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Lactobacillus
Where is it found?
What is it's shape?
Spore or Non-spore?
Gram Positive or Negative?
Regular or Irregular?
- Normal Flora
- Rod
- Non-spore
- Gram Positive
- Regular
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Listeria monocytogenes
Location?
What causes it?
Diagnosis?
Treatment?
Prevention?
Irregular or Regular?
- Everywhere (milk, water, soil)
- Listeriosis- drinking bad milk
- History
- It will pass on its own
- Don't drink bad milk
- Regular
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Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
Who is likely to get it?
Form of entry?
Treatment?
Prevention?
Irregular or regular?
- Someone who works with wool
- Gets into skin through cuts
- Penicillin
- Gloves
- Regular
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Corynebacterium Diphtheria
Gram positive or negative?
Regular or irregular?
Transmission?
Symptoms?
Toxemia?
Treatment?
Prevention?
- Positive
- Irregular
- Droplets
- Inflamed Nasopharyx, fever, sore throat *Grey film on throat
- Enters Blood stream and attacks kidneys and heart, causing total shut down
- Penicillin if early enough, Antitoxin (dat)
- DPT vaccine
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Mycobacteria (tuberculosis and Liprae)
Acid fast or not?
Shape?
Anaerobic or aerobic?
- Acid Fast
- Bacilli
- Aerobic (very strict)
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Transmission?
How many cells to infect?
Primary causes?
Secondary causes?
Extra pulmonary death percent?
How do you test for?
Treatment?
- Droplet
- > or = 10 cells
- Calcifies in the right upper lobe of lungs
- Breaks free from wall in lung and gets into entire body
- 50% mortality
- Skin test (PPD), Chest X-ray, Acid Fast Test
- Antibiotics over 2 years
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Mycobacterium liprae
Self sustaining or parasitic?
Where does in infect?
Transmission?
Incubation period?
What is the least and most severe?
How do you test for it?
Treatment?
Prevention?
- Parasitic
- Skin and nerves
- Unknown
- 2-5 years
- Least- Tuberculoid, Most-Lepromatous
- Feather test and acid fast test
- Rifampin for 2 years
- WHO is working on a vaccine, but it isn't developed yet
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