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15 Cards in this Set
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What is the basis of the Lancefield classification system of Streptococci?
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Variants of carbohydrate C substances in cell walls
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What is ment if a bacterium is pyogenic?
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pus-producing
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In what bacterium would you find M-proteins?
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Streptococcus pyogenes, it encourages adherence to pharyneal tissue and resistance to phagocutosis
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What organism is the more frequent cause of bacterial pneumonia?
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
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What is the smallest free living pathogen?
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Mycoplasma
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Q fever; rickettsiae;generally transmitted by contamination of milk
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Coxiella burnetii
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Potts disease; Mantoux Test
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Most frequent cause of meningitis in young children
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Haemophilius influenzae
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Friedlander's disease; an important cause of noscomial infection
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Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Colonizes habitats such as warm water suplly lines and water cooling towers of air conditioners; Pontiac Fever
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Legionella pneumophila
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Streptococcal toxin shock like synfrom, killed muppets creator jim henson
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Stretococcus A bacteria
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Child-bed fever (puerperal fever) pathology enhanced by the M protein
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Streptococcus pyogenes
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Streptococcal pharyngitis
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streptococcus pyogenes
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Parrot Fever, transmitted by inhaling dust or dried droppings of infected birds
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Chlamydia psittaci
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Pneumonococcal pneumonia; most frequent cause of bacterial meningitis in individuals over 40
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
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