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| gram positive cocci, catalase negative |
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| diplococci, multiple capsular types, alpha hemolytic, causes pneumonia, polysaccharide vaccine available |
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| includes mitis and sanguis spp, causes endocarditis, normal oral flora, infections following dental work |
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| beta hemolytic, catalase negative, bacitracin sensitive, has hyaluronic acid capsule, causes: pharyngitis/erysipelas/impetigo/scarlet fever/acute rheumatic fever, ASO titer |
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| danger for peripartal women and neonates |
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| halophile, causes endocarditis and UTIs |
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| gram positive cocci, catalase positive |
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| coagulase positive cocci; associated with TSS, Ritter's disease in newborn (scalded baby syndrome), endocarditis, osteomyelitis, and food poisoning (think potato salad and picnics); its exotoxin kills leukocytes |
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| gram positive cocci, part of normal skin flora, causes IV line infections and prosthetic device infections, forms a biofilm |
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| bacillus species, toxin increases cAMP, capsule made of glutamic acid polypeptide, has protective factor/edema factor/lethal factor; has cutaneous and inhaled forms, wooler's disease, bioweapon |
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| forms spores, "fried rice disease" |
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| has terminal spores, drumstick appearance, blocks the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters, causes tetanus |
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| anaerobic, hemolytic, lechithinase (alpha toxin), gas gangrene, causes necrosis, also causes food poisoning |
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| pseudomembranous colitis (antibiotic associated), diarrhea |
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| anaerobic, forms spores, heat labile toxin, associated with canned products |
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| Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
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| gram positive rod, chinese letters appearance, toxin affects ADP-ribosylation E2; vaccine prevents disease but not infection, made from toxoid |
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| undergoes intracellular multiplication, has actin filaments, motility becomes tumbling between 20-25 C, causes meningitis, affects the immunosuppressed/patients with liver disease |
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| gram negative diplococci, catalase and oxidase positive, grows on TMA or chocolate agar, ferments glucose only, causes cervicitis/urethritis/PID...risk of dissemination |
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| enclosed in capsule, ferments glucose and maltose, has vaccine made of polysaccharides, causes hemorrhagic skin lesions and meningitis |
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| gram negative rod, makes hemorrhagic enterotoxin that inhibits protein synthesis, also makes heat stabile and heat labile toxins, has K1 capsule in some subgroups, can cause HUS, neonatal meningitis |
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| no lactose fermentation, makes hydrogen sulfide, colonizes in gallbladder in asymptomatic carriers, typhoid fever, no diarrhea |
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| no lactose fermentation, produces hydrogen sulfide, has non-human reservoir, causes outbreaks, causes diarrhea and gastroenteritis |
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| has shiga toxin, causes dysentery, purely pathogenic |
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| unique capsule, causes pneumonia |
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| urease positive, causes UTIs and kidney stones |
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| curved gram negative rod, has choleragen (ADP-ribosylates a stimulatory G protein), rice water stools |
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| infection of wounds, can cause septic shock, gram negative rod |
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| causes gastroenteritis from undercooked sushi, think seafood! |
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| microaerophilic, curved gram negative rod, grows at 42 C, causes diarrhea |
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| curved, urease positive, causes gastric ulcers and cancer |
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