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Bacillus anthracis

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  • Prokaryote
  • gram reaction: G+, streptococcus, endospores
  • Oxygen use: aerobic in vegetative state
  • Disease: Anthrax, cutaneous, inhalation, intestinal
  • Resivoir: soil, envt, animal hides
  • Transmition: soil, contaminated food, zoonotic
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Campylobacter jejuni

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: gram-, random rod
  • Oxagen use: micoaerophile
  • Disease: Gastroenteritis, diahhera
  • Resivoir: animal gut
  • Transmition: Fecal/oral
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Candida albicans

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  • Domain: eukaryote (fungi)
  • Desease: vaginal yeast infection, thrush, candidiasis, septicimia
  • resivour: normal flora of mouth, vagina, rectum and GI track
  • Transmission: self infection, person to person, nosocomial (aka from hospital)
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Clostridium botulinum

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: Positive and bacillus and endospores
  • Oxagen use: anarobiclly in vegetative state
  • Disease: Botulism
  • Resivoir: soil
  • Transmition: dirty food
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Clostridium difficile

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: Positive and bacillus and endospores
  • Oxagen use: anarobiclly in vegetative state
  • Disease: C diff.
  • Resivoir: soil, normal gut
  • Transmition: self infect, fecal/oral, hand sanitizer doesn’t kill endospores
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Clostridium tetani

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: Positive and bacillus and endospores
  • Oxagen use: anarobiclly in vegetative state
  • Disease: tetnus, neonatal tetanus
  • Resivoir: soil
  • Transmition: dirty puncture wound
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Enterococcus faecalis

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: gram+, cocci
  • Oxagen use: fermantative
  • Disease: Uti, endocarditise, VRE, abdominal infections, wound infections, nosocomial
  • S. typhi causes typhoid fever
  • Resivoir: human gut
  • Transmition: Fecal/oral, fomite, poor hand hygiene
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Escherichia coli

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: negative random rod
  • Oxagen use: facultative anaerobe
  • Disease: UTI, travilars diarrhea, gastroenteritis, hemolytic uremic syndrome
  • Resivoir: normal inhabitant of colon of warm blooded animals
  • Transmition: fecal/oral, self infection(UTI)
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Giardia lambila

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  • Domain: Eucaryotes (protozoan)
  • Disease: giardia, beaver fever
  • Resivoir: GI track of vertebrate
  • Transmition: fecal/oral
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Haemophilus influenzae

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: gram-, random rod
  • Oxagen use: capnophile, FA
  • Disease: meningities, epiglottis, otitis
  • Resivoir: human and animal URT
  • Transmition: respiratory droplets, airborn
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Helicobacter pylori

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: gram-, spirillum
  • Oxagen use: micoaerophile
  • Disease: Stomic ulcers, gastritis
  • Resivoir: unknown
  • Transmition: unkown fecal/oral
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Hepatitis A virus

picornaviradae

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  • Virus
  • SsRNA
  • Non-enveloped
  • Disease: infectious hepatitis, opertuneistic, STD
  • Resivoir: human gut, contaminated shell fish
  • Transmition: Fecal/oral
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Hepatitis B virus

Hepadnaviridae

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  • Virus
  • dsDNA partially
  • enveloped
  • Disease: Hep B
  • Resivoir: Infected human blood and body fluids
  • Transmition: Blood born
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Hepatitis C virus

flaviviradae

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  • Virus
  • SsRNA
  • Non-enveloped
  • Disease: hepatitis C
  • Resivoir: human blood, and body fluids, chimps
  • Transmition: Transfusion, infected needles, breast feeding, STD
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Human herpes virus

HHV2

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  • Virus
  • dsDNA
  • enveloped
  • Disease: Genital herpes
  • Resivoir: Human reproductive track
  • Transmition: STD
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Human herpes virus

HHV3

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  • Virus
  • dsDNA
  • enveloped
  • Disease: Chickenpox, shingles
  • Resivoir: Human URT
  • Transmition: respiratory droplets
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Human herpes virus

HHV4 or HHV5

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  • HHV4= Epstine bar
  • HHV5= Cytomegalovirus
  • dsDNA
  • enveloped
  • Disease: Mono
  • Resivoir: Human URT
  • Transmition: respiratory droplets

all hhv are latent

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HIV human immunodeficiency virus

retroviridae

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  • Domain: acellular
  • ssRNA
  • enveloped
  • disease: AID’s
  • Resivoir: human blood and body fluids
  • Transmition: Contact with infected body fluids, STD
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Human herpes virus

HHV1

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  • Virus
  • dsDNA
  • enveloped
  • Disease: cold sores, encephalitis
  • Resivoir: Human mucus membrain
  • Transmition: respitory droplets
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Influenza virus

Orthomyxoviradae

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  • ssRNA
  • enveloped
  • diseaes: influenza
  • reservoir: URT humans, pigs, birds
  • transmission: Resperatory droplets
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Klebsiella pneumoniae

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: gram-, random rod
  • Oxagen use: facaltative anarobe
  • Disease: opertuneistic especially of immune compromised
  • Disease: URT, UTI, pneumoniae, nosocomial
  • Resivoir: Human And animal guts, soil, water
  • Transmition: Contact, fomite, contaminated hands
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Listeria monocytogenes

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: gram+, random rod
  • Oxagen use: facultative anaerobes
  • Disease: damage to fetus, meningitis in immun compromised, sepsis in neonates
  • Resivoir: envt, human gut carriers
  • Transmition: Food
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measles virus

paramyxoviradae

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  • Domain: acellular
  • ssRNA
  • enveloped
  • disease: rubella(measles)
  • Resivoir: infected human URT
  • Transmition: respiratory droplets
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Mycobacterium leprae

