REAL LIST

Question 1

Grape-like clusters, 20% of people have it permanently

Answer 1

Staphylococcus aureus

Question 2

Impetigo, cutaneous infections with skin, hair, and nails.

Answer 2

S. aureus

Question 3

Found in the oral cavity, ferments sugar to acid, destroys enamel.

Answer 3

Streptococcus mutans

Question 4

Scarlet fever, “flesh eating disease,” can cause arthritis, fever, and Saint Vitus dance.

Answer 4

Streptococcus pyogenes

Question 5

60-70% of bacterial pneumonia, otitis media in kids, must be capsulated to be pathogenic.

Answer 5

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Question 6

Streptococcal endocarditis, normal flora.

Answer 6

Streptococcus agalactiae

Question 7

Post-surgical infections, normal flora of large intestine.

Answer 7

Enterococcus faecalis

Question 8

Usually an STD, can infect newborns at birth, silver nitrate.

Answer 8

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Question 9

Vaccine recommended for college students, purple rash, sepsis, lives in nasopharynx.

Answer 9

Neisseria meningitidis

Question 10

X3, cutaneous, gastro, and pulmonary (Woolsorters).

Answer 10

Bacillus anthracis

Question 11

Spores germinate on food and produce enterotoxin (rice).

Answer 11

Bacillus cereus

Question 12

Gas gangrene, food poisoning with enterotoxins (not produced in food), anaerobic cellulitis, necrosis.

Answer 12

Clostridium perfringens

Question 13

Normally in large intestine, superinfection after many antibiotics.

Answer 13

Clostridium difficile

Question 14

Puncture wounds, burns, anaerobic areas → tetanus toxin → “lock jaw” and tetany, 100% fatality untreated, DTP vaccine.

Answer 14

Clostridium tetani

Question 15

Botox, honey, swollen cans, nitrates in food, blood sausage.

Answer 15

Clostridium botulinum

Question 16

Contaminated meat, milk, grows in refrigerators → listeriosis and meningitis, high rate of abortion.

Answer 16

Listeria monocytogenes

Question 17

Infects throat through airborne droplets, causes inflammation, fever, and diphtheria = grayish pseudomembrane, DTP vaccine, localized in throat.

Answer 17

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Question 18

Tuberculosis, air droplets survive for months, years of AB to avoid resistance.

Answer 18

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Question 19

Acid fast, Leprosy, does not grow in artificial media, requires prolonged contact with infected individual, comes from armadillo, incubates.

Answer 19

Mycobacterium leprae

Question 20

Opportunistic, in soil, metabolically versatile, pyocyanin → blue pus, causes UTIs, eye/ear infections, other nosocomial infections.

Answer 20

Pseudomonas sp.

Question 21

Primarily in animals but can be passed to humans, cattle specific infection of the placenta that leads to abortion.

Answer 21

Brucella abortus

Question 22

Same, but pigs.

Answer 22

Brucella suis

Question 23

Goats, sheep, camels, undulating fever, milk.

Answer 23

Brucella melitensis

Question 24

“Rabbit fever” or tularemia, through ticks, fleas, animal meat/skin/dust, ingestion → typhoid-like disease or inhalation → pneumonia, Ohara.

Answer 24

Francisella tularensis

Question 25

Impairs ciliary elevator, whooping cough, most deadly in children, DTP vaccine.

Answer 25

Bordetella pertussis

Question 26

In aquatic environments, legionnaires disease and Pontiac fever, close association with protozoa, inhalation of aerosols.

Answer 26

Legionella pneumophila

Question 27

Black plague, infects rodents, bubonic/septicemia/pneumonic.

Answer 27

Yersinia pestis

Question 28

Acute bacterial meningitis, primarily affects young children/elderly from adult carriers.

Answer 28

Haemophilus influenzae

Question 29

“Pink eye” acute communicable conjunctivitis.

Answer 29

Haemophilus aegyptius

Question 30

Causes STD known as soft chancere sore.

Answer 30

Haemophilus ducreyi

Question 31

Rocky mountain spotted fever.

Answer 31

Rickettsia rickettsii

Question 32

Q fever, sheep, goats, cows, milk, damage to blood vessels.

Answer 32

Coxiella burnetii

Question 33

Most common STD, eye infections → worse blindness, NGU, PID, and lymphogranuloma venereum.

Answer 33

Chlamydia trachomatis

Question 34

½ -⅔ of HA are caused by reinfection, adults > 50 have may have antibodies.

Answer 34

Chlamydia pneumoniae

Question 35

Walking pneumonia, 20% of all, atypical pneumonia.

Answer 35

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Question 36

STDs: urethritis, prostatis, vaginitis, PID, kidney infl. and miscarriage/stillbirth.

Answer 36

Mycoplasma hominis

Question 37

Gastroenteritis, secretory diarrhea, fecal contamination, cows milk and chickens.

Answer 37

Campylobacter jejuni

Question 38

Only transmitted b/t humans, asymptomatic carries, cholecyst.

Answer 38

Salmonella typhi

Question 39

Non-coliform, eggs, public health issue.

Answer 39

Salmonella enteritis

Question 40

Gastritis, stomach ulcers – stomach cancer, cats reservoir.

Answer 40

Helicobacter pylori

Question 41

Shigellosis or bacillary dysentery, infects large intestine, shigatoxin causes erosion of intestinal lining → blood in stool.

Answer 41

Shigella sp.

Question 42

McDonalds, travelers/infant diarrhea, colitis, strong lactose fermenter, fecal coliforms, 0157 → shiga-like toxin.

Answer 42

Escherichia coli (fecal)

Question 43

Opportunistic, usually harmless, nosocomial.

Answer 43

Morganella morganii

Question 44

Tropical zoonotic disease(skunks, rodents), petechial purple rash.

Answer 44

Leptospira interrogans

Question 45

Causes a bullseye rash from a tick or lice, causes Lyme disease.

Answer 45

Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 46

Syphilis, primarily an STD, from women to fetus (lots of issues), big with historical figures (Abe, Henry the 8th), Tuskegee, mercury and arsenic.

Answer 46

Treponema pallidum

Question 47

Cholera, fecal contamination of food, in crustaceans, rice-water stool due to mucous, mortality 50% from dehydration.

Answer 47

Vibrio cholerae

Question 48

Causes gastroenteritis in humans related to seafood.

Answer 48

Vibrio parahaemolyticus