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| Lyme disease, relapsing fever |
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| Urethritis (nongonococcal), Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) |
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| Gas gangrene, goastoenteritis |
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| Corynebacterium diptheriae |
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| Nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections |
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| Enterococcus spp. (faecalis, faecium) |
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| most common cause of surgical wound infections, nosocomial sepsis |
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| gastroenteritis, enterotoxigenic, enteroinvasive, and enterohemorrhagic; traveler's diarrhea/montezuma's revenge. Nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections |
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| Meningitis, bacteremia, epiglottitis or pneumonia |
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| Ulcer (Gastric and duodenal) stomach cancer |
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| pneumonia, most common cause of surgical wound infections |
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| Leprosy (Hansen's disease) |
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| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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| Neisseriae meningitidis (menningococcus) |
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| Meningitis (meningocococcal) |
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| Nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections, dermatitis, otitis externa, urinary tract infections, burns; can cause septicemia, abcesses, and meningitis. |
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| Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
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| Food poisoning (salmonellosis) |
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| Staphylococcus aureus (coagulase+, beta hemolytic) |
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| Most common cause of nosocomial pneumonia, MRSA accounts for 52.3% of S. aureus nosocomial infections. |
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| Staphylococcus epidermidis |
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| most important cause of nosocomial sepsis. May also cause acute bacterial endocarditis. |
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| Pneumonia (pneumococcal) meningitis (pneumococcal), otitis media; nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections |
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| Streptococcus pyogenes (group A beta-hemolytic streptococci) |
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| Strep throat (may be accompanied by scarlet fever or rheumatic fever), impetigo, otitis media, and erysipelas.) Also causes pneumonia, bacteremia in association with cutaneous infection, deep soft-tissue infection, cellulitis, myositis, necrotizing fascitis, meningitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, puerperal fever, neonatal sepsis, and nonfocal bacteremia. |
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| Gastroenteritis, Vibrio Non-O:1 |
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| Aflatoxin poisoning may contribute to cirrhosis and liver cancer, also may cause serious repiratory infection |
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| Blastomycosis- respiratory infection resembles bacterial pnemonia, may spread from lungs, causing severe abcesses |
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| opportunistic, Usually affects mucous membranes or moist areas of skin. Thrush in infection of oral mucosae. Vaginitis is infection of vaginal mucosae |
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| Coccidiodomycosis- progressive disease resembles T.B. |
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| Cryptococcosis- severe meningitis |
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| Histoplasmosis- respiratory, usually subclinical, resembles T.B. if progressive |
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| Echinonococcus granulosus |
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| Dysentery: Cryptosporidiosis |
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| Plasmodium sp (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, P.ovale) |
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| Trichomonoiasis (vaginitis) |
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Trypanosoma brucei
rhodesiense, T.B. gambiense |
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| Chaga's disease, American trypanosomiasis |
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| Ebola virus (a filovirus) |
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| Epstein-Barr virus (HHV-4) |
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| infectious mononucleosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma |
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| cold sores, may cause genital herpes depending on transmission |
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| Human immunodeficiency virus |
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| Influenza: types A, B, and C. Segemented genome allows extensive recombination leading to antigenic changes. Transmitted by inhalation, infects respiratory mucosa, allows secondary bacterial infections to occur after epithelial denudation |
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| Hemorrhagic fever, viral; Lassa fever |
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| Red measles (rubeola), subacute sclerosing panencephalitis |
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| Warts, including genital warts |
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| Rabies virus (Lyssavirus) |
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| Rubella (German measles), Congenital rubella syndrome |
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| Chicken Pox (varicella), shingles (herpes zoster) |
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| Smallpox, (pox-vesicopustular skin eruptions) |
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| Yellow fever virus (flavivirus, an arbovirus) |
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| Hemorrhagic fever, viral; Yellow Fever |
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