VPH CAUSATIVE AGENTS Flashcards
agent of ergot alkaloids
Claviceps purpurea
animal most susceptible to ergot alkaloids
horse
produces aflatoxins
a. parasiticus
a. flavus
produces zearalenone
fusarium graminearum
produces sporidesmins
pithomyces chartarum
produces ochratoxins
A. ochraceus,
A. carbonarius,
Penicillium verrucosum
P. nordicum
produces citrinins
A. citrinum,
but also from
A. terreus.,
P. expansum
P. verrucosum
produces fumonisin b1-3
f. verticillioides
produces dicoumarol
Penicillium sp.,
Aspergillus sp
Mucor sp., and
produces dicoumarol
Penicillium sp.,
Aspergillus sp
Mucor sp., and
common cause of campylobacteriosis
c. jejuni ssp. jejuni
c. coli
major source of campylobacter
poultry
campylobacteriosis type of infection
invasive and toxico
appear as gullain-barre
campylobacteriosis
causative agent of cholera
Vibrio cholerae O1 and O139, El Tor biotype
ID of cholera
1M/CFU/mL
ID of e. coli
10-100 cfy/mL
CA of salmonellosis
s. enterica ssp. typhimurium or enteritidis
CA of typhoid fever
s. enterica ssp. typhi
CA para typhoid fever
s. enterica ssp. paratyphi
shigella strain PH
s. flexneri
shigella sp with the mildest symptom
s. sonnei
shigella sp. with more severe symptom
s. dysenteriae
ID of shigellosis
10-100 cft/ml
CA of yersiniosis
Y. enterocolitica
Y. pseudotuberculosis
virulence factor of yersiniosis
plasmid pYV
what temp do yersinia becomes non-motile?
37C
cause of listeriosis
listeria monocytogenes
most common cause of staph food poisoning
enterotoxin a
CA of perfringens food poisoning
enterotoxin A-G (common A)
toxin of vomiting syndrom
cereulide
toxin of diarrheal syndrome
enterotoxin
toxins produced by clostridium botulinum
enterotoxin A,B,E,F
