Unusual Organisms (our presentations)

Question 1

Lyme disease

Answer 1

Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 2

Borrelia burgdorfer: Lyme disease:

- what is characteristic

Answer 2

bull’s eye rash (target rash) called erythema migrans

Question 3

Borrelia burgdorfer: Lyme disease:

- what transmits it?

Answer 3

deer tick

Question 4

Louse-borne Relapsing Fever (LBRF)

Answer 4

Borrelia recurrentis

Question 5

Borrelia recurrentis: LBRF

- what transmits it?

Answer 5

body louse

Question 6

agent of yaws

Answer 6

Treponema pallidum subsp. pertenue

Question 7

agent of endemic syphilis

Answer 7

Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum

Question 8

agent of pinta

Answer 8

Treponema carateum

Question 9

agent of rocky mountain spotted fever

Answer 9

Rickettsia rickettsia

Question 10

Rickettsia rickettsia: rocky mountain spotted fever

• symptom
• where is it found>
• vector?

Answer 10

• rash
• south eastern US
• tick vector

Question 11

• agents of typhus

- spread by what?

Answer 11

1. Rickettsia typhi
2. R. prowazekii
   - lice

Question 12

agent of scrub typhus

- spread by

Answer 12

Orienta tsutsugamushi

- chigger (main res. is rat)

Question 13

1 cause of STD?

Answer 13

Chlamydia trachomatis

Question 14

agent of trachoma

Answer 14

Chlamydia trachomatis

Question 15

agent of lymphogranular venereum (LGV)

Answer 15

Chlamydia trachomatis

Question 16

agent of parrot fever (psittacosis)

Answer 16

Chlamydophilia psittaci

Question 17

Parrot fever spread by?

Answer 17

parrots

Question 18

agent of acute respiratory disease, pneumonia, pharyngitis?

Answer 18

Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Question 19

agent of Legionnairs’ Disease

Answer 19

Legionella pneumophila

Question 20

Legionnairs’ Disease

- treatment

Answer 20

• easily treatable with narrow focused antibiotic: erythromycin

Question 21

Legionnairs’ Disease

- transmitted?

Answer 21

aerosolized water particles (air conditioning/resp. units/ nosocomial infections in water systems
- heat resistant/ chlorine resistant

Question 22

Legionnairs’ Disease

• how do you isolate?
• what is not available?

Answer 22

BCYE agar

• ground glass appearance
• PCR not available

Question 23

agent of pontiac fever?

Answer 23

Legonella

Question 24

3 facts about pontiac fever?

Answer 24

1. not as debilitating
2. not usually in hospitals
3. not respiratory

Question 25

agent of cat scratch disease?

Answer 25

Bartonella henselae (Afipia felis)

Question 26

agent of bartonellosis?

Answer 26

Bartonella henselae (Afipia felis)

Question 27

agent of trench fever

Answer 27

Bartonella quintana

Question 28

agent of carrion’s disease?

Answer 28

Bartonella bacilliformis

Question 29

what type of organism is Leptospira interrogans?

• how is it identified?
• what does it effect in the body?

Answer 29

• spirochete
• darkfield to show tightly coiled and motile
• kidney

Question 30

Leptospira interrogans?

- what media

Answer 30

fletcher/stewart

Question 31

What’s special about mycoplasma species?

Answer 31

no cell wall

Question 32

Common cause of community acquired pneumonia (walking pneumonia)

Answer 32

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Question 33

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

• what agar
• what can it give you?

Answer 33

• Hayflicks agar

- cold agglutinins

Question 34

agent of Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU)

Answer 34

Ureaplasma ureolyticum

Question 35

Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU)
- what happens if they are never diagnosed?

Answer 35

infertile

Question 36

agent of rat bite fever North America?

Answer 36

Straptobacillus moniliformis

Question 37

agent of rat bite fever in Asia

Answer 37

Spirilium minus

Question 38

agent of Q (query) fever

Answer 38

Coxiella burnetii (agent of bioterrorism)

Question 39

agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis

Answer 39

Ehrlichia chaffeensis (mulberry forms?)

Question 40

human monocytic ehrlichiosis

- transmitted by?

Answer 40

lone star tick

Question 41

Human Granulocytic anaplasmosis

- vector?

Answer 41

Anaplasma phagocytoophilum

- tick