Other Bacteria Flashcards
Vector in tularemia
Dermacentor
Undulating fever
Brucella abortus
Doxycyline plus rifampin
Treatment of tularensis
Streptomycin or gentamicin
Most virulent bacteria
Yersinia pestis
Treatment: Pasteurella multocida
Penicillin G
Assay for tuberculosis drug resistance
Luciferase
TB: prevents phagosome-lysosomal fusion
Sulfatides
TB: prevents leukocyte migration
Cord factor
Treatment: MAC
Azithromycin
Treatment: lepromatous leprosy
Dapsone
Rifampin
Clofazimine
Treatment: tuberculoid leprosy
Dapsone
Rifampin
Hard nontender swellng with sinus tracts draining sulfur granules
Actinomycosis
Penicillin G
Gram positive rods
Aerial hyphae
Mycetomas
Nocardiosis
TMP-SMX
Most common type of atypical pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Most common infectious source of SJS
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Mycoplasma: attachment, inhibition of ciliary motion and necrosis
Toll-like receptor 2 protein (P1 adhesin)
Treatment: Mycoplasma
Azithromycin
Erythromycin
Hutchinson triad
Hutchinson teeth
Deafness
Keratitis
Pathognomonic of Lyme disease
Erythema migrans
Doxycycline
Relapsing fever
Borrelia recurrentis
Tetracycline
Erythromycin
Gold standard in diagnosis of leptospirosis
Lepto MAT
Trachoma: round to oval cytoplasmic inclusion bodies near the nuclei of conjunctival epithelial celld
Halberstadter-Prowazek inclusions
A-C
Staccato cough
Neonatal chlamydia pneumonia
Frei test
Chlamydia
Atypical pneumonia associated with atherosclerosis
Chlamydia pneumoniae
Bird fancier’s disease
Chlamydis psittaci
Detection of rickettsia
Weil-Felix reaction
Treatment of rickettsia
Doxycycline
Rickettsia with eschar
Rickettsia akori
No rash
High mortality
Coxiekka burnetti
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rickettsia rickettsi
Cat scratch disease
Bartonella henselae
Transmitted by dog tick (Dermacentor)
Forms morulae in cytoplasm of monocytes
Ehrlichis chaffeensis
Chancroid
Haemophilus ducreyi
Mesenteric adenitis
Yersinia enterolytica
Granuloma inguinale
Donovanosis
Klebsiella granulomatis
Azithromycin