Bacteriology 5 Flashcards
Where in/ on the the body are Staphylococcus infections typically found?
On the skin or mucous membranes
List some diseases caused by Staphylococcus.
Mastitis, Dermatitis, Greasy Pig Disease
What are Nosocomial infections?
Hospital acquired infections
Give an example of a common Nosocomial infection?
MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staph aureus)
List some diseases caused by Streptococcus
Mastitis, Strangles in horses
Bacillus anthracis
Produce endospores, exotoxins
Edema factor
Inhibits neutrophil function
Anthrax
- Splenomegaly
- Zoonotic
- High mortality
Caseous lymphadenitis
Characterized by abscess formation in major peripheral lymph nodes.
Johne’s Disease
Small intestine, can’t absorb nutrients, poor BCS
Listeriosis
CNS symptoms (turn neck), bacteria contaminates food or water
C. tetani
Locked jaw, horses, stretch neck out, sawhorse stance, spastic paralysis
C. botulinum
Flaccid paralysis- relaxed muscles
E. coli
Diarrhea, edema disease pigs
Salmonella
Diarrhea and abortion, good vaccines
Plague
Transmitted by fleas present in rats
Everyone died
Tularemia
Transmitted by flies, ticks, mosquitoes. Not high mortality
Actinobacillus, Pasteurella, Mannheimia
Respiratory disease, bloody nose, pneumonia, shipping fever
Brucellosis
Abortion, raw milk consumption
Bordetella bronchiseptica
Kennel cough, atrophic rhinitis
Nasal pus, nasal cavity deformed
Helicobacter pylori
Gastric ulcers
Leptospirosis
Icteric mucous membranes
Borrelia burgdorferi
Lyme disease, transmitted by ticks, bullseye
Chlamydia
Birds, STD humans
Mollicutes-Mycoplasma
Young animals, pneumonia, egg-like colonies, poor body development
Rickettsiales
Transmitted thru ticks
Rickettsia, Anaplasma, Ehrlichia
Coxiella burnettii
Q fever, abortion, low mortality
Gram positive bacteria/ diseases
Staphylococcus (Dermatitis & Greay Pig), Streptococcus (Strangles), Bacillus anthracis (Anthrax), Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae (Diamond skin disease), Caseous lymphadenitis, Actinomyces bovis (Lumpy jaw), Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), M. avium. subsp paratuberculosis (Johne’s), Listeria monocytogenes, Clostridium
Gram Negative bacteria/ diseases
E. coli, Salmonella, Plague, Francisella tularensis (Tularemia), Actinobacillus (Porcine pneumonia), Pasteurella multocida and Mannheimmia hemolytica (Shipping fever pneumonia), Brucellosis, Bordetella bronchiseptica (Kennel cough & Atrophic rhinitis), Helicobacter pylori, Leptospirosis, Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme), Chlamydia, Mollicutes-Mycoplasma, Rickettsiales, Coxiella burnettii
