Bacteriology NOTES

Streptococcus pneumoniae Lancet-shaped/ bullet-

shaped diplococci
Neisseria gonorrhoea Kidney bean-shaped
COMMON NAME/S BACTERIA diplococci within PMN
Anthrax Bacillus Bacillus anthracis Neisseria meningitidis Bean-shaped diplococci
Bang’s Bacillus Brucella abortus Bacillus anthracis Disjointed bamboo fishing
Battey Bacillus Mycobacterium rod/ box-car morphology
intracellulare Clostridium tetani Drumstick/ Lollipop/
Bordet- Gengou Bacillus Bordetella pertussis Tennis Racket (due to
Duval’s Bacillus Shigella sonnei terminal swollen spore)
Clostridium ramosum Terminal Swollen spore
Foam Loving Bacteria Aggregatibacter
aphrophilus Corynebacterium Club shaped/ pallisade/
Frankel’s Bacillus/ Gas Clostridium perfringes diphtheriae side by side/ picket fence/
gangrene Bacillus x, y, v, l/ Chinese letter
appearance
Fried Rice Bacillus Bacillus cereus
With Babes Ernst Granules
Friedlander’s Bacillus Klebsiella pneumoniae
Mycobacterium leprae Cigar packet arrangement
Glander’s Bacillus Burkholderia mallei
Yersinia pestis Safety pin appearance due
Gram Negative MRSA Acinetobacter baumanii
to bipolar staining
Hansen’s Bacillus Mycobacterium leprae
(Wayson’s)
Hay Bacillus Bacillus subtilis
Klebiella/ Safety pin appearance due
Hoffmann’s Bacillus Corynebacterium
Calymmatobacterium to accumulation of polar
pseudodiphtheriticum
granulomatis granules (Wright’s/
JK Bacillus Corynebacterium jeikeium Giemsa)
Kleb- Leoffler’s Bacillus Corynebacterium + Donovan Bodies
diphtheriae (Giemsa)
Koch’s Bacillus/ Tubercle Mycobacterium Vibrio Comma-shaped bacillus
Bacillus tuberculosis Campylobacter S-shaped bacillus/ wings
Koch-Week’s Bacillus Haemophilus aegypticus of seagull appearance
New Castle Manchester Shigella boydii Haemophilus ducreyi School of fish appearance/
Bacillus fingerprint appearance
Pfeiffer’s Bacillus Haemophilus influenzae Francisella tularensis Faint bipolar staining
Plague Bacillus Yersinia pestis Legionella Poor staining
Raddish Bacillus Mycobacterium terrae characteristic
Shiga Bacillus Shigella dysenteriae Streptobacillus Strings of bead
Strong’s Bacillus Shigella flexneri moniliformis appearance
Tap Water Bacillus Mycobacterium gordonae Cardiobacterium hominis Rosette arrangement
Tetanus Bacillus/ Iron Clostridium tetani Propionebacterium acnes Log jam arrangement
Loving Bacillus/ tack head Bifidobacterium Bifid/ bifurcated ends
Bacillus Resembles Bone-shaped
Von Ermengen’s Bacillus/ Clostridium botulinum dog biscuits
Canned Good Bacillus Fusobacterium nucleatum Toothpick-like appearance
Whitmore’s Bacillus Burkholderia pseudomallei Leptospira Tightly coiled with one or
Yellow Bacillus/ Cross Mycobacterium kansasii both ends bent to form
Barred Bacillus hook/s
Borrelia Loosely coiled
Chlamydia trachomatis “Halberstadter Prowazeik”
inclusions
Rickettsiaceae Blue (Giemsa)
Red(Machiavello)
BACTERIA DESCRITION Reddish black (Gimenez)
Staphylococci Grape-like in clusters Ehrlichia Morulae within WBCs
Micrococci In tetrads
 Bacteriology NOTES

BACTERIA COLONY MORPHOLOGY MEDIA USED/ COMMENTS

Butyrous appearance
Staphylococcus aureus Medium sized creamy/ oily appearance
Golden yellow pigment
Staphylococcus albus White pigment
Staphylococcus citreus Lemon yellow pigment
Streptococcus Small pinpoint colonies
Young colonies- dome shaped
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Old colonies- nail head/ crater-like/ checker
Milleri Streptococci/ Butterscotch/ caramel odor Common isolate is S. constellatus
Mcroaerophilic Streptococci
Moraxella catarrhalis “Hockey puck” colonies Intact colonies
“Beaten egg white consistency
Medusa Head colonies/ lion head/ cut glass Blood Agar Plate (BAP)
appearance Due to swirling projections.
Bacillus anthracis Strings of pearl colonies Mueller Hinton Agar (MHA) with 10u
Penicillin/ BAP with 5u of Penicillin
Due to susceptibility to Penicillin
Inverted fir tree/ inverted pine tree Gelatin Media
Clostridium perfringes Target Hemolysis/ Double zone hemolysis Inner-β; outer-α
“Mother of Pearl” Egg yolk Agar
Clostridium botulinum
“gas on water” appearance (+) Lipase Reaction
Horse stable/ barnyard odor Cycloserine Cefoxitin Fructose Agar
Clostridium difficile (CCFA)
“CHARTREUSE” fluorescence yellow fluorescence on BAP
Inverted Christmas tree/ Sulfide Indole Motility Medium (SIM)
Listