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Spirochetes |
gram negative negative |
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Spirochetes |
Motile by means of axial filaments |
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Spirochetes |
Body shape efficient for moving through body fluids |
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Spirochetes |
Visualized by staining with a fluorescent stain and viewed through a dark-field microscope |
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Spirochete examples |
Treponema pallidum |
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Spirochete example |
Borrelia recurrentis |
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Spirochete example |
Leptospira sp. (Leptospirosis) |
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Spirochete example |
Borrelia burgdorferi |
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Treponema pallidum |
Syphilis |
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Borrelia recurrentis |
Relapsing fever |
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Leptospira sp. |
A kidney infection |
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Borrelia burgderfori |
Lyme disease |
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Gram positive cocci |
Found in soil, on skin, mucous membranes and skin glands |
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Example of gram positive cocci |
Staph. aureus |
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Example of gram + cocci |
Staph. epidermidis |
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Example of gram + cocci |
Streptococcus pneumoniae |
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Staphylococcus aureus |
Causes toxic shock syndrome. Common form of food poisoning and skin boils. Produces a pale yellow pigment when grown on blood agar |
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Staphylococcus epidermidis |
Whit colonies. Normal flora of the skin and an opportunistic pathogen. |
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Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Cells usually arranged in pairs. Causes pneumonia |
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Streptococcus pyogenes |
Caused peripheral fever, strep throat, rheumatic fever and scarlet fever |
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Pathogenic streps |
May produce hemolysis (exoenzymes that break down red blood cells (RBCs) |
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A Hemolysis (alpha) |
Partial breakdown of RBCs causes blood agar to turn greenish-tan |
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B hemolysis (beta) |
Total breakdown of RBCS causes blood agar to clear |
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usually nonpathogenic. Several species produce red, yellow and orange pigments |
Micrococcus spp. |
