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Non-Sporforming
Facultative Anaerobe
Reduces Nitrates to Nitrites
Ubiquitous |
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Salmonella: S. Typhi
Causes what |
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Salmonella: S. Typhi
Symtoms |
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| Prolonged fever, bacteremia, reticuloendothelial system involvement (liver, sleen), dissemination to multiple organs |
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Salmonella: All other
Causes what |
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Definition
| Acute gastroenteritis or food poisoning |
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Salmonella: All other
Symptoms |
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| Vomiting, diarrhea, sometimes nontyphoidal bacteremia, less virulent enteric fevers. |
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Salmonella:
Characteristics |
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Prone to carrier state
common outcome of poor sewage |
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Shigella:
Closely related to |
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Not normal GI flora
Humans are only known reservoir
Very fragile, but doesn't take much to infect |
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Fecal-oral contact (common in daycares)
Can be carried by flies, food, water |
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| Fever, chills, abdominal cramps, watery diarrhea, followed by bloody stool containing mucous & numerous leukocytes. |
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Yersinia: Y. Pestis
Causes what |
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Definition
| Bubonic and pneumonic plague |
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Yersinia: Y. Pestis
Transmission |
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| Person to person, flea and rodent bites |
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Yersinia: Y. Pestis
In domestic animals |
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Dogs can be asymptomatic carriers, still need flea to transmit
Cats can become seriously ill, can transmit primary pneumonic plague to humans |
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Yersinia: All other
Y. Enterocolitica |
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most common isolated form
found in wide variety of domestic animals
Causes acute enteritis |
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Yersinia: All other
Y. Pseudotuberculosis |
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Pathogen primarily of rodents, especially guinea pigs
Human infections are rare
Causes septicemia accompanied by mesenteric lymphadentis |
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Term
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Definition
| Release of lipopolysaccharide in outer membrane of cell wall of gram negative bacteria |
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| Hypertension, shock, fever, intravascular coagulation, death |
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Definition
| Lipid A, core polysaccharide, "O" antigens |
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| Flagellar or "H" antigens |
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Definition
| Protein in nature, heat labile |
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| Capsules are surface polysaccharides, heat labile |
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Definition
| Associated with the body of cell, polysaccharide chain |
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Most commonly isolated opportunistic human pathogen causing UTI, wound infection, pneumonia, meningitis, septicemia.
Primary cause of "Travelers' diarrhea"
Major facultative inhabitant of large intestine |
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