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Micro clin Matching2
Matching Micro clinicals: Bacteria and disease.
Question | Answer |
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Bordetella pertusis | Whooping cough |
Borrelia burgdorferi | Lyme disease |
Brucella abortus | Brucellosis; profuse sweating and joint and muscle pain |
Brucella canis | Brucellosis; profuse sweating and joint and muscle pain |
Brucella melitensis | Brucellosis; profuse sweating and joint and muscle pain |
Campylobacter jejuni | Acute enteritis |
Chlamydia pneumoniae | Community-acquired respiratory infection |
Chlamydia trachomatis | Trachoma, nongonococcal urethritis, lymphogranuloma venereum, inclusion conjuctivitis of the newborn |
Chlamydia psittaci | Psittacosis |
Clostridium botulinum | Botulism |
Clostridium difficile | Pseudomembranous colitis |
Clostridium perfringens | Gas gangrene, acute food poisoning, anaerobic cellulitis |
Clostridium tetani | Tetanus |
Corynebacterium diphtheriae | Diphtheria |
Enterococcus faecalis | Nosocomial infections; endocarditis and bacteremia, urinary tract infections (UTI), meningitis, etc. |
Enterococcus faecium | Nosocomial infections; neonatal meningitis or endocarditis. |
Escherichia coli | UTI, diarrhea, meningitis in infants. |
Francisella tularensis | Tularemia |
Haemophilus influenzae | Bacterial meningitis, URTI, pneumonia, bronchitis |
Helicobacter pylori | Peptic ulcer, gastric carcinoma, gastric B-cell lymphoma |
Legionella pneumophila | Legionnaire's disease, pontiac fever |
Leptospira interrogans | *Leptospirosis: headaches, muscle pains, fevers,bleeding from the lungs or meningitis. *Weil's disease: kidney failure and bleeding; *Pulmonary haemorrhage syndrome: If lots of bleeding from the lungs it is known as severe. |
Listeria monocytongenes | *Listeriosis: causes infections of the central nervous system (meningitis, meningoencephalitis, brain abscess, cerebritis) and bacteremia in those who are immunocompromised, pregnant, or newborns and the elderly; can cause gastroenteritis. |
Mycobacterium leprae | Leprosy, also called Hansen's disease. |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Tuberculosis. |
Mycobacterium ulcerans | Buruli ulcer; forms most often on arms and legs; toxin mycolactone can impair immune system and lead to death. |
Mycoplasma pneumoniae | Mycoplasma pneumonia |
Neisseria gonorrhoeae | Gonorrhea, opthalmia neonatorum, septic arthritis. |
Neisseria meningitidis | Meningococcal disease and Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Pseudomonas infection |
Rickettsia rickettsii | Rocky mountain spotted fever |
Salmonella typhi | Typhoid fever type salmonellosis; causes dysentary and colitis. |
Salmonella typhimurium | Salmonellosis with gastroenteritis and enterocolitis. |
Shigella sonnei | Bacillary dysentery/Shigellosis |
Staphylococcus aureus | Coagulase-Pos staphylococcal infections; toxic shock syndrome, staphylococcal food poisoning |
Staphylococcus epidermidis | Forms biofilm on prosthesis like heart valves and catheters; Risk for dialysis patients; can lead to endocarditis and sepsis. |
Staphylococcus saprophyticus | Cystitis in women. |
Streptococcus agalactiae | Meningititis and septicemia in neonates; endometritis in postpartum women; Opportunistic speticemia and pneumonia. |
Streptococcus pneumoniae | Otitis media and sinusitis in children; acute bacterial pneumonia and meningitis in adults. |
Streptococcus pyogenes | Scarelet fever; Rheumatic fever; Impetigo and erysipelas; Puerperal fever; Necrotizing fasciitis; Streptococcal pharyngitis. |
Treponema pallidum | Syphilis, congenital syphilis. |
Vibrio cholerae | Cholera |
Yersinia pestis | Bubonic plague, pneumonic plague |
Yersinia enterocolitica | Yersiniosis |
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis | Far East scarlet-like fever |
Escherichia coli 0157:H7 | Hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic-uremic syndrome |