Medicinal microbiology- part 1

Question 1

what are the different types of transmission?

Answer 1

• respiratory and salivary spread
• fecal-oral spread
• veneral spread (private parts)
• vector (biting )
• vertebrate reservoir
• vector-vertarate reserouir

Question 2

what are pseudomonas ?

Answer 2

• they are opportunistic bacteria
• very diverse group of gram-negative rods with strictly-respiratory mode of metabolism
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa important pathogen for humans leading cause of hospital admissions and can develop resistance to antibjotics

Question 3

what is pnemonia?

Answer 3

-disease that can be cause by wide variety of different pathogens
-Streptococcus pneumonia is the classic bacterial cause of acute
community-acquired pneumonia

Question 4

what is vibrio cholerae?

Answer 4

• diease f the intestinal tract
• normally ingested by water that is contaminated by inproper sanitation
• symptoms= diarrhoea, abdominal cramps, vomitting and dehydration

Question 5

why might somone with cholera die and what of?

Answer 5

from dehydration