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Micro Bacteria
Bacteria and what they cause
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Streptococus pneumoniae | bacterial pneumonia and menigitis |
| peptostreptococcus | abscesses, oral infections, appenidicitis |
| Listeria monocytogenes | listeriosis, menigitis, encephalitis |
| Haemophilus influenzae | meningitis, ear infections, respiratory infections |
| porphyromonas | abcesses, oral infections, bite and wound infections |
| Nocardia | nocardiosis, mycetoma |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | Streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat), skin infections, wound infections |
| pseudomonas aeruginosa | burn wound ear infection, UTI, respiratory infection, noscomial infection |
| staphlococcus aureus | Staph infections, skin, soft tissue, respiratory, bone, joint, endovascular, and wound infections |
| Lactobacillus | microflora of vagina and gastrointestinal tract--not noramlly pathogenic |
| proteus | cystitis |
| Treponema pallidum | syphilis |
| prevotella | variety of infections, abcesses |
| Streptococcus agalactiae | neonatal meningitis |
| mycoplasma pneumoniae | atypical pneumonia |
| Neisseria meningitidis | bacterial menigitis, respiratory infections |
| shigella | Gastroenterits and childhood mortality in developing nations |
| Camphylobacter jejuni | gastroenteritus w/ malise, myalgia, arthralgia |
| Enterococcus | cystitis, noscomial infections |
| salmonella | food poisoning, typhoid fever |
| clostridium perfrigens | gas gangrene |
| escherichia coli | septicemia, UTI, noscomial infections |
| chlamydia | non-gonococcal urethritus (NGV), Trachoma |
| Clostridium difficile | antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), pseudomembranous colitis (PMC) |
| vibro cholerae | cholera |
| Bacillus anthracis | anthrax |
| Francisela tularensis | tularemia |
| clostridiuim tetani | tetanus |
| corynebacterium diptheriae | diptheria |
| bordetella pertussis | whooping cough |
| Helibacter pylori | stomach and duodenal ulcers |
| clostridium botulinum | botulism (type of food poisning) |
| mycobacterium tuberculosis | turberculosis |
| borrelia burgforferi | lyme disease |
| mycobacterium leprae | leprosy |
| legionella pneumophile | legionellosis |
| neisseria gonorrhoeae | gonorrhea |
| yersinia pestis | plague |
| bacteriodes | appendicitis, peritonitis, abcesses, post surgical wound infections |
| rickettsia | typhus, typhus-like diseases (rocky mountain spotted fever) |
| fusobacterium | oral and respiratory infections |
| klebsiella pneumoniae | pneumonia, cystitis |