Bacteriological Pathologies

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These are the diseases caused by specific bacteria.


 
  
Created Oct 15, 2009
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Staphlococcus aureus
 
Eye, brain, heart, lung, skin, bone, joint, soft tissues; food poisoning, toxic shock syndrome,...
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Pseudomonas
 
UTI, pneumonia, wounds, burns, eye
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Escherichia coli
 
UTI, pneumonia, wounds, burns, eye
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KES (Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Serratia)
 
UTI, pneumonia, wounds, burns, eye
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Staphlococcus epidermidis
 
UTI, wounds, implants
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Enterococcus
 
UTI, heart wounds, blood.  Can also cause peritonitis.  Found in normal enteric flora.
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Pneumococcus
 
Middle ear, lung, meningitis.  Colonizes nasopharynx.  Causes pneumococcal pneumonia,...
8
Haemophilus influenza
 
Middle ear, epiglottitis, meningitis
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Neisseria gonorrhea
 
STD 
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Bacteriodes fragilis
 
Opportunistic spread, abscesses
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis
 
Tuberculosis.  Host immune response causes majority of damage, not actually the bacteria. ...
12
Staphlococcus saphrophyticus
 
UTI
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Streptococcus pyogenes
 
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, scarlet fever (causes pharyngitis), “strep throat”,...
14
Streptococcus agalactiae
 
Colonize upper respiratory tract, GU tract.  In neonates: Early-onset type (pneumonia,...
15
Streptococcus viridans
 
Colonize oropharynx, GI tract, GU tract.  Causes dental caries, subacute endocarditis,...
16
Corynebacterium diptheria
 
Diptheria toxin produced.  Exotoxin causes tissue necrosis and local inflammation. Respiratory...
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Nocardia
 
Bronchopulmonary disease, primary or secondary cutaneous infections, secondary CNS infections
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Rhodococcus equi
 
Common in patients who are immunocompromised.  Invasive pulmonary disease and dissemination...
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Bacillus anthracis
 
Cutaneous disease, GI disease (nearly 100% mortality if untreated), inhalation anthrax
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Bacillus cereus
 
Gastroenteritis, ocular infections, IV catheter-related sepsis
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Listeria monocytogenes
 
Neonates: granulomatosis infantiseptica (early-onset) or meningitis, meningoencephalitis, septicemia...
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Ersipelothrix rhusiopathiae
 
Erysipeloid infection (localized skin infection), septicemia
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Neisseria gonorrhea
 
Gonorrhea and gonococcemia.  Also: anorectal gonorrhea (prominent in homosexual males),...
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Neisseria meningitides
 
Colonizes nasopharynx of healthy people.  Causes meningitis and meningococcemia. ...
25
Eikenella corrodens
 
Colonizes human oropharynx.  Causes subacute endocarditis, sinusitis, meningitis, brain...
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Kingella kingae
 
Colonizes human oropharynx.  Causes septic arthritis in children.  Subacute endocarditis
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Moraxella catarrhalis
 
Commensal in human respiratory tract.  Causes meningitis, endocarditis, otitis media (3rd...
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Mycobacterium leprae
 
Causes 2 types of leprosy (chronic infection of skin and peripheral nerves): tuberculoid and...

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