Bacteria — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Rocky Mountain spotted fever

Answer: Ricketsia rickettsii

Extra: headache; fever; rash beginning in wrists and ankles, progresses to trunk, palms, and solesdoxycycline

Flashcard 2: epidemic typhus

Answer: Rickettsia prowazeckii

Extra: rash that begins centrally and spreads but spares palms and solesdoxycycline

Flashcard 3: Erlichiosis

Answer: Erlichia chaffeensis

Extra: monocytes with morula inclusions

Flashcard 4: Anaplasmosis

Answer: Anaplasma spp.

Extra: granulocytes with morula inclusions

Flashcard 5: Q fever

Answer: Coxiella burnetti

Extra: pneumonia

Flashcard 6: chlamydia

Answer: Chlamydia trachomatis

Extra: cytoplasmic inclusions on Geimsa stainazithromycin or doxycycline

Flashcard 7: Chlamydia trachomatis has a two-part life cycle: the infectious _____ body and the replicative _____ body.

Answer: elementary

Flashcard 8: Gardnerella vaginalis

Answer: variable

Extra: bacillibacterial vaginosismetronidazole

Flashcard 9: Rickettsia rickettsii

Answer:

Extra: Rocky Mountain spotted feverDermacentor tick

Flashcard 10: Rickettsi prowazekii

Answer:

Extra: epidemic typhuslouse