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Quarter 4 micro: bacteria 4 spirochetes

  1. Treponema pallidum
    syphilis
  2. Borellia Burgdorferi
    lyme disease
  3. Leptospira
    Leptospirosis
  4. Three genera of spirochetes
    • treponema
    • Borrelia 
    • Leptospira
  5. VDRL test
    RPR test
    Syphilis screening
  6. Treponematoses pallidum endenicum
    Bejel (childhood infection mouth nasal cavity  body hands
  7. Treponematoses pallidum pertenue
    yaws (invasion of skin cut causes ulcer)
  8. Treponematoses carateum
    Pinta (superficial skin lesion depigments and scars)
  9. where does bejel occur
    eastern mediteranean
  10. where does yaws occur
    humid equatorial
  11. What region does pinta occur
    mexico, centarl, south america
  12. erythema migrans (bulls eye rash)
    Borrellia Burgodorferi
  13. atypical pneumonea transmitted by rats
    mycoplasma pneumoniae
  14. Obligate intracellular parasites
    • chlamydia
    • rickettssiae
  15. Natural host of Chlamydiae psittacosis
    Brids
  16. what percent of chlamydia infected women are asymptomatic
    75%
  17. rocky mountain fever / typhus
    Rickettsiae
  18. rickettsia prowazekii
    louse borne typhus
  19. transmission of Coxiella burnetii
    non-pasturized milk
  20. Hansen's disease
    • leprosy 
    • mycobacterium leprae
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bradley.knox
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Quarter 4 micro: bacteria 4 spirochetes
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spirochetes
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