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Aerobic gram positive cocci
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Enterococcus, Staphylcoccus, Streptococcus, Micrococcus
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Anaerobic gram positive cocci
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Peptococcus, Peptostreptococcus
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polymicrobial infections
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--2+ bacterial pathogens involved in disease process
--could be obligate anaerobes or facultative anaerobes (most contain both) --cannot initiate or sustain infection by themselves |
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coagulase-positive staphylococcus
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staphylcoccus aureus
staphylcoccus hyicus staphylcoccus intermedius --able to coagulate rabbit plasma --antiphagocytic carb capsule |
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cellular arrangement of staphylococcus
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grapelike clusters
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cellular arrangement of streptococcus
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chains
(streptococcus pneumoniae arranged in pairs) |
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Staphylcoccus hemolysis
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--coagulase pos have alpha, beta, delta, and epsilon toxins
--complete if coagulase pos --no hemolysis if coagulase neg --S. aureus has double zone |
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Staphylococcus aureus diseases
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Human: foodborne intoxification, skin infections
bovine: mastitis canine: pyodermas (10% cases) |
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Staphylcoccus intermedius diseases
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causes 90% canine pyodermas cases
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Streptococcus agalactiae disease
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bovine: mastitis
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streptococcus equi subspecies equi disease
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equine: strangles
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streptococcus pneumoniae disease
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human: pneumococcal pneumoniae
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streptococcus pyogenes diseases
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human: glomerulonephritis, rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, strep throat
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streptococcus hemoylsis
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can be either complete, incomplete, or nonexistant
hemolytic colonies considered pathogenic |
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Lancefield classifications
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A-H; K
based on precipitation test of extractable group-specific carb cell wall antigens (C carbs) |
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Lancefield group A
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streptococcus pyogenes
hyaluronic acid capsule (nonantigenic) |
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Lancefield group B
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streptococcus agalactiae
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Lancefield group C
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streptococcus equi subspecies equi
hyaluronic acid capsule (nonantigenic) |
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Lancefield group D
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enterococcus species
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M-proteins
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Streptococcus equi subspecies equi
antiphagocytic virulence factor that extends through capsule to assist attachment to larynx |
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extracellular virulence factors of streptococcus
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hyaluronidase, streptodornase, streptokinase, streptolysins O and S
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hyaluronidase
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extracellular virulence factor
hydrolyzes hyaluronic acid streptococci |
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streptodornases A,B,C,D
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extracellular virulence factor
deoxyribonuclease; hydrolyzes DNA; streptococci |
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streptokinases A and B
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streptococci extracellular virulence factor
lyse fibrin by catalyzing conversion of plasminogen to plasmin promotes blood clot lysis |
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streptolysin S
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streptococci extracellular virulence factor
nonantigenic; oxygen-stable; lyses macrophages, neutrophils, platelets |
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streptolysin O
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streptococci extracellular virulence factor; antigenic and oxygen-labile; lyses macrophages, neutrophils, platelets
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Glomerulonephritis
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Streptococcus pyogenes infection
based on M-protein antigens knocks out kidneys |
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Rheumatic fever
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streptococcus pyogenes infection
assoc. with >50 serovars antibodies react against sarcolema and produce permanent lesions on the heart; life-threatening disease |
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Baitracin susceptibility test
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streptococcus pyogenes are susceptible
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Dick test
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in vivo toxin neutralization test
erythrogenic toxins cause scarlet fever intradermal inoculation--red skin rash shows susceptibility |
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Optochin susceptibility test
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Streptococcus pneumoniae is susceptible
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Quelling test
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anticapsular IgM antibodies attach to surface of S. pneumoniae capsule, allowing us to visualize it
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Progression of pneumoniae
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congestive stage, red hepatization stage, gray hepatization stage, resolution stage
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purpore hemorrhagia
