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    Boards: Microbiology - Vandy's Review PP Exam Questions and Answers 100% VERIFIED ANSWERS 2024/2025 From eating soft meats and cheeses, and causes gastrointestinal symptoms listeria From home canning, is toxin based, causes flaccid paralysis and death, and contracted from honey in babies botulism from creams and custards, causes gastrointestinal symptoms, with 2 - 4 hours incubation staphylococcus from contaminated foods, causes blood and pus in stool with fever, and is the number one cause of diarrhea camplylobacter from food contamination, spots on abdomen, hides in gall bladder, and causes fatalities typhoid fever in eggs and poultry, 12 - 24 hours, with gastrointestinal symptom's salmonella

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    from contaminated water/shellfish, and causes excessive diarrhea and dehydration cholera from contaminated water, causes bloody diarrhea, and flies are the vector shigella known as traveler's diarrhea, hemorrhagic form can be fatal, and affects kidneys in kids E. Coli from water/contaminated milk, causes fever and gastrointestinal symptoms, and also known a bang's disease brucella from contaminated water from urine of animals; causes fever headache, bleeding, vomiting; kidney/liver failure, and possibly de ath leptospira the vector is a tick, and cause bulls eye rash and arthritis, and also known as lime disease borrelia borgerferi the vector is a flea, and causes swollen lymph nodes or death yersinia pestis

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    the vector is rabbits/squirrels, and causes ulcers at site of infection francisella tularensis pneumonic plague is spread via respiratory droplets the vector is ticks, and causes extensive spotted rash rickettsia riskettsii (Rocky Mountain spotty fever) the vector is lice, causes fevers that regress borrellia recurrentis due to ingestion/inhalation/contact with soil, and causes respiratory failure and death anthrax grows in wounds and causes necrotizing fasciitis and death clostridium prefringens gets into wounds from rusty nails and causes spastic paralysis and death tetanus

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    also known as lymphogranuloma venereum, causes blindness (trichoma), and number 1 STD chlamydia often asymptomatic and causes pus from urethra and cervix gonnorrhea this disease has 3 stages: chancre, rash, and gammas inside and out syphilis a scalded skin syndrome, MRSA, impetigo, toxic shock syndrome, and osteomyelitis staph aureus causes meningitis haemophilus influenza most c common cause of pneumonia strep pneumonia causes strep throat, scarlet fever, rheumatic fever strep pyogenes

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    causes neonatal meningitis strep agalactiae infects all over the body, and causes blue - green puss pseudomonas causes bloody sputum, and slow incubation mycobacterium tuberculosis known as Hanson's disease (leprosy) mycobacterium leprae causes suffocation and heart failure corynebacterium diphtheria causes whooping cough and airway constriction bordetella pertussis causes conjunctivitis adenovirus kopek spots, rash, subacute sclerosis panencephalits

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    measles skin lesions, shingles, pneumonia in adults chicken pox common cold rhinovirus swelling of salivary glands and orchitis, and sterility mumps fast mutating respiratory virus influenza causes croup in babies respiratory syncytial virus hand, foot, and mouth disease coxsackie virus mild rash, German measles, birth defects rubella

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