Pathogens-Diseases – Flashcards
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| Bacillus anthracis |
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| Anthrax |
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| Bordetella pertussis |
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| Whooping cough |
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| Borrelia burgodorferi |
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| Lyme disease, relapsing fever |
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| Campylobacter jejuni |
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| Dysentery |
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| Chlamydophila pneumoniae |
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| Pneumonia |
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| Chlamydia trachomatis |
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| Urethritis (nongonococcal), Pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) |
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| Clostridium botulinium |
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| Botulism; wound botulism |
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| CLostridium difficile |
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| Diarrhea, nosocomial |
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| Clostridium perfrinigens |
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| Gas gangrene, goastoenteritis |
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| Clostridium tetani |
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| Tetanus |
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| Corynebacterium diptheriae |
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| Diptheria |
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| Coxiella burnetti |
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| Q fever |
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| Ehrlichia spp. |
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| Ehrlichiosis |
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| Enterobacter spp. |
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| Nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections |
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| Enterococcus spp. (faecalis, faecium) |
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| most common cause of surgical wound infections, nosocomial sepsis |
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| Escherichia coli |
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| gastroenteritis, enterotoxigenic, enteroinvasive, and enterohemorrhagic; traveler's diarrhea/montezuma's revenge. Nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections |
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| Haemophilius influenzae |
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| Meningitis, bacteremia, epiglottitis or pneumonia |
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| Helicobacter pylori |
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| Ulcer (Gastric and duodenal) stomach cancer |
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| Klebsiella pneumoniae |
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| pneumonia, most common cause of surgical wound infections |
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| Legionella pneumophila |
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| Legionellosis |
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| Mycobacterium leprae |
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| Leprosy (Hansen's disease) |
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| Mycobacterium tuberculosis |
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| Tuberculosis |
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| Mycoplasma pneumonia |
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| pneumonia (mycoplasmal) |
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| Neisseriae gonorrhoea |
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| Gonorrhea |
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| Neisseriae meningitidis (menningococcus) |
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| Meningitis (meningocococcal) |
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| Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
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| Nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections, dermatitis, otitis externa, urinary tract infections, burns; can cause septicemia, abcesses, and meningitis. |
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| Rickettsia ricettsii |
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| Rocky Mountain spotted fever |
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| Salmonella enterica |
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| Food poisoning (salmonellosis) |
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| Salmonella typhi |
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| Typhoid fever |
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| Shigella sonnei |
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| Dysentery (Shigellosis) |
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| Staphylococcus aureus (coagulase+, beta hemolytic) |
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| Most common cause of nosocomial pneumonia, MRSA accounts for 52.3% of S. aureus nosocomial infections. |
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| Staphylococcus epidermidis |
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| most important cause of nosocomial sepsis. May also cause acute bacterial endocarditis. |
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| Streptococcus pneumoniae |
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| Pneumonia (pneumococcal) meningitis (pneumococcal), otitis media; nosocomial pneumonia and wound infections |
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| Streptococcus pyogenes (group A beta-hemolytic streptococci) |
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| Strep throat (may be accompanied by scarlet fever or rheumatic fever), impetigo, otitis media, and erysipelas.) Also causes pneumonia, bacteremia in association with cutaneous infection, deep soft-tissue infection, cellulitis, myositis, necrotizing fascitis, meningitis, peritonitis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, puerperal fever, neonatal sepsis, and nonfocal bacteremia. |
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| Treponema pallidum |
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| Syphillis |
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| Vibrio cholerae |
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| Gastroenteritis, Vibrio Non-O:1 |
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| Yersinia pestis |
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| Bubonic Plague |
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| Aspergillus flavus |
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| Aflatoxin poisoning may contribute to cirrhosis and liver cancer, also may cause serious repiratory infection |
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| Blastomyces dermatidis |
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| Blastomycosis- respiratory infection resembles bacterial pnemonia, may spread from lungs, causing severe abcesses |
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| Candida albicans |
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| opportunistic, Usually affects mucous membranes or moist areas of skin. Thrush in infection of oral mucosae. Vaginitis is infection of vaginal mucosae |
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| Coccidiodies immitis |
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| Coccidiodomycosis- progressive disease resembles T.B. |
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| Cryptococcus neoformans |
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| Cryptococcosis- severe meningitis |
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| Histoplasma capsultum |
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| Histoplasmosis- respiratory, usually subclinical, resembles T.B. if progressive |
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| Ascaris lumbricoides |
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| Ascariasis |
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| Echinonococcus granulosus |
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| Hydatid disease |
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| Necator americanus |
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| Hookworms |
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| Schistosoma sp. |
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| Schistomiasis |
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| Taenia saginata (beef) |
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| Tapeworm infection |
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| Prion |
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| Spongiform encephalitis |
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| Crptosporidium parvum |
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| Dysentery: Cryptosporidiosis |
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| Entamoeba histoltica |
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| Dysentery: Amoebiasis |
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| Giadia intestinalis |
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| Dysentery: Giardiasis |
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| Leishmania sp |
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| Leshmaniasis |
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| Naegleria fowleri |
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| Meningoencephalitis |
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| Plasmodium sp (P. falciparum, P. vivax, P. malariae, P.ovale) |
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| Malaria |
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| Toxoplasma gondii |
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| Toxoplasmosis |
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| Trichomonas vaginalis |
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| Trichomonoiasis (vaginitis) |
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| Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense, T.B. gambiense |
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| African trypanosomiasis |
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| Trypanosoma cruzi |
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| Chaga's disease, American trypanosomiasis |
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| Ebola virus (a filovirus) |
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| Hemorrhagic fever, viral |
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| Epstein-Barr virus (HHV-4) |
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| infectious mononucleosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma |
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| Hepatits A virus |
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| Hepatitis infection |
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| Hepatitis C virus |
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| Hepatitis, serum |
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| Herpes simplex 1 |
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| cold sores, may cause genital herpes depending on transmission |
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| Human immunodeficiency virus |
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| AIDS |
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| Influenza virus |
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| Influenza: types A, B, and C. Segemented genome allows extensive recombination leading to antigenic changes. Transmitted by inhalation, infects respiratory mucosa, allows secondary bacterial infections to occur after epithelial denudation |
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| Lassa fever virus |
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| Hemorrhagic fever, viral; Lassa fever |
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| Marburg virus |
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| Hemorrhagic fever, viral |
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| Measles virus |
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| Red measles (rubeola), subacute sclerosing panencephalitis |
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| Pappilomavirus spp. |
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| Warts, including genital warts |
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| Poliovirus |
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| poliomyelitis |
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| Rabies virus (Lyssavirus) |
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| Rabies |
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| Rhinovirus |
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| Common cold |
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| Rotavirus |
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| Gastroenteritis |
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| Rubivirus |
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| Rubella (German measles), Congenital rubella syndrome |
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| Varicella zoster (HHV-3) |
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| Chicken Pox (varicella), shingles (herpes zoster) |
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| Variola major |
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| Smallpox, (pox-vesicopustular skin eruptions) |
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| Yellow fever virus (flavivirus, an arbovirus) |
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| Hemorrhagic fever, viral; Yellow Fever |
