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  • Gram positive
  • White exodase
  • Anterior cervical lymphadenopathy
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Streptococcus pyogenes

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  • Gram positive
  • swollen lymph nodes
  • low fever/fatigue
  • skin rashes
  • sore throat
  • Vaccines of TDap
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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  • Gram negative
  • Common in COPD
  • Otitis media infections in children
  • Sinusitis including fever
  • Headache and pain in maxillary frontal region
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Moraxella catarrhalis

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  • Gram negative
  • Can look septic arthritis or cellulitis
  • Not good in children under 5 or adults over 65 and immunocompromised individuals
  • symptoms range from mild ear infection to severe blood infection
  • SOB
  • Fever
  • Muscle pain and tenderness
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Haemophilus influenza

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  • Gram negative
  • Fever, HA, N/V
  • purpura fulminans
  • photophobia
  • petechiae or hemorrhagic rash
  • Dx = lumbar puncture
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Neisseria meningitidis

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  • Whooping cough
  • Gram negative
  • “whooping in babies”
  • Rapid coughing spells with forced inhale
  • Testing: obtain nose and throat culture
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Bordetella pertussis

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  • Gram negative
  • From water supply (hot tub)
  • Two forms: disease/pontiac fever
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Legionella pneumophila

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  • Gram negative
  • person to person contact
  • Causes jelly-like sputum
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Klebsiella pneumoniae

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  • Gram positive
  • grows in chains and is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia
  • spreads by coughing, sneezing, or coming into contact w/ respiratory droplets
  • community acquired
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streptococcus pneumoniae

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  • Atypical pneumonia
  • Common cause of community acquired pneumonia
  • Walking pneumonia
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mycoplasma pneumoniae

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  • Person to person through air (coughing, speaking, singing)
  • We are at risk for this
  • 10 mm positive signs
  • symptoms: active (bad cough, chest pain, coughing up blood, weakness, fatigue/chills); latent: no symptoms, cannot spread
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mycobacterium tuberculosis

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  • Gram positive
  • Looks like grapes
  • vertical transmission
  • abscesses, cellulitis, blood stream, pneumonia
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staphylococcus aureus

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  • gram negative
  • found everywhere in environment
  • passes from person to person
  • smells like grapes
  • hospitals most at risk (ventilators, caths, post surgery)
  • immunocompromized
  • pneumonia, endocarditis, skin and soft tissue, UTI
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pseudomonas aeruginosa

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  • gram positive
  • skin and soft tissue; found in nose
  • endocarditis
  • sepsis
  • bacteremia
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streptococcus agalactiae

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  • Gram negative
  • black-legged tick transmission
  • Lyme disease
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borrelia burgderfori

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  • Rocky mountain spotted fever
  • gram negative
  • hard bodied ticks
  • flu like symptoms, rash, malaise
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  • riskettsia rickettsii
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  • spores
  • gram positive
  • lock jaw or tetanus
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clostridium tetani

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  • gram positive
  • spores
  • food borne with improper canning or storing of food
  • spoiled food
  • muscle weakness and bilateral eyelid drooping
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clostridium botulinum

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  • gram positive and spore forming
  • food left out (meat poultry and gravies)
  • alimentary track
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  • clostridium perfringens
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  • protozoan
  • acquired through water, food, fecal oral; furry friends
  • diarrhea, fatigue, stomach pain, asymptomatic
  • dehydration and failure to thrive
  • lactose intolerance
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giardia lamblia

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  • gram positive and spore forming
  • found in water, soil, and GI tract of human
  • fecal-oral transmission
  • foul and distinct smell
  • dehydration, diarrhea, fever, tachycardia
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clostridium difficile

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  • gram negative
  • contaminated food or water
  • fecal oral
  • typhoid fever
  • travelers most at risk
  • hemorrhage of ileal peyer patches
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salmonella typhi

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  • Gram negative
  • Found in humans
  • infected feces
  • bloody stool, fever, rectal tenesmus
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shigella

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  • gram positive
  • spore forming
  • GI issues
  • endophthalmitis
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bacillus cereus

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  • Gram negative
  • fecal oral
  • mostly poverty
  • rice-water stools
  • leg cramps
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vibrio cholerae

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  • gram negative
  • raw or undercooked ground meat and milk
  • pools, lakes, ponds
  • watery diarrhea, abdominal pain
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escherichia coli

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  • gram negative
  • undercooked pork
  • diarrhea
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yersinia enterocolitica

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  • gram positive
  • found in soft cheese, deli meat
  • HA, stiff neck, LOB and convulsions
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listeria monocytogenes

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  • gram negative
  • raw or undercooked chicken
  • temporary paralysis
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campylobacter jejuni

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  • bacterial vaginosis
  • vaginal discomfort, discharge, fishy odor
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gardnerella vaginosis

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  • protozoan
  • male and female affected
  • STD
  • irritation, vaginal discharge and pain (female)
  • pain, penial discharge and irritation (male)
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trichomoniasis vaginalis

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  • Gram negative
  • STD
  • Burning sensation when peeing, genital discharge
  • throat pain
  • rectal symptoms
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neisseria gonorrhoeae

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  • Gram negative
  • STD
  • conjunctivitis
  • vaginal bleeding, genital discharge, testicular pain
  • painful urination
  • reactive arthritis
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chlamydia trachomatis

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  • atypical
  • STD or mother to offspring at birth
  • spherical or coccobacillary shaped
  • asymptomatic
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ureaplasma urealyticum

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  • gram negative
  • STD primarily in gay men
  • can be congenital through placenta or intrapartum
  • Chancre, rash
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treponema pallidum

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  • gram negative
  • HACEK group
  • infected hand wound after a bar fight (human bite)
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eikenella corrodens

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  • gram negative coccobacillus
  • zoonotic infections (especially cats and dogs)
  • bacteremia, meningitis, endocarditis
  • necrotizing fasciitis
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pasteurella multocida

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  • Aerobic
  • gram negative
  • comes from cats
  • cat-scratch fever
  • lymphadenopathy within 2 weeks of scratch or contact with cat
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bordatella henselae

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