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| gram +; can colonize prosthetic heart valves, stents, prosthetic joints |
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| gram +; frequent cause of UTIs in sexually active young women |
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| gram +; most virulent; cause toxic mediated, inflammatory diseases |
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| gram +; cause serious neonatal disease, endocarditis, dental caries |
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| gram +; group A strep; strep throat, skin infection, post-surgical cellulitis, scarlet fever, and other toxin-mediated diseases |
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| gram +; normal flora of large intestine and feces that is commonly antibiotic resistant and causes UTIs (nosocomial), endocarditis, and wound infections |
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| gram +; cause of anthrax and produces an exotoxin |
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| gram +; botulinum, difficile, perfringens, tetani; anaerobes that form spores and make exotoxins |
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| corynebacterium diptheriae |
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| gram +; causes respiratory and cutaneous diphtheria |
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| gram -; Enterobacteriaceae causing gastroenteritis, uti, neonatal meningitis, septicemia |
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| gram -; Enterobacteriaceae causing enteritis and typhoid fever |
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| gram -; Enterobacteriaceae causing dysentary |
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| gram -; causes meningitis, usually in children under 5 and those living in close quarters |
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| gram -; type b is the most virulent causing meningitis, epiglottitis, arthritis, otitis |
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| gram -; opportunistic infections like uti, burn wound, ear, skin, pulmonary infections (CF) |
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