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Name the disease!
Diseases and the bacteria with which they are identified
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 4
06/10/2012

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Term
Staphyloccocus aureaus causes which diseases?
Definition
  • Boils
  • skin sepsis
  • postoperative wond infection
  • scalded skin syndrome
  • catheter-associated infection
  • food-borne infection
  • septicemia, endocarditis
  • toxic shock syndrom
  • osteomyelitis
  • pneumonia
Term
Staphylococcus epidermidis is responsible for which disease(s)?
Definition
  • opportunistic pathogen associated with device related sepsis
  • urinary tract infection
  • sternal wornd osteomyelitis

 Normal habitat is skin

Term
Staphylococcus saprophyticus is responsible for which disease(s)?
Definition
  • Urinary tract infection in otherwise healthy women; associated with sexual intercourse

Normal habitat: skin, genitourinary mucosa

Term

Streptococcus pyogenes

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition

Group A

  • upper respiratory infections
  • skin and soft tissue infections
  • scarlet fever
  • glomerulonephritis and rheumatic fever are complications of skin and throat infections

Transmission: air-borne droplets

Normal habitat: human respiratory tract and skin

 
Term

Streptococcus agalactiae

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • neonatal meningitis and septicemia

Normal habitat: gut and vagina

Transmission: birth 

Term

Streptococcus pneumoniae

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • pneumonia, septicemia, and meningitis
  • otitis in children
  • capsular type III associated pneumonia

Transmission: droplet

Normal habitat: human respiratory tract 

Term

Enterococcus faecalis

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • UTI
  • endocarditis
  • septicemia after surgery and in the immunocompromised 

Transmission: endogenously aquired

Normal habitat: gut of humans and animals

Term

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • diphtheria

Transmission: aerosol

Normal habitat: nasopharynx, sometimes skin

Term

Bacillus anthracis

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • anthrax

Transmission: contact with infected animal hides and bones, spore enter through skin wound or inhalation

Normal habitat: soil 

Term

Clostridium perfringens

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • gas gangrene
  • food poisoning

Transmission: contact in a wound, or ingestion

Natural habitat: soil and normal flora of humans

Term

Clostridium tetani

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • tetanus (lockjaw)

Transmission: contaminated soil in wound

Natural habitat: soil

Treatment: anti-toxin

Term

Clostridium botulinum

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • floppy baby
  • botulism

Transmission: ingestion

Normal habitat: soil

Term

Clostridium difficile

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • pseudomembranous colitis (antibiotic-associated diarrhea)

Transmission: antibiotic use, fecal-oral

Normal habitat: gut

Term

Escherichia coli

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • EHEC (entero-hemorrhagic E. coli) produce verotoxin
  • UTI
  • diarrheal diseases
  • septicemia
  • neonatalmeningitis

Transmission: fecal-oral

Normal habitat: gut 

Term

Klebsiella pneumoniae

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • oportunist infections
  • UTI

Transmission: hands (contact); endogenous

Normal habitat: gut; moist inanimate environments, soil and water. 

Term

Salmonella spp.

is responsible for which disease(s)?

Definition
  • Salmonella
  • typhoid fever

Transmission: fecal oral, contaminated food or water

Natural habitat: animals; and some human carriers 

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