Microbiology

Causes a cutaneous respiratory, or gastrointestinal disease, depending on the portal of entry

The etiologic agent of anthrax

Causes a variety of infections, including appendicitis, peritonitis, abscesses, and post-surgical wound infections

The etiologic agent of whooping couch, which is also called "pertussis"

The etiologic agent of Lyme disease

Transmitted from infected deer and mice to humans by tick bites

A commoon cause of gastroenteritis with malaise, myalgia, arthralgia, headache, and cramping abdominal pain


Teacher refers it to Slide Rock disease

Etiologic agents of non-gonococcal urethritis (NGU)

Produces a neurotoxin called botulinum toxin, which causes botulism, a very serious and sometimes fatal type of food poisoning

Causes pseudomembranous colitis (PMC); a common cause of nosocomial infections

Common in feces and soil

• Common cause of gas gangrene
• Produces a relatively mild type of food poisoning

• Common in soil
• Produces neurotoxin called tetanospasmin and causes tetanus

toxin-producing strains cause dipheria

Common cause of cystitis and nosocomial infections

the most common cause of septicemia and urinary tract and nosocomial infections

May enter the body by inhalation, ingestion, tick bite, or penetration or unbroken skin

Tularemia frequently follows contact with infected animals

common members of the indigenous microflora of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, and vagins

Opportunistic pathogens that cause a variety of infections, including oral and respiatory infections

Does not cause flu

Found in low numbers as indigenous microflora of the upper respiratory tract

an opportunistic pathogen

cause of bacterial meningitis, ear infections, and respiatoru infections

common cause of stomach and duodenal ulcers

an opportunistic pathogen

a fairly common cause of pneumonia and cystitis

indigenous microflora of the vagina and gastrointestinal tract

rarely pathogenic

Etiologic agent of legionellosis (a type of pneumonia)

can contaminate water tanksad pipes

has caused epidemics in hotels, hospitals, and cruise ships

Can cause meningitis, encephalitis, septicemia, endocarditis, abortion and abscesses

Enters the body via ingestion of contaminated foods

Referred to as the leprosy bacillus or Hansen's bacillus

transmitted from person to person

has been found in wild armadillos which are now used as laboratory animals to propagate this organism

• -Causes tuberculosis
• -Acid-fast Gram-variable bacillus
• -Many strains are multidrug resistant

• -Etiologic agent of atypical pneumonia
• -Small, pleomorphic Gram-negative bacterium
• -Lacks a cell wall

• -Common cause of bacterial 'meningitis'
• -Also causes respiratory infections
• -KNown as meningococcus
• -Always a pathogen
• -Aerobic Gram-negative diplococcus

• -Causes gonorrhea
• - Always a pathogen
• - Fastidious Gram-negative diplococcus
• - Many strains are penicillin-resistant

• -Etiologic agents of nocardiosis (a respiratory disease) and mycetoma ( a tumor-like disease, mostly involving the feet)
• -Aerobic, acid-fast Gram negative bacilli

• -Opportunistic pathogens that cause a variety of infections including abscesses, oral infections, and appendictis
• -Anaerobic Gram positive cocci

• -Opportunistic pathogens that cause a variety of infections including abscesses, oral infections, and bite wound infections
• -Anerobic Gram negative bacilli

• -Opportunistic pathogens that cause a variety of infections including abscesses
• -Anerobic Gram negative bacilli

• -Opportunistic pathogens
• -Common cause of cystitis
• -Member of Enterobacteriaccae family
• -Gram negative bacilli

• -Causes burn, wound, ear,urinary tract andrespiratory infections
• -One major causes of nosocomial infections
• -Most strains are multidrug resistant
• -Aerobic Gram negative bacilli

• -Etologic agents of typhs and typhus-like diseases
• -All rickettsial disease are transmitted by athropods
• -Gram negative bacilli that are obligate intracellular pathogens
• -Cant grow on artifical media

• -Major cause of gastroenteritis and childhood mortality in the developing nation of the world
• -Member of the Enterobacteriaceae family
• -Gram negative bacilli

• -Fairly common cause of food poisoning especially cases caused by contaminated poultry
• -Member of Enterobacteriaceae Family
• - Gram negative bacilli