Microorganisms
What are microorganisms?
A microorganism is any living thing that can be seen only from the help of a microscope, they can harm us or help us.
What is caught by Sexual contact, causes frothy vaginal discharge, itching, dysuria
Diagnosed by Wet mount, NAAT, culture
Adhesins, cytotoxic enzymes, immune evasion
and treated with Metronidazole or tinidazole
What is
Trichomonas vaginalis?
Candida spp.
What causes yeast infections?
Mrs. Hall was cooking chicken, Charlotte sneaks into the kitchen and eats the chicken. A few hours later Charlotte gets sick, and Mrs. and Mr. Hall are confused. What caused her to get sick?
Charlotte got sick from the bacteria in the raw chicken.
Causes chicken pox AND shingles
What is varicella-zoster virus
How do Microorganisms help us?
Microorganisms help us by rising our bread, producing oxygen, and are great nutrient recyclers.
Causes African sleeping sickness
vector transmission - Tsetse fly bite
Trypanosoma brucei
If I make cookie dough and then eat it would I get sick, and how would I get sick?
I would get sick from the raw eggs in the cookie dough giving me salmonella.
HSV 1
What causes cold sores?
How are Microorganisms harmful?
Some microorganisms cause diseases throughout foods. Some diseases consist of salmonella, poultry, and so on.
Causes Chagas disease, transmitted by Reduviid bug feces, congenital, transfusion
What is Trypanosoma cruzi?
Causes a bull's eye rash.
What is Lyme disease
Borrelia burgdorferi
HSV 2
What causes genital herpes?
You can find microorganisms almost anywhere.
Causes Malaria, virulence factors include antigenic variation.
What is Plasmodium falciparum?
(other Plasmodium species are acceptable answers)
Causes Syphilis
Sexual contact, vertical (transplacental)
What is Treponema pallidum?
HIV
What causes AIDS?
Live on and in your body without causing disease
What are normal flora or normal microbiota?
Causes Amoebiasis caught by Ingestion of cysts (contaminated food/water) symptoms = Bloody diarrhea, liver abscess
Entamoeba histolytica
Causes peptic ulcers treatable with, gastric cancer
Oral-oral or fecal-oral (poor hygiene), can be treated with antibiotics such as tetracycline
What is the bacteria Helicobacter pylori?
Can cause microcephaly (little head baby)
Zika virus