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Microbiology for Board Exam 1
Term | Definition |
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Whooping cough (pertussis) | Bordetelia pertussis |
Recurrent fever/relapsing fever | Borrelia Recurrentis |
Bang's disease (zoonosis from cattle) | Brucella abortus |
Diphtheria | Corynebacterium diphtheriae |
Valley fever (fungal infect. of lung) | Coccidioidomycosis |
Thrush, candidiasis | Candida albicans |
Amebic disentery | Entamoeba histolytica |
Infectious Mono | Epstien Barr Virus |
Rabbit Fever (tularemia | Francisella tularensis |
Diarrhea in AIDS patients | Giardia lamblia |
pneumonia and meningitis (0-3yoa) | Haemophilus influenza |
Contagious Conjunctivitis (pink Eye) | Haemophilus aegyptius |
Chancroid(soft/painful) | Haemophilus ducreyi |
Ohio valley fever (chicken coops) | Histoplasmosis |
fever blister | herpes simplex virus |
herpes zoster virus | shingles |
TB | mycobacterium tuberculosis |
meningitis | neisseria meningitidis |
gonorrhea | neisseria gonorrhoeae |
Malaria | plasmodium vivax, malariae, ovale |
black water fever (malaria) | plasmodium falciparum |
open burn infection (blue pus) | pseudomonas aeruginosa |
Rodky mountain spotted fever | Deer tick rickettsiarickettsii |
murine typhus, endemic typhus | fleas rickettsia typhi |
Q fever | milk coxiella burnetii |
trench fever | louse rickettsia quintana |
rickettsial pox | mites rickettsia akari |
tsutsugamushi disease | mites rickettsia tsutsugamushi |
epidemic typhus | louse rickettsia prowazeki |
measles | rubeola |
german measles | rubella |
salmonella food poisoning | salmonella enteriditis |
red pigment when grown at room temp (red pus) | serratia marcescens |
bacillary dysentery | shigella |
mumps (parotitis) | sidomegalic paramyzoid vius |
osteomyelitis (yellow pus), scalded skin syndrome, toxic shock, carbuncles | staph. aureus |
Scarlet fever, strep throat, acute glomerulonephritis, erysipilas, rhematic fever | Group A Beta Hemolytic Strep (S. Pyogenes) |
subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) | Alpha Hemolytic Strep (S. Viridans) |
Toxoplasmosis | cats toxoplasma gondii |
syphilis | hard, painless treponema pallidum |
yaws | treponema pertenue |
trichinosis | treichinella spiralis |
african sleeping sickness | trypansoma gambiense |
hookworm | necator americanus |
pinworm | enterobius vermicularis |
fish tapeworm | diphyllobothrium latum |
beef tapeworm | taenia saginata |
roundworm | ascaris lumbricoides |
cow pox | vaccinia |
chicken pox | varicella |
small pox | variola |
cholera | vibrio cholerae |
yellow fever | viscerotropic virus |
bubonic plague | yersinia pestis |