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[2ND YEAR] CCP 5 - Pharmaceutical Microbiology & Parasitology (Lec) > MIDTERM 03 - Enteric and Other Gram-Negative Bacilli > Flashcards

MIDTERM 03 - Enteric and Other Gram-Negative Bacilli Flashcards

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A large, heterogenous group of gram-negative rods whose natural habitat is the intestinal tract of humans and animals; are facultative anaerobes, catalase positive, and oxidase negative

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Enterobacteriaceae/Enteric gram-negative bacilli/Coliforms

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Test for Enterobacteriaceae that detects the ability to produce indole from tryptophan (IMViC test)

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Indole test

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Test for Enterobacteriaceae that detects the ability to produce acids (IMViC test)

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Methyl red test

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Test for Enterobacteriaceae that detects the ability to produce acetoin (IMViC test)

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Voges-Proskauer test

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Test for Enterobacteriaceae that detects the ability to utilize citrate (IMViC test)

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Citrate test

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3 media for Enterobacteriaceae that tests the ability to ferment lactose (EMD)

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EMB medium, MacConkey medium, Deoxycholate medium

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3 enterobacteriaceae that are rapid lactose fermenters (KEE)

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Klebsiella, Escherichia, Enterobacter

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6 enterobacteriaceae that are late lactose fermenters (ESCAPE)

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Edwardsiella, Serratia, Citrobacter, Arizona, Providencia, Erwinia

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Most external part of the cell wall LPS and consists of repeating units of polysaccharide (Antigenic structures of Enterobacteriaceae)

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O antigens

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External to O antigens on some but not all Enterobacteriaceae (Antigenic structures of Enterobacteriaceae)

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K antigens

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Located on flagella; denatured or removed by heat or alcohol (Antigenic structures of Enterobacteriaceae)

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H antigens

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Most common cause of UTI; also causes sepsis and meningitis (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Escherichia coli

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Causes diarrhea in infants (Diarrheal diseases caused by Escherichia coli)

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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)

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Causes traveler’s diarrhea (Diarrheal diseases caused by Escherichia coli)

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Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC)

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Causes mild non-bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and hemolytic uremic syndrome (Diarrheal diseases caused by Escherichia coli)

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Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)

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Exhibits symptoms similar to shigellosis (Diarrheal diseases caused by Escherichia coli)

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Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC)

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Causes acute and chronic diarrhea, and traveler’s diarrhea and persistent diarrhea in patients with HIV (Diarrheal diseases caused by Escherichia coli)

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Enteroaggressive E. coli (EAEC)

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Treatment for Escherichia coli

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Fluoroquinolones

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An Enterobacteriaceae that has a capsule made of K antigens; causes hospital-acquired pneumonia (Klebsiella species)

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Klebsiella pneumoniae/Friedlander’s Bacillus

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An Enterobacteriaceae also known as Calymmatobacterium granulomatis; causes granuloma inguinale/donovanosis (Klebsiella species)

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Klebsiella granulomatis

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An STD that is a chronic genital ulcerative disease that produces pseudobuboes (subcutenous granulomas) (Clinical findings of Klebsiella granulomatis)

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Granuloma inguinale/Donovanosis

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Treatment for Klebsiella granulomatis

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Azithromycin

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2 Enterobacteriaceae that causes hospital-acquired infections such as pneumonia, UTI, and wound and device infections (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Enterobacter cloacae, Enterobacter aerogenes

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A common opportunistic pathogen in hospitalized patients; causes pneumonia, bacteremia, and endocarditis (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Serratia marcescens

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2 Proteus sp. that produces infections in humans only when the bacteria leave the intestinal tract; produces ureases (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Proteus mirabilis, Proteus vulgaris

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Enzyme produced by Proteus sp. that hydrolyzes urea with the liberation of ammonia

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Urease

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Are members of the normal intestinal microbiota; causes UTIs (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Providencia

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Causes UTI and sepsis principally among debilitated hospitalized patients; associated with meningitis in infants <2 months of age (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Citrobacter

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Its natural habitat is limited to the intestinal tracts of humans and other primates; causes shigellosis (bacillary dysentery) (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Shigella

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Shigella causes __________, also known as bacillary dysentery

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Shigellosis

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Are exotoxins produced by Shigella that is heat-labile, antigenic, enterotoxic, and neurotoxic

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Shigella toxins

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Treatment/DOC for Shigella (for severe infections)

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Ceftriaxone

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Are peritrichous bacteria that usually produce H2S and is pathogenic for humans or animals when acquired by the oral route (Examples of Enterobacteriaceae)

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Salmonella

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2 main species of Salmonella (SE, SB)

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Salmonella enterica, Salmonella bongori

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Salmonella is cultured using __________

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Bismuth sulfite agar

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Salmonella that causes typhoid fever

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Typhoidal salmonella

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Salmonella that do not cause typhoid ever

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Non-typhoidal salmonella

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Blood culture is positive in first to second weeks of the disease; Stool culture is positive from second week on (Clinical findings of Salmonella)

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Enteric fever/Typhoid fever

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Blood culture is positive during high fever; Stool culture is infrequently positive (Clinical findings of Salmonella)

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Septicemias

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Blood culture is negative; Stool culture is positive soon after onset (Clinical findings of Salmonella)

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Enterocolitis

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Caused by Salmonella serotype Typhi; characterized by fever, malaise, headache, constipation, bradycardia, and myalgia (Clinical findings of Salmonella)

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Enteric fever (Typhoid fever)

