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Babes-Ernst bodies
Diptheria toxin: shuts off protein synthesis in epithelial cells.
Diptheria means leathery
Treatment: anti toxin |
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Aerobic
Leads to lumpy jaw |
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Caused by Thermophilic Actinomycytes
"Allergic pneumonitis" |
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Caused by Thermophilic Actinomycetes: Thrpheryma whipplii
Malabsorption disease |
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"Consumption"
Caused by Mycobacterium tuburculosis
M. bovis can infect humans~milk pasteurization |
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| TB infection of vertebral column |
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| Gathering of activated macrophages around TB |
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Causes leprosy AKA Hansen's disease
Armadillo is a non human source
Lion Face and hypethesia (numbness) |
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Oxygen triggers sporulation
Produce toxins |
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Entrerotoxin killed in cooking, produced in gut
Causes Gas gangrene, Cellulitis, and clostroidial food poisoning |
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caused by C. perfringens
Fermentation of muscle tisue, death in 2 days |
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| Clostridial food poisoning |
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Caused by C. perfringens
Third most common cause of food poisoning in US
No fever, no nausea, no vomiting, yes cramps and diarhea. |
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Normal GI flora
highly resistant to antibiotics
Treatment, fecal transfer |
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Most potent biological toxin-potential weapon
Blocks neurotransmission-Flacid Paralysis
Toxin is heat liable |
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in vivo production of botulism toxin in innfant's large bowel.
floppy baby
Spores found in honey |
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Resembles tennis racket
Causes tetanus and Spastic paralisis
Sardonic smile |
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| All gram negative bacteria have... |
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2nd most common STD in US
Has Pilli
Porin protein interferes with neutrophil killing.
Women more likely to be infected after exposure. |
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| associated with Neisseria gonorrhea |
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Releases blebs of LOS
Abrupt onset of conditions
Kernig's and Brudzinski's orthopedic tests will be positive
25% mortality with treatment |
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Normal flora in GI tract
A UTI can cause back pain
Majority of UTI's are caused by E. Coli, can lead to septicemia. |
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| Traveler's and infant diarrhea |
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| Enterohemorrhagic E. Coli |
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Shiga toxin
Bloody diarrgea
Death |
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Not a toxin, a bacterial infection
Chickens and turtles (all animals) |
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Caused by Salmonella typhi
Intestinal hemorrhage |
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inculdes S. dysenteriae
Watery diarrhea
Blood in stool |
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The plague, black death
Transmited by the rat flea
3 forms
Septicemic, pneumonic, bubonic |
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| Not contagious, spreads through vector. |
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Capsule
Gooey mucoid
Aspired
Alchoholics prone
Also causes wound and uti's |
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Second major cause of UTI's
eliminates urease |
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Produce red pigment
Grows on soup, but not a mold |
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found in shell fish, water, estuaries
Causes Cholera |
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"rice water" stools, extreme diarrhea
Replace water and electrolites! |
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Found in raw chicken
diarrhea, malaise, bloody stools
Guillaine-Barre syndrome (paralysis) |
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In 2/3 of everyone's stomachs
Can cause ulcers |
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Produce water soluble blue green pigments
Smells like musty grapes
Resistant to antibiotics
can grow in distilled water and disinfectant.
Causes death by making biofilm in patients with cystic fibrosis or severe burns
Swimmer's ear and hot tub folliculitis |
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Can cause meningitis
Capsule makes type B important
Big cause of Otitis media |
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STD
chancroid or soft chancre: painful, bleeds easily, soft raised border |
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causes pertussis (whooping cough)
vaccine destroys toxin, not bacteria
endemic worldwide |
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Contracted from contaminated milk
Causes undulant fever |
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First described in 1976 after a pneumonia outbreak at the American Legionnaire's convention
Faculative intracellular paracytes
can live within macrophages and amoeba |
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| Treponema pallidum pallidum |
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causes syphilis
cuses canchre
open rash
"great pox" |
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| Yaws or frambesia (red rasberry lesions) |
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Hook at one end
Shed in animal urine |
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Urinary tract disease
Weil's disease |
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Ticks and lice spread
up to 10 relapses occur |
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Lyme disease:
Migrains
Bullseye lesion
Bell's Palsy |
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No cell wall
Worm like
smallest free licing bacterium |
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walking pneumonia
antibiotics targeting cell wall ineffective |
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Rocky mountain spotted fever
spread by arthropods (ticks, mites, lice, fleas) |
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Causes Epidemic Typhus and Brill zinsser disease (relaxing fever)
Vector: human body louse |
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| Causes endemic AKA Mexican typhus |
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causes scrub typhus
Vector: chigger form of mite
Asia and South Pacific |
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Transmitted to cows by ticks, released into milk
Causes Q fever |
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obligate intracellular
Energy paracytes |
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Causes keratoconjunctivitis, leading cause of preventable blindness
Causes swimming pool conjunctivitis, neonatal conjunctivitis, and infant pneumonia |
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most common STD in US
Asymptomatic in women
May result in Reiter's syndrome |
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Causes psittacosis, parrot fever, ornithosis
From birds |
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