Diseases Flashcards
cat scratch disease
bartonella henselae
diptheria
klebs-loeffler bacterium/coryncebacterium (aerobic g+)
mucous membrane chlamydia
C trachomatis
genitals, eyes, infant pneumonia
respiratory chlamydia
C pneumonia
pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia
School age children mild bronchitis/pneumonia, atypical pneumonia
psittacosis chlamydia
C psittaci
mild fever/headache, dry cough, sometimes pneumonia
traveler’s diarrhea V
rotavirus, norovirus, adenovirus (all non-enveloped capsids)
travelers diarrhea B
vibrio cholerae, ETEC (toxogenic), EPEC (pathogenic), EAEC (aggregative)
travelers diarrhea P
giardia, cryptosporidium
bloody diarrhea B
Shigella, Shiga-toxigenic E. coli (StEC, EHEC), EIEC (invasive), campylobacter jejuni, non-typhi-salmonella, yersinia
bloody diarrhea P (dysentery)
entamoeba histolytica
intoxication V + B
V: none (mimicked by norovirus)
B: staph aureus enterotoxins, bacillus cereus enterotoxins
enteric/typhoid fever
salmonella typhi & para-typhi (other systemic invasive enteropathogens: listeria, brucella, non-typhi salmonella, yersinia)
Haemophilus influenzae
normal flora, meningitis pneumonia bronchitis otitis media, 6mo-2yr, polysacc capsule
bordetella pertussis
whooping cough, toxin pertussis
legionella pneumophila
reservoir: rivers/streams/amebae, ac water-cooling tanks;
legionnaires disease (atypical pneumonia), pontiac fever;
no human-to-human transmission
chlamydia pneumoniae
school age children (mild pneumonia/bronchitis), atypical pneumonia
mycoplasma pneumoniae
“walking pneumonia” mild illness, atypical pneumonia
trichomonas
STD, vaginitis, urethritis
plasmodium
malaria
trypanosomes
infect blood: chagas disease, african sleeping sickness
leishmania
infect bone marrow, liver, spleen
toxoplasma
CNS infection, encephalitis, cats
pneumocystis
pneumonia in AIDS pts
syphilis
treponema pallidum
h pylori virulence factors
CagA (cytotoxin-associated gene A), VacA (vacuolating cytotoxin A) alleles
superantigens
s.aureus, s.pyogenes, clostridium, ebv, sars-cov2
