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Pathogens & Diseases

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Staphylococcus aureus (pyogenic)   Skin abcess & scalded skin syndrone Food poisoning Nosocomial infections Toxic shock syndrome Impetigo (skin rash)  
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Streptococcus pyogenes (pyogenic)   Strep throat, Pharyngitis Scarlet fever Rheumatic fever (heart valves) Puerperal sepsis (childbirth fever) Sydenham’s Chorea (St. Vitus’Dance) Impetigo Erysipelas (St. Anthony’s Fire) Toxic Shock  
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Streptococcus pneumonia (pyogenic)   Lobar pneumonia Otitis media Meningitis  
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Nisseria gonorhoeae (pyogenic)   Gonorrhea (urethritis) Ophthamia neonatum Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)  
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Neisseria meningitis (pyogenic)   Epidemic meningitis meningococcemia  
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Salmonella typhi (enteric)   Typhoid fever  
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Shigella dysenteriae (enteric)   Shigellosis; bacillary dysentery  
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Escherichia coli (enteric)   Gastroenteritis Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)  
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Klebsiella pneumoniae (enteric)   Lobar pneumonia Gastroenteritis Urinary tract infections  
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Proteus mirabilis (enteric)   Secondary burn wounds Urinary tract infections Gastroenteritis  
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa (enteric)   Burn wound infections Urinary tract infections Gastroenteritis  
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Bordetella pertussis (gram -)   Pertussis: whooping cough Paraspasmodic/convulsive stage Treat with the “AP” (Acellular Pertussus) portion of DTAP vaccine.  
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Haemophilus influenza (gram -)   Bacterial influenza meningitis HIB vaccine  
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Yersinia pestis (gram -)   Bubonic plague Pneumonic plague (more virulent)  
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Francisella tularensis (gram -)   Tularemia Aka: (Rabbit fever/deer fly fever) Skin infection- most common GI infection Pneumonic infection  
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Bacillus anthracis (spore/bacilli)   Anthrax (animals) Skin infection (Eschar skin lesion)  
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Clostridium botulinum (spore/bacilli)   Food –borne botulism Infant botulism Wound botulism  
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Clostridium perfringens (Welchii) spore/bacilli   Gas gangrene-antemortem Tissue gas- postmortem Food poisoning  
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Clostridium tetani (spore/bacilli)   Tetanus (lock jaw)  
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Corynebacterium diptheriae (actinomycete)   Diptheria Cutaneous diptheria  
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis (actinomycete)   Tuberculosis  
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Mycobacterium avium complex(MAC)(actinomycete)   Opportunistic form of TB in AIDS patients  
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Mycobacterium leprae (actinomycete)   Leprosy (Hansen's Disease) Tuberculoid leprosy (neural form) Lepromatous leprosy (progressive form)  
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Legionella pneumphila (actinomycete)   Legionaire's disease (legionellosis) Milder form known as Pontiac Fever  
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Listeria monocytogenes (actinomycete)   Listeriosis (listeria)  
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Vibrio cholerae (spiral)   Asiatic cholera  
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Treponema pallidum (spiral)   Primary syphilis - chancre lesion Secondary syphilis - skin rash Latent period Tertiary syphilis - gummas lesion  
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Borrelia burgdorferi (spiral)   Lyme disease (Lyme Borreliosis)  
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Leptospira interrogans (spiral)   Leptospirosis (infectious jaundice)  
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Campylobacter jejuni (spiral)   Campylobacteriosis (gastroenteritis) food-borne Guillain Barre's Syndrone (rare neurological complication)  
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Mycoplasma pneumonia   Mycoplasmal pneumonia Primary atypical pneumonia Walking pneumonia  
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Rickettsia prowazekii   Epidemic typhus (louse-borne typhus)  
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Rickettsia typhi   Endemic murine typhus; flea-borne typhus  
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Rickettsia rickettisia   Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever; tic-borne typhus  
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Coxiella burnetii   Q fever (query fever)  
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Chlamydia trachomatis   Inclusion conjunctivitis Trachoma Nongonococcal urethritis (NGU) Nonspecific urethritis (NSU) Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)  
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Chlamydia psittaci   Psittacosis; parrot fever; ornithosis  
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