Microbiology Gram Bacteria

Produces endospores; causes botulism

• Clostridium tetani

• Clostridium perfringens

• Clostridium botulinum

Produces endospores; causes tetanus; produces powerful neurotoxin

• Clostridium tetani

• Clostridium botulinum

• Clostridium perfringens

Small bacillus rods are usually gram ______.

Treponema pallidum causes

• Syphilis

• Lyme disease

• Pneumonia

Produces endospores; causes anthrax

• Bacillus

• Clostruidium tetani

• Clostridum perfingens

Causes diptheria

• Neisseria meningiditis

• Bacillus

• Corynebacterium

What shape are gram negative cocci?

• Staphylococcus

• Coffee bean diplococci

• Streptococcus

Klebsiella

• Produces capsules; causes pneumonia

• Causes typhoid fever

• Causes food poisoning

Produces endospores; causes gas gangrene, produces a toxin toxic to cells

• Clostridium tetani

• Neisseria gonorrhoeae

• Clostridium perfringens

Borrelia burgdorferi causes

• Syphilis

• Lyme disease

• Infections in the ear and nose

Where is Pseudomonas commonly found?

• Burn patients

• Those with STDs

• Adolesence adults

Shigella causes

• Pneumonia

• Food poisoning

• Dysentery

Gonorrhoeae is:

• Gram negative bacilli

• Gram positive cocci

• Gram negative cocci

Normal flora of colon; causes infections when found anywhere else

• Enterobacter

• E. coli

• Klebsiella

Causes infections primarily in the urinary system

• Bacteriodes

• Shigella

• Proteus

Normal flora in nasal and oral areas

• Neisseria species

• Clostridium species

• Neisseria meningiditis

Legionnella causes

• UTI

• Pneumonia

• Severe diahrrea

There is 1 anaerobic bacteria in Gram negative bacilli.

• True

• False

Large bacillus rod is usually gram ____.

Facultative anaerobes for gram negative bacilli includes:

• Pallidum

• Cholera

• Enteric flora

Neisseria gonorrhoeae is

• Aerobic

• Anaerobic

• Facultative aerobe

Mycoplasma is the largest group able to survive extracellulary.

• True

• False

Normal flora in the GI tract and genital area; causes post-operative infections, bacteremia, and abscesses

• Bacteriodes

• E. coli

• Proteus

What microscope is used to see Vibrio cholera?

• Light microsope

• Flourescent microscope

• Scanning electron microscope

Pseudomonas causes:

Vibrios is what shape?

Pseudomonas and Legionnella are:

Mycoplasma are the only group that does not make____.

Spirochetes cause

Salmonella, Shigells, E. coli, Klebsiella, Proteus, and Enterobacter are:

Salmonella causes:

Enterobacter is

What does cholera effect?