Gram-negative

Question 1

E.coli

Answer 1

Most common coli form, has virulence plasmids. UTI’s, gastroenteritis, hemolytic uremic syndrome (sever kidney disorder) TRAVELERS DIARRHEA, similar to vibrio cholera.

Question 2

Shigella

Answer 2

Parasite of digestive tract, very small infection dose. Enterotoxin, diarrhea, shigellosis (bacillary dysentery) shiga toxin is like ricin.

Question 3

Salmonella

Answer 3

Salmonella typhi. Intestines and feces of birds, contaminated food. Typhoid fever. Weakness, abdominal pain constipation, headaches

Question 4

Yersinia

Answer 4

Animal pathogen, bubonic plague (pneumonic plague with bubos)

Question 5

Neisseria

Answer 5

Only gram negative to regularly cause disease, Pyogenic.

Gonorrhea, meningitidis (hemorrhagic lesions) meningitis

Question 6

B. Pertussis

Answer 6

Nonmotile, inhaled in aerosols.

Whooping cough

Question 7

Pseudomonas

Answer 7

Water and plants, soil and decay. Opportunistic, found in lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, infects sever burbs

Question 8

Francisella tularensis:

Answer 8

Water parasite, zoonotic disease transferred by insect bite (tick or deer fly).
Tularemia.

Question 9

Legionella pneumophilia

Answer 9

Inhalation of aerosols from h2o.

Legionnaires disease, pneumonia