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post-infection immune complex disease; subcutaneous edema on muzzle and limbs; petechial and ecchymotic hemorrhages
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aerobic gram positive bacilli
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arcanobacterium, corynebacterium, dermatophilus, erysipelothrix, listeria, rhodococcus
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arcanobacterium pyogenes disease
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suppurative lesions and abscesses in cattle and sheept
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corynebacterium diphtheriae disease
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diphtheria (humans)
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corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis disease
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lyphadenitis in sheep
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corynebacterium renale disease
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pyelonephritis in cattle
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dermatophilus congolensis disease
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dermotphilos (humans, cattle, horse, sheep)
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erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae disease
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humans: erysipeloid (skin infection)
pigs: erysipelas (acute septicemia) |
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listeria monocytogenes disease
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foodborne infections (human, cattle, sheep)
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rhodococcus equi disease
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foal pneumonia, found in AIDS patients
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ovine infective bulbar necrosis
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A. pyrogenes and F. necrophorum; in medial digits of hind legs of pregnant ewes; produes leukotoxin
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dipheroid cellular appearance
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cells divide longitudinally
dumbbell shape produce cells via binary fission that are V,L, or Y shaped |
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Babes-Ernst granules
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assoc. with diphtheria
made of inorganic phosphate (volutin) stain with Albert's stain cytoplasmic granule |
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diphtheria toxin prototoxin
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inactive prototoxin = MW 62,000
1 A subunit (24,000) + 1 B subunit (38,000) B binds to cell and A enters |
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action of diphtheria toxin
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inhibits polypeptide chain elongatoin by catalyzing inactivation of elongation factor 2->stops protein synthesis
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DPT vaccine
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D = diphtheria toxoid
P = bordetella perstussis T = tetanus bacteria |
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Dermatophilus congolensis life cycle
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nonmotile bacilli = tissue phae
motile zoospores = infective phase; peritrichous flagella |
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Dermatophilus ovine diseases
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"lumpy wool" (wooly area affected), "strawberry footrot" (distal area affected)
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erysipelothrix diseases
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E. rhusiophatiae causes Erysipeloid in humans and erysipelas in pigs
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Erysipelothrix rhusiphatiae cellular characteristics
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gram pos bacillus
facultative anaerobe complete hemolysis highly pleiomorphic |
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porcine erysipelas
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swine are carriers--natural GI flora
2 mos-1 yr most affected septicemias, cutaneous lesions can affect joints and endocardium |
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contributing factors to listeriosis in ruminants
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poor quality silage
older silage increases listeria concentration alkaline pH |
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Listeria monocytogenes motility
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temp-dependent motility
motile with peritrichous flagella at 4-25C nonmotile at 37C (body temp) |
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Listeria monocytogenes cellular characteristics
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gram pos bacillus
facultative anaerobe complete hemolysis catalase positive facultative intracellular pathogen |
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Bovine listeria monocytogenes infections
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asymptomiatic enteric infections
visceral infections with septicemia abortions neural listeriosis (most common) |
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Rhodococcus equi diseases
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Equine: foal pneumonia
human and other animals: opportunisitic infections |
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Mycobacterium cellular characteristics
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gram pos acid-fast bacilli
facultative intracellular pathogens obligate aerobes high lipid content in cell wall stain only with Ziehl-Neelsen culture on Lowenstein-Jensen, not blood, agar |
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Nocardia cellular characteristics
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gram pos partial acid-fast bacilli
stain with Gram and Kinyoun stains obligate aerobes |
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Lowenstein-Jensen agar
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Able to culture most mycobacterium species
aerobic conditions |
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Myobacterium avium serovars
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1-3: causes mycobacteriosis and tuberculosis in animals, birds, porcine
4+: causes mycobacterium in animals and humans |
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Runyoun Group I
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Photochromogens
Nonpigmented at dark incubation yellow-orange at light incubation slow growth |
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Runyoun Group II
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Scotochromogenes
