Respiratory tract infections

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Etiological agents Streptococcus pneumoniae

Characteristic gram-positive, catalase-negative cocci

Disease Community-Acquired Pneumonia

Mode of transmission inhalation or aspiration of pulmonary pathogenic organisms into a lung segment or lobe. transmitted via large respiratory droplets or direct contact with infected persons or carriers. Outbreaks of streptococcal infection may occur as a result of ingestion of contaminated foods such as milk, milk products and eggs droplets,nasopharyngeal secretions, and rarely fomites contact with wound exudates may result in the transmission of the disease to the skin as well the respiratory tract Spreads via aerosolized droplets from coughing of infected individuals. direct contact or by inhalation of respiratory tract droplets.

Streptococcus pyogenes

beta-hemolytic bacterium

acute pharyngitis (sore throat)

Corynebacterium diphtheria

nonencapsulated, nonmotile, gram-positive bacillus

upper respiratory tract or cutaneous infection

Bordetella pertussis

gram-negative pleomorphic bacillus a small (1 m X 0.3 m), pleomorphic, gram-negative coccobacillus. It is a nonmotile, non spore-forming, fastidious, facultative anaerobe slow-growing, obligate aerobe and a facultative, intracellular parasite. lacking a cell wall, has a remarkable gliding motility and specialized filamentous tips end small, aerobic, waterborne, gram-negative, unencapsulated bacillus that is nonmotile, catalase-positive, and weakly oxidase-positive. fastidious organism and does not grow anaerobically or on standard media

paroxysmal cough

Haemophilus influenzae

pediatric bacterial meningitis

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Tuberculosis (TB)

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)

infected aerosol exposure through the lungs or mucous membranes airborne droplets, which are expelled out of an infected person as he talks, sneezes, laughs or coughs. Direct inhalation is the most likely method of transmission, with aerosol-generating systems playing a crucial role.

Legionella pneumophila

Legionnaires disease

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