What are suppurative infections caused by S. pyogenes?
100
Diplococci that is common in the normal microflora and has a polysaccharide capsule.
What is Neisseria meningitidis
100
Fastidious organism that requires X (heme) and V (NAD) factors.
What is Haemophilus?
100
68 year old man is admitted to the hospital. He has a mucousy cough and persistent fever. After he is treated with a Penicillin derivative, he is sent home. After 48 hours he returns to the hospital with a swollen, red, pus-filled eye and the cough has returned. A sputum sample from the cough is a golden color and the sample shows a gram positive organism.
What is S. aureus secondary infection?
200
Something that can be observed by a person examining the patient, for instance a runny nose or a rash.
What is a sign?
200
M protein, hyaluronic acid capsule, DNase, and streptolysin O and S
What is Streptococcus pyogenes virulence factors?
200
Has two pathogenicity islands and a type II secretion system, replicates in the vacuole of macrophages
What is Salmonella?
200
A gram negative rod that produces pyocyanin and pyoverdin
What is Pseudomonas?
200
A women reports acute abdominal pain and cramps. She has a high fever and normal stool and urine output. Lab tests report no presence of immune cells in the stool but she does have pale eyelids and cheeks. She also has rust colored urine.
What is E. coli (UTI)?
300
Coagulase negative organism that is novobiocin resistant and is the 2nd leading cause of UTIs in young females
What is Staphylococcus saprophyticus?
300
Gram positive organism, characterized by alpha hemolysis, common in the microflora, susceptible to optochin, and leading cause of CAP.
What is S. pneumoniae?
300
E. coli that causes damage in the large intestine only, bloody diarrhea, and has the Shiga toxin
What is EHEC?
300
Gram negative, non-motile organism that is not a common human pathogen. A zoonotic disease frequently found in goats and is A BSL-3 organism. Intracellular pathogen that inhibits phagosome-lysosome fusion
What is Brucella?
300
A man with abdominal pain and cramps reports to the doctor. He has a high fever and experiences diarrhea with blood, leukocytes, and mucus.
What is EIEC (e. coli)?
400
Opportunistic pathogen that causes disease such as food poisoning, TSS, SSSS, carbuncles, impetigo, endocarditis, and UTI's.
What is Staphlococcus?
400
A non-encapsulated species of Bacillus that can cause food poisoning by producing an emetic and a diarrheal toxin.
What is Bacillus cereus?
400
Pathogenic species of Klebsiella that is an STD and may cause "painless" open sores
What is K. granulomatis?
400
A gram negative intracellular pathogen that often causes infection via inhalation of aerosols like water droplets.
What is Legionella?
400
A patient becomes ill after eating seafood from a market in South Asia. After laboratory tests, the lab determines that the causative agent is a curved rod with the Kanagwa hemolysin toxin.
What is V. parahemolyticus?
500
Exposure, attachment, invasion, colonization, cause disruption of normal flora
What are The 5 Steps of pathogenesis?
500
An organism with 4 subtypes and an A-B toxin introduced by a lysogenic phage that can cause respiratory disease with a pseudomembrane and cutaneous ulcers with a grey membrane.
What is Corynebacterium diphtheriae?
500
Gram negative facultative anaerobe that has a protein capsule, a T3SS, and is a strict pathogen
What is Yersinia pestis?
500
An organism that produces spores, then produces a toxin that is then absorbed into the blood stream, travels to the neuromuscular synapses and causes blurred vision, droppy eyelids, and difficulty swallowing and speaking.
What is C. botulinum?
500
A man becomes ill with gastrointestinal implications after eating undercooked jerk chicken in Jamaica. He has diarrhea that is bloody and the lab determines that the causative agent is a bacteria with a A-B toxin that has DNase activity. The symptoms last 5-7 days.