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The cause of the disease known as the plague.
What is Yersinia?
The anatomical site for taking a culture swab specimen in suspected gonococcal infection in a male patient.
What is the urethral meatus?
This is injected into the epidermis to detect tuberculosis disease or exposure to it
What is purified protein derivative.
The age groups in which the respiratory pertussis infection is most dangerous.
What is infants under 6 months of age?
This disease has developed drug-resistant forms that require long-term and expensive antibiotic therapy
What is tuberculosis?
This is the direct route of transmission of congenital syphilis from mother to neonate
What is transplacental?
A slow-growing bacterial or fungal infection involving the subcutaneous tissues most commonly of the foot or leg
What is mycetoma
A long, thin, snake-like or coiled, motile bacteria
What is Spirochetes?
The genus for the species of pathogen that causes typhoid fever
What is Salmonella?
The term that refers to the types of combinations of bacterial species seen in periodontal disease.
What is polymicrobial?
This pathogen is a frequent cause of healthcare-associated infections and easily identifiable in lab cultures due to its production of a fruity odor
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
Ectopic pregnancy may be a result of adhesions in this anatomical area and caused by gonococcal pelvic inflammatory disease (PID)
What is fallopian tube?
Individuals with this disease have no signs or symptoms of the disease and are not contagious
What is latent TB?
The male anatomical area where the gonococcal infection primarily develop
What is the urethra?
The destruction of facial features resulting in a lion-like appearance is a sign of this disease
What is leprosy?
The genus in the Gamma class of Proteobacteria is the cause of the acute gastrointestinal disease cholera
What is vibrio?
A potentially life-threatening, difficult to treat, Carbapenem-resistant family of pathogens have been linked to infections following upper endoscopy procedures
What is Enterobacteriaceae?
The Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (NAAT) was developed as a rapid screening test for this type of infection
What is gonorrhea?
The term that describes the property of being capable of infecting insects as identified in some species of the genus Chromobacterium
What is entomopathogenic?
A number of species in this genus are distinctive because of a characteristic “dust bunny” appearance and sometimes mistaken for fungi
What is Actinomyces?
An ancient, feared disease described in historical literature that caused those infected to be shunned and isolated from society
What is leprosy?
This bacterial genus translates to “blood-loving”, and its facultative anaerobic species require X factor and/or V factor present in blood for metabolism
What is Haemophilus?
This genera is normally found in the GI tract, but also an opportunistic pathogen responsible for various healthcare-associated infections as well as a less common infection referred to as rhinoscleroma
What is Klebsiella?
Interferon-Gamma Release Assays are whole-blood tests used for diagnosis of which type of infection.
What is tuberculosis?
This member of the Endobacteriaceae family is able to survive in very dry environments and has been linked to outbreaks due to contaminated dry powdered formula for infants as well as in other powdered foods
What is Cronobacter sakazakii?