BACTE DISEASES Flashcards
Lyme’s disease
Borrelia burgdorferi
Parrot fever/Psittacosis/Ornithosis
Chlamydophila psittaci
Carrion’s/Oroya/Verruga Peruanna fever
Bartonella bacilliformis
Red disease and Diamond Butcher’s disease
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
3rd main cause of food poisoning in America
Clostridium perfringens
Associated with nursery outbreak meningitis
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica
Brill-Zinsser disease
Rickettsiae prowazekii
Swimmer’s ear infection
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Mycetoma
Actinomadura
Ragpicker’s disease
Bacillus anthracis
Woolsorter’s disease
Bacillus anthracis
Scotland outbreak
Bacillus anthracis
Marker for GIT
Clostridium septicum
Rat bite fever/ Hawerhill fever
Streptobacillus moniliformis
Weil’s disease
Leptospira interrogans
Atypical pneumonia/ Walking pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Cystic fibrosis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Secondary cause of cystic fibrosis
Burkholderia cepacia
Cystic fibrosis (px who had lung transplant)
Burkholderia glandioli
Cat scratch disease
Bartonella henselae, Afipia felis
Infection control dilemma/ Antibiotic associated diarrhea and pseudomembranous colitis
Clostridium difficile
Endophthalmitis after cataract surgery
Propionibacterium acnes
Corynebacterium causing UTI
Corynebacterium urealyticum
Most virulent bacteria
Bacillus anthracis **
Has the most potent toxin
Clostridium botulinum
Ghon complex/ Pott / Electron acceptor
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Fried rice poisoning
Bacillus cereus
Gas gangrene
Clostridium perfringens
Risus sardonicus
Clostridium tetani
Lock jaw
Clostridium tetani
Devil’s grin/muscle spasm
Clostridium tetani
Inflammation and pseudomembrane formation of the oropharynx
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Hansen’s disease
Mycobacterium leprae
Swimming pool granuloma
Mycobacterium marinum
Chronic suppurative granulomatous disease
Actinomyces
Whipple disease
Tropheryma whipplei
Rat bite fever/Sodoku fever
Spirillum minus/minor
Relapsing fever
Borrelia recurrentis
Peptic ulcer
Helicobacter pylori
Pink eye conjunctivitis
Haemophilus aegyptius
Soft painful chancre
Haemophilus ducreyi
Vietnamese time bomb
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Melioidosis
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Undulant fever
Brucella spp.
Malta fever
Brucella spp.
Bang’s disease
Brucella spp.
Mediterranean fever/Crimean fever
Brucella spp.
Gibraltar fever
Brucella spp.
Kennel cough/ Chronic respiratory tract infection
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Legionnaire’s disease
Legionella pneumophila
Pontiac fever
Legionella pneumophila
Pittsburgh pneumonia
Legionella micdadei
Whooping cough
Bordetella pertussis
Bacterial vaginosis
Gardnerella vaginalis
Tularemia
Francisella tularensis
John disease
Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
Most common cause of UTI in humans
Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC)
Hemorrhagic diarrhea E. coli
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)
Neonatal meningitis from drinking powdered infant formula
Cronobacter sakazakii
Providencia - Traveller’s diarrhea
Providencia (P. rettgeri)
Gastroenteritis in men-men sex
Shigella flexneri