62 Cards in this Set
| Front | Back |
|---|---|
|
Produces streptolysins, toxins, streptokinase, hyaluronidase, deoxyribonucleases, and proteases
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
Its M protein in cell wall interferes with complement
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
causes strep throat
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
causes tonsillitis and ear infections
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
causes impetigo (pyoderma; red sores that rupture quickly to form yellowish brown crust) and erysipelas (painful, red, swollen rash on cheeks and bridge of nose)
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
causes Toxic Shock Syndrome
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
causes Scarlet Fever - bacteria infected with a phage produce erythrogenic toxin (inflammation, reddening of the skin)
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
causes necrotizing fasciitis (flesh eating)
|
Streptococcus pyogenes
|
|
Due to a phage infection, produces an exotoxin
|
Corynebacterium diphtheria
|
|
Until 1935, #1 cause of death in children in U.S.
|
Corynebacterium diphtheria
|
|
Toxin damages major organs and destroys white blood cells
|
Corynebacterium diphtheria
|
|
Pseudomembrane forms in throat - suffocation
|
Corynebacterium diphtheria
|
|
Early treatment with antitoxin can't neutralize toxin already bound to tissue
|
Corynebacterium diphtheria
|
|
Causes diphteria, conjunctivitis, bull neck, severe myocarditis
|
Corynebacterium diphtheria
|
|
Begins as respiratory tract infection; moves to blood/brain and kills quickly
|
Neisseria meningiditis
|
|
Lipid A causes shock - inflammation, fever, vasodilation, DIC, and petechiae (small skin hemorrhages)
|
Neisseria meningiditis
|
|
Vaccine available for military installations, prisons, classrooms; college students living in dorms
|
Neisseria meningiditis
|
|
Type b was #1 cause of children's meningitis before vaccine developed
|
Haemophilus influenzae
|
|
Hib vaccine developed to treat desease
|
Haemophilus influenzae
|
|
Causes ear infections, pink eye, epiglottitis, and pneumonia
|
Haemophilus influenzae
|
|
Does NOT cause influenza
|
Haemophilus influenzae
|
|
Causes whopping cough and is extremely contagious
|
Bordetella pertussis
|
|
Attaches to ciliated epithelial cells with a capsule and destroys these cells with a toxin
|
Bordetella pertussis
|
|
Can't move mucous b/c of 1st toxin; second toxin gets into blood stream and causes sytemic symptoms
|
Bordetella pertussis
|
|
Infant mortality - can't cope; brain damage; broken ribs
|
Bordetella pertussis
|
|
Chronix couch in adults that lasts for months
|
Bordetella pertussis
|
|
DTaP & Tdap vaccines
|
Bordetella pertussis
|
|
Waterborne organism
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Causes urinary tract, lung, and wound infections
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Causes dermititus and "swimmer's ear" from using public hot tubs, saunas, and pools
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Dangerous for cystic fibrosis and burn patients
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Many plasmids - Very resistant to antibiotics; can metabolize disinfectants, grows in odd places like bottle caps
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Produces pigment that can make pus appear blue-green
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Pathogenic organism behind the reason you cannot take plants into the hospital
|
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
|
|
Causes plague
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Vector is the rat flea; when rats die, flea jumps to humans
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Endemic in wild rodents like squirrels, chipmunks, prairie dogs
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Has a safety pin appearance in blood smear
|
`Yersinia pestis
|
|
Causes bubonic plaque - organism lives and proliferates in white blood cells; lymph nodes swell and develop buboes
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Causes septicemic plague - Black death
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
organism spreads to blood stream from lymph nodes and causes setpciemia and endotoxic shock; you see dark purplish patches through the skin where hemorrhages occur
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Causes "ring-a-ring of rosies"
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Causes pneumonic plague; person-to-person spread by aerosol droplets; must treat within 12-15 hrs, almost 100% mortality from untreated cases
|
Yersinia pestis
|
|
Called "rabbit fever" but lives in many wild rodents
|
Francisella tularensis
|
|
Extremely virulent - 10 organisms can cause disease
|
Francisella tularensis
|
|
Infected by tick bite, blood from skinning animals, inhaling organism, eating infected meat
|
Francisella tularensis
|
|
Bioterrorism threat
|
Francisella tularensis
|
|
Symptoms depend on where organism enters body
|
Francisella tularensis
|
|
"Cat-scratch desease" - 50% of all cats carry this bacteria in their blood
|
Bartonella henselae
|
|
Can be transferred by cat saliva or fleas, but most from cat bite or scratch
|
Bartonella henselae
|
|
Disease begins with a papule at the site of infection in 7 to 10 days
|
Bartonella henselae
|
|
Swells the lymph nodes, causes malaise, fever
|
Bartonella henselae
|
|
Usually self-limiting disease, but can be treated with antibiotics
|
Bartonella henselae
|
|
Among the smallest bacteria
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Too small to Gram stain; can't be seen with normal light microscope
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Obligate, intracellular organisms; can't be grown on laboratory media
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Diagnosed with serologically
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Causes typhus (purple rash), Rocky Mountain spotted fever, ehrlichiosis, anaplasmosis
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Causes high fever, shaking, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting - later a rash appears
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Arthropods are vectors (ticks, lice, fleas mainained in animal resevoir)
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Causes inflammation and rupture of small blood vessels
|
Rickettsia
|
|
Causes black measels
|
Rickettsia (Rickettsiosis or Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever)
|
MIC 205: Final Exam