BIOL 2300 Chapter Notes - Chapter unit 1 : Headache, Borrelia, Clostridium
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Neiserria gonorrhoae: causes skin and wound infection, Streptococcus pneumonia: diplococcus, thick polysaccharide capsule is, transmitted via sexual contact, non-motile, able to prevent an immune response, symptoms are: inflammation, redness, swelling and dysuria, affects only humans, aerobic, either use penicillin or ceftriaxone for treatment. Clostridium dificile can form endospores common soil inhabitants and vegetative cells live in the anaerobic microenvironments can smell bad can cause diarrhea found in the intestinal tract. By gram stain: many strains can be harmless. Acid fast staining: used to identify specialized bacteria that have waxy mycolic acid, only found in mycobacteria and nocardia. Mycoplasma pneumonia: known as walking pneumonia , symptoms: onset of cough, fever, sputum production, headache, fatigue, and muscle sores. 2 -3 weeks for incubation: aerobic, spread by aerosolized droplets of respiratory secretions, due to lack of cell wall, most antibiotics can"t prevent this disease, usually affects people younger than 40, commonplace to receive is school/workplace, crowded areas.
