Shigella
This disease is a descriptive name for Shigellosis.
Bacillary dysentry
Bubonic and pneumonic.
Salmonella causes salmonellosis and this disease.
Typhoid fever.
This three letter acronym describes the basic characteristics of E. coli.
GNR (Gram negative rods)
All newborn children have this condition.
Colorblindness.
The epithelial cells of this part of the large intestine are victim to the spread of pathogenic Shigella.
Colon
Fleas.
Salmonella bacteria is covered in flagella and thus this descriptor.
Peritrichous.
E. coli appears this color on eosin methylene blue (EMB) agar.
Green with a metallic sheen.
This human body part cannot feel pain.
Brain.
Shigella causes this symptom in the epithelial cells of the colon.
Abscess.
In the case of the bubonic plague, Yersinia pestis enters the body and replicates in this important structure in the immune system.
Lymph nodes.
This types of animals and their eggs are common sources of Salmonella.
Poultry/birds.
E. coli has this classification of the hemolysis.
Beta-hemolytic
Shigella is unable to move on its own and thus a ____ pathogen.
Nonmotile.
Typhoid fever has this important organism as its own only host.
Humans.
More virulent strains of E. coli have virulent plasmids that code for these virulence factors.
Fimbriae, adhesins, exotoxins.
Fecal-oral transmission of Shigellosis occurs via these five F's.
Food, fingers, feces, flies, and fomites.
or
Fluids, fingers, food, fields, and flies.
As an enteric bacteria, Yersinia pestis does not ferment lactose, but it does ferment this substance.
Mannitol.
This antigen is a capsular antigen produced primarily by Salmonella typhi.
Vi antigen.
Of all E. coli strains, this strain is the most prevalent pathogenic strain.
E. coli 0157:H7