Question | Answer |
What does H. influenzae cause? | Hemophilus- respirTORY INFECTION |
wHAT IS THE NAME OF THE IMMUNIZATION GIVEN TO prevent infection with H. influenzae? | HIB- Hemophilus influenzae type b |
What does H. ducreyi cause | soft chancre or chamcrorid |
What does H. aegyptius cause? | pinkeye or conjuncturitis |
What does Gardnerella vaginalis cause? | BV-bacterial vaginois or NGV- ningonococcol vrithritis cause? |
What are "clue cells" | gram stains(gs) of vaginal discharge squamonis cells covered with tiny gram neg. bacilli |
What does Bordetella pertussis cause/ | WHOPPING Cough |
What does the "P" in the DPT immunize against? | Pertussis |
What are enteric bacilli? | inhibit or causes disease in the intestine |
What are the characteristics that all Enterobacteriaceae have? | gram neg. bacilli, aerobic, motile or non-motile, ovidase neg.,ferment glucose |
What grows on an EMB plate | eosinmethylene blue, lactose(sugar) gram neg. bacilli |
What is inhibited from growing on EMB? | gram postive |
EMB what do colonies that ferment lactose look like | a dark purple center |
On EMB what do colonies that do not ferment lactose look like? | colorless center |
What does Eacherichia coli look like on EMB? | a lacktose postive and a metalic machine |
What can E.coli cause? | UTI, pyelonephritis-infection of the kidney, infant diarrhea severe or fatal |
How is E. coli used in a coliform count? | It indicates the fical contamination of water |
What does Shigella dysenteriae cause? | painful intestine, painful diarrhea with blood and mucus |
Where does Shigella primarily cause disease | intestine |
How is Shigella transmitted? | The 5 F's- fingers, food, fly, feces,fomites |
What does oral-fecal route mean? | from the feces of the patient or carrier into the mouth of the victom |
What does Salmonella typhosa cause? | typhoid fever |
How is S. typhosa transmitted? | the five f's -finger, food, flys, feces, and fomites |
Patients become carriers because S. typhosa may localize in which organs? | kidneys or gallbladder |
What does a person ingest that causes Salmonella food poisoning? | a large number of salmonella organisms from other animal and speces |
What foods are associated with Salmonella food poisoning? | poultry and egg |
What organism "swarms" over the agar surface? | porteus |
What does Proteus cause? | normal flora intestine, causes UTI |
How does Klebsiella pneumoniae appear on EMB? | lactose postive and mucoid |
What does K. pneumoniae cause? | pneumonia in weakened patient, UTI, wound infection |
Why are infections caused by Serratia marcescens serious? | resistant to antibiotics |
What does Serratia cause? | surigical wound infection, pneumonia in weakened patient |