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a disease producing quality
the ability of an organism to infect a susceptible host genetype and cause disease |
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ability of a microbe to cause disease
the degree of disease caused by a pathogen genotype under appropriate conditions. Akin to agressiveness |
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| the microbial population that colonizes the human body making up the microbial flora |
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| microbial species that are capable of causing disease |
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| microorganisms that are always associated with disease |
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| organism that are often part of normal host flora and can estabolish disease under certain conditions |
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| Community acquired pathogens |
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| those infections caused by bacteria acquired outside the hospital setting |
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| hospital acquired microbes |
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| new, reemerging or drug-resitant infections whose incidence in humans has increased within the past few decades or whose influence threatens to increase in the near future |
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found in membranes of humans
mose species are nonpathogenic |
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| can be isolated from the eyes and may cause conjunctivitis |
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| found in the upper respitory tract esp. nose and mouth |
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can be isolated form urine and genital tract
can be mistaken for gonorrhoeae |
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member of the normal flora of school children
can cause sytemic infactions such as [pneumonia, meningitis, and endocarditis |
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part of the gingiva and bowel or normal humans
occurs frequently in human bites
resistant to clindamycin |
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| Kingella kingae and K. dentrificans |
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part of the normal flora
enter the system during minor oral trauma |
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two types:
type b and nontypable |
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unique leukotoxin encoded by IKtA gene that contributes to the killing of human neutrophils and monocytes
- also have the unique antenna (EmaA) |
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only colonizes ciliated cells of resp.
three stages and most infectious in the first, but feel better |
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| sever acute febrile disease |
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| causes tularemia - glandular fever which can lease to pneumonia |
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