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Gram Negativ Organisms Flashcards

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Where is enterobacter is normally found?

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Normal flora of the digestive system

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What shape and gram is enterobacter?

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G (-) rods

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Is enterobacter anaerobic, facultative, or aerobic?

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Facultative anaerobes

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What does enterohenorrhagic e. Coli do?

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

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What are three symptoms of hemorrhagic colitis?

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Bleeding, diarrhea, hemolytic uremia syndrome

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Where does enterohenorrhagic E. coli come from? 3

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Meat, unpasteurized juices, alfalfa sprouts

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

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

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What causes travelers diarrhea?

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Enterotoxigenic E. coli

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What are two diseases caused by salmonella?

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Salmonellosis and salmonella gastroenteritis

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What are the two major infectious groups of salmonella?

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Septic and enteric

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What is septic salmonella? 4

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

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What is enteric salmonellosis?

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Effect intestinal tract, causing diarrhea and dehydration

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

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Salmonella

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What are 5 ways to get salmonella?

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Poultry, eggs, reptiles, vegtables, peanut butter

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What does salmonella typhi cause?

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Typhoid fever

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How would you treat salmonella typhi?

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Antibiotics

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What are 5 symptoms of salmonella?

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

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What is klebsiella? Gram and shape

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G(-) rod

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What are three things k. Pneumoniae can cause?

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Pneumonia, mastitis, septicemia

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What does shigella flexneri cause?

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Severe intestinal infections in primates

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Where can you find serratia?

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Soil

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What are three symptoms of serratia?

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Pneumonia, septicemia, mastitis

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What shape and gram is pseudomonas?

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G(-) rod

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Is pseudomonas aerobic, anaerobic, or facultative?

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Aerobic

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Where is pseudomonas found?

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Water and soil

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Why is pseudomonas aeriginosa hard to get rid of?

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Can use anything for its carbon source

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What is pseudomonas dermatitis?

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Self limiting rash that lasts two weeks

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Where is pseudomonas dermatitis often found?

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Swimming pools

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What is Otis externa?

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Painful chronic external ear canal infection

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What causes Otis externa?

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Pseudomonas aeriginosa

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Who can pseudomonas aeriginosa seriously effect?

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Burn patients

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What has some treatment effect against pseudomonas aeriginosa?

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Fluroquinolones

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Is brucella positive or negative rod or cocci?

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Negative rod

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Is brucella motile or not?

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No

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How does brucella abortus travel? 2

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Via the blood stream and lymphatic system

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Where does brucella like to grow?

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Intracellular

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What does brucella abortus effect?

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What are three reservoirs for brucella?

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Wild elk, bison, and dogs

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Which disease has been virtually eliminated from the US?

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Brucella abortus

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What are three symptoms of brucellosis?

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Undulant fever, chills, malaise

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How can brucella abortus be transmitted?

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Unpasteurized milk

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How does brucella abortus enter he body?

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Abrasions and mucous membranes

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What happens once brucella abortus is in the body?

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Ingested by macrophages and travels via circulatory system

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What is the treatment for brucellosis abortus?

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Tetracycline/streptomycin

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What does vibrio cholerae look like? Gram and shape

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Slightly curved gram negative rod

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What is cholerae reservoir?

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Where does cholera come from?

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Food or water borne

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How can cholera be spread?

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Fecal contamination

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

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What does cholera produce?

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What does coleragen do?

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Stimulates GI epithelial cells to hyper secrete water and chloride ions

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What are three symptoms of coleragen/cholera

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Severe dehydration, profuse diarrhea, increased TP

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How much water can you loose from cholera?

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10-15 liters

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What is the drug of choice for cholera?

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Tetracycline

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If left untreated how fatal is cholera?

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How fatal is it if treated?

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What does francisella tularensis cause?

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

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Small, facultative anaerobe, pleomorphic

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Is tularemia productive or negative?

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Negative rod

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When is tularemia most commonly aquired?

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Skin breaks, inhalation, ingestion

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What are three symptoms if tulerimia?

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

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

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Perminently immunity

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What are the two drugs of choice for tularemia?

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Streptomycin or gentamicin

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What is pasteurellosis multicoda?

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What animals can harbor pasteurellosis multicoda?

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wild and domesticated

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What does pasteurellosis multocida cause?

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Septicemia

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How is pasteurellosis transmitted?

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Animal bites

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What are four symptoms of pasteurellosis?

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Localized with severe swelling and pains with acute onset

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What are the two drug of choice for pasteurellosis?

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Penicillin and tetracycline

69
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What bacteria causes cat scratch fever?

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Bartonella henselae

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What is bartonella hensalae? E

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Aerobic, gram - rod

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Where is bartonella henselae normally found?

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On cats and in their saliva

72
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What are four symptoms of cat scratch fever?

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Swollen lymph nodes, malaise, fever, endocarditis

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

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Campylobacter jejune

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How is campylobacter spread?

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Transmitted via contaminated food or water, or milk

75
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What is leptospirosis interrorgans?

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G(-) spirochete

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What are 3 symptoms your animal has leptospirosis?

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Fever, icterus, infertility, abortion

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How is leptospirosis contracted?

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

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What are two ways to treat leptospirosis?

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Doxycycline or penicillin (May need IV)

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What does borrelia burgdorferi cause?

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G(-) sporochete

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What are the two spirochete organisms?

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Lepto and borrelia

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What is the borrelia burgdorferi reservoir?

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What is the borrelia burgdorferi vector?

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What are five symptoms of animals with borrelia burgdorferi?

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Fever, anorexia, swollen lymph nodes, lameness, fatigue

84
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How can you prevent Lyme disease?

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

85
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What does yersina pestis cause?

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Bubonic plague

86
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What does the bubonic plague look like?

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Gram negative rod facultative anaerobe

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What is the plagues reservoir?

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What is the plagues vector?

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