Microbio images/dx Flashcards
gram-positive spore-forming bacilli, exposure to contaminated soil and livestock products

cutaneous anthrax, eschar
following tick or deer fly bite or after handling of infected animal

Tularemia (ulceroglandular form, most common)
around cows with endometritis/late term miscarriages

brucella
rapid onset of fever and painful, swollen, tender lymph nodes - usually inguinal, axillary, or cervical, hx of exposure to rodents/fleas/rabbits

bubonic plague
Carrion’s dz caused by what bacteria?

Bartonella bacilliformis
immunocompetent patient

cat scratch disease (Bartonella Henselae)
HIV patient with bacilliary angiomatosis caused by what bacteria

Bartonella henselae (cat scratch fever)
from cat. (Bartonella henselae/Pasteurella multocida)

p multocida