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Matching Micro clinicals: Bacteria and disease.

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Bordetella pertusis   Whooping cough  
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Borrelia burgdorferi   Lyme disease  
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Brucella abortus   Brucellosis; profuse sweating and joint and muscle pain  
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Brucella canis   Brucellosis; profuse sweating and joint and muscle pain  
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Brucella melitensis   Brucellosis; profuse sweating and joint and muscle pain  
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Campylobacter jejuni   Acute enteritis  
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Chlamydia pneumoniae   Community-acquired respiratory infection  
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Chlamydia trachomatis   Trachoma, nongonococcal urethritis, lymphogranuloma venereum, inclusion conjuctivitis of the newborn  
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Chlamydia psittaci   Psittacosis  
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Clostridium botulinum   Botulism  
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Clostridium difficile   Pseudomembranous colitis  
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Clostridium perfringens   Gas gangrene, acute food poisoning, anaerobic cellulitis  
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Clostridium tetani   Tetanus  
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae   Diphtheria  
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Enterococcus faecalis   Nosocomial infections; endocarditis and bacteremia, urinary tract infections (UTI), meningitis, etc.  
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Enterococcus faecium   Nosocomial infections; neonatal meningitis or endocarditis.  
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Escherichia coli   UTI, diarrhea, meningitis in infants.  
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Francisella tularensis   Tularemia  
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Haemophilus influenzae   Bacterial meningitis, URTI, pneumonia, bronchitis  
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Helicobacter pylori   Peptic ulcer, gastric carcinoma, gastric B-cell lymphoma  
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Legionella pneumophila   Legionnaire's disease, pontiac fever  
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Leptospira interrogans   *Leptospirosis: headaches, muscle pains, fevers,bleeding from the lungs or meningitis. *Weil's disease: kidney failure and bleeding; *Pulmonary haemorrhage syndrome: If lots of bleeding from the lungs it is known as severe.  
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Listeria monocytongenes   *Listeriosis: causes infections of the central nervous system (meningitis, meningoencephalitis, brain abscess, cerebritis) and bacteremia in those who are immunocompromised, pregnant, or newborns and the elderly; can cause gastroenteritis.  
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Mycobacterium leprae   Leprosy, also called Hansen's disease.  
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis   Tuberculosis.  
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Mycobacterium ulcerans   Buruli ulcer; forms most often on arms and legs; toxin mycolactone can impair immune system and lead to death.  
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae   Mycoplasma pneumonia  
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae   Gonorrhea, opthalmia neonatorum, septic arthritis.  
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Neisseria meningitidis   Meningococcal disease and Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome  
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa   Pseudomonas infection  
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Rickettsia rickettsii   Rocky mountain spotted fever  
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Salmonella typhi   Typhoid fever type salmonellosis; causes dysentary and colitis.  
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Salmonella typhimurium   Salmonellosis with gastroenteritis and enterocolitis.  
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Shigella sonnei   Bacillary dysentery/Shigellosis  
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Staphylococcus aureus   Coagulase-Pos staphylococcal infections; toxic shock syndrome, staphylococcal food poisoning  
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Staphylococcus epidermidis   Forms biofilm on prosthesis like heart valves and catheters; Risk for dialysis patients; can lead to endocarditis and sepsis.  
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Staphylococcus saprophyticus   Cystitis in women.  
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Streptococcus agalactiae   Meningititis and septicemia in neonates; endometritis in postpartum women; Opportunistic speticemia and pneumonia.  
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Streptococcus pneumoniae   Otitis media and sinusitis in children; acute bacterial pneumonia and meningitis in adults.  
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Streptococcus pyogenes   Scarelet fever; Rheumatic fever; Impetigo and erysipelas; Puerperal fever; Necrotizing fasciitis; Streptococcal pharyngitis.  
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Treponema pallidum   Syphilis, congenital syphilis.  
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Vibrio cholerae   Cholera  
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Yersinia pestis   Bubonic plague, pneumonic plague  
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Yersinia enterocolitica   Yersiniosis  
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Yersinia pseudotuberculosis   Far East scarlet-like fever  
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Escherichia coli 0157:H7   Hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic-uremic syndrome  
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