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Definition
| colonize human skin and mucosal surfaces |
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Term
| Staphylococcus epidermidis |
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Definition
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Term
| Staphylococcus saprophyticus |
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Definition
| colonize mucosal surfaces |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| neonates; pregnant women, patients with diabetes |
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Term
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Definition
| patients with abnormal heart valves |
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Term
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Definition
| neonates, children, adults with chronic diseases, elderly persons |
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Term
| enterococcus faecalis and enterococcus faecium |
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Definition
| extended period hospitalization or on broad-spectrum antibiotics |
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Term
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Definition
animal workers; bioterrorism, eating contaminated meat
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Term
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Definition
| contaminated food; eye trauma |
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Term
| Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
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Definition
| spread by respiratory droplets |
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Term
| Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae |
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Definition
| occupational disease of butchers, farmers, veterinarians |
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Term
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Definition
immunocompromised hosts
elderly persons, neonates, pregnant women
ingestion of contaminated food |
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Term
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Definition
| found in environment (soil, sewage, water) and GIT of animals/humans |
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Term
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Definition
| Human GIT, female genital tract |
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Term
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Definition
| found in environment and animal GIT |
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Term
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Definition
| found in dirt, animals and humans GIT |
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Term
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Definition
| human skin and mucosal surfaces |
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Term
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Definition
| colonizes human mucosal surface (oropharynx, intestine, vagina) |
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Term
| Mycobacterium avium complex |
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Definition
| immunocompromised population |
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Term
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Definition
| contact with infected individuals |
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Term
| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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Definition
| HIV-infected patients at greatest risk |
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Term
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Definition
| immuno-suppressed (T-cell deficient chronic pulmonary disease) |
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Term
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Definition
| sexual transmission, asymptomatic carriage |
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Term
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Definition
| Carrier state, aerosol transmission, children and young adults |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| nosocomial; iraq war veterans |
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Term
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Definition
| infants in developing countries |
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Term
| enterohemmorrhagic E. coli |
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Definition
| food/water, in developed countries |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| Enteroaggregative E. coli |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| children in developing countries |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| nosocomial infections, alcoholism |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| structural abnormality in urinary tract |
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Term
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Definition
| Contaminated food; higher risk of bacteremia in immunocompromised |
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Term
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Definition
| Food/water, person-to-person spread |
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Term
Bacteroides, Fusobacterium
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Definition
| Normal inhabitant of GI tract |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| children/adults in developing countries |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Hepatic or chronic diseases |
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Term
| Campylobacter jejuni, C. coli, C. upsaliensis |
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Definition
| zoonotic, ingestion of contaminated food, milk or water |
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Term
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Definition
| elderly or immunocompromised |
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Term
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Definition
| People of low socio-economic class or in developing countries |
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Term
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Definition
| Aerosol transmission in unimmunized children; from URT in elderly patients with chronic respiratory disease |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| in patients with damaged heart valves |
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Term
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Definition
Aerosol transmission
severe diseases in infants
milder in adults |
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Term
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Definition
| Serotype 1, Waterborne, elderly and immunocompromised patients |
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Term
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| transmitted by rodent flea bite; human to human only in pneumonic plague |
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Term
| Steptobacillus monoliformis, spirillum minus |
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Definition
bite of rat or other small rodents; ingestion of contaminated food or water
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Term
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Definition
| exposure to animals or by eating unpasteurized milk/cheese |
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Term
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Definition
| healthy (endocarditis, CSD) and immunocompromised patients (BA) |
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Term
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Definition
| health (TF), compromised (BA) |
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Term
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Definition
| sand fly in Andes Mountain |
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Term
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Definition
| Spread by animal bite, scratch or lick; presentin URT of many domestic pets |
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Term
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Definition
| transmission congenitally or sexually |
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Term
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Definition
| Transmission by ticks (Ixodes) |
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Term
| Borrelia recurrentis, Borrelia hermsii |
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Definition
| transmission by body louse or ticks |
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Term
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Definition
| by exposure to infected urine or tissues of rodents, dogs, farm animals |
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