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63 Cards in this Set
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what causes pelvic inflammatory disease |
Clamydia trachomatis nesseria |
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what causes hansens disease (leprosy) |
Mycobacterium leprae |
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what grows in standing water and afflicts those with predisposing factors and over 50 years old |
Legionella pneumophila |
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what causes impetigo |
Stapholococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogeres |
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what causes travelers disease |
E. coli, shigella |
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what causes urinary tract and respiratoty tract infections |
Serratia |
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what causes sharp abdominal pain similar to an appendicitis |
Yersinia enterocolitica |
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what causes acute necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis |
Treponema denicola |
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what causes food poisoning or typhoid fever |
Salmonella |
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what causes rheumatic fever |
Streptococcus pyogenes |
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what causes dental cavities |
Strep. mutans |
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what causes bacterial meningitis in adults |
Neisseria meningitis |
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what causes acne |
Propion bacterium acnes |
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what causes a tubercule in the lungs |
TB: Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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what causes major nosocomial infection in severely burned patients |
pseudomonas |
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what causes whooping cough |
Bordetella pertussis |
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what causes rabbit fever |
Francisella tularensis |
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what causes pneumonia |
Streptococcus pneumonia |
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what causes childrens pneumonia |
Staphylococcus |
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what causes bloody watery stool |
Vibrio cholera |
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what causes children's meningitis and meningitis in the elderly |
Haemophilus influenza |
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what causes Q fever |
Coxiella burrettii |
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what causes undulant fever |
Brucella abortus |
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what causes endemic typhus |
Rickettsia typhi |
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what bacteria has no cell wall |
mycoplasmas |
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what causes localized juvenile periodontitis |
Actinobacillus |
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what produces geosmin |
streptomyces |
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What is contracted from tropical birds (psitticosis) |
Chlamydia psittaci |
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what causes rocky mountain spotted fever |
Rickettsia rickettsia |
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what causes epidemic typhus |
Rickettsia prowaseki |
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what causes stomach ulcers |
Helicobactor pylori |
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what causes cholera |
Vibrio cholera |
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what causes a small hard painless chancre |
Treponema pallidum, syphilis |
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what causes STD a painful ulcer at the site of inoculation |
Haemophilus ducreyi |
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what is a normal flora of the vagina |
Lactobacillus |
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what can result from a knife or gunshot wound to the abdominal cavity |
Actinomyces israelil |
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what produces tetanospasmin |
Clostridium tetani |
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what causes necrotizing fasiitis |
Strep. pyogenes |
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what causes food intoxication |
Staph. aureus |
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what causes folliculitis |
Staph. aureus; pseudomonas |
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what causes adult pneumonia and otitis media |
strep. pneumoniae |
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what causes subacute endocarditis |
Strep |
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what causes woolsorters disease (anthrax) |
Bacillus anthracis |
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what is caused by ingesting contaminated milk, cheese, and meat |
listeria |
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what forms a psuedomembrane ehich leads to suffocation (diphtheria) |
Coryne bacterium |
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what causes urinary tract infections (cystitis) and infant diarrhea |
Proteus |
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what causes bubonic and pneumonic plague |
Yersinia pestis |
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what causes pink eye |
Haemophilus aegyptius |
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what mimics other diseases such as the flu, mono, measles, herpes, etc. |
Syphilis, Treponema pallidum |
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what causes lyme disease |
Borrelia burgdorferi |
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what produces the most poweful toxin known |
Clostrodium botulinum |
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what causes scarlet fever |
Strep. pyogenes |
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what causes furuncles |
Staph. aureus |
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what causes puerperal (childbed) fever |
strep pyogenes |
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What causes Hemolytic uremic syndrome (kidney failure) |
E. coli |
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what causes vaginal infection |
Gardnercella vaginalis |
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what causes otitis externa |
Pseudomonas |
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what causes TSS and scalded skin syndrome |
Staph. aureus |
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what causes lymphogranuloma venerrum, nongonococcal urethritis, and trachoma |
Chlamydia tracomatis |
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what produces most antibiotics |
Streptomyces |
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what causes syphilis |
Treponema pallidum |
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what causes primary atypical pneumonia |
Mycoplasma pneumonia |
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what causes Opthalmia neonatorum |
Neisseria gonnorrhea |
