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WHAT IS BACILLI:
a. Resistant to cold, heat, salt, pH extremes and bile b. Able to reproduce in cytoplasm of phagocyte c. Raw oysters (and other seafood) d. Primary reservoir is soil, water, animal intestines e. Listerioisis associated with dairy products, poultry, meat |
1. Listeria monocytogenes- Gram positive non-spore forming
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WHAT IS BACILLI:
is a local upper respiratory tract inflammatory infection. Sore throat, nausea, vomiting, swollen lymph nodes, pseudomembrane formation can cause asphyxiation |
1. Corynebacterium- C. diptheriae diptheria
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WHAT IS A BACILLI:
Acid-fast staining, strict aerobes, unique cell wall. Vaccines and Antibiotics. |
2. Mycobacterium
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WHAT IS THE PRIMARY CAUSE OF TUBERCULOSIS?
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a. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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WHAT IS PRIMARY TB?
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1. ID is 10 cells
2. After 3-4 weeks immune system attacks, forming tubercles, granulomas consisting of a central core containing bacilli surrounded by white blood cells 3. Tubercles can heal and form calcified bodies GRAM POSITIVE IRREGULAR NON SPORE FORMING BACILLI |
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WHAT IS SECONDARY TB?
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1. If patient doesn’t completely recover from primary TB, bacilli can reactivate.
2. more severe symptoms 3. mortality rate 60% GRAM POSITIVE IRREGULAR NON SPORE FORMING BACILLI |
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WHAT IS DISSEMINATED TB?
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1. During secondary TB, bacilli disseminate to regional lymph nodes, kidneys, long bones, genital tract, brain and meninges.
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WHAT CAUSES LEPROSY?
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b. Mycobacterium leprae
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WHAT ARE ISSUES WITH LEPROSY?
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1. Endemic regions
2. mechanism of transmission not fully understood 3. not highly virulent GRAM POSITIVE IRREGULAR NON SPORE FORMING BACILLI |
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WHAT IS FILAMENTOUS BACILLI?
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3. Actinomycetes-
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WHAT IS Filamentous bacilli ?
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MOSTLY SKIN INFECTIONS
ACTINOMYCETES GRAM POSITIVE IRREGULAR NON SPORE FORMING BACILLI |
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WHAT CAUSES pulmonary disease similar to TB?
& IS ALSO GRAM POSITIVE IRREGULAR NON SPORE FORMING BACILLI |
b. Nocardia brasilliensis-
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WHAT IS AN ADDITIONAL SYMPTOM OF CLOSTRIDIUM PERFRINGENES?
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also causes more mild food poisoning
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