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Associated commonly with the Salmonella serotype choleraesius; characterized by focal lesions in lungs, bones, and meninges and usually has no intestinal manifestations (Clinical findings of Salmonella)

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Bacteremia

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Most common manifestation of salmonella infection; S. Typhimurium and S. Enteritidis are prominent causes; characterized by nausea, headache, vomiting, and profuse diarrhea (Clinical findings of Salmonella)

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Enterocolitis

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Treatment for Salmonella

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Azithromycin PO

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An enterobacteriaceae characterized by bipolar staining with Wright, Giemsa, Wayson, or methylene blue stain; transmitted from rodent to rodent or rodent to humans (Yersinia species)

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Yersinia pestis

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Main clinical finding for Yersinia pestis; also known as the Black Death of Medieval Europe

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3 types of plague (BSP)

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Bubonic, Septicemia, Pneumonic

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Characterized by high fever, painful lymphadenopathy, and enlarged tender nodes (buboes) in the neck, groin, or axillae (Types of plague)

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Bubonic plague

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Characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, DIC, hypotension, altered mental status, renal and cardiac failure, and necrosis of the extremities (Types of plague)

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Septicemic plague

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Characterized by chest pain, cough, hemoptysis, and severe respiratory distress (Types of plague)

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Pneumonic plague

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3 treatments for Yersinia pestis (SDG)

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Streptomycin, Doxycycline, Gentamicin

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An Enterobacteriaceae that causes gastroenteritis or mesenteric lymphadenitis after ingestion of contaminated food or water (Yersinia species)

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Yersinia enterocolitica

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Most common bacteria in surface waters worldwide; are comma-shaped and halotolerant (Examples of gram-negative bacilli)

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Vibrio sp.

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Cultured using Thiosulfate-Citrate-Bile-Sucrose (TCBS) agar; is oxidase-positive and caused six pandemics in the past (Vibrio species)

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Vibrio cholerae

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Characterized by sudden onset of nausea and vomiting, as well as rice water stools (20-30 L/day) (Clinical findings of Vibrio cholerae)

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Vibrio cholerae is cultured using __________ agar

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Thiosulfate-Citrate-Bile-Sucrose agar

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Is an electrolyte-rich diarrhea from cholera with mucus, epithelial cells, vibrios, and can lead to dehydration, anuria, shock, acidosis, and death

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Rice water stool

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Causes acute gastroenteritis after ingestion of contaminated seafood such as raw fish or shellfish (Vibrio species)

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Vibrio parahaemolyticus

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Causes severe wound infections, bacteremia, and gastroenteritis after oyster consumption (Vibrio species)

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Vibrio vulnificus

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A comma shaped bacteria that is microaerophilic, oxidase and catalase positive, and is cultured using Skirrow’s medium (Examples of gram-negative bacilli)

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Camphylobacter jejuni

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Campylobacter jejuni is cultured using __________ medium

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Skirrow’s medium

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Characterized by acute onset of crampy abdominal pain, profuse diarrhea that may grossly blood, headache, malaise, and fever (Clinical findings of Campylobacter jejuni)

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Campylobacteriosis

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Characterized by ascending paralytic disease (Clinical findings of Campylobacter jejuni)

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Postdiarrheal Guillain-Barre syndrome

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A spiral shaped, gram-negative lophotrichous rod that is microaerophilic, oxidase and catalase positive, and produces urease; is cultured using Skirrow’s medium (Examples of gram-negative bacilli)

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Helicobacter pylori

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Helicobacter pylori produces __________

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Helicobacter pylori is cultured using __________ medium

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Skirrow’s medium

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Medium used for Campylobacter jejuni and Helicobacter pylori that has reduced O2 and added CO2

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Skirrow’s medium

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Test used to detect Helicobacter pylori; 13C or 14C labeled urea is ingested by the patient and urease labeled CO2 that can be detected in the patient’s exhaled breath

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Urea breath test

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Characterized by epigastric pain, vomiting, fever, and bloody stools (Clinical findings of Helicobacter pylori)

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Peptic ulcer disease (PUD)

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3 treatments for Helicobacter pylori (TPQ)

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Triple therapy, PPI for 6 weeks, Quadruple therapy

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A gram-negative, motile, obligate aerobic rod which produce water-soluble pigments (Examples of gram-negative bacilli)

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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A pigment produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is fluoroscent green

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Pyoverdine

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A pigment produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is nonfluoroscent blue

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A pigment produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is dark red

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A pigment produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is brown-black

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Pyomelanin

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Used for attachment (Pseudomonas aeruginosa antigenic structures)

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Pili, Fimbriae

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Responsible for tissue necrosis; major virulence factor for Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pseudomonas aeruginosa antigenic structures)

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Exotoxin A

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Occurs due to lumbar puncture (Clinical findings of Pseudomonas aeruginosa)

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Meningitis

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Occurs due to catheters (Clinical findings of Pseudomonas aeruginosa)

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Occurs due to respirators (Clinical findings of Pseudomonas aeruginosa)

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Necrotizing pneumonia

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Characterized by hemorrhagic necrosis of the skin surrounded by erythema and has no pus (Clinical findings of Pseudomonas aeruginosa)

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Ecthyma gangrenosum

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Treatment for Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P+T)

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Piperacillin + Tobramycin

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Causes melioidosis/Whitemore’s disease (cutaneous, pulmonary, bacteremic, disseminated infection) (Burkholderia species)

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Burkholderia pseudomallei

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Causes endocarditis, septicemia, wounds, and UTIs (Burkholderia species)

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Burkholderia cepacia

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