Microbiology 4 Flashcards
Have flagella and produces hydrogen sulfide
Salmonella
Klebsiella symptoms
Lobar pneumonia in alcoholics and diabetics
Nosocomial UTIs
Antibiotics not recommended for treating this bug
Salmonella
Only reservoir is humans and primates
Shigella
Salmonella can cause
Symptoms?
Typhoid fever
Rose spots on abdomen
Fever
Headache
Diarrhea
Fecal oral transmission
Grows at 42c
Can result in Guillian-Barre syndrome
Campylobacter jejuni
Major symptom of campylobacter jejuni
Bloody diarrhea especially in children
Rice water diarrhea
Vibrio cholerae
Helicobacter pylori major cause of
Duodenal ulcers
Duodenal ulcer complications
Gastric adenocarcinoma and lymphoma
Diagnostic test for H pylori
Urea on breath
Because it’s urease positive
Urease alkalization results in
Urinary stones
Hepatic encephalopathy
Peptic ulcers
Three spirochetes
Borrelia
Leptospira
Treponema
(BLT)
Leptospira interrogans symptoms
Found in
Leptospirosis: flu like, jaundice, photophobia, conjunctivitis
Tropics, water contaminated with urine
Weil’s disease
What is it?
Symptoms?
Hemorrhagic form of leptospirosis
Jaundice, azotemia from liver and kidney dysfunction, fever, hemorrhage, anemia
Lyme disease caused by
Borrelia burgdorfini
Tick vector
Mouse reservoir
Three stages of Lyme disease
- Erythema migrans (bulls eye rash)
- Neurologic: facial palsy, AV node block
- Musculoskeletal: arthritis, encephalopathy, polyneuropathy
Define condylomata lata
Genital warts
Found in secondary syphillis
Symptoms of tertiary syphillis
Gummas (chronic granulomas) Aortitis Neurosyphilis Argyll Robertson pupil Positive Romberg Stroke without hypertension
Argyll Robertson pupil symptoms
Constriction during accommodation but not to light
Syphilitic Aortitis etiology
Inflammation of vasa vasorum (blood supply of aorta)
Results in ischemia and necrosis and eventual aneurysm of aortic wall
Tests for syphillis
VDRL (venereal disease research lab test) screening
FTA-ABS (fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption test) confirmatory
VDRL false positive agents
VDRL
Virus (mono, hepatitis)
Drugs
Rheumatic fever
Lupus and Leprosy
