microbe minutes Flashcards
short single rods
PM
Foind in soil
MC
motile
CBM
Gram -
YBM
strict anaerobe
C. deficile
spore forming
c. deficile
Bio warefare
PM
Family Enterobactereaceae
PM
irregular with drumstick buldge
C.deficile
2-5% have it in their intestines
C.deficile
flora keeps it under control
C.deficile
Hall O’toole 1935
C.deficile
lives in repiratpry tract as normal flora
S. pyogenes
resistant to antibiotics and hand rubs
C.deficile
releases toxins causeing diharrea
C.deficile
aquired in hostpitals
C.deficile
20% of patients get it
C.deficile
fecal/oral route
C.deficile
treat with metrondiasoleor vancomycin
C.deficile
can survive on inanimate objects for 2 years
C.deficile
causes plague
Y. Pestis
carried by rates and fleas
Y. Pestis
1894 Alexander yersin
Y. Pestis
Pneumonic, septonic, bubonis: 3 diseases
Y. Pestis