Bacteria Flashcards
Treponema
Treponema pallidum
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Spirochete ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Syphilis
Borrelia
Borrelia Burgdoferi
(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Spirochete
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Lyme disease
- Caused by an arthropod (Tick-borne)
Leptospira
Leptospira interrogans
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Spirochete ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Leptospirosis
Vibrio
Vibrio cholerae
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Curved rod (Vibrio) ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Cholera ↣ GI disease
Campylobacter
Campylobacter jejuni
(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
Helicobacter
Helicobacter pylori
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Curved rod (Helical shape) ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Peptic ulcer
Rickettsia
Rickettsia Ricketsii
(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Rocky mountain spotted fever
↣ Transmitted by vectors
Chlamydia
Chlamydia trachomatis
(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Trachoma (Blindness)
↣ STD
Chlamydophila
Chlamydophila pneumoniae
(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Pneumonia
Pseudomonas - Obligate aerobe
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Produces green pigment (Pyocyanin) ↣ An infection found in burn patients ↣ Nosocomial infections ↣ Lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients
Legionella
Legionella pneumophila
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Legionnaire's disease (Pneumonia) ↣ Intracellular pathogens
Bordetella
Bordetella pertussis
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Whooping cough (Pertussis)
Burkholderia
Burkholderia cepacia
(GRAM NEGATIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Found in cystic fibrosis patients
↣ Likes moist surfaces (Medical equipment)
Escherichia
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Found in a normal GI tract ↣ Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
Salmonella
Salmonella enterica
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Typhoid fever ↣ Salmonellosis ↣ Food poisoning
Shigella
Shigella dysenteriae
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Dysentery (Shigellosis)
Klebsiella
Klebsiella pneumoniae
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Hemorrhagic pneumonia
Serratia
Serratia marcescens
(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
temperatureProteus
Proteus vulgaris
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Opportunistic UTI
Yersinia
Yersinia pestis
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Plague
Enterobacter
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Opportunistic UTI
Fusobacterium
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Gingivitis
Neisseria
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Diplococcus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Neisseria gonorrhoeae ↣ Neisseria Meningitidis
Haemophilus
Haemophilus influenzae
(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Pleomorphic Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Meningitis ↣ Epiglottitis ↣ Otitis ↣ URI
Clostridium - Obligate Anaerobe
(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)
Bacillus
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
- Endospore forming
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
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↣ Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
↣ Fried Rice Syndrome (Bacillus cereus)
↣ Some species aid in making antibiotics
Lactobacillus
(GRAM POSITIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Used to make dairy products ↣ Found in vaginal flora
Listeria
Listeria monocytogenes
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Fetal pathogen, newborn meningitis
↣ Can live in refrigerated temperatures, cause food
poisoningPropionibacterium
Propionibacterium acnes
(GRAM POSITIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Acne
Gardnerella
Gardnerella vaginalis
(GRAM POSITIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Vaginosis / Vaginitis
Streptococcus
(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)
Enterococcus
Type of streptococcus
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Cocci in chains
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
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↣ Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE)
Staphylococcus
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Cocci in clusters
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Folliculitis, scalded skin syndrome, impetigo, toxic
shock syndrome
↣ VRSA, MRSA
↣ Normal flora on skin Staphylococcus epidermidis)
Streptomyces
(GRAM POSITIVE) Morphology: Filamentous ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Produce antibiotics
Actinomyces
(GRAM POSITIVE) Morphology: Filamentous ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Respiratory diseases ↣ Cavities
Corynebacterium
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Pleomorphic
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
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↣ Diphtheria
↣ Contain inclusions of metachromatic granules
Mycoplasma
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Morphology: No cell wall, pleomorphic ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Walking pneumonia ↣ Fried egg appearance of colonies
Mycobacterium
Morphology: Bacillus - Acid Fast!! ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Tuberculosis ↣ Leprosy
Nocardia
Morphology: Bacillus
- Acid Fast!!
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
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↣ Respiratory diseases
↣ Used to break down pollutants in the environment
(landfills)
