REAL LIST Flashcards
(48 cards)
Grape-like clusters, 20% of people have it permanently
Staphylococcus aureus
Impetigo, cutaneous infections with skin, hair, and nails.
S. aureus
Found in the oral cavity, ferments sugar to acid, destroys enamel.
Streptococcus mutans
Scarlet fever, “flesh eating disease,” can cause arthritis, fever, and Saint Vitus dance.
Streptococcus pyogenes
60-70% of bacterial pneumonia, otitis media in kids, must be capsulated to be pathogenic.
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcal endocarditis, normal flora.
Streptococcus agalactiae
Post-surgical infections, normal flora of large intestine.
Enterococcus faecalis
Usually an STD, can infect newborns at birth, silver nitrate.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Vaccine recommended for college students, purple rash, sepsis, lives in nasopharynx.
Neisseria meningitidis
X3, cutaneous, gastro, and pulmonary (Woolsorters).
Bacillus anthracis
Spores germinate on food and produce enterotoxin (rice).
Bacillus cereus
Gas gangrene, food poisoning with enterotoxins (not produced in food), anaerobic cellulitis, necrosis.
Clostridium perfringens
Normally in large intestine, superinfection after many antibiotics.
Clostridium difficile
Puncture wounds, burns, anaerobic areas → tetanus toxin → “lock jaw” and tetany, 100% fatality untreated, DTP vaccine.
Clostridium tetani
Botox, honey, swollen cans, nitrates in food, blood sausage.
Clostridium botulinum
Contaminated meat, milk, grows in refrigerators → listeriosis and meningitis, high rate of abortion.
Listeria monocytogenes
Infects throat through airborne droplets, causes inflammation, fever, and diphtheria = grayish pseudomembrane, DTP vaccine, localized in throat.
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Tuberculosis, air droplets survive for months, years of AB to avoid resistance.
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Acid fast, Leprosy, does not grow in artificial media, requires prolonged contact with infected individual, comes from armadillo, incubates.
Mycobacterium leprae
Opportunistic, in soil, metabolically versatile, pyocyanin → blue pus, causes UTIs, eye/ear infections, other nosocomial infections.
Pseudomonas sp.
Primarily in animals but can be passed to humans, cattle specific infection of the placenta that leads to abortion.
Brucella abortus
Same, but pigs.
Brucella suis
Goats, sheep, camels, undulating fever, milk.
Brucella melitensis
“Rabbit fever” or tularemia, through ticks, fleas, animal meat/skin/dust, ingestion → typhoid-like disease or inhalation → pneumonia, Ohara.
Francisella tularensis
