Bacteria — Flashcards

Flashcard 21: Lyme disease

Answer: Borellia burgdorferi

Extra: flu-like symptoms, erythema migransdoxycycline or ceftriaxone

Flashcard 22: Weil's disease

Answer: Leptospira interrogans

Extra: jaundice, azotemia, fever, hemorrhage, anemiaaka icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis

Flashcard 23: leptospirosis

Answer: Leptospira interrogans

Extra: flu-like symptoms, jaundice, conjunctivitis with photophobiaexposure to water contaminated with animal urinesurfers in tropics, farmers in rice paddies

Flashcard 24: Leptospira interrogans

Answer: - (impossible to visualize though)

Extra: spirochetedark-field microscopyleptospirosis, Weil's diseaseanimal urine

Flashcard 25: Of the common spirochetes, which can be visualized with standard stain methods?

Answer: Borellia - it's big enough

Flashcard 26: H. pylori expresses the enzyme _____ which allows it to turn its local environment alkaline and thereby survive in the acidic gastric environment.

Answer: urease

Flashcard 27: Helicobacter pylori

Answer: -

Extra: bacillinon-fermenter+gastritis, duodenal ulcerstriple therapy: proton pump inhibitor, clarithromycin, amoxicillin or metronidazole

Flashcard 28: pathogenic E. coli (EPEC)

Answer:

Extra: diarrhea, usually pediatric

Flashcard 29: Escherichia coli

Answer: -

Extra: bacilli+, fastdiarrhea of various terrible types

Flashcard 30: babesoisis

Answer:

Extra: fever and hemolytic anemiaatovoquone + azithromycin