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Acinetobacter baumanii
soil and water microbe, highly resistant, recently caused many nosocomial infections of wounds, lungs and urinary tract
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Brucellosis/undulant fever
zoonosis transmitted to humans from animals.products, causes severe fever, caused by Brucella abortus (from cattle) and Brucella suis (from pigs)
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pertussis/whooping cough
caused by Bordetella pertussis, an acute respiratory syndrome
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Legionella spp.
causes legionnaires' disease, pulmonary infections
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plague
zoonotic disease caused by Yersinia pestis
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Haemophilus influenzae
causes conjunctivitis (pinkeye) and bacterial meningitis in humans (like Nisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae), previously known as H, aegypticus
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coliform enterics
ferment lactose rapidly (within 48 hrs), Escherichia coli, Enterobacter, Klebsiella, Citrobacter, Serratia
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non-coliform enterics
non-lactose or slow fermenters, Proteus spp.
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True pathogenic enterics
Salmonella typhi (typhoid fever), Salmonella typhimurium, Shigella dysenteriae (dysentery and shigellosis), Salmonella enteritidis
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Treponema pallidum
Spirochete that causes the STD syphilis, form chancres in primary stage
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Vibro cholerae
comma shaped, cause cholera
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Borrelia burgdorferi
causes lyme disease, transmitted by Ixodes ticks, largest of the Spirochetes
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Campylobacter jejuni
leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide
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Rickettsia typhi
murine typhus
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Rickettsia prowazekii
epidemic typhus
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Rickettsia rickettsii
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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Chlamydia trachomatis
causes chlamydiosis
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