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| salmonella physical characteristics |
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| GM-, motile, no lactose fermentation, H2S production |
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| shigella physical characteristics |
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| GM- rod, nonmotile, no lactose fermentation, produces verotoxin (kills cells) |
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| clostridium difficile physical characteristics |
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| GM+ rod, endospore forming, anaerobic |
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| opportunistic pathogen - people who have been on antibiotics for long periods of time |
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| long term oral vancomycin - not absorbed by GI tract |
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| vibrio cholerae physical characteristics |
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| GM- curved rod, monopolar flagella, can live free in aquatic environments |
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| massive diarrhea causing 'rice water stools' and high (50%) mortality untreated |
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| humans, outbreaks predicted using satellite imaging |
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| only toxin present, pathogen killed/not present |
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| staph. aureus enterotoxin characteristics |
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| stimulates vomiting reflex, 1-6 hours after ingestion (more rapid than infection) |
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| helicobacter pylori physical features |
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| curved rod, produces urease |
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| breaks down urea and produces NH3 which neutralizes stomach acid in local environment of infection |
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| h. pylori causative agent of... |
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