bacteria naturally in the environment, usually in water. The bacteria grow best in warm water.
What is a legionella ?
100
15-40 %
What is the fatal rate?
100
rod shaped
What is bacillus
100
illness that effects several organs or tissue of the body or the body as a whole
What is a systemic disease?
200
vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and abdominal pain
What are gastrointestinal symptoms?
200
place that had the first case of legionella
What is the American Legion (convention) ?
200
2-10 days
What is an incubation period
200
thin cell wall with an outer membrane/extra layer
What is gram negative ?
200
single cell aquatic and parasitic protozoa
What is an amoebae
300
dry at first, later producing phlegm
What is coughing?
300
Domestic (potable water) plumbing systems, cooling towers, and warm, stagnant
What is contaminated water ?
300
about 25,000 cases each year
What is morbidity
300
ability to resist destruction when under high temperatures
What is heat resistance
300
carbon and energy source for legionella bacteria that is also decreased in the human body when the illness is present ; important for human structures
What are amino acids
400
inflammation of the alveoli due to infection with bacteria, viruses, toxins, or irritants
What is pneumonia?
400
travels in droplet nuclei and can remain for hours or days
What is airborne?
400
about 4,000 of these each year from legionella
What is mortality
400
16 months in extreme conditions
What is viability
400
antibiotics that include azithromycin, erythromycin, and clarithromycin
What are macrolides?
500
milder infection similar to legionella in symptoms which last 2-5 days and does not consist of pneumonia
What is Pontiac fever?
500
disease that attacks individuals who have an underlying illness or weakened immune system.
What is an opportunistic microbe
500
conducts critical science and provides health information that protects our nation against expensive and dangerous health threats, and responds when these arise.
What is the CDC ?
500
can remain for long periods of time in places without food
What is low nutrient environment ?
500
make catalase to deactivate the peroxide radicals, thus allowing them to survive unharmed within the host