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| three gram positive bacilli |
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Definition
listera
corynebacteria
babillus |
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| risk group for listeria monocytogenes |
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Definition
immunocompromised pt
pregnent women
neonate, elderly |
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Term
| listeria monocytogenes causes infection in |
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Definition
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Term
| listeria monocytogenes motility? |
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Definition
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Term
| listeria monocytogenes living condition? |
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Definition
| can multiply at 4C and survive frozen |
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Term
| how can Listeria monocytogenes be present in milk? |
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Definition
| failure of pasteurization |
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Term
| how does listeria monocytogenes get into body? |
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Definition
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| site of action of listeria monocytogenes |
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Definition
| attaches to intestinal epithelial cell and macrophages |
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Term
| virulence factor of listeria monocytogenes? |
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Definition
| toxin: hemolysin (listeriolysin) which allows escape from the phagosome and relication in the cytoplasm |
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Term
| major clinical syndromes of L. Monocytogenes? |
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Definition
meningitis
encephalitis
bacteremia
placenta and fetus infection- vertical transmission
(mother to fetus) |
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Term
| how does human get infected by Corynebacterium diptheriae |
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Definition
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Term
| Corynebacterium diptheriae grows on what agar/ |
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Definition
| tellurite agar (identification) |
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Term
| vaccine for Corynebacterium diptheriae? |
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Definition
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Term
| pathogenesis of diptheria? |
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Definition
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Term
| site of action of diptheria? |
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Definition
| bacteria itself only infects pharnyx, but toxin spreads to heart, nerves, kidneys |
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Definition
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Term
| bacteria cousing Anthax is |
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Definition
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Term
| virulenct factor for bacillus anthracis |
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Definition
prominent central or paracentral oval spores that do not cause swelling of the bacilli
PGA capsule important in ihibition of phagocytosis |
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Term
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Definition
PA LF EF
protective antigen
lethal factor
edema factor |
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Term
other type of anthrax:
local inoculation of spores
no purulence, painless
classic black eschar |
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Definition
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Term
other type of anthrax
Woolsorter's disease
rapid disease progression
pleural fluid and widened mediastinium
enlarging and hemorrhagic medistinal nodes |
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Definition
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Term
| site of action of anthrax |
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Definition
CNS, brain
pulmonary
GI
skin |
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