
| Seven infections caused by Pseudomonas |
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Very antibiotic resistant
carbenicillin, colistin, gentomycin |
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| Treatment for Pseudomonas |
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