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  • Domain: Procayote (bacteria)
  • gram reaction: acid fast, gram stain irrelevant
  • Oxagen use: can not be grow on artificial media, armadillos used
  • Disease: Leporsy
  • Resivoir: armadillos and humans
  • Transmition: unkown
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_Mycobacterium tuberculosis_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: **acid fast, gram stain irrelevant** * Oxagen use: arobic * Disease: Tuberculosis * Resivoir: animals and humans and envt * Transmition: respiratory droplets, carrier contact
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_Neisseria gonorrhoeae_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, diplococci * Oxagen use: capnophili * Disease: Gonorrhea * Resivoir: Human reproductive tract * Transmition: STD
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_Neisseria meningitidis_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, diplococci * Oxagen use: capnophili * Disease: meningitis * Resivoir: Human URT carriers * Transmition: respiratory droplets
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Norovirus caliciviridae
* Virus * SsRNA * Non enveloped * Disease: Acute viral gastroenteritis ( the stomach flu) * Resivoir: human gut * Transmition: Direct contact with infected person, contaminated food or water, aerosolization of contaminated fluids (vomit, feces)
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Plasmodium sp.
* Domain: Eucaryotes (protozoan) * gram reaction: * Oxagen use: * Disease: malaria * Resivoir: infected Anopheles mosquitos * Transmition: bite from infected female anopheles mosquitos
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Polio virus picornaviradae
* Virus * SsRNA * Non-enveloped * Disease: polio * Resivoir: human gut * Transmition: fecal/oral
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Prions
* infected proteins * Desease: Mad cow, Bovine spagnoform encaphalophathy (BSE), * Disease: Creutzfeldt-Jakobs * reserviour: unkown * transmission: unkown, or eating infected neurological tissue
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_Pseudomonas aeruginosa_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, random rod * Oxagen use: aerobic * Disease: opertunistic, skin infections, resp, almost any body system * Resivoir: Soil, gut, normal skin flora, moist envt * Transmition: contact with contaminated objects
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rabies virus rhabdoviridae
* Domain: **acellular** * ssRNA * enveloped * disease: rabies * Resivoir: infected mammal salivary glands and nervousness tissue * Transmition: Bite from infected mammal (zoonotic)
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_Salmonella sp._
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, cocco bacilli * Oxagen use: facultative anaerobes * Disease: gastroenteritis, salmonella, * S. typhi causes typhoid fever * Resivoir: human gut * Transmition: Fecal/oral
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_Shigella sp._
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, Random rod * Oxagen use: facultative anaerobes * Disease: gastroenteritis, bacillary dysentery * Resivoir: human gut * Transmition: Fecal/oral
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_Staphylococcus aureus_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: Positive and looks like staphylococcus (grapes of circles) * Oxagen use: facultative anaerobe? * Disease: Skin, wound and bone infections, MSRA, VISA, CAMSRA, food poising, this microb is opertunistic * Resivoir: normal inhabitant of skin/membrains, nose, groin, arm pit, mucous, infected areas * Transmition: person to person, self infection, contact with contaminated fomites
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_Streptococcu pneumoniae_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram+, streptococcus * Oxagen use: aerotolerent * Disease: , pneumoniae, meningitis, Otitis * Resivoir: URT humans carriers * Transmition: respitory droplets
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_Streptococcus pyogenes_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: Positive and streptococcus shape (lines of cocci) * Oxagen use: fermantative, either aero tolerant or FA * Disease: Skin infections, streptococcus throat, URT infections, scarlet fever, pneumonia, others * Resivoir: normal flora, infected person, skin * Transmition: respiratory droplets, carrier contact
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_Common col_d rhinovirus, adenovirus, corona virus, others
* Domain: **aclluelar** * disease: common cold * Resivoir: infected human URT * Transmition: respiratory droplets, contaminated hands, fomites
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_Treponema pallidum_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, spirchete, random * Oxagen use: not grown in lab * Disease: syphilis, congenital syphilis * Resivoir: Human reproductive tract * Transmition: STD, enters trough cracked skin or mucous membranes, vertical transmissismission to placenta
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_Vibrio cholerae_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, random rod * Oxagen use: facalative anarobicly * Disease: Cholera * Resivoir: human gut * Transmition: fecal/oral
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_Yersinia pestis_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, random rod * Oxagen use: facalative anarobicly * Disease: Bubonic plague, pneumonic plague * Resivoir: Infected fleas and rodents * Transmition: bite of infected flea for bubonic * transmision: resp. Droplets for pneumonic plague
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Human papilloma virus (HPV) papillomaviradae
* Virus * DsDNA * Non enveloped * Disease: warts, genital warts, some stains associated with cancer * Resivoir: human skin and mucosa * Transmition: direct and indirect contact, sexual contact, casual contact
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_Chlamydia trachomatis_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, coccobacilli * intercellular paricite * Disease: Trachoma, blindness, STD, urethritis * Resivoir: Human mucus membrains * Transmition: STD, fomite, touching infected eye
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_Chlamydia pneumoniae_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, coccobacilli * intercellular paricite * Disease: Pneumonia, atypical * Resivoir: Human mucus membranes * Transmition: Respiratory droplets
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_Borrelia burgdorferi_
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, random spirochete * mico areophile * Disease: Lyme disease * Resivoir: Zoonotic, involving two mammals and lxodes tick * Transmition: Infected tick bite
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_Rickettsia sp._
* Domain: Procayote (bacteria) * gram reaction: gram-, coccobacilli, random * intercellular parasite * Diseass: R. Prowazekii= epidemic typhus * R. rickettsia = Rocky Mountain spotted fever * R. typhoid = endemic typhus * Resivoir: animals * Transmition: Bite of infected, flea, tick, mites or lice

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