Microbial disease of the cardiovascular, lymphatic, and respiratory system Flashcards
The primary causative agent for Neonatal sepsis
Streptococcus agalactiae
Causative agent for puerperal fever/childbirth fever
Streptococcus pyogenes
Causative agent in bacterial endocarditis
Streptococcus aureus
Autoimmune complication of S. pyogenes
Rheumatic fever
Mortality rate of tularemia
30%
Symptoms of Brucellosis (Undulant fever)
Night sweats, fever, muscle ache
Where would you commonly find Bacillus anthracis?
Soil
Treatment for Bacillus anthracis
Ciprofloxacin and Doxycycline
Enter through minor cut (20% mortality rate)
Cutaneous anthrax
Ingestion of undercooked food (50% mortality rate)
Gastrointestinal anthrax
Inhalation of endospores (near 100% mortality rate)
Respiratory anthrax
From cat scratch
Bartonella henselae
Streptobacillus moniliformis causes?
Rat-bite fever
Yersinia pestis proliferate the lymph tissue which causes?
Buboes (swelling of lymph tissue)
Yesinia pestis; mortality rate of nearly 100%
Pneumonic plague
Yersinia pestis; mortality rate of 50-75%
Bubonic plague
Causes rose-colored skin spots
Borrelia reccurrentis (tetracycline)
Most common tickborne disease in US
Lyme disease (Borrelia burgdorferi)
How many days does ixodes tick (in borrelia burgdorferi) has to attach before infection?
2-3 days
HME causative agent
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
HGA causative agent
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
in HME and HGA: which has a vector of Lone star tick( white deer)
HME
in HME and HGA: which has a vector of Ixodes tick
HGA
Wood ticks is also known as
Dermacentor andersoni
Dog tick is also known as
Dermacentor variabilis