zoonotic bacteria

Question 1

anaplasma spp

Answer 1

anaplasmosis

-ixodes tick (liver on deer and mice)

Question 2

bartonella spp

Answer 2

cat scratch disease, bacillary angiomatosis

-cat scratch

Question 3

borrelia burgdorferi

Answer 3

lyme disease

-ixodes tick (live on deer and mice)

Question 4

borrelia recurrentis

Answer 4

relapsing fever

-louse (recurrent due to variable surface antigens)

Question 5

brucella spp

Answer 5

brucellosis/undulant fever

-unpasteurized dairy

Question 6

campylobacter

Answer 6

bloody diarrhea

-puppies, livestock (fecal oral, ingestion of undercooked meat)

Question 7

chlamydophila psittaci

Answer 7

psittacosis

-parrots, other birds

Question 8

coxiella burnetti

Answer 8

Q fever

-aerosols of cattle/sheep amniotic fluid

Question 9

ehrlichia chaffeensis

Answer 9

ehrlichiosis

-ambylomma (lone star tick)

Question 10

francisella tularensis

Answer 10

tularemia

-ticks, rabbits, deer fly

Question 11

leptospira spp

Answer 11

leptospirosis

-animal urine

Question 12

mycobacterium leprae

Answer 12

leprosy

-humans with lepromatous leprosy; rare armadillo

Question 13

pasteurella multocida

Answer 13

cellulitis, osteomyelitis

-animal bite, cats, dogs

Question 14

rickettsia prowazekii

Answer 14

epidemic typhus

-louse

Question 15

rickettsia rickettsii

Answer 15

rocky mountain spotted fever

-dermacentor (dog tick)

Question 16

tickettsia typhi

Answer 16

endemic typhus

-fleas

Question 17

salmonella

Answer 17

diarrhea (which may be bloody), vomiting, fever, abdominal cramps
-reptiles and poultry

Question 18

yersinia pestis

Answer 18

plague

-fleas (rats and prairie dogs are reservoir)