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WVSOM -- SKIN -- Bacterial skin and soft tissue infections

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how do bathing habits affect bacterial infections?   too much antibactiral soap kills normal flora  
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who do bacteria help prevent infections by pathogens?   take up spaces on skin that could be taken by a pathogen  
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what colonizes dry areas?   gram - cocci and aerobic/anaerobic diphteroids  
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what colonizes moist areas?   faculatative and anaerobic gram-neg rods  
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why do bedridden patients tend to increase in gram-geg rods?   fiber nectin receptors become diminished which allows for gram-neg to grow; why opportunistic diseases occur in hospitals  
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what are the most frequent bacterial pathogens?   S aureus and S. pyogenes  
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what is propionibacterium acnes?   resident flora; gram + rods; clogs sebum and causes acne  
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S. epidermidis?   gram + cocci; resident flora  
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Waht is micrococcus sp?   gram + cocci; resident flora  
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What is corynecacterium sp?   Gram + rods; diphteroids; resident flora  
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What is lactobacillus?   gram positive rods; normal flora  
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what are commmon exogenous S. aureus infections?   abscesses, toxic shock adn bacteremia  
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what are frequent exogenous S. pyogenes infections?   cellulitis, lymphangitis  
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What exogenous infection does H. influenzae cause?   cellulitis  
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how is H. influenze seen under microscopy?   gram - rods  
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What exogenous infections does E. coli cause?   bed sores  
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What exogenous infections does C. perfringins caue?   gas gangrene  
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how is C. perfringins transmitted?   trauma. found in soil  
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what does Francisella tularensis cause?   tularemia (gram - rods)  
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what does P. aeruginosa cause/   hot tub infection  
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what does P. cepacia cause?   foot rot  
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waht does M. mariun cause?   "fish tank cellulitis" (acid fast)  
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what does M. leprae cause?   leprosy (acid-fast)  
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who do bacteria gain entry to cause exogenous infections?   entry thru tiny abrasions in skin; maceration helps gain excess; trauma; hosptial procedures; pressure injury; compromised blood supply; decubitous ulcer  
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what is maceration   moisture trapped against skin  
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what bacteria is seen in decubitus ulcer?   mixed infection of S. aureus, S. pyogenes adn enteric organism  
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What skin infection does H. influenza cause?   conjunctivites; early cellulitis  
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What is diabetic foot?   a mixed bacterial infection  
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what are some endogenous infections that result in skin rashes?   primary syphallis, diabetic foot, conjunctivitis, leprocy, meninococemia, secondary syphallis, rocky mountain spotted fever, gonococal septicemia, toxic shock, scarlet fever, sckaled skin  
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What bacteria is responsible for syphalis?   treponema pallidum  
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what skin problems does primary syphilis cause?   lesions  
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what is seen on the skin with lepracy   skin infections resulting in scaring  
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How does meningococcemia cause skin lesion?   from blood stream or by direct extension of an infection site deep within the tissues  
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Where is secondary syphillis most often seen?   prisons  
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what bacteria causes Gonococcal septicemia cause?   Neisseria gonnorrhoeae  
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what bacteria causes toxic shock?   S. aureus  
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what causes rash in toxic shock syndrome?   toxin release  
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what bacteria causes scarlet fever?   toxin from S. pyogenes  
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what causes scalded skin syndrome?   toxin form S. aureus  
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what skin problems are seen form noninfectious and secondary to septicemia or other sytemic infections?   hemorrhages and petechiae  
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What is the licial name for epidermal bacterial infections?   impetigo, folliculitis, ecthyma gangranosom  
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what bacteria causes impetigo?   grp A strep adn S. aureus  
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what bacteria causes folliculitis   a. aureus and P. aeruginosa  
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what bacteria causes ecthyma gangranossom?   P. aeruginosa  
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What skin in fectino is seen in the dermis?   erysipelas  
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what causes erysipelas?   grop A strep  
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What do absesses of the fat and dermis cause?   furuncle and carbuncle  
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what bacteria causes abscesses?   S. aureus  
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What bacteria cause cellulitis?   group A strep and/or S. aeureus  
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where is necrotizing fasciitis seen?   in fat and fascia  
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what bacteria causes necrotizing fascitis?   mixed anaerobic and faculative organisms; group A strep  
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what is myonecrosis?   infection of muscle (gas gangrene)  
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what bacteria causes clostidial myonecrosis?   C. perfringens  
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What is the most common skin disorder/   acne vulgaris  
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what causes acne vulgaris?   excessive sebum production secondary to androgen stimulation  
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What causes abnormal follicular plugging?   abnormal follicular keratinization  
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what is Erysipelas?   infection that rapidly invades adn spreads thru the lymph. Produces overlying skin streaking and regional lymph node swelling and tenderness; occurs most time on legs  
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what bacteria causes lymphangitis?   s. pyogenes  
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What does V. vulnificius cause?   hemorrhagic cellulitis  
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how do people get hemorrhagic cellulitis?   eating raw oysters  
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What causes streptococcal cellulitis?   S. pyogenes  
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what causes sycosis barbae?   S. aureus; infection of hairs of the beard  
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what is a carbuncle?   series of boils that have coalesced together  
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what is hidradentis suppurativa?   S. aureus infection of the apocrine sweat glands; usually in groin but can be in arm pits; apocrine glands swell and rupture  
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what is erythrasma?   corynebacterium minutissum; presents like candida and difficult to differentitate  
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What causes ecthyma gangranosum?   pseudomonas aeuginosa  
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what bacteria is tranfered from cat and dog bites?   Pasteurella multocida (gram - rods)  
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What is cat scratch fever?   Bartenella henselae (gram - aerobic rods); causes bacillary angiomatosis in Immunocompromised  
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what is bacillary angiomatosis?   knots of capillaries  
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