Micro Trigger Words Summer

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Cause of antibiotic associated colitis

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Clostridium difficile

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G- cause of pyelonephritis aided by alpha hemolysin

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UPEC E.coli

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Comma-shaped with toxin that increases cellular cAMP, causing watery diarrhea

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Vibrio Cholerae

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G+ that causes trismus and opisthotonos

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Clostridium tetani

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Nonmotile, lactose non fermenter that causes pneumonia with bloody sputum

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Yersinia pestis

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G+ food poisoning from refrigerated soft cheese or deli meat

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Listeria monocytogenes

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Child with low volume stools, blood, pus, PMNs, green colonies on Hektoen enteric

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Shigella sonnei or flexerneri

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G- organism that causes pink eye and requires choc agar to grow

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H. influenzae var aegypticus

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G+ organism toxin increase intracellular cAMP to cause edema

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Bacillus anthracis

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Cause of Pontiac fever

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Legionella pneumophila

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Causes exudative pharyngitis and a thick, dirty white pseudomembrane

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Carynebacterium diptheriae

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G+ with a pore-forming toxin

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Listeria monocytogenes

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Causes and ulcerating papule and fever after skinning a rabbit

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Fancisella tularensis

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G+ organism with a heat stable enterotoxin

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Bacillus cereus

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G- lactose fermenter that causes watery diarrhea in overseas travellers

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ETEC e.coli

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Beef farmer has an undulating fever and drenching night sweats cause by this

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Brucella abortus

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Causes myonecrosis with gas production

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Clostridium perfringens

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Causes gastroenteritis in a child after playing with a new pet lizard

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Salmonella typhimurium

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Produces black-brown colonies on tellurite medium

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Causes fever with abdominal pain, constipation first, then diarrhea, and rose spots

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Samonella typhi

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Gram+ endospore former that grows well in air

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Bacillus anthracis

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Causes bloody diarrhea that may progress to hemolytic uremic syndrome

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EHEC E.coli

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A lactose nonfermenter that causes severe invasive bloody diarrhea

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Shigella dysenteriae

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A food-borne illness from inadequately home-canned foods

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Clostridium botulinum

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Causes cellulitis in a cut from shucking contaminated oysters

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Vibrio vulnificus

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G- slow lactose fermenter that cause septicemia in immunocompromised

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Citrobacter

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Associated with MALT lymphoma

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H. pylori

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Causes G+ food poisoning from reheated meat-watery diarrhea, no vomiting

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Clostridium perfringens

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Contains a tracheal cytotoxin that inhibits respiratory epithelial cilia

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Bordetella pertussis

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Ox+ organism that is isolated on TCBS medium

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Vibrio cholerae

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Has a neurotoxin that causes flaccid paralysis

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Clostridium botulinum

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Produces a strong ammonia smell in urine and can cause kidney stones

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Proteus vulgaris or mirabilis

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Causes catheter-associated bacteremia, has red pigment

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Serratia marcescens

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Associated with clue cells and gives a + amine test

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Gardnerella vaginalis

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Pleomorphic, G- organisms that requires factors from lysed blood

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Haemophilus

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Has a poly-D- glutamate polypeptide capsule

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Bacillus anthracis

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Common source exposure causes necrotizing pneumonia, grows on BCUE

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Legionella pneumophila

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Epiglottitis in a child with drooling, inspiratory stridor, and cherry-red epiglottis

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Haemophilus influenzae type b

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This organisms toxin blocks the release of acetylcholine from nerve cells

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Clostridium botulinum

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G- whose toxin ADP-ribosylates eukaryotic EF-2, inhibiting protein synthesis

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Pseudomonos aeruginosa

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Cervicofacial swelling is caused by this filamentous G+ organism

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Actinomyces israelii

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G- whose toxin cleaves host 60S rRNA

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EHEC E.coli

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Motile G- organism that is Ur+ and Ox+

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H. pylori

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This organism causes painful buboes

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Yersinia pestis

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Contains P pili for adhering to urogenital epithelium

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UPEC E.coli

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Its toxin blocks the release of GABA and glycine from inhibitory neurons

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Clostridium tetani

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Causes floppy baby syndrome from ingestion of contaminated honey

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Clostridium botulinum

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Produces colorless colonies on Sorbitol MacConkey agar

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EHEC E. coli O157:H7

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Contains an alpha-toxin, a lecthinase that ddestroys eukaryotic membranes

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Clostridium perfringens

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A spindle shaped anaerobe that causes intestinal abcesses

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Fusobacterium

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Diarrhea + blood and pus from undercooked chicken. This microbe grows at 42 C

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Campylobacter jejuni

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A club shaped organism that forms angular pairs

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Corynebacterium diptheriae

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This organism causes cellulitis with blue-green pus

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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A facultative anaerobe that causes cellulitis after cat bite

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Pasteurella multocida

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Inoculation of this microbe causes a painless black eschar on the skin

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Bacillus anthracis

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Causes pneumonia with thick bloody (Currant jelly) mucoid sputum

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Klebsiella pneumonia

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Causes short repetitive coughs that ending in a gasp often with vomiting

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Bordetella pertussis

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Hardy Gram- organism with green pigment that can grow on soap

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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A G+ organism with round terminal endospores

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Clostridium tetani

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An encapsulated organism that causes purulent meningitis in susceptible babies

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Haemophilus influenzae type b

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G+ whose toxin ADP ribosylates eukaryotic EF2 inhibiting protein synthesis

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Corynebacterium diphteriae

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Causes food poisoning from starchy food especially rice

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Bacillus cereus

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Blood transfusion (cold growth) associated diarrhea fever appendicitis symptoms

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Yersinia enterocolitica

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Chronic diarrhea cause that contains a type III secretion system for injecting proteins

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EPEC E coli

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This G- organism that has actin directed motility

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Shigella dysenteriae

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This G+ organism that has actin directed motility

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Listeria monocytogenes

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This organism is identified on Regan Lowe media

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Bordetella pertussis

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Inhalation of this microbe leas to hemorrhagic mediastinitis and pulmonary edema

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Bacillus anthracis

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E.coli strain that contains a shiga like toxin

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EHEC

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A G- whose toxin increases cAMP levels in the respiratory mucosa

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Bordetella pertussis

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A G- bacilli that causes painful genital ulcers

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Haemophilus ducreyi

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An anaerobe that produces melanin and causes gingivitis

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Porphyromonas gingivalis

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A G+ microbe that causes meningitis in renal transplant patients

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Listeria monocytogenes

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This organism gives a green metallic sheen on Eosin-methylene blue agar

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E. coli

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A lactose fermenter that causes invasive bloody diarrhea

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EIEC

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The leading bacterial cause of Guillain Barre syndrome

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Campylobacter jejuni

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The patient appears bull necked from the exotoxin effects of this organism

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Lactose+ Ur+ G- bacilli

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Klebsiella pneumoniae