-
Camplyobacter jejuni
- Gram negative spiral bacteria
- (microaerophilic)
- SX:
- painful spasms of the gastrointestinal processes with an urgent desire
- to evacuate to the bowels. Often mucous
- or blood alone are passed.
- Pathogenic, contaminated
- food
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Treponema
palladium
Syphilis
Gram negative spirochetes
- SX:
- painless red ulcer, a rash on the palms and soles, watery eyes, runny
- nose, aches and pains, blindness, stroke and insanity.
- Pathogenic, Sexually Transmitted
- Disease
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Borrelia burgdorferii
Lyme disease
Gram negative spirochetes
- SX: target lesion, flu like, heart
- and nervous system, paralysis
- Pathogenic, tick borne
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Legionella
pneumophilia
- Causative agent of Legionnaire’s
- disease and Pontiac Fever
Gram negative aerobic rods
- SX:
- muscle aches, headaches, fever, cough, SOB, CP and diarrhea
Lower respiratory tract infection
- Opportunistic and airborne
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Bordetella pertussis
Whooping cough
Gram negative aerobic rods
- SX:
- nasal congestion, spasms of violent coughing, vomiting and convulsions
- Pathogenic and communicable
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Gram negative aerobic rods
- SX: UTI, skin and lung infections, COPD, decubitus sores,
- tissue necrosis
- Loves burn patients, indicated in
- infections of burn patients
- Opportunistic, common in hospitals
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Vibrios and Enterobacteria
Gram negative facultative rods
Pathogenic
- Salmonella,
- Shigella, Escherichia, and Vibrio
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Fusobacterium
Gram negative anaerobic rods
- SX:
- tooth abscesses and periodontal disease, sepsis
- Opportunistic
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Neisseria
meningitides
- Gram negative cocci or a
- coccobaccilli (plump rods)
- SX: throbbing headache, fever, stiffness in neck
- and back
- Pathogenic, airborne
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Neisseria
gonorrheoae
Gram negative cocci or coccobaccilli
- SX:
- males- painful urination, thick pussy d/c
- women- painful urination and
- vaginal d/c
- Pathogenic, sexually
- transmitted
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Acinetobacter
baumanni v. lwoffi
- Gram negative cocci or
- coccobaccilli
- SX:
- infections acquired in hospital, UTI, skin and upper respiratory
- Opportunistic, grows in catheters
- and simple venous lines
- Gram Negative Bacteria
-
Chlamydia
- Very short little gram negative
- rods
SX: men- thin grey/white d/c penis
- women- increase vaginal d/c,
- painful urination, lower abdominal pain
- Doesn’t have the ability to
- synthesize own ATP, obligate intracellular parasite of other animals (humans)
- Pathogenic, sexually
- transmitted disease
- Transitional Bacteria
-
Rickettsia
Small gram negative rod
- Can’t synthesize own NAD, coenzyme
- A, obligate intracellular parasite
- Pathogenic, alternate between
- mammalian host and bloodsucking arthropods
- Transitional Bacteria
-
Mycoplasma
- Gram positive only because they
- take in dye
- Transitional- doesn’t hold stain
- well
Have no cell wall
PCN doesn’t work
- Pathogenic
- Transitional Bacteria
-
Staphylococcus
aureus- MRSA
- SX: diarrhea and
- vomiting, orthostatic blood pressure
- Pathogenic, food
- poisoning
- Gram Positive Bacteria
-
Streptococcus
pyogenes
- SX: orthostatic
- blood pressure, strep throat, red throat, film on throat with tiny hemorrhages,
- swollen and tender lymph-nodes in neck
- No antibiotic resistance
- Gram Positive Bacteria
-
Bacillus cereus (aka Bacillus thuringiensis)
- Gram positive
- endospore forming rod
- SX: emesis,
- nausea, diarrhea (food poisoning)
- Pathogenic, food
- poisoning associated with carbohydrates
- aka BT a natural
- insecticide
- Gram Positive Bacteria
-
Clostridium
perfringens
- Gram positive
- endospore forming rod
- SX: pain, edema, increase swelling in area,
- blackened necrotic tissue filled with bubbles of gas
- Opportunistic,
- anaerobic bacteria
- Gram Positive Bacteria
-
Corynebacterium
diphtheria
Causative agent of diphtheria
- Coryneforms are pleomorphic and
- considered acid -fast
- Non-spore forming, gram-positive
- club-shaped
- SX:
- mild sore throat and fever, fatigue, swelling of the neck and white/grey
- membrane forms on tonsils and throats, heart and kidney failure with paralysis
- may follow
- Pathogenic, exotoxin is
- secreted
- Gram Positive Bacteria
-
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Causative agent of tuberculosis
- Mycobacteria, gram positive and
- acid-fast rod
- SX:
- fever, weight-loss, cough, sputum production
- Respiratory pathogen
- Gram Positive Bacteria
-
Mycobacterium
avium intracellulare complex (MAC)
- causative agent of atypical
- tuberculosis in the ICP
- Mycobacteria, gram positive and
- acid-fast rod
- SX: chronic productive cough,
- develop lesions in lungs, drenching sweats, abdominal pain
- Opportunistic pathogen of ICP and
- AIDS patients
- Gram Positive Bacteria
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