Bacterial Diseases

Question 1

Bacteria in Bubonic Plague/Black Death

Answer 1

Yersinia/Pasteurella Pestis

Question 2

vector for Yersinia Pestis (Pasteurella Pestis)

Answer 2

Rat Flea = Xenopsylla Cheopis

Question 3

Neck and axillary node enlargement in bubonic plague/black death

Answer 3

Bubos

Question 4

bacteria in Tuleremia

Answer 4

Francisella Tularensis

Question 5

vector for Tuleremia

Answer 5

Rabbit

“The French Rabbits smell Tulips”

Question 6

HUNTERS associated with

Answer 6

Tuleremia

Question 7

bacteria and vector for botulism

Answer 7

clostridium botulinum

home canning

Question 8

Prevents Ach release; nitrates added to meat to prevent – floppy baby syndrome – NO RAW HONEY for babies

Answer 8

Botulism

Question 9

signs of botulism (food-borne)

Answer 9

1: diplopia
2: death

Question 10

MC cause of gastritis

Answer 10

Campylobacter (C. jejune) (food-borne)

Question 11

1 cause of diarrhea and food poisoning

Answer 11

Campylobacter (C. jejuni) (food-borne)

Question 12

bacteria and vector for Listeria (food-borne)

Answer 12

Listeria monocytogenes

Deli meats and soft cheeses

Question 13

bacteria and vector for Salmonella (food-borne)

Answer 13

Salmonella Entrides
Eggs and Poultry
(associated with fever – “Chicken Shit”)

Question 14

bacteria and vector for Staphylococcus (food-borne)

Answer 14

Staph Aureus

creams and custard

Question 15

HEAT stable toxin associated with

Answer 15

Staphylococcus

Question 16

bacteria for Typhoid (food-borne)

Answer 16

Salmonella Typhi

Question 17

Rose colored spots on abdomen

Peyers Patches in Ileum

Answer 17

Typhoid

Question 18

test for Typhoid (food-borne)

Answer 18

Widal Test

Question 19

bacteria for brucellosis (water-borne)

Answer 19

brucella abortus

Question 20

Brucellosis aka (2)

Answer 20

Bang’s Disease

Undulant Fever

Question 21

spontaneous abortion in cattle

Answer 21

Brucellosis (Water-borne)

Question 22

rice water stool

Answer 22

cholera

Question 23

comma shaped with NO lymph enlargement

Answer 23

cholera - vibro cholera

Question 24

disease that is WATER and SOIL born

Answer 24

Shigella

Question 25

bacillary/bacterial dysentery

Answer 25

Shigella

Question 26

bacteria in traveler's diarrhea

Answer 26

E.Coli Enterotoxigenic form

Question 27

Montezuma's revenge associated with

Answer 27

Traveler's Diarrhea

Question 28

Enterohemorrhagic form of E.Coli is _____ aka ____

Answer 28

E.Coli OH157 | Hamburger's Disease = FATAL

Question 29

Bacteria for anthrax and gram ___

Answer 29

Bacillus anthrax; gram +

Question 30

Anthrax (soil-borne) aka

Answer 30

Wool sorter's disease; inhaled spores from animal hide or wool (zoonosis)

Question 31

bacteria in tetanus (soil-borne)

Answer 31

clostridium tetani

Question 32

tetanus (soil-borne) inhibits ____ and ____; common symptoms is ___

Answer 32

GABA and glycine | lockjaw/trismus

Question 33

bacteria for gas gangrene

Answer 33

clostridium perfingins

Question 34

#1 cause of otitis media

Answer 34

haemophilus influenza

Question 35

#1 cause of otitis externa

Answer 35

E. Coli

Question 36

organism for leptospirosis (spirochete)

Answer 36

leptospira interroganes (Leptospira ictohemorrhagic)

Question 37

Weil's Syndrome causes _____ and is associated with ___ disease

Answer 37

jaundice | Leptospirosis

Question 38

organism for Lyme's Disease (spirochete)

Answer 38

Borrelia Burgdorferi

Question 39

vector for Lyme Disease (spirochete)

Answer 39

Deer Tick

Question 40

organism for Relapsing Fever (spirochete); and main symptom

Answer 40

Borrelia Recurrentis | Fever comes and goes

Question 41

organism for Syphilis

Answer 41

Treponema Pallidum

Question 42

hard PAINLESS chancre

Answer 42

primary syphilis

Question 43

condylomata lata

Answer 43

secondary syphilis

Question 44

gummas and tabes dorsalis

Answer 44

tertiary syphilis

Question 45

non-venereal syphilis

Answer 45

Yaws

Question 46

3 types of dysentery

Answer 46

childhood Bacterial/Bacillary Amoebic

Question 47

hand/foot/mouth disease

Answer 47

coxsackie virus B = childhood dysentery

Question 48

Bacterial dysentery

Answer 48

Shigella

Question 49

Amoebic dysentery

Answer 49

Entamoeba Histolytic