microbio bacteria

-generally anaerobic
-gastrointestinal problems; abscesses, interperitoneal infections; sepsis

-powerful endotoxin
-UTI
-normal microbiota of intestinal tract

-gram- negative
-facultative anaerobe
-oral-fecal route transmission
-food poisoning, water borne pathogen
-intestinal problems, diarrhea, UTI, sepsis

- normal microbiota in intestinal tract
-causes pneumonia
-has a capsule that surrounds it

-normal microbiota in intestinal tract
-causes UTI
<100,000 bacteria/ mL= no UTI

 -causes gastroenteritis
 -found in chicken eggs
 -grows in intestinal tract of infected animals

-causes typhoid fever
-intestinal tract issues, diarrhea 
-grows in intestinal tract of infected humans and transmitted in feces

-waterborne disease that will not kill you
-causes dysentery
-grows in intestinal tract of infected humans and transmitted in feces

-causes bubonic plague
       -transmitted by fleas (vectors), rats are the reservoirs      
        until they decline then humans
-causes pneumonic plague
         -transmitted in respiratory droplets
         -survivors lack a receptor, which is the same as HIV

-causes ear infections, respiratory infections, and meningitis in children

-causes Legionnaires’ disease- lung infection
-acquired by inhaling contaminated water droplets

-carry a lot of plasmids
-eye infections, interperotineal infections, septicemia, UTI
-many are antibiotic resistant
-common in soil
-used in bioremediations; oil spills

-STD; mimics gonorrhea

-causes rocky mountain spotted fever
-transmitted by tick
-cases found in Pennsylvania

-causes GI problems
-common food poisoning
-carried by poultry and pigs

-water borne disease
-oral-fecal transmission (food borne)
-causes dysentery, diarrhea, dehydration
-Cholera
-discovered by John Snow (epidemiology)           

-causes meningitis
-highly contagious
-found where people live in close contact with each other
-headache, stiff neck, shoulder pain
-very antibiotic sensitive
-aerosol transmission and fomite transmission

-causes gonorrhea (the clap)
-guys pissing razor blades

-causes anthrax
-3 types- skin, pulmonary and GI
-vaccine effective only for skin

-does not generally cause infections
-normal flora in intestine
-predominant in breast-fed infants

-causes botulism
-typically caused by ingesting toxin-contaminated canned food
-produces exotoxin anaerobically

-causes gas gangrene
-acquired when soil-borne endospores contaminate an infected wound
-gas formation and swelling
-treatment= high oxygen pressure

-causes tetanus
-soil-borne

-normal microbiota of the intestinal tract
-causes GI problems, UTI
-VRE (vancomycin resistant enterococci)
-noscomal infection
-very resistant to cleansing products

-leading cause of wound infections
-cellulits and meningitis
-MRSA

-normal flora on the skin

-causes pneumonia and meningitis and septicemia

-causes strep throat, rheumatic fever (scarlet fever), wound infections, glomerulonephritis, and streptococcal toxic shock
-Semmelweis

-causes TB in lungs
            -MDR-TB-multidrug resistant TB
                        -resistant to rifampin and INH
 -XDR-Tb- extensive drug resistant
                     -also known as military TB- TB gets to other organs and causes spots
 -old name was consumption

-leprosy aka Hansen’s disease
-form of dry gangrene
-armadillos carry it
-not much is known on transmission
-common in Brazil, Pakistan and Bangladesh

-causes syphilis (STD)
-never been grown in culture

-causes Lyme disease
-tick-borne disease

-causes walking pneumonia
-not susceptible to penicillin because it lacks a cell wall

causes spontaneous abortions in cattle and people

causes ulcers in people

common in pigs but can cause dysentery in people

-cat scratch fever
-self-limiting disease

fungi that causes ringworm

causes athlete’s foot

An early symptom indicating the onset of an attack or a disease.