Gram Negativ Organisms

Question 0

Where is enterobacter is normally found?

Answer 0

Normal flora of the digestive system

Question 1

What shape and gram is enterobacter?

Answer 1

G (-) rods

Question 2

Is enterobacter anaerobic, facultative, or aerobic?

Answer 2

Facultative anaerobes

Question 3

What does enterohenorrhagic e. Coli do?

Answer 3

Has fimbrae that attach to human intestines and produce a toxin that causes hemorrhagic colitis

Question 4

What are three symptoms of hemorrhagic colitis?

Answer 4

Bleeding, diarrhea, hemolytic uremia syndrome

Question 5

Where does enterohenorrhagic E. coli come from? 3

Answer 5

Meat, unpasteurized juices, alfalfa sprouts

Question 6

What is enterotoxigenic E. coli and what does it produce? 4

Answer 6

Enterotoxin that produces water diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and dehydration

Question 7

What causes travelers diarrhea?

Answer 7

Enterotoxigenic E. coli

Question 8

What are two diseases caused by salmonella?

Answer 8

Salmonellosis and salmonella gastroenteritis

Question 9

What are the two major infectious groups of salmonella?

Answer 9

Septic and enteric

Question 10

What is septic salmonella? 4

Answer 10

Invasive, high mortality rate, caused by s. Typhumurium/Dublin

Question 11

What is enteric salmonellosis?

Answer 11

Effect intestinal tract, causing diarrhea and dehydration

Question 12

What are antibiotics not very effective against and treatment consists if oral rehydration?

Answer 12

Salmonella

Question 13

What are 5 ways to get salmonella?

Answer 13

Poultry, eggs, reptiles, vegtables, peanut butter

Question 14

What does salmonella typhi cause?

Answer 14

Typhoid fever

Question 15

How would you treat salmonella typhi?

Answer 15

Antibiotics

Question 16

What are 5 symptoms of salmonella?

Answer 16

104 fever, ulcerative liesions of lymphoid tissues lining small intestine, abdominal tenderness, diarrhea, vomiting

Question 17

What is klebsiella? Gram and shape

Answer 17

G(-) rod

Question 18

What are three things k. Pneumoniae can cause?

Answer 18

Pneumonia, mastitis, septicemia

Question 19

What does shigella flexneri cause?

Answer 19

Severe intestinal infections in primates

Question 20

Where can you find serratia?

Answer 20

Soil

Question 21

What are three symptoms of serratia?

Answer 21

Pneumonia, septicemia, mastitis

Question 22

What shape and gram is pseudomonas?

Answer 22

G(-) rod

Question 23

Is pseudomonas aerobic, anaerobic, or facultative?

Answer 23

Aerobic

Question 24

Where is pseudomonas found?

Answer 24

Water and soil

Question 25

Why is pseudomonas aeriginosa hard to get rid of?

Answer 25

Can use anything for its carbon source

Question 26

What is pseudomonas dermatitis?

Answer 26

Self limiting rash that lasts two weeks

Question 27

Where is pseudomonas dermatitis often found?

Answer 27

Swimming pools

Question 28

What is Otis externa?

Answer 28

Painful chronic external ear canal infection

Question 29

What causes Otis externa?

Answer 29

Pseudomonas aeriginosa

Question 30

Who can pseudomonas aeriginosa seriously effect?

Answer 30

Burn patients

Question 31

What has some treatment effect against pseudomonas aeriginosa?

Answer 31

Fluroquinolones

Question 32

Is brucella positive or negative rod or cocci?

Answer 32

Negative rod

Question 33

Is brucella motile or not?

Answer 33

No

Question 34

How does brucella abortus travel? 2

Answer 34

Via the blood stream and lymphatic system

Question 35

Where does brucella like to grow?

Answer 35

Intracellular

Question 36

What does brucella abortus effect?

Answer 36

Livestock

Question 37

What are three reservoirs for brucella?

Answer 37

Wild elk, bison, and dogs

Question 38

Which disease has been virtually eliminated from the US?

Answer 38

Brucella abortus

Question 39

What are three symptoms of brucellosis?

Answer 39

Undulant fever, chills, malaise

Question 40

How can brucella abortus be transmitted?

Answer 40

Unpasteurized milk

Question 41

How does brucella abortus enter he body?

Answer 41

Abrasions and mucous membranes

Question 42

What happens once brucella abortus is in the body?

Answer 42

Ingested by macrophages and travels via circulatory system

Question 43

What is the treatment for brucellosis abortus?

