Microbiology bacteria shape/disease

Question 1

examples of spirochete

Answer 1

Leptospira (leptospirosis)

Borrelia (Lyme)

treponema pallidum (syphilis)

Question 2

Neisseria Gonorrhea (shape)

Answer 2

Diplococci

Question 3

Bordetella spc
(Bordetella pertusis)
Shape and condition

Answer 3

Condition: whooping cough
shape: coccobacillas

Question 4

Vibrio Cholera & E.Coli

difference in shape?

Answer 4

E Coli is bacilli ( rod)

Vibrio Cholerae is vibrium (slightly curve rod)

Question 5

Mycoplasma & Corynebacterium spc

Shape?

What is special about mycoplasma?

Answer 5

pleomorphic (both)

mycoplasma pneumoniae is walking pneomonia. it is not fatal.

Mycoplasma is one of the smallest living organism.

Question 6

micrococcus spc (shape)

Answer 6

tetrad

Question 7

Mycoplasma vs micrococcus

Answer 7

mycoplasma is pleomorphic (walking pnemonia)

micrococcus (notice the coccus, is a tetra formation of the cocci bacteria)

Question 8

corynebacterium spc

Answer 8

pleomorphic
v shape
palisade