Yellow-orange at dark incubation Yellow-orange at light incubation slow growth |
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Runyoun Group III
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Nonchromogens
Nonpigmented at dark incubation Nonpigmented at light incubation Slow growth Includes pathogens: M. avium, M. bovis, M. leprae, M. tuberculosis |
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Runyoun Group IV
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Rapid Growers
Nonpigmented at dark incubation Nonpigmented at light incubation Rapid growth |
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Myobacterium avium serovars 1-3
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Cause porcine tuberculosis
Called avian tubercle bacilli |
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Mycobacterium avium serovars 4 and above
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Soil saprophytes
Can cause mycobacteriosis in humans, cattle, and swine |
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M. bovis and M. tuberculosis
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Called mammalian tubercle bacilli
Cattle are primary host of M. bovis HUmans are primary host of M. tuberculosis |
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Tuberculin test
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Mammalian tuberculin
intradermal inoculation, read 36-48 hrs later positive delayed hypersensitivity rxn: redness, bump this means you've been exposed |
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Mammalian PPD (purified protein derivative)
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Tells you that you've been exposed to mycobacterium and tuberculosis
doesn't tell you if you have an active infection |
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BCG vaccine
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Bacillus of Calmetter and Geruin vaccine
Live attenuated M. bovis strain Induces cell-mediated immunity After this vaccine, TB test will always come back positive |
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avian tubercle bacilli
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Mycobacterium avium serovars 1-3
cause of porcine tuberculosis |
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mammalian tubercle bacilli
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Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
cause of TB in human and bovine |
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Lepromatous leprosy
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Mycobacterium leprae
when individual has weak cell-mediated response marked deformitites in hands and feet |
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Tuberculoid leprosy
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Mycobacterium leprae
when individual has strong cell-mediated response localized skin lesions |
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Progression of bovine tuberculosis
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lesions form at reticuloendothelial tissue
local acute suppurative inflammation lymphocytes infilitrate-->macrophages become giant cells coagulation necrosis and caseous necrosis |
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Diagnostic tests for bovine tuberculosis
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Caudal fold test (intradermalninjection of M. bovis PPD)
Comparative cervical test (infect cattle with M. bovis PPD and B. avium PPD) |
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Nocardia asteroides
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Opportunistic infections in animals and humans
chronic pyogranulomatous lesions bovine mastitis, canine pulmonary nocardiosis |
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Bacillus anthracis
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anthrax in humans and animals
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Bacillus cereus
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foodborne intoxification in humans
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Clostridium botulinum
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botulism (flaccid paralysis) in humans and some animals
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Clostridium tetani
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tetanus (tonic muscular contractions) in human, bovine, equine, porcine
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Clostridium chauvoei
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bovine blackleg
acute febrile disease with lameness, gas production acute endocarditis |
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Clostridium perfringens
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ovine entertoxemia (pulpy kidney; overeating disease)
human foodborne intoxifications |
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Gram positive sporeforming bacilli
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Bacillus (facultative anaerobes) produce spores in aerobic conditions
Clostridium (obligate anerobes) produce spores in anaerobic conditions |
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virulence factors of Bacillus anthracis
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D-Glu polypeptide capsule
exotoxin complex (Factors I, II, III) |
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virulence factors of Bacillus cereus
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heat-labile enterotoxin (diarrhea)
emetic toxin (vomiting) oval subterminal endospore |
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Bacillus anthracis susceptibility for common creatures
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Humans: cutaneous anthrax infections, pulmonary anthrax infections
bovine/ovine: peracute, acute, or chronic infections equine/swine: acute pharyngitis feline/canine: rare occasion |
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Exotoxin complex of B. anthracis
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Factor I = edema factor
Factor II = antiphagocytic protective antigen Factor III = lethal factor must have factor I and III associated with II for the biological activity |
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forms of human anthrax
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cutaneous anthrax
systemic anthrax pulmonary anthrax |
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transmission of C. botulinum
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most common = intoxification of preformed botulinum toxin
rare = toxicoinfection where GI tract is infected and then toxin is released and absorbed |
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botulinum toxins
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attach to presynaptic terminal of cholinergic nerves to block release of acetylcholine
protoxin-->holotoxin (1A + 5B) types A-G; heat-labile A,B,E,F,G on chromosome; C,D in lysogenic bacteriophages |
