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skin microbiota
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staphylococci, micrococci, diptheroids, cornebacterium xerosis, propionbacterium acnes, malasserzia furfu
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Caustive agent of contagious conjunctivitis (pink eye)?
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H. Inflenza-bacteria-haemophilus influenza
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How would you treat conjunctivitis?
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tetracycline
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What is the major organism that causes acne?
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Propionbacterium
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What is the most serious hair follicle infection?
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carbuncle
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What is the causitive agent of impetigo of the newborn?
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Staph Aureus
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What is the main mode of polimyelitis transmission?
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Ingestion-from fecal contaminated water
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what was the most common cause of bacterial meningitis?
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H. Inflenza
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Should N. meningitides cases be reported?
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yes
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What gram positive bacilli is associated with honey?
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Clostridium botchulinium
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What gram positive diplococcus is NOW the leading cause of meningitis?
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Strep Pneumonia
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What is the most common route of entry into the central nervous system?
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respiratory
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What bacterial meningitis infection has the highest mortality rate?
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Strep pneumonea
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Which CSF labratory results would support a bacterial meningitis diagnosis?
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Increase wbc, increased protien
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which bacterial meningitis agent is considered a medical emergency?
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Niserra Meningitus
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What is the chemotherapeutic agent for H.M influenza?
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cephlasphorin
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what gram positive rod that causes in-utero infection in pregnant women?
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lysteria moncytogenes
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What is the most common treatment for gas gangrene?
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debridment
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what is the names, symptoms, reservoirs and vector of Y. pestis?
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Black pague, resevoirs-rats, vectors-fleas and the symptoms-septic shock
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What is the majority of intestinal microorganisms?
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anerobes
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Areas/products of the skin that would be the leaset likely to provide nutrients or routes of entry for bacterial growth?
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Sweat
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What disease has buboes (swollen lymph nodes) characteristic of infection?
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Yerisna pestis
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What causes the disease with a target rash and what is another name for it?
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Borrelia burgdorferi
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Diseases caused by group a beta hemolytic strepococci
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erysipelas, necrotizing fasciitis, toxic shock syndrom, scalded skin syndrome, food poisening, strep pharyngitis,scarlet fever, flesh eating bacteria
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What symptoms does shigella dysenteria have?
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Severe diarreah, severe dehydration
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What ablity does shigella dysenteria have?
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The ability to invade tissues
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In regards to noscomial infections what area of the hospital may need monitoring for Hep. A?
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Cafeteria and dietary
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What are the symptoms of scarlet fever?
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Big red swollen tongue and red rash
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what fruit comes to mind in a diagnosis of scarlet fever?
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Strawberry (tongue)
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What is infectious hepatitus?
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Hep A
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What is special about staphylococcal entertoxins?
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Heat Stable
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Symptoms of C. diptheria?
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Grey dead tissue, grey patch
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What is meningitus?
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Inflammation of the meninges (three membranes) that line the skull
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What is encephalitus?
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Inflamation of the brain
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What is necrotizing faciitis
What does it attack specifically? |
Streptococcus pyogenus (flesh eating) Exotoxin-A-Strep,
Attacks muscle coverings, Attacks solid tissue, lysis red blood cells, betahemolytic |
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Strep Pyrogenus is GAS
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group a beta hemolytic streptococcus
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Caustitive agent of impentigo effects toddlers and children
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Streptococcus
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Know which organisms are coaglulase positive and which are negative
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Staphy aureaus is positive protects for phagocytosis, Staph epidermidis is coagulase negative
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Swimmers ear-name and organism
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Otitis externa and psudeomonas aeruginosa
gentamicin, polymins |
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Cause of inclusion conjunctivitis
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Chlamydia trachomatis
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most oppurtunisitic bacteria to grow on a catheter
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staph epidemitis
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What is the number 2 route for entry of a microrganism
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gastro intestinal track
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Scientist associated with puerperal sepsis
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Ignaz Sammelwies
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What are the immune response complications to streptococcal pharyngitis?
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Rheumatic fever, glomerial nerphritis
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What causes eppiglottis?
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H. Influenza
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What is the stain of mycrobacterium tuberculosis?
What is the treatment? |
Acid fast positive
Isoniazon |
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What are the majority of the intestinal microorganism?
aerobic or anaerobies? |
Anaerobes
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What are the differences between dalmonellosis and staphylococcal food poisening?
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Staph is fast, salmonella is a long incubation time.
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what percentage of pathogens actually cause disease?
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3%
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who discovered the first antibiotic?
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Alexander flemming
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which of the followin microbiologiest is not noted for contribution to aseptic technique: Holmes, Hooke, semmelweis, lister
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Hooke, he discovered cells
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the most common nongonococcal sexually transmitted pathogen in the u.s
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chlamydia
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Shigella dysenteria has the ability to do what?
what are it's symptoms? |
Invade the tissue, severe dehydration, severe diarrhea
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what is the cause of endemic murine typhus?
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Rickettsia typhus
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one of the most common reportable organism (g.neg. diplococci) causing an std?
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Gonorrhea
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what is so important about Robert KocH?
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Koch postulates
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causative agent of impetigo of toddlers and children of grade school age?
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stretococcus
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Undulant fever.. cause?
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Brucella caused by b. abortus
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Know the types of bacillus anthracis infections
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cutaneus, gastrointestinal, inhalation
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francisella tularensis, what does it cause?
