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MedMicro 2006 UTHSCmed

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Yersinia pestis shape   Bacillus  
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Yersinia pestis Aerobicity   facultative anaerobe  
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Yersinia pestis fermenter?   YES it is a fermenter  
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Yersinia pestis motility   NON-motile  
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Yersinia pestis virulence factors   YOP proteins, capsule  
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Yersinia pestispathophysiology   Skin to bubo to bacteremia, lungs=pneumonic; septicemic  
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Yersinia pestis reservoir   Rats through fleas  
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Yersinia pestis diseases   Bubonic and pneumonic plague  
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Yersinia pestis specimen   Bubo aspirate, blood, sputum  
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Yersinia pestis lad diagnosis   Immunoflourescence  
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Yersinia pestis treatment   streptomycin, tetracycline, doxycline  
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Yersinia pestis prevention and control   rat control, pesticide, vaccine for high risk  
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Yersinia pestis   Kille 1/4 of europe, subcutaneous hemmorrhage="black death", facultative intracellular pathogen and sylvanic(rural) vs. urban (city) rodents  
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Francisella tularensis Shape   Coccobacillus  
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Francisella tularensis aerobicity   Facultative anaerobe  
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Francisella tularensis oxidase +/- ?   Oxidase +  
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Francisella tularensis fermenter?   NO  
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Francisella tularensis motility   NON-motile  
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Francisella tularensis virulence factors   penetrates unbroken skin; capsule, LPS (not very active)  
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Francisella tularensis Pathophysiology   skin to lymphatics to granuloma or pneumonia; ulcer at bite site; typhoid-like fever  
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Francisella tularensis reservoir   rodents and ticks or deer flies  
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Francisella tularensis specimen   sputum or exudate; skin test (rare)  
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Francisella tularensis diseases   tularemia (rabbit fever); ulceroglandular (bite); typhoidal (bad meat, rare), or pulmonary (rare)  
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Francisella tularensis lab diagnosis   serology  
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Francisella tularensis treatment   Streptomycin  
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Francisella tularensis prevention/control   gloves with animals, remove ticks, vaccine for high-risk  
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Francisella tularensis NOTES:   survives inside macrophages; seasonal incidence  
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Francisella tularensis NOTES:   facultative intracellular pathogen; typhoidal and pulmonary have high mortality  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) shape   Coccobacillus  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) aerobicity   facultative anaerobe  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) oxidase +/- ?   Oxidase +  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) fermenter?   NO  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) motility   NON-motile  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) virulence factors   LPS endotoxin  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) reservoir   goats and sheep (melitensis), suis (pigs), abortus (cattle)  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) diseases   brucellosis (undulating fever): acute (enteric illness), localized (in women), chronic, relapsing, or strain 19 (calf vaccine)  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) specimen   blood, bone marrow, incubate for 6 weeks  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) lab diagnosis   serology; culture on blood agar (slow, fastidious)  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) treatment   tetracycline + streptomycin for 3 weeks  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) prevention/control   no human vaccine in US; vaccinate cattle; minimize occupational exposure, pasteurize dairy products  
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Brucella (melitensis, suis, abortus, canis) NOTES:   Urease + , Facultative intracellular pathogen  
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Pneumonic Plague   very contagious and rapidly fatal.  
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Pneumonic plague can occur from:   metastic for bubo, Inhalation from infected person, direct inoculation of the lungs  
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Septicemic Plague   High mortality  
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Septicemic Plague occurs by:   Organisms inoculated directly into blood by flea.  
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Francisella tularensis (enteric) typhi-like fever   Hallmark feature is temp/heart rate dissociation  
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Francisella tularensis pulmonary   hallmark frothy bloody sputum like in pnuemonic plague  
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