Q7 Microbiology

  1. Family Rickettsiaceae
    Genera?
    Gram Negative or Positive?
    Size?
    Culture?
    • Parasitic
    • Negative
    • Smallest of all Bacteria
    • Can grow in chicken eggs
  2. Rickettsia prowazekii
    Vector?
    How does it spread?
    Entercirculation?
    Brill-Zensser disease?
    Location?
    Treatment?
    • Typhus
    • Lice
    • Lice Poo
    • Gets into intestines
    • Reoccurs and becomes chronic
    • Worldwide
    • Tetracycline
  3. Ricckettsia typhi
    Location?
    Vector?
    Treatment?
    • Central and South America (mostly where there are a lot of rats) US near docks
    • Rats
    • Tetracycline
  4. Scrub Typhus
    Location?
    Vector?
    Symptoms?
    Treatment?
    • Japan
    • Chiggers - infects all mammals
    • Site of bite heals, 2 weeks later black scab and abscess
    • Tetracycline - usually self limiting
  5. Rickettsia rickettsii
    Location?
    Vector?
    Symptoms?
    Diagnosis?
    Treatment?
    • Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (RMSF)
    • Southeast US (Georgia)
    • Wood Tick
    • High fever, headache, rash starts on wrists and ankles and spreads to torso (turns to gangrene if untreated)
    • Antibody blood test
    • Tetracycline
  6. Coxiella burnetti
    Vector?
    Location?
    Symptoms?
    Treatment?
    • Q fever (HAS A SPORE)
    • Wild Animals play with pets, we breath in spores from pet
    • Worldwide (California, Texas)
    • Abrupt fever, Chills, Headache
    • Tetracycline
  7. Bartonella quintana
    Vector?
    Symptoms?
    • Trench Fever
    • Lice
    • 5 days later shin pain
  8. Bartonella henselae
    Vector?
    Symptoms?
    Treatment?
    • Cat Scratch Disease (CSD)
    • Cat scratch
    • Papules of pus, lymph nodes swell
    • Tetracycline- usually self resolving
  9. Chlamydiacea
    Genera?
    Gram Positive or Negative?
    • Parasitic
    • Negative
  10. Chlamydia trachomatis - Ocular
    Transmission?
    Symptoms?
    Treatment?
    • Finger to eye
    • Pinkeye like but "cobble stoning" bumps under eyelid
    • Erythromycin or Tetracycline
  11. Chlamydia trachomatis- Inclusion Conjunctivitis
    Transmission?
    Symptoms?
    • Infected mother or Finger to eye
    • Thick pus around eye
  12. Chlamydia trachomatis (STD)
    What percent of women don't show symptoms?
    What does it cause in women?
    What percent of men don't show symptoms?
    What does it cause in men?
    Lymphogranuloma venereum?
    Diagnosis?
    Treatment?
    • 70%
    • 10%
    • Cervicitis
    • NGU- non-gonacocal uretheritis
    • Repeatedly getting it will lead to PID
    • DNA probe
    • Tetracycline
  13. Chlamydia psittaci and Ornithosis
    Vector?
    Symptoms?
    Treatment?
    • Bird
    • Fever, headache, cough
    • Tetracycline and Zithromax
  14. What is a mycoplasma?
    • Smallest of all bacteria
    • Doesn't have a cell wall
    • Pleomorphic
  15. Mycoplasma pneumonia
    PAP
    Transmitted?
    Diagnosis?
    Treatment?
    • Walking Pneumonia (lingers)
    • Primary Atypical Pneumonia
    • Aerosols (cough, sneeze)
    • History and Physical
    • Biaxin for a full 2 weeks
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Q7 Microbiology
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Quiz 7 Microbiology
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