Answer 43

Tetracycline/streptomycin

Question 44

What does vibrio cholerae look like? Gram and shape

Answer 44

Slightly curved gram negative rod

Question 45

What is cholerae reservoir?

Answer 45

Shellfish

Question 46

Where does cholera come from?

Answer 46

Food or water borne

Question 47

How can cholera be spread?

Answer 47

Fecal contamination

Question 48

What bacteria adheres to the intestinal lining without invading the cells?

Answer 48

Cholera

Question 49

What does cholera produce?

Answer 49

Coleragen

Question 50

What does coleragen do?

Answer 50

Stimulates GI epithelial cells to hyper secrete water and chloride ions

Question 51

What are three symptoms of coleragen/cholera

Answer 51

Severe dehydration, profuse diarrhea, increased TP

Question 52

How much water can you loose from cholera?

Answer 52

10-15 liters

Question 53

What is the drug of choice for cholera?

Answer 53

Tetracycline

Question 54

If left untreated how fatal is cholera?

Answer 54

50%

Question 55

How fatal is it if treated?

Answer 55

15%

Question 56

What does francisella tularensis cause?

Answer 56

Tularemia

Question 57

What is francisella tularensis? positive, negative, aerobic, anaerobic, facultative anaerobic and shape?

Answer 57

Small, facultative anaerobe, pleomorphic

Question 58

Is tularemia productive or negative?

Answer 58

Negative rod

Question 59

When is tularemia most commonly aquired?

Answer 59

Skin breaks, inhalation, ingestion

Question 60

What are three symptoms if tulerimia?

Answer 60

Localized infection, enlarged lymph nodes, filled with pus, septicemia, pneumonia, abscesses

Question 61

What happens once people are exposed naturally to tularemia and recovered?

Answer 61

Perminently immunity

Question 62

What are the two drugs of choice for tularemia?

Answer 62

Streptomycin or gentamicin

Question 63

What is pasteurellosis multicoda?

Answer 63

G(-) rod

Question 64

What animals can harbor pasteurellosis multicoda?

Answer 64

wild and domesticated

Question 65

What does pasteurellosis multocida cause?

Answer 65

Septicemia

Question 66

How is pasteurellosis transmitted?

Answer 66

Animal bites

Question 67

What are four symptoms of pasteurellosis?

Answer 67

Localized with severe swelling and pains with acute onset

Question 68

What are the two drug of choice for pasteurellosis?

Answer 68

Penicillin and tetracycline

Question 69

What bacteria causes cat scratch fever?

Answer 69

Bartonella henselae

Question 70

What is bartonella hensalae? E

Answer 70

Aerobic, gram - rod

Question 71

Where is bartonella henselae normally found?

Answer 71

On cats and in their saliva

Question 72

What are four symptoms of cat scratch fever?

Answer 72

Swollen lymph nodes, malaise, fever, endocarditis

Question 73

What is the most common cause of diarrheal illness in the Us?

Answer 73

Campylobacter jejune

Question 74

How is campylobacter spread?

Answer 74

Transmitted via contaminated food or water, or milk

Question 75

What is leptospirosis interrorgans?

Answer 75

G(-) spirochete

Question 76

What are 3 symptoms your animal has leptospirosis?

Answer 76

Fever, icterus, infertility, abortion

Question 77

How is leptospirosis contracted?

Answer 77

Skin abrasion, mucous membranes with urine, water, soil, plants

Question 78

What are two ways to treat leptospirosis?

Answer 78

Doxycycline or penicillin (May need IV)

Question 79

What does borrelia burgdorferi cause?

Answer 79

G(-) sporochete

Question 80

What are the two spirochete organisms?

Answer 80

Lepto and borrelia

Question 81

What is the borrelia burgdorferi reservoir?

Answer 81

Wildlife

Question 82

What is the borrelia burgdorferi vector?

Answer 82

Tick

Question 83

What are five symptoms of animals with borrelia burgdorferi?

Answer 83

Fever, anorexia, swollen lymph nodes, lameness, fatigue

Question 84

How can you prevent Lyme disease?

Answer 84

Tick control, insect repellent, keep shrubs away from the house, protective clothing

Question 85

What does yersina pestis cause?

Answer 85

Bubonic plague

Question 86

What does the bubonic plague look like?

Answer 86

Gram negative rod facultative anaerobe

Question 87

What is the plagues reservoir?

Answer 87

Rodents

Question 88

What is the plagues vector?

Answer 88

Flea