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botulinum toxin susceptibility
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A,B,E,F = human
C,D = bovine B = equine D = ovine |
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transmission of C. tetani
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toxicoinfection: infection, followed by intoxification
parental infections from wounds, puerperal infections postpartum, and via umbilical cord |
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tetanospasmin
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prototoxin cleaved by proteases-->holotoxin
1A (50,000) + 5B (20,000 each)with disulfide links fixed to ganglioside blocks spinal inhibitory synapses gamma-amino-butyric acid (pre-synaptic), glycine (post-synaptic inhibition) |
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neural spread of tetanospasmin
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tetanospasmin transported on axons from peripheral nerves to CNS
localized ascending tetanus |
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vascular spread of tetanospasmin
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blood transport
produced in head and progressively involves body generalized descending tetanus |
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C. perfringens Type A antiseum
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antibodies to alpha toxin
protects against Type A |
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C. perfringens Type B antiserum
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antibodies to alpha, beta, epsilon toxins
protects against Types A,B,C,D |
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C. perfringens Type C antiserum
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antibodies to alpha and beta toxins
protects against Types A and C |
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C. perfringens Type D antiserum
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antibodies to alpha and epsilon toxins
protects against Types A and D |
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C. perfringens Type E antiserum
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antibodies to alpha and iota toxins
protects against Types A and E |
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C. perfringens virulence factors
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usually Type A toxin (alpha)
alpha, delta, kappa, lambda, mu, theta toxins neuraminidase extracellular enzymes and toxins |
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tetanus toxoid
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formalin-inactivated tetanospasmin
100% immunity good memory initiation (espeically with IgG) |
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Actinomyces bovis
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actinomycosis (bovine)
proliferative osteomyelitis of mandible/maxilla chronic granulomatous lesions in head soft tissues (sulfur granules) |
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Actinomyces israelii
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actinomycosis (humans)
chronic granulomatous lesions sulfur granules |
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Bifidobacterium, Eubacterium, Propionibacterium
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anaerobic gram-pos bacilli
opporunistic pathogens of enteric |
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Actinomyces viscosus
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canine pulmonary actinomycosis
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Actinomyces
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gram pos pleomorphic bacilli
obligate anaerobes |
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Equine Fistulous Withers and Poll Evil
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Actinomyces bovis
Brucella abortus (main cause) |
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Brown-Breen stain
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tissue stain used to visualize Actinomyces bovis
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sulfur granules
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in vivo granules of pale yellow color
bacterial colony in hyaline matrix assoc. with A. bovis and A. israelii |
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Neisseria characteristics
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aerobic gram neg cocci
found in pairs cultured on chocolate agar under capnophilic conditions |
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Veillonella characteristics and infections
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facultative anaerobic gram neg cocci
opportunistic infections with suppurative exudate & abscess formation polymicrobial infections BHI agar with 10% CO2, 10%H, 80% N |
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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Gonorrhea (human)
STD causes infertility infection of mucous membranes of genitalia with suppurative exudate |
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Neisseria meningitidis
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Meningococcal meningitis (human)
6-24 mos or 10-20 yrs old meninges (& pharyngeal) lesions |
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Enterobacteriaceae pathogenic species causing enteric infections in humans
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Escherichia
Salmonella Shigella Yersinia |
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Enterobacteriaceae pathogenic species causing enteric infections in humans and animals
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Ercherichia
Salmonella |
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Enterobacteriaceae pathogenic species causing extraintestinal infections in humans and animals
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Citrobacter, Enterobacter, *Escherichia, *Klebsiella, Morganella, Proteus, Providencia, Salmonella, Serratia, Yersinia
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characteristics of family Enterobacteriaceae
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Gram neg bacillus
Facultative anaerobes Nitrate reductase positive Catalase negative |
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Citrobacter characteristics
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gram neg bacillus, facultative anerobic
extracellular pathogen opportunistic extraintestinal infections; polymicrobial |
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Enterobacter characteristics
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gram neg bacillus, facultative anaerobe
extracellular pathogen opportunistic extraintestinal infections, polymicrobial |
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E. coli extraintestinal diseases