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rabbit fever
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What is leptospira intterogans? what is the Morphology type of disease causes?
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spiral key, leptosperosis-kidney and liver
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pureulent spinal fluid is indicative of ..
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bacterial meningitis
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N. meningitides is what stain and morphology?
what agar and nutrient? |
gram negative with intracellular diplociccic
Chocolate or thayer martin and 5-10% co2 for growth |
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what is the treatment and cause of undulant fever?
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Brucella,
tx is streptomycin |
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how many serotype of group a beta hemolytic streptococci?
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over 80
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what is the cause of inclusion conjunctivitis?
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chlomydia trachomatis
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Who was rebecca lancefield and what did she contribute to microbiology?
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serotyping
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who discovered the first antibiotic?
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alexander flemming
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who is the father of microbiology?
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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the scientist who settled the germ theory with the crook necked flask?
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louis pasteur
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the scientist that made landmark contribution to the field we now call epidemiology:
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John Snow
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The sceintist and teacher that provided our class with a safe epidemiological experiment
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Ed Alcomo
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What is the most likely opportunistic bacteria to grow on the catheter?
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staph epidermitis
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What disease has buboes as a characteristic of infection?
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Yersina Pestis
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What causes the disease that has a target rash
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Burrelia burgdorgeri? Ixodes ticks
Most common tick fever in the U.S |
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what is endocarditis,causitive agent, tx
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bacteremia of the heart-hemolytic strep,tx-penicillin and erythromycin
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who is karry mullis
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won the nobel prize for the polymerase chain reaction.
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causes of stomach ulceration, what is its ability
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Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), able to produce urease to neutralize stomach acid
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what is the cause of gangrene?
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clostridium perfingens
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what organism can grow in the refridgerator?
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Lysteria
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francisella tularensis what does it cause?
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Rabbit fever
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Cause of gangrene?
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Clostridium perfinjens
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cause of endemic murine typhus
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Rickettsia typhus
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how many serotypes of group a beta hemolytic streptococci?
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Over 80
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Arkansas' most endemic fungal infection of the lower respiratory system
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hystoplasmosis, hystoplasmacapsulatum
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What does clostridium perfringes cause? What would your patients body part look like?
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Gangrene, Black dead tissueW
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The most common etiological agents of "neonatal" meningitis
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E-coli and Strep
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What types of meningitis has nonpurulent spinal fluid with lymphocytes and monocytes as the dominant WBC?
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Mycrobacterial tuberculosis
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Purulent spinal fluid is indicative of
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bacterial meningitis
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N. Meningitides is a what morphology
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gram-negative intracellular diplococcic
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Know the treatment and cause of Rheumatic fever
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Penicillin, Hemolytic strep, inflammation of heart valves
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Know the treatment and cause of undulant fever
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(brucellosis) Brucella spp.-cause/ tetracycline and streptomycin, B.A abortus-infected milk
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Cause of Tularemia and treatment
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Francisella tularensis/tx is streptomycin
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What does clostridium tetani cause and how is it treated/
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tetanus, muscle spasms. tetanus immne globulin (TIG)
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What is the stain of mycrobacterium tuberculosis?
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Acid fast positive, Isoniazon,cheesy clumps
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What are the stages of whooping cough?
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1)catarrhal stage (common cold), 2)Paroxsmal stage: violent coughing 3) covalescence stage
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clostridium tentani morphology
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gram positive rod, anaerobic, exotoxin, neurotoxin
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is blood and spinal fluid sterile?
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yes
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Woolsorters disease
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dangerous form of pneumonia cuased by bacillus anthracis
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what contributes to the multitudes of respiratory disease?
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1)ease of entry 2)ease of droplet transmission 3)anatomy-easily spread huge number of oppurtunities
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what is rabbit fever really called? what organism causes it?
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Tularemia, francisella tularensis
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what is puerperal sepsis
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childbirth fever caused for non anticeptic childbirth, caused by streptococcus pyogenes, transmitted to mother during childbirth by attending physicians and midwive
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what is septicemia?
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blood poisening
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what causes walking pnuemonia? what is another name?
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mycroplasma pneumoniaea, primary atypical
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In the U.S what does microbial disease of the digestive system rank?
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2nd
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what causes acute bacterial endocarditis
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inflammtion of the endocardium, hemolyic strep. or staphy aureus from the mouth
tx penicillin |
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what type of meningitus has nonpurulent spinal fluid with lymphocytes and monocytes as the dominant WBC?
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Mycrobacterial tuberculosis
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what is hanen's disease?
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mycobacterium leprae,lepsory
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what would you expect the CSF results on a spinal tap of a person with viral meningitis to be
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no bacteria
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cornynebacterium diptheriae, what type of disease?
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respiratoy, pleomorphic rods, v shaped
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Undulant fever is
rheumatic fever... tularemia... |
brucellosis, tetracycline and streptomycin
hemolytic strep-penicillin Franceisell tularenisi-streptomycin |
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puerperal sepsis
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childbirth fever, uterine infection, abdominal cavitiy, septicemia strep pyogenes
aerobe or anaerobes, bacteriods or clostridium, peniciillin erthmyocin, chloroamphenicol |
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pnuemococcal pneumonia
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strep pneumoniae, gram positive, diplococci, group a beta hemolytic
pennicillin |
