Exam 2- Bac V Flashcards
Do not cause disease in a healthy host with a healthy immune system
Opportunistic pathogens
Are equipped with virulence genes for adherence, invasion, evasion, from the immune system toxin
True pathogens
Hospital acquired infections
Nosocomial infections
Examples of nosocomial infections
MRSA, clostridium difficile
They need a cell to replicate
Obligate intracellular pathogens
Examples of obligate intracelluar pathogens
Rickettsia, claymidia
They can survive in extracellular and intracellular locations
Facultative intracellular pathogens
Staphylococcus
Gram + bacteria
Usually in skin
Produces a variety of toxins and virulence factors
S. Aureus
G+, mastitis in cows
S. Pseudintermedius
G+, dermatitis in dogs
S. Hyicus
G+, Greasy pig disease
G+ bacteria that causes abscesses, supportive infections, post surgical infection
Pyogenic bacteria
What enzyme coagulates blood plasma, occurs in virulent strains
Coagulase
Streptococcus
G+ bacteria
They have a capsule, which helps the organism to evade phagocytosis
S. Pyogenes
G+, mostly in humans
Has a capsule
S. Agalactiae
G+, causes mastitis
Has a capsule
Streptococcus dysgalactiae
G+, mastitis
Has a capsule
s. equi subsp
G+, equine strangles
Has a capsule
S. equi subsp zooepidemicus
G+, normal bacterial flora in horses
Has a capsule
Bacillus anthracis
G+ rod, produce endospores, exotoxins, capsule
Use penicillin to treat, has 3 separate proteins encoded on one plasmid, lethal factor
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Swine erysipelas or diamond skin disease in swine,
Treat with penicillin
Corynebacterium psuedotuberculosis
- causes lymphadenittis
- characterized by access formation in major peripheral lymph nodes, also in spleen
Actinomyces bovis
- pyogranulomatous osteomyelitis
- lumpy jaw, lesion in mandible
- cattle
Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
- acid fast + mycolic acid
- in dairy cows mostly
- injection into neck or pulse of tail
- TB test
- facultative intracellular bacteria
- cause tuberculosis