BORDATELLA

Question 1

What kind of pathogen is Bordatella?

Answer 1

Bacteria

Question 2

Is Bordatella gram negative or gram positive?

Answer 2

Gram negative

Question 3

What would Bordatella look like on a microscope slide?

Answer 3

Pink cocci and bacilli (spheres and rods)

Question 4

Is Bordatella anaerboic or aerobic?

Answer 4

Aerobic (O2)

Question 5

What is a strain of Bordatella?

Answer 5

Bordatella pertussis (WHOOPING COUGH)

Question 6

How is Bordatella transmitted?

Answer 6

Transferred by coughing, causes respiratory disease

Question 7

What is the incubation time for Bordatella?

Answer 7

7-10 days after exposure symptoms will occur (someone can already be contagious before they start coughing, spreading it unknowingly)

Question 8

How does a Bordatella infection present?

Answer 8

3 Stages:
-Catarrhal: sniffles, cough, cold like symptoms for 2 weeks

-Paroxysmal: whopping cough, post-tussis vomiting (vomiting after coughing), incontinence for 2-6 weeks

-Convalent: dry and nagging cough, no longer infectious

(weird pneumonic: CATs Pee CONstantly, to remember the stages)

Question 9

How can a Bordatella infection be diagnosed?

Answer 9

-Culture
-PCR
-Serology (blood)

Question 10

How can a Bordatella infection be treated?

Answer 10

VACCINATION! Prevention

-Azithromycin
-Bactrim

Prophylaxis,or medicating to prevent the disease can be done in people exposed (only effective if the person was exposed less than 3 weeks before prophylactic treatment)