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Name that Pathogen!
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 4
06/09/2012

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Candida albicans

  • forms hyphae when invasive
  • normal flora of mouth, skin, and intestine
  • causes Candiasis (yeast infection) and thrush 
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Clostridium perfringens

  • Gram-positive rod
  • spore forming
  • anaerobic
  • causes gas gangrene 
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Mycosporum canis

  • vector is cats and dogs
  • causes Tinea (ringworm)
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Nisseria gonorrhoeae

  • STD
  • Gram-negative diplococci
  • intracellular
  • looks similar to Moraxella
  • non-capsulates
  • grows on chocolate agar under CO2 conditions
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Polio virus (Picornovirus)

  •  causes poliomyelitis
  • vaccine attenuated or killed
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Staphylococcus epidermidis

  • Gram-positive
  • catalase positive
  • does not ferment mannitol
  • novobiacin sensitive
  • diseases: opportunistic; UTI; infection of artificial joints; cathetar-related sepsis 
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Streptococcus pneumoniae

  • Gram-positive
  • diplococci
  • often capsulate
  • alpha-hemolytic
  • catalase negative
  • Otochin septible
  • disease: pneumonia; septicemia; meningitis 
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Treponema pallidum

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Campylobacter jejuni

  • Slender, curved, Gram-negative rods
  • diarrhea

 

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Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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Escherichia coli

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