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gram positive
endospore-forming aerobic mostly soil organisms one species causes anthrax |
Bacillus
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gram positive
endospore-forming obligate anaerobe found in human/animal colon spores in soil one species causes tetanus |
Clostridium
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gram positive
lactic acid bacteria cocci in pairs, chains cause of mucosal infections, tissue-invasive infections, and autoimmune sequalae |
Streptococcus
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gram positive
lactic acid bacteria like streptococci, but hardier part of normal flora in bowel opportunistic autoinfections |
Enterococcus
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gram positive
long,thin bacilli microaerophilic probiotic part of normal flora in vagina nonpathogenic |
Lactobacillus
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gram positive
micrococci grow in clumps |
Staphylococcus
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gram positive
free living and normal flora micrococci |
Micrococcus
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gram positive
non-spore forming small bacillus related to staphylococci neonatal sepsis, meningitis can be foodborne |
Listeria monocytogenes
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gram positive
non-spore forming one species causes diptheriae |
Corynebacteria
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related to gram positives
resist gram stain acid-fast bacilli tuberculosis leprosy |
Mycobacterium
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cell wall deficient
related to gram positives pleomorphic shape |
Mycoplasmas
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gram negative
Enteric bacilli facultative bacilli part of bowel flora glucose fermenter |
Escherichia/Klebsiella
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gram negative
not literally enteric causes bubonic plague glucose fermenter |
Yersinia
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gram negative
glucose nonfermenter burn infections |
Pseudomonas
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gram negative
glucose nonfermenter nosocomial infections associated w surgical units |
Acinetobacter
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gram negative
glucose fermenting but cytochrome oxidase-positive one species causes cholera |
Vibrios
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gram negative
diplococci or cocco-bacilli facultative intracellular pathogen meningitis, gonorrhea |
Neisseria
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gram negative
bacilli one species is associated w/ meningitis |
Haemophilus
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gram negative bacilli
whooping cough |
Bordetella
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gram negative
anaerobic bacilli 90% of normal flora in human colon low pathogenic potential |
Bacteriodes fragilis
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gram negative
anaerobic bacilli common mouth and gut flora |
Fusobacterium
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gram negative relative
non gram-staining obligate intracellular almost all vector borne conventional bacterial life cycle |
Rickettsiae
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gram negative realtive
non gram-staining obligate intracellular direct transmission unconventional life cycle extracellular form is metabolically inert |
Chlamydia
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related to gram-negative
spirochete fragile obligate parasite lyme disease |
Borrelia burgdorferi
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related to gram-negative
spirochete fragile obligate parasite syphilis |
Treponema pallidum
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