Zoonotic Bacteria Disease, Transmission, and Source Flashcards
Anaplasma Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Anaplasmosis
Transmitted by Ixodes ticks (live on deer and mice)
Bartonella Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Cat scratch fever, bacillary angiomatosis
Caused by a cat scratch (or bite)
Borrelia burgdorferi Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Lyme disease
Transmitted by Ixodes ticks (live on deer and mice)
Borrelia recurrentis Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Relapsing Fever
Transmitted by louse
Brucella Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Brucellosis/undulant fever
Found in unpasteurized dairy
Gram negative coccobacilli
Campylobacter Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Bloody diarrhea
Puppies, livestock (fecal-oral, ingestion of undercooked meat)
Chlamydophila psittaci Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Psittacosis (walking pneumonia)
Source: parrots/other birds
Coxiella burnetti Disease and Transmission and/or Source
Q fever (pneumonia)
Found in spores released by tick feces/cattle placenta
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Ehrlichisosis
Transmitted by Lone Star Ticks
Francisella tularensis
Tularemia
Ticks, rabbits, deer fly
Mycobacterium leprae
Leprosy
Transmitted by humans with lepromatous leprosy. Also armadillo
Pasteurella multocida
Cellulitis/osteomyelitis
Caused by cat or dog bite
Rickettsia prowazekii
Epidemic typhus
Caused by Louse
Rickettsia rickettsii
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Caused by Dermacentor ticks
Rickettsia typhi
Endemic typhus
Transmitted by flears
