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 **