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Staph scalded skin syndrome, impetigo, folliculitis, furuncles, carbuncles, staph toxic shock syndrome, empyema, osteomyelitis; Protein A, bound coagulase, hyaluronidase,staphylokinase, lipases, beta, binds to IgG and inhibits complement; methicillin drug Staphylococcus aureus
pharyngitis, scarlet fever, pyoderma, erysipelas, toxic schock-like syndrome, necrotizing fasciitis, rheumatic fever, glomerulonephritis; Lancefield,proteinM, streptokinase; penicillin G, respiratory droplets Streptococcus pyogenes
Puerperal fever, neonatal bacteremia, meningitis, pneumonia; resistant to bactitracin, positive on CAMP test,often infects newborns, Streptococcus agalictiae
Pharyngitis, glomulonephritis Streptococcus equisimilis
dental caries, meningitis, endocarditis streptococcus mitis streptococcus sanguis (viridans)
pneumococcal pneumonia, sinusitis, otitis media, pneumococcal meningitis; leading cause of death before antibiotics, Quellung test, polysaccharide capsule, destroys IgA,treated with penicillin and pneumovax, Streptococcus pneumoniae
bacteremia, endocarditis, wound infections, vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecalis
bacteremia, endocarditis, wound infections, vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium
gastrointestinl anthrax, cutaneous anthrax, inhalation anthrax; spores survive for decades, eschar, treat with cyproflaxacin Bacillus anthracis
Gas gangrene, treat with penicillin and hyperbaric oxygen Clostridium perfringens
pseudomembrane colitis clostridium difficile
Botulism, infant infection involved with honey consumption, 3 types: Food-borne, infant, wound clostridium botulinum
tetanus (lockjaw), spasms and contractions that can result in death because patients can’t exhale, DPT or DT vaccine clostridium tetani
meningitis, treat with ampicillin listeria monocytogenes
primary atypical pneumonia (walking pneumonia) mycoplasma pneumoniae
pelvic inflammatory disease mycoplasma hominis
diphtheria,lysogenic, pseudomembrane, treat with Penicillin and erythromycin and with DPT vaccine corynebacteria diphtheriae
tuberculosis, waxy mycolic acid, #3 caus of death in infectious disease and #1 from a single organism, contains cord factor, isoniazid, Pasteurization of milk and the isolation of infected patients in sanatoriums, reduced the incidence of TB in the U.S. mycobacterium tuberculosis
leprosy, waxy mycolic acid; 2 types: Tuberculoid and lepromatous, treat with dapsone and rifampin and clofazimine mycobacterium leprae
mycobacterial infection; associated with AIDS, waxy mycolic acid Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare
Buruli ulcer, waxy mycolic acid, teat with skin grafts Mycobacterium ulcerans
acne propionobacterium acnes
pulmonary, cutaneous infections, pneumonia, mycetoma, Partially acid-fast to acid-fast soil bacilli; may cause a TB-like disease. Nocardia ateroides
dental caries, Anaerobic gram-positive filamentous soil bacilli; oral opportunists. actinomyces
most common organism on the skin; oportunistic staphylococcus epidermidis
Responsible for food poisoning in cooked foods such as rice, beans, and potato dishes. Symptoms like Staphylococcal food poisoning. bacillus cereus
Produces bacitracin B. subtilis
Causes epidemics of swine erysipelas. Erysipeloid is characterized by dark red lesions that burn and itch. Treated with penicillin or erythromycin. Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
TB-like disease (milder) Mycobacterium Kansasii
Post-surgical skin infections Mycobacterium fortuitum
Localized skin infections, swimming pool granuloma Mycobacterium marinum
Scrofula (ulcerating, draining cervical lymph nodes Mycobacterium scrofulaceum
Filamentous branching gram-positive soil bacilli; make most of our antibiotics. Streptomyces
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