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Causative bacteria of dental caries:
Streptococcus mutans
Lactobacilli
Areas of bacteria colonies are called:
Placque
Gingivitis caused by:
Gram__
Actinomyces- gram pos rod
Actinomyces likes it under the gum line because it is:
an faculative anaerobe
Comma shaped, gram neg rod is:
Flagella is:
Cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae
Polar flagellum and is motile
exotoxin of cholera is:
enterotoxin, common is 01 biotype
Transmission of cholera is:
Food, water, feces of infected person.
Common side effects of cholera:
20-30 liters of fluid loss a day.RICE STOOL Diarrhea starts off slow then sudden loss. Muscle cramping,vomiting and death of not treated.
What media is used to check for cholera:
TCBS agar-which will turn yellow. Blood test, ELISA and blood agar
Why a blood agar:
It is beta hemolytic
THE TCBS agar reflects what with cholera:
High salt content, vibrio loves salt, vibrio uses sucrose will produce yellow. Salt inhibits other growth.
Salmonella produces this on Hectoen plate:

Spreads via:
H2s Black/brown.

Fecal and urine.
Salmonella all strains are:

Found in :
Pathognenic

Foul and animals-chickens
Salmonella key symptom that seperates it from other GI:
FEVER and CONSTIPATION
Over____ serotypes:
2300
Salmonell typhi can lead to :
Typhoid fever./Septicemia
With Salmonella do not give:
anti-diarrheal
Antigen based testing look at flagella , look for:
H antigen on flagella
Salmonella dies within _ hour if not in media:
Resolves in
1 hour

2-5 days
Typhoid fever may be treated:
Cipro/Ampicillin
Can shigella move?

Shigella is only found in:
Non motile and does not produce H2s.

Humans
You can give anti-diarrheal to

Most common type is:
:
Shigella.

Shigella sonnei
Gram negative rod, no H2s:

Found in:
Shigella

Play areas, waterparks
Shigella only in humans must have come in contact with:
Feces and urine.
Shigella produces what kind of diarrhea:
Produces what toxin:
Bloody or pus.

Enterotoxin-shig toxin
Gram negative spirochete, found in humans:
Farm animals main resovoir
Transmitted by:
Leptospirosis- leptospira interrogans.

Vegetation, aersols and fertilizers.
Leptospirosis:
CHILLS, nausea and vomiting. Liver symptoms and petechiae. Jaundice, fever, ha.
DX with:
urine, blood and spinal fluid sometimes RAPID TEST
Seagull gram negative shaped rod:
Campylobacter jejuni
Hooked V or seagull on gram stain.
Causes spontaneous abortion in:
Cattles- campy jejuni
It is microaerophilic and has to have this degree to grow:
42 celcius
milk and meat-cattle
Symptoms of campy:
watery stools, malaise, abd cramps. If more than 8 stools give erythromycin
Campy has to be incubated at __ to grow:
42 celcius
Most serious e-coli:
EHEC
E-Coli 0157: h7
hemorrahagic diarrhea, abd pain and vomitng.
STEC leads to:
intestinal disease and renal disease
DX of E-Coli 0157:
SMAC- remains colorless does not use sorbitol.
Rapid antigen test for ecoli is used for:
Children checks for antigens and toxin. 2 lines positive ,1 line negative.
Gram positive, spore former, caused by reheating food:
Clostridium perfrinogens.
Symptoms:

Test for this:
Sudden watery diarrhea. NO FEVER/VOMITING.

Camp test. use strep b toxin, it looks like a "bow tie"
Rotovirus looks like a:

Big symptom with rotovirus:
Wheel

Extreme thirst
other s/s: fever, diarrhea, vomiting,
DX Rotovirus by:
Rapid antigen test. No tx; rehydrate pt.
1/3 of all hospital admissions for hospital related illness:
Roto virus
First symptom with NOROVIRUS:
ABD PAIN-massive cramping, vomiting and particles can spread 35 feet
Found on:

Stool has to be kept:
DX:
cruise ships-highly contagious,

Cold and cool.
Real time PCR
Protozaon flagellate, most frequent protozoan disease in US:
Giardiasis- giardia lamblia
Primary host of giardia:
beavers, pigs and monkeys-
found in aquariams,daycare centers, high risk for travelers for the water.
Giadia look like:
2 eyes( nuclei) and an axstial backbone. It will look fluorescent green on DFA stain
Main symptom of giardia:
Greasy stool- from malabsorption. It also causes gas/bloating/abd pain/nausea
It contains this is the stool:
Trophoziotes and oocysts
Trophs (free living form) and the cysts has the:
axostile which is the backbone of the organism
All symptoms of giardia are caused by:
Malabsorption, parasite sticks to wall of intestine-
Giardia are ___ times bigger than:
most bacteria
Most common method is:
DFA stain
red-human cells
green-giardia
Obligate intracellular parasite lives off cells of host:
Cryptosporidium parvum
S/S of cryptosporidium parvum:

IT is acid---
Straight water- abd cramps- May last up to 4 weeks.

Acid fast positive
With crypto you will not see:
Trophoziotes
DX of crypto:
Ova and parasites, DFA staining, microscopic exam of oocysts.