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genital tract, mastitis, urinary tract, wounds, pneumonia (secondary infection)
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Klebsiella extraintestinal infections
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bovine mastitis
canine cystitis, mastitis, metritis equine metritis porcine mastitis |
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Morganella characteristics
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gram neg bacillus, facultative anaerobe
extracellular pathogen in wound and urinary tract infections polymicrobial |
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Proteus characteristics
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gram neg bacilli, facultative anaerobe
extracellular pathogen opportunistic extraintestinal infection (common in UTI) in pure or polymicrobial cultures swarmer on blood agar |
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Providencia characteristics
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gram neg bacillus, facultative anaerobe
extracellular pathogen opportunistic extraintestinal infection polymicrobial |
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Serratia characteristics
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gram neg bacillus, facultative anaerobe
extracellular pathogen opportunistic extraintestinal infection polymicrobial |
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Lac operon
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family Enterobacteriaceae
permease beta-galactosidase lactose utilization/metabolism |
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permease
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outer membrane protein which actively transports lactose into cytoplasm
assoc. with lac operon |
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beta-galactosidase
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cytoplasmic enzyme which hydrolyzes lactose to glucose and galactose
assoc. with lac operon |
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colibacillosis
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enteric infections
Escherichia coli animals and humans |
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E. coli serovars
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enteropathogenic, enterohemorrhagic serotyped with O,K, H antigens
enteroinvasive serotyped with O, K antigens enterotoxigenic serotyped with F antigens |
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Fimbrial antigens of enterotoxigenic E. coli
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human: CFA I-IV
porcine: F4,F5,F6,F41 bovine/ovine: F5,F41 |
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some E. coli cellular characteristics
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hemolytic or not
peritrichous flagella (+/-) lactose positive; A/A + gas EMB agar |
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enterohemorrhagic E. coli
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ileum (lower SI)
bloody diarrhea (O157:H7) shigalike toxins I and II low infective dose |
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enteroinvasive E. coli
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like bacillary dysentery (blood and mucous in diarrhea)
nonmotile; LI and colon shigalike toxins I and II |
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enteropathogenic E. coli
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like enterocolitis of Salmonella
enterotoxins and shigalike toxins ileum and LI |
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enterotoxigenic E. coli
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upper small intestine
hypersecretion of water and electrolytes causes dehydration |
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virulence factors of enterotoxigenic E. coli
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fimbrial antigens
heat-labile enterotoxin (holotoxin; 1A + 5B)(85,000) heat-stable enterotoxins A/B (2,000) hemolysin; lipopolysaccharide |
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biological activity of heat-labile enterotoxin of enterotoxigenic E. coli
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B subunit binds to Gmi ganglioside to form pore
A subunit does ADP-ribosylation of GTP-binding protein, activating adenylate cyclase and increasing cAMP level |
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biological activity of heat-stabile enterotoxins of enterotoxigenic E. coli
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nonantigenic polypeptides
A activates guanylate cyclase, increasing cGMP levels B is antiabsorptive |
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tests to detect enterotoxigenic E. coli enterotoxins
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heat-labile: ligated ileal loops of live rabbits; tissue culture methods with Y1 mouse adrenal cells or Chinese hamster ovary cells
heat-stable: infant mouse test |
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Salmonella typhi
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typhoid (human)
septicemia with high fever and gastroenteritis capsular Vi antigen endotoxin, cytotoxin, enterotoxins anaerogenic |
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Salmonella choleraesuis
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porcine salmonellosis (also S. typhimurium)
anorexia, fever, mucohemorrhagic irritation, emaciation; black tarry diarrhea |
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Salmonella serovars
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over 2500
all but 2 are motile serotyped with O, H antigens |
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slide agglutination tests
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identification of Salmonella serogroups A-I
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Salmonella biochemical characteristics
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gram neg bacilli
oxidase negative K/A + gas + H2S |
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Salmonella enterocolitis
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ileum and LI
infective dose = 10^8 invade intestinal mucosa, infect lymph nodes black tarry diarrhea and hemorrhagic lymph nodes bacteremia/septicemia |
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Salmonella typhimurium
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equine enterocolitis
stress reduces min infective dose high mortality |
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Salmonella abortusequi
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equine abortion
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Salmonella gallniarium & Salmonella pullorum
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avian-adapted salmonella serovars
nonmotile foul typhoid and pullorum disease |
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Shigella dysenteriae
