Bacteria and viruses
What is the primary symptom of endocarditits?
Heart murmur
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?
Bacteria that is normal skin flora, but can become an opportunistic infection
What is Staphylococcus epidermidis
Causes chicken pox AND shingles
What is varicella-zoster virus
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
tuberculosis
Causes African sleeping sickness
vector transmission - Tsetse fly bite
Trypanosoma brucei
Transmitted through mosquito bites, causes joint pain
Chikungunya
Bacteria that causes the plague (bubos)
Yersinia pestis
HSV 1
What causes cold sores?
Produces coagulase
Staphylococcus aureus
Causes Chagas disease, transmitted by Reduviid bug feces, congenital, transfusion
What is Trypanosoma cruzi?
Why Gram-positive bacteria survive on skin
Halotolerant (salt tolerant) due to thick peptidoglycan layer
Causes a bull's eye rash.
What is Lyme disease
Borrelia burgdorferi
HSV 2
What causes genital herpes?
Human papilloma virus
What causes warts and cancer
Causes Malaria, virulence factors include antigenic variation.
What is Plasmodium falciparum?
(other Plasmodium species are acceptable answers)
Immune evasion by Neisseria gonorrhoeae
antigenic variation or Opa protein or IgA protease
Causes Syphilis
Sexual contact, vertical (transplacental)
What is Treponema pallidum?
HIV
What causes AIDS?
Causes severe throat infections and skin diseases
What is Group A streptococci
Causes Amoebiasis caught by Ingestion of cysts (contaminated food/water) symptoms = Bloody diarrhea, liver abscess
Entamoeba histolytica
bacteria that causes tetanus
Clostridium tetani
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