zoonotic bacteria

Question 1

What is the bacteria called that is drunk in by fleas then multiplies in the flea gut, clogs the flea gut, the flea bites a human and regurgitates the flood into the person

Answer 1

Yersinia pestis

Question 2

What are symptoms associated with Yersinia Pestis?

Answer 2

Swollen lymph glands “Buboes”

DIC

Question 3

List the Gram negative rods/coccobacilli associated with Animal sourcces?

Answer 3

Brucella species
Francisella tularensis
Yersinia Pestis
Pasteurella multocida

Question 4

If a gram negative rod/coccobacillus is found and it comes from A farm and is associated with Dairy products and animal tissues what is is likely to be and what is the disease it causes called?

Answer 4

It is Brucella species gram neg bacteria and it causes Brucellosis

Question 5

If a Gram negative rod/coccobacillus that comes from ticks which have bitten rabbits or deer what is it and what is the disease called?

Answer 5

Francisella tularensis

Tularemia

Question 6

If a bacteria is a gram negative rod or coccobacillus that causes Cellulitis, and comes from a cat or dog bite it is

Answer 6

Pasteurella multocida

Question 7

If the bacteria is a spirochete and causes a bullseye rashe and joint and nerve damage it is called

Answer 7

Borrelia burgdorferi

Question 8

What disease is transmitted by the dog tick during blood meal, Bacteria gram stain negative but the stain is bad the bacteria replicate intracellularly in vascular endothelial cells. Rash appears on hands and feet and spreads INWARD. Bacteria can spread to other organs?

Answer 8

RMSF disease causes Rickettsiae

Question 9

What type of Rickettsia comes from lice? What disease does it cause? is it a threat to the US?

Answer 9

Rickettsia prowazekii, its an epidemic that causes typhus and is not much of a problem to the US