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Spirochete:
-causes syphilis |
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Spirochete:
-causes Lyme disease |
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Aerobic/Microaerobic:
-causes food borne diarrhea |
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Aerobic/Microaerobic:
-causes stomach ulcers |
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Aerobic/Microaerobic:
-causes Cholera |
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Gram Negative Aerobe:
-causes pneumonia-like symptoms |
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Gram Negative Aerobe:
-causes whooping cough |
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Gram Negative Aerobe:
-causes bacterial meningitis |
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Gram Negative Aerobe:
-causes gonorrhea |
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Gram Negative Aerobe:
-highly resistant to soap
-causes infections of open burn wounds |
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Facultatively Anaerobic Gram Negative Rod:
-causes UTI, pneumonia, septicemia |
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Facultatively Anaerobic Gram Negative Rod:
-causes food illnesses, Typhoid fever |
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Facultatively Anaerobic Gram Negative Rod:
-causes dysentery (watery diarrhea) |
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Facultatively Anaerobic Gram Negative Rod:
-causes UTI's with CATHETERS
-causes resp. infections with BREATHING TUBES.
**opportunistic |
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Anaerobic Gram Negative Rods:
-found in the oral cavity (gum line, tooth surface) |
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Anaerobic Gram Negative Rods:
-found in the lower GI tract
-opportunistic normal flora |
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Anaerobic Gram Negative Cocci:
-cause dental caries and gingivitis |
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Rickettsias:
-causes Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever |
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Rickettsias:
-causes typhus (tick borne) |
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Chlamydias:
-cause an eye infection slightly like pink eye |
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Chlamydias:
-causes pneumonia and is associated with Artherosclerosis |
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Chlamydiophila psttaci
^parrot genus |
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Chlamydias:
-cause respiratory infections
-originally in the parrot genus |
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Mycoplasma:
-causes a. typical pneumonia |
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Mycoplasma:
-causes urethritis |
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Mycoplasma:
-causes pyelonephritis and pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) |
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Gram Positive Cocci:
-normal flora that can cause skin infections, pneumonia, meningitis, endocarditis, and toxic shock syndrome |
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Gram Positive Cocci:
-Staph. treated with Vancomyosin |
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Gram Positive Cocci:
-causes strep throat, scarlet fever, impetigo, and in extreme cases rheumatic fever |
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Gram Positive Cocci:
-causes pneumonia
-causes meningitis primarily in the old/young
-has a vaccination directed against |
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| Streptococcus epidermidis |
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Gram Positive Cocci:
-causes UTI, heart infections, and pneumonia ALL OPPORTUNISTICALLY |
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| Endospore Forming Gram Postive Rods & Cocci:-have no known pathogens |
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Endospore Forming Gram Postive Rods & Cocci:
-causes anthrax |
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Endospore Forming Gram Postive Rods & Cocci:
-causes food poisoning in cereals, rice, beans, Chinese or Cajun foods |
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Endospore Forming Gram Postive Rods & Cocci:
-causes tetans (lock jaw)
-by deep puncture wound in a dirty setting ex. rusty nail |
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Endospore Forming Gram Postive Rods & Cocci:
-causes food poisioning, botulinum toxin
-botox is a modulated form |
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Endospore Forming Gram Postive Rods & Cocci:
-normal flora
-causes antibiotic related diarrhea |
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| Gram Positive Rods: -causes listeriosis from raw hot dogs, and deli meats |
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| Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
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Unusual Gram Positive Rods:
-causes diptheria |
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Unusual Gram Positive Rods:
-causes acne |
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| -aerobic, gram positive, fillamentous, opportunists. |
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| -gram positive natural source for antibiotics that cause no disease. |
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-are mainly Archaeans
-produce methane
-found in swamps, marshes, cow intestines
-may cause root canal infections |
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DNA Virus:-usually cause respiratory viruses
-may also cause gastroenteritis, conjunctivitis, cystitis, and rashes |
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DNA Virus:
-causes hepatitis in animals and humans
-specif. hep B
-have envelopes |
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Herpes virus
Simplex 1 & 2 |
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DNA Virus:
-cause cold sores and genitalia stuff |
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Herepes virus
Varicella-Zoster |
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DNA Virus:
-cause chicken pox & shingles |
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Herpes virus
Epstein Barr virus |
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DNA Virus:
-can cause mono
-can be chronic |
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Herpes virus
Cytomegalovirus (CMV) |
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DNA Virus:
-resp. problems dangerous in children that cause BIG cells |
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Herpes virus
human herpes 6,7 & 8 |
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DNA Virus:
-other herpes viruses |
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DNA Virus:
-causes warts, HPV |
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DNA Virus:
-causes uncontrolled cell generation |
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DNA Virus:
-smallest DNA virus
-causes contagious erythema, infectiosum, or "Fifth Disease"
-skin rash typically on face |
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DNA Virus:
-causes small pox (33% fatal) |
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DNA Virus:
-causes benign tumors |
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DNA Virus:
-causes cow pox |
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| RNA Virus: -causes zoonosis |
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RNA Virus:
-carried by rodents
-causes hemorrhagic pulmonary syndrome |
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RNA Virus:
-respiratory and enteric disease
-2nd most common cause of cold
-can cause SARS (sever acute resp. syndrome) |
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RNA Virus:
-cause hepatitis |
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RNA Virus:
-cause influenza A, B, & C with significant diseas with A & B |
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RNA Virus:
-cause Measles, Mumps, Respiratory
Syncytial Virus (RSV) |
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RNA Virus:
-smalles rna virus |
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RNA Virus:
-cause GI problems
-also cause Polio |
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RNA Virus:
-most common cold |
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RNA Virus:
-bulletshaped
-cause rabies |
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RNA Virus:
- R=resp.
