Diagnoses
Since Mycoplasmas are hard to grow in culture, how are they found?
Equally answer valid;
NAAT, Serology, Chest Xray in cases of Wakling pneumonia (apocryphal), patient history
Which bacteria (with no cell wall) causes chronic lung disease in premature infants and is considerednormal flora of the vaginal tract?
What is Ureaplasma urealyticum?
What is the reservoir of infection for Bartonella henselae?
What are cats (especially cats with fleas)?
What is a laboratory that is capable of analyzing or referring specimens or samples that may contain microbiology agents or biological toxins?
What is the sentinel laboratory?
This bacteria has no cell wall and grows very slowly and requires special nutrients to grow in vitro
What is Mycoplasma?
This bacteria will not grow outside of a human or animal and so it's diagnoses is performed by Darkfield Microscopy when the patient is in the primary or secondary phase of infection and has lesions.
What is Treponema Pallidum?
This obligate intracellular bacteria causes abrupt febrile disease and spreads rapidly to the tissues. It is considered a potential bioterrorism agent because of it's contagious nature
What is Coxiella burnetii or Q fever?
What is the reservoir of Chlamydia psittaci?
What are birds? (Parrots especially)
What is the laboratory that confirms or rules out suspected bioterrorism agents?
What is the reference laboratory (or public health laboratory)?
This obligate intracellular bacteria is passed from mother to baby tick and therefore the vector of infection is also the reservoir of infection?
What is Ricketsiaa ricketsii (or causative agent of Rocky Mountain Spotted fever)?
How is Rickettsia typhi diagnosed?
What is the Wells- Felix test?
What group of Bacteria cause rash and vasculitis and are passed to humans by the bite of an arthropod?
What are Rickettsii?
What is the reservoir for Rickettsia prowazeckii? This is the name of the bacteria that causes epidemic typhus.
What are humans?
Name at least two Tier 1 agents of bioterrorism.
What are botulism neurotoxins, Ebola virus, Francisella tularensis, Marburg virus, Bacillus anthracis, Burholderia mallei and B. psudomallei, Yersinia pestis, Bacillus anthracis, Variola Major virus (smallpox)
This spirochete likes tropical climates and is retained in the environment by the urine of it's natural reservoir
What is Leptospira?
How is Anaplasma diagnosed?
Look for morulae (whihc are dividing bacteria) in the hematopoietic cell line? (RBC, WBC)
This spirochete causes scaling papules and then erthematous rash
What is Treponema caretum (or Yaws)?
What is the reservoir for Rickettsia ricketssii? This is the causative agent of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever?
What are Dermacentor ticks?
What virus was declared eradicated and yet because certain countries have stored stocks of the virus it remains on the list of Tier 1 agents.
What is smallpox virus (Variola major and minor)?
This spirochete likes to infect joints and causes a bullseye rash at the site of innoculation (called erythema migrans).
What is Borrelia burgderferi (or Lyme disease)?
This bacteria is diagnosed by seeing the actual organism outside cells in a peripheral blood smear
What is Borellia recurentsis?
This spirochete can cause kidney damage, meningitis, liver failure, and respiratory distress and is associated with the urine of it's natural reservoir
What is Leptospirosis?
What oligate intracellular bacteria have dogs and deer as the natural reservoir of infection
What is Ehrlichia?
What is the agent of bioterrorism that was used by the Germans in World War 1 against horses? It is a gram negative rod.
What is Burkholderia mallei?
This bacteria will divide for 2-15 days after exposure to a new host and then there will be a massive spirochetemia. Once the patient developes antibodies to fight off the infection, the bacteria changes their antigens and the process starts all over again. What is the name of that bug?
What is Borrelia recurentsis?