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Bacillary dysentery (human)
mannitol positive low infective dose (200) cecum and LI diarrhea with blood and mucous; high fever; septicemia/endotoxemia |
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Shigella boydii, S. flexneri, S. sonnei
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Diarrhea (human)
intestinal lesions |
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virulence factors of shigella dysenteriae
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polysaccharide capsule
lipopolysaccharide 2 cytotoxins (shiga toxins I and II; verotoxins) 3 enterotoxins (heat-labile and heat-stable A/B) neurotoxin |
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Yersinia enterocolitica
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enteritis (human, animals)
facultative intracellular pathogen motile with peritrichous flagella at room temp (nonmotile above) diarrhea, lymphadenitis, septicemia |
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Yersinia pestis
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plague (human)
flea (and rat) is biological vector nonmotile bubonic (endemic, buboes) or pneumonic (epidemic, septicemia) |
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Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
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psuedotuberculosis (humans, animals)
facultative intracellular pathogen motile with peritrichous flagella at room temp (nonmotile above) caseous lesions in rats |
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virulence factors of Yersinia pestis
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capsule (F1) and cell wall-associated (V/W) antigens
--heat-labile proteins --temp-dependent (active at body temp) lipopolysaccharide, catalse, murine toxin, determinant P, Pesticins I and II |
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Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
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aerobic gram neg bacilli
extracellular pathogen with suppurative exudate |
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Aeromonas hydrophila
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aerobic gram neg bacilli
motile; waterborne mostly fish, reptile, amphibian pathogen |
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Alcaligenes characteristics
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aerobic gram neg bacilli
enteric flora of vertebrates mainly poultry pathogen |
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Francisella tularensis
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tularemia (human); clinical infections (feline, canine)
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Moraxella bovis
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bovine infectious keratoconjunctivitis
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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aerobic gram neg bacillus
extracellular pathogens often found in water |
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Taylorella equigenitalis
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contagious metritis (equine)
mares: cervitis, endometritis, vaginitis) stallions: asymptomatic |
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Bordetella bronchiseptica
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pneumonia, tracheobronchitis (canine)
pneumonia (feline) porcine atrophic rhinitis affects apical and cardiac lobes of lungs kennel cough |
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Bordetella pertussis
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Pertussis (human)
severe tracheobronchitis pathognomonic whooping cough not on blood--grow on Bordet-Gengou agar DPT vaccine |
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Brucella abortus
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brucellosis (bovine, human)
smooth abortion and orchitis |
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Brucella canis
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brucellosis (canine, some subclinical infections in humans)
rough abortions, stillbirths, epididymitis, orchitis |
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Brucella melitensis
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brucellosis (ovine; human)
smooth abortions, orchitis |
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Brucella ovis
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ram epididymitis (ovine)
rough abortions |
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Brucella suis
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brucellosis (porcine; human)
smooth abortions, stillbirths, orchitis |
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A & M antisera
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agglutinate smooth species
monospecific B. abortus (A) and monospecific B. melitensis (M) |
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R antiserum
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anti-rough antiserum
agglutinates rough species |
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Brucella characteristics
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gram neg bacillus
obligate aerobes facultative intracellular pathogens some are capnophilic |
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standard tube agglutination test
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serologic test for smooth Brucella species
IgM and IgG quantiative test slowest |
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Card test
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serologic test for smooth Brucella species
IgG (acid pH inactivates IgM) qualitative test fastest rose bengal dye (pink color) |
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2-mercaptoethanol test
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serologic test for smooth Brucella species
IgG (2-mercaptoethanol inactivates IgM) quantitative test supplementary test |
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Rivanol test
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serologic test for smooth Brucella species
IgG (rivanol inactivates IgM) quantitative test supplementary test |
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Brucella abortus strain 19
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erythritol negative
non-capnophilic (doesn't require CO2 for growth) polysaccharide B |
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Burkholderia mallei
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equine glanders
obligate aerobe cutaneous, nasal, and pulmonary glanders and ulcerative lymphadenitis encapsulated nodules with yellow caseous purulent material |
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Mallein test
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detects for Burkholderia mallei in horses
administered by intracutaneous or subcutaneous inoculation |