Bacteria Flashcards
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Treponema
Treponema pallidum
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Spirochete ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Leptospirosis
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Vibrio
Vibrio cholerae
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Curved rod (Vibrio) ----------------------------------------------------- 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) ----------------------------------------------------- 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
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Pneumonia
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Pseudomonas - Obligate aerobe
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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(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
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Legionella
Legionella pneumophila
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Dysentery (Shigellosis)
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Klebsiella
Klebsiella pneumoniae
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Opportunistic UTI
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Yersinia
Yersinia pestis
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Plague
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Enterobacter
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Opportunistic UTI
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Fusobacterium
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Gingivitis
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Neisseria
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Diplococcus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Neisseria gonorrhoeae ↣ Neisseria Meningitidis
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Haemophilus
Haemophilus influenzae
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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Pleomorphic Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Meningitis ↣ Epiglottitis ↣ Otitis ↣ URI
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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)
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Bacillus
(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
```
(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
```
(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
```
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Acne
```
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Gardnerella
| Gardnerella vaginalis
```
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Bacillus
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Vaginosis / Vaginitis
```
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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)
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Enterococcus
| Type of streptococcus
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Cocci in chains
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE)
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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)
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Streptomyces
```
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Filamentous
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Produce antibiotics
```
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Actinomyces
```
(GRAM POSITIVE)
Morphology: Filamentous
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Respiratory diseases
↣ Cavities
```
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Corynebacterium
| Corynebacterium diphtheriae
(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
```
Morphology: Bacillus
- Acid Fast!!
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Tuberculosis
↣ Leprosy
```
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Nocardia
```
Morphology: Bacillus
- Acid Fast!!
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Disease caused/Other characteristics:
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
↣ Respiratory diseases
↣ Used to break down pollutants in the environment
(landfills)
```
