Pathogens-Diseases – Flashcards

Unlock all answers in this set

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