Microbiolgy (bacteria)

B. hensela, catscratch disease

Brucellosis

Ehrlichiosis

Rocky mountain spotted fever

Typhus

Lives in side but does not harm, will interfere with reproduction, endosymbiotic

Stalked bacteria found in lakes

Budding bacteria found in lake

Insert a plasmid into plants cells, (tumor)

Nitrogen fixing

Produce acetic acid from ethyl alcohol

Chemoautotrophic, uses sulfur

Chemoautotrophic, surrounded by sheaths

Chemoautotrophic, N. meningitis, N. gonorrhea

Freshwater, polar flagella, helical

B. pertusis, whooping cough

Nosocomial infections, common in cystic fibrosis

Slimy masses in aerobic sewage treatment processess

Opportunisitic, P. aeurginosa, causes uti's, menengitis, infects wounds and burns

Conjunctivitis

L. pneumophillia, resp. infection, gram negative

Q-fever, by contaminated milk or aerosol

found in coastal waters, causes cholerae

found in coastal waters, causes gastroenteritis

causes pneumonia and septicemia

Komodo dragons-Lethal

Requires X and V factors, meningitis and ear infections.

Chemoautotrophic, uses sulfur, B. alba only species.

Small pleomorphic bacteria

Tularensis

Greater variety of disease

endospore producing, obligate anareobes, c. diff

S. pneumoniae, S. mutan

insectiside

Vaginitis

Trachomatis

central endospore, nonmotile, grows best with o2

uses sulfur instead of oxygen

strep throat, scarlet fever

gram neg, lyme disease

low o2, nosocomial

gram neg, syphillis

grow well in low moisture

acid fast

food poisoning

low o2, grows same either way

live inside of fish

fungal like

fusiform, rod pointed on both ends, dental caries

active predator, gram neg

Anthrax

can break down RBC's

gram postive, lactobacillales

tyipically filamentous, oxygenic, fix nitrogen

Peptic ulcers, stomach cancer

Diptheria

needs small amount of o2