Microbiology

bats,balls and screws

100

I exist in a cluster of sphere shaped organisms

Staphlococcus

200

I appear as a chain of rods

streptobacilli

300

I usually look like a comma

vibrio

400

some say that I look like a screw

spirochette

500

I am round, and if there are two of me I am called a 

diplococcus

procaryotes

100

I am a bacilli, I am spore-forming, an anaerobes, found in soil, and capable of causing gas gangrene.

Clostridium perfringens

200

The bacteria that are spherical, appear in clusters, and the most common cause of post-op wound infections are:

Staphylococcus aureus

300

Normal flora of the intestinal tract includes?

Escherichia coli

400

I am a spirochette and I typically enter through the genitourinary tract, my name is ________________ and I cause _______________________

Treponema pallidum, syphilus 

500

I am typically the organism commonly found during necrotizing facitis or commonly known as "flesh eating bacteria"

Streptococcus pyogenes

water bugs

100

I am unicellular, take my food in solid particles, my motility is due to either flagella or cilia, I live in water or soil.

Protazoa

200

The disease I cause is "Amebic dysentery", I am  _____________

Entamoeba histolytica

300

I am transmitted by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito or by a contaminated needle or blood transfusion. 

Malaria

400

Hikers and backpackers are usually who I love to infect, I am transmitted by drinking water that is contaminated with _______________

Giardia

500

I am transmitted during sexual intercourse or from contaminated exam instruments, or even contaminated towels.  

Trichomonas vaginalis

Vectors

100

I cause Rocky Mountain spotted fever and I am carried by ticks.

Rickettsia rickettsii

200

My name is Rickettsia typhi and I am caused by 

Fleas

300

I am caused by lice, I can cause epidemic typhus, my name is 

Rickettsia prowazeki

400

I can only live and grow within living cells, therefore I am considered a 

Parasite

500

As a Rickettsiae, I am smaller than most bacteria, but larger than _____________

viruses

I will have a Corona

100

I include diseases such as small pox, chicken pox, measles and herpes.  Therefore, I am considered a ______________ viral disease. 

Dermotropic

200

My diseases include the common cold, influenza, infectious mononucleosis and viral pneumonia.  I am considered a ____________ viral disease. 

pneumotrophic

300

I am polio, rabies, and encephalitis.  I am considered 

Neurotrophic viral diseases

400

I typically affect a specific organ, such as the liver, or parotic glands, I am known as a 

Viscerotropic viral disease

500

I can attack your entire immune system. I am called a/an ___________ viral disease. 

Immunotrophic