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| Gram Negative Bacilli. Used to clean up oils. Also commonly gets into burns and wounds during surgical procedures (nosocomial infections). Can grow on disinfectants |
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| Brucella bacteria in cattle, zoonotic |
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| Brucella bacteria in pigs, zoonitic |
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| Cause undulant fever, doesn't cause abortion in humans but in animals, zoonotic |
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| Francisella (Pasteurella) tularensis |
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-Found in central states
-low MID if bitten by athropod vecor, higher if ingested
-Used in biological warfare
-Causes RABBIT FEVER |
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| Causes puerperal infections |
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| Can cause rheumatic fever |
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| Streptococcus mutans (part of Veridans group) |
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| Done to test for inflammation in your body after a surgery. S mutans can get in heart valves after tooth cleaning |
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| Strep vaccine for children |
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| Can cause opthalmia neonatorum |
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| Can cause woolsorter's disease |
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| Bacillus anthracis. Woolsorter's disease = pulmonary anthrax |
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| Diphtheria, Tetanus, acellular pertussis |
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| Commonly found in palisade arrangement |
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| Corynebacterium diphtheria |
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| Causes very diagnostic grayish pseudomembrane |
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| Corynebacterium diphtheria |
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| rifampin antibody used commonly to treat people with TB |
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| TB vaccine, attenuated strain of M. bovis (bacillus of Calmette-Guerin) |
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| Tuberculoid/Anesthetic Leprosy |
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| Lepromatous/nodular leprosy |
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| Very severe form of leprosy |
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| Can grow on disinfectants |
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| Francisella (Pasteurella) tularensis |
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| Causes Legionnaire's disease |
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| Legionella pneumophila (more severe form of Pontiac fever) |
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| Obligate intracellular parasite that can live in aquatic environments |
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| One organism of this species can lead to infection |
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| Causative agent of the plague |
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| Haemophilus aeygyptius causes what |
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| Haemophilus influenzae causes what |
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| bacterial meningitis in children and adults |
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| How do you test for H. influenzae |
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| spinal tap to look at cerebrospinal fluid |
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| Haemophilus ducreyi causes what |
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| Haemophilus parainfluenza/ Haemophilus aphrophilus |
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| Part of the normal flora in the mouth, introduced into the blood stream during dental procedures |
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| Two basic mechanisms of infectious diarrhea |
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1) secretory/toxigenic diarrhea
2) invasive diarrhea/dysentery |
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| enteric bacteria that are facultative anaerobes, non spore-forming, capable of fermenting lactose with gas production |
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| enterotoxigenic strains of E. Coli that commonly cause traveller's diarrhea |
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| E. coli that causes hemorrhagic colitis/hemolytic uremic syndrome |
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| Salmonella typhi causes what |
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| helical, gram negative, endoflagella at both sides |
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| what does Treponema pallidum cause? |
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| Generation time of syphilis |
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| degenerative lesions from tertiary syphilis |
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| bacteria that killed 43 people in Tuscaloosa in 2005 |
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| Treponema, Leptospira, Borrelia |
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| effects endothelium, zoonotic, mainly tropical |
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| genus that ticks infect and then spread lyme disease |
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| causes tick-born relapsing fever |
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| causes louse-born relapsing fever |
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| what does Vibrio cholerae cause |
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| have two circular chromosomes, short, gram neg., curviform rods |
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| Obligate intracellular paracites |
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Definition
| Coxiella, chlamydia, rickettsia, some mycobacteria |
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| what type of environments to vibrios like? |
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| causes rocky mtn spotted fever |
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| describe rickettsia genus |
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| obligate intracellular parasite, rod or coccobacilli, close to mitochonria |
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| organism linked to heart attack |
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