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31 Cards in this Set
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Rickettsia rickettsii
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Rocky mountain spotted dever wood ticks
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Rickettsia prowazekii
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Epidemic typhus fever human body lice
life threatening |
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Rickettsia typhi
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Murine typhus fever rat flea
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Chlamydia
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Intracellular pathogen
transmitted via air or sexual |
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Chlamydia pneumoniae
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Pneumonia bronchitis
has been implicated in coronary artery disease |
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Chlamydia trachomatis
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trachoma of the eye
nongonococcal urethritis in men salpingitis acute inflammation of the uterine tubes in women cervicitis inflammation of the cervix Lymphogranuloma venereum LGV recent outbreak in netherlands C. trachomatis infections can cause infertility |
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Coxiella
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Transmitted by animal waste aerosols very stable in the environment
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Coxiella burnetti
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Q fever
common in people on farms highly infectious Reportable disease could be used as a biological weapon |
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Staphlyococcus epidermidis
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On human skin and rarely causes disease
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Staphylococcus aureus
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MRSA
toxic shock syndrome food poisoning major cause of nosocomial infections after surgery |
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Streptococcus
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cause the greatest variety of diseases
produce hemolysis that act on red blood cells dissolves red blood cells to take nutrients |
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Pneumonia and meningitis
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Streptococcus pyogenes
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scarlet fever
pharyngitis impetigo cellulitis invasive infection: necrotizing fasclitis streptococcal toxic shock syndrome |
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Gram positive endospore forming rods
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aerobic facultative and anarobic
very characteristic smell |
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Bacillus cereus
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Diarrhea and food posoning
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Bacillus anthracis
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anthrax
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Clostridium tetani
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tetanus
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Gram positive non sporing rods
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usually nonmobile
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Lactobacillus acidophilus
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good for you
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listeria monocytogenes
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listeriosis meningoencephalitis
cross in placenta and is not good for you |
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Myobacterium
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acid fast bacteria
aerobic non endospore forming increasingly drug resistant grow extremely slowly |
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Mycobacterium leprae
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leprosy
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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Tuberculosis
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Mycobacterium avium
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lower respiratory disease simliar to TB
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Mycobacterium ulcerans
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skin and soft tissue infectiosn
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Microbial growth requirements
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Temperature PH osmotic pressure
Carbon Sulfur Phosphorus nitrogen and iron |
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Facultative anarobes
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can grow in both the presence and absence of oxygen
E. coli salmonella and pasteurella gram negative |
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Obligate anarobes
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only grow in the absence of oxygen
do not neutralize oxygen bacteroides gram negatives clostridium gram positive |
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Aerotolerant anaerobes
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will tolerate the presence of oxygen but do not utilize it for growth
streptococcus gram positive lactococcus gram positive |
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Microaerophiles
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Grow at reduced oxygen tension
Helicobacter pylori gram negative campylobacter jejuni gram negative |
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What uses CO2
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Neisseria and Haemophilus ssp.
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