Zoonotic Bacteria Flashcards
(22 cards)
Bartonella?
Cat scratch
Borrelia burgdorferi?
Ixodes ticks (live on deer and mice)
Borrelia recurrentis?
Louse (recurrent bc of variable surface Ags)
Brucella?
Unpasteurized dairy
Campylobacter?
Livestock (fecal-oral, ingestion of undercooked meat)
Chlamydiophila psittaci?
Parrots, other birds
Coxiella burnetii?
Aerosols of cattle/sheep amniotic fluid
Ehrlichia chaffeensis?
Lone Star tick
Francisella tularensis?
Ticks, rabbits, deer fly
Leptospira?
Animal urine
Mycobacterium leprae?
Armadillos and humans with lepromatous leprosy
Pasteurella multocida?
Animal bites, cats, dogs
Rickettsia prowazekii?
Louse
Rickettsia rickettsii?
Dermacentor tick bite
Rickettsia typhi?
Fleas
Yersinia pestis?
Fleas (rats and prairie dogs are reservoirs)
Stains with Warthin Starry silver?
Bartonella
Tx for Bartonella?
Erythromycin or doxycycline
Well demarcated skin lesion with black base?
Tularemia
Berry like cytoplasmic inclusions in macrophages and neutrophils?
Ehrlichia
Ehrlichia with pleomorphic rash?
Monocytic form
Ehrlichia with no rash?
Granulocytic form