- E=enteric
- O=orphans
-Rotavirus |
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RNA Virus:
-RNA Genome
-Converts RNA to DNA once inside of host
-HIV |
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RNA Virus:
-causes infectious arthritis, encephalitis, & rashes |
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RNA Virus:
-cause a red rash
-Rubella (German Measles) |
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RNA Virus:
-cause yellow fever, dengue fever and Hep. C |
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| _______ ________ ________ require host cells that have active Hepatitis B only. |
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Prion:
-causes neurodegenerative disease starting with mad cow, then going to humans where it becomes 1 Creatzfeldt-Jacob Disease (CJD) |
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Fungi:
-pin prick amounts of these can kill humans
-found in peanuts, cereals, and crops |
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| Fungi:-cause hallucinations |
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Fungi:
-causes fungal meningitis in the immunocompromised or those who handle bird or bat poop. |
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| Most pathogens of Fungi are _________ . |
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Fungi:
-causes sporotrichosis; intestinal |
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Fungi:
-causes histoplasmosis; resp. moves body wide |
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| Superficial Mycosis/Mycoses |
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Fungi:
-infect the surface of skin or hair |
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| Cutaneous and Subcutaneous Mycoses |
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Fungi:
-infect nails and deep layers of skin |
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Fungi:
-infect internal organs
-Sprothris schenckii
-Histoplasma capsulatum |
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Fungi:
-plant pathogens (rust, powdering mildew)
-produce antibiotics
-ex. Penicillium = Penicillin |
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Fungi:
-mushrooms with toxins that can attack and kill the liver |
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Fungi:
-"imperfect fungi" because they don't sexually reproduce |
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Protozoa:
-motile form and actively feeding requiring lots of moisture and food and typically causing infection. |
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Intracellular Parasite:
-attacks erythrocytes |
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| Extracellular Parasites: -causes vaginosis |
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Extracellular Parasites:
-causes Giurdiasis or diarrhea. |
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Ciliophora:
-intestinal pathogen |
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Euglenozoa:
-blood parasites |
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Trypanosomas:
-causes African Sleeping Sickness by salivary bite of an insect |
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Trypanosomas:
-causes Chagas Disease, which attacks the heart and leads to death from heart failure
-In South America and Southern N. America |
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| Amoebozoa: -causes intestinal problems by ingesting the cyst. |
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Amoebozoa:
-attacks the brain by entering through the resp. tract or open wounds |
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| Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) |
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Amoebozoa:
-causes ~ meningitis |
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Apicomplexa:
-transmitted by a mosquito |
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Apicomplexa:
-infects RBCs and causes fever, & anemia
-transmitted by ticks |
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Apicomplexa:
-causes toxoplasmosis
-transmitted via the inhalation of cysts, typically in cat and rodent species.
-dangerous to women cleaning litter box for sake of fetus. |
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Platyhelminths/Flatworms: -indicated by the organ they infect.
ex. "liver ____" |
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Platyhelminths/Flatworms:
-intestinal tapeworms |
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Nematodes/Roundworms:
-Egg infectious
-intestinal roundworms
-common in poor areas |
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Nematodes/Roundworms:
-Egg infectious
-Pinworms
-cause anal itching and are highly contagious |
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Nematodes/Roundworms:
-Larvae infectious
-most common hookworm |
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Nematodes/Roundworms:
-Larvae infectious
-hookworm |
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