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Treponema

Treponema pallidum

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Spirochete
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Syphilis
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Borrelia

Borrelia Burgdoferi

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Spirochete
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Lyme disease
- Caused by an arthropod (Tick-borne)

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Leptospira

Leptospira interrogans

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Spirochete
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Leptospirosis
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Vibrio

Vibrio cholerae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Curved rod (Vibrio)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Cholera
  ↣ GI disease
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Campylobacter

Campylobacter jejuni

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Curved Rod (S-shaped)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ GI infections from contaminated meat or water
↣ Guillain-Barre syndrome

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Helicobacter

Helicobacter pylori

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Curved rod (Helical shape)
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Peptic ulcer
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Rickettsia

Rickettsia Ricketsii

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Rocky mountain spotted fever
↣ Transmitted by vectors

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Chlamydia

Chlamydia trachomatis

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Trachoma (Blindness)
↣ STD

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Chlamydophila

Chlamydophila pneumoniae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite
—————————————————–
Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Pneumonia

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Pseudomonas - Obligate aerobe

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Produces green pigment (Pyocyanin)
  ↣ An infection found in burn patients
  ↣ Nosocomial infections
  ↣ Lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients
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Legionella

Legionella pneumophila

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Legionnaire's disease (Pneumonia)
  ↣ Intracellular pathogens
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Bordetella

Bordetella pertussis

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Whooping cough (Pertussis)
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Burkholderia

Burkholderia cepacia

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Found in cystic fibrosis patients
↣ Likes moist surfaces (Medical equipment)

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Escherichia

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Found in a normal GI tract
  ↣ Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
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Salmonella

Salmonella enterica

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Typhoid fever
  ↣ Salmonellosis
  ↣ Food poisoning
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Shigella

Shigella dysenteriae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Dysentery (Shigellosis)
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Klebsiella

Klebsiella pneumoniae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Hemorrhagic pneumonia
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Serratia

Serratia marcescens

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Opportunistic UTI
  ↣ Causes respiratory infections
  ↣ Colonies produce a red/pink pigment at room 
      temperature
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Proteus

Proteus vulgaris

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Opportunistic UTI
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Yersinia

Yersinia pestis

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Plague
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Enterobacter

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
  - Enteric
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Opportunistic UTI
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Fusobacterium

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Gingivitis
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Neisseria

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Diplococcus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  ↣ Neisseria Meningitidis
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Haemophilus

Haemophilus influenzae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Pleomorphic Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Meningitis
  ↣ Epiglottitis
  ↣ Otitis
  ↣ URI
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Clostridium - Obligate Anaerobe

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
- Endospore forming
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Tetanus (Clostridium Tetani)
↣ Food poisoning, gas gangrene (Clostridium
perfringens)
↣ Botulism (Clostridium botulinum)
↣ Pseudomembranous colitis (Clostridium difficile)

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Bacillus

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
- Endospore forming
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
↣ Fried Rice Syndrome (Bacillus cereus)
↣ Some species aid in making antibiotics

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Lactobacillus

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Used to make dairy products
  ↣ Found in vaginal flora
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Listeria

Listeria monocytogenes

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Fetal pathogen, newborn meningitis
  ↣ Can live in refrigerated temperatures, cause food 
      poisoning
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Propionibacterium

Propionibacterium acnes

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Acne
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Gardnerella

Gardnerella vaginalis

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Vaginosis / Vaginitis
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Streptococcus

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Cocci in chains
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Alpha hemolysis, pneumonia, otitis media
(Streptococcus pneumoniae)
↣ Beta hemolysis, pharyngitis, necrotizing fasciitis,
cellulitis, erysipelas (Streptococcus pyogenes)
↣ Cavities (Streptococcus mutans)

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Enterococcus

Type of streptococcus

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Cocci in chains
—————————————————–
Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

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Staphylococcus

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Cocci in clusters
—————————————————–
Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Folliculitis, scalded skin syndrome, impetigo, toxic
shock syndrome
↣ VRSA, MRSA
↣ Normal flora on skin Staphylococcus epidermidis)

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Streptomyces

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Filamentous
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Produce antibiotics
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Actinomyces

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Filamentous
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Respiratory diseases
  ↣ Cavities
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Corynebacterium

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Pleomorphic
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Diphtheria
↣ Contain inclusions of metachromatic granules

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Mycoplasma

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Morphology: No cell wall, pleomorphic
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Walking pneumonia
  ↣ Fried egg appearance of colonies
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Mycobacterium

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Morphology: Bacillus
  - Acid Fast!!
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Tuberculosis
  ↣ Leprosy
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Nocardia

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Morphology: Bacillus
  - Acid Fast!!
-----------------------------------------------------
Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ↣ Respiratory diseases
  ↣ Used to break down pollutants in the environment 
      (landfills)

Introductory Microbiology (BIOL 2117) (8 decks)

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