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The proteus group is gram ______ _______ rods found in __________ |
negative, resistant, feces |
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The proteus group is responsible for ___% of nosocomial infections |
12 |
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4 strains of the proteus group |
Proteus mirabilis, proteus vulgaris, morganella morganii, providencia stuartii |
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the most commonly isolated strain of proteus found in the feces that causes uncomplicated and complicated UTI's and is also involve in burn infections |
proteus mirabilis |
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Proteus mirabilis is the #____ cause of complicated UTI's and #____ cause of uncomplicated UTI's |
1,2 |
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DOC/'s for Proteus mirabilis |
Ampicillin |
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causes the same type of infections as proteus mirabilis, but not as frequently isolated |
proteus vulgaris |
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proteus species involved in infantile diarrhea |
morganella morganii |
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proteus species involved in burn infections |
providencia stuartii |
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DOC/'s for providencia stuartii |
Ceftriaxone, Cefotaxime, Cefepime |
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3 species of the haemophilus group |
haemophilus influenzae, haemophilus aegyptius, haemophilus ducreyi |
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haemophilus influenzae doesn't cause the _____ because its a bacteria not a virus |
flu |
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Haemophilus influenzae is a gram _________ _____ that has a _____________ |
negative, rod, capsule |
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Haemphilus influenzae is _____________ like gonorrhea and needs to be grown on __________________ |
Chocolate Agar (Thayer Martin Selective Agar) |
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Common in oral and nasopharynx and colonizes in the upper respiratory tract |
haemophilus influenzae |
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Like gonorrhea, haemophilus influenzae requires ___________ ___________ |
capneic incubation |
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3 main diseases caused by haemophilus influenzae |
Meningitis, Otitis Media, Acute bacteria meningitis |
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Haemophilus influenzae is the ______ most common cause of bacterial meningitis |
3rd |
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#1 cause of bacterial meningitis |
Streptococcus pneumonia |
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#2 cause of bacterial meningitis |
Neisseria gonorrhea |
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_______________ used to be #1 cause of bacterial meningitis in children under 1.5 years of age with ______% mortality rate |
Heamophilus influenzae; 90 |
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_____% of children who survived from haemophilis influenzae induced meningitis suffered from a neurological disorder |
25-35 |
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The targeted population of haemophilus influenzae induced meningitis |
65+ |
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DOC/'s for haemophilus influenzae induced meningitis |
Ceftriazone or Cefotaxime |
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Caused by haemophilus influenzae and child can get this after having a cold from improperly blowing their nose and can lead to hearing loss |
Otitis Media |
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#1 cause of otitis media |
strep pneumoniae |
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DOC/'s of otitis media induced by haemophilus influenzae |
Bactrim |
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Life threatening disease where the epiglottis can swell and cause suffocation in child |
Acute bacterial epiglottis |
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DOC/'s for acute bacterial epiglottis |
Ceftriaxone or Cefotaxime |
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Secondary infection caused by haemophilus influenzae |
pneumonia |
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Causes pink eye, where eye swells to size of gold ball, and highly contagious |
Haemophilus aegyptius |
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Pink eye is a form of ______________ |
Conjuctivitis |
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DOC/'s for haemophilus aegyptius |
Tetracycline or sulfonamide |
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Causes something called chancroid |
Haemophilus ducreyi |
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soft chancres |
chancroid |
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Haemophilus ducreyi is usually found in ________ climates but is not very common in _______ |
warm, US |
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How many cases of haemophilus ducreyi in US per year? |
about 25 |
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DOC/'s for haemophilus ducreyi |
Ceftriaxone or Azithromycin |
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vibrio cholerae is a gram _______ ______ that looks like a ___________ |
negative, rod, comma |
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A severe type of diarrhea transferred through feces |
cholera |
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Causes cholera |
vibrio cholerae |
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in the 19th century meaning it was worldwide and on every continent (in regards to vibrio cholerae) |
pandemic |
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confined to one area (in regards in vibrio cholerae) |
endemic |
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Endemic's were confined to parts of _____ and _______ ( _______ River) |
Asia, India, Ganges |
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Vibrio cholerae likes _______________ soil and water and |
salty/alkaline |
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Will survive almost indefinitely and doesn't have spores |
vibrio cholerae |
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Can happen occasionally due to spreading through people traveling/airplanes (in regards to vibrio cholerae) |
Epidemic |
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Vibrio cholerae cause ___________ with usually a high __________ content |
diarrhea, mucuous |
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Vibrio cholerae produces a _______ toxin (which is a type of ______________) |
cholera, enterotoxin |
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The high mucous content in diarrhea caused by vibrio cholerae cause you to ___________________ |
lose a lot of fluids |
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When boiling rice, looked like there was mucous in the water and can lead to collapse and death |
Rice water stools |
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Rice water stools has ___% mortality rate without treatment |
50 |
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Treatment of vibrio cholerae is ______ & ________ replacement, as well as a type of ______________ |
fluid, electrolyte, tetracycline |
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DOC/'s for vibrio cholerae in US |
Doxycycline |
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causes the Black Plague/Black Death |
Yersinia pestis |
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The Black Plague killed ____________ people which was _________ of the world's population |
100 million, 1/3-1/4 |
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Yersinia pestis was spread through __________ infection and infections the ____________ system |
droplet, lymphatic |
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Causes lymph nodes to swell and tissues to turn black |
Bubonic Plague |
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The bubonic plague has a ________% mortality rate if untreated |
80-90 |
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Goes from lymphatic system to the lungs and digests away the lung tissue and turns black |
Pneumonic plague |
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With the pneumonic plague, patients become _______________, where they turn blue and can't breathe |
cyanotic |
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The pneumonic plague has a ________% mortality rate if untreated
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100 |
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Immunity to pneumonic plague was thought to be caused by _______ mutation in the ______ gene |
Delta 32, CCR5 |
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DOC/'s of Yersinia pestis in US |
Streptomycin, +/- tetracycline (Doxycycline) |