click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Uncategorized
Microbiology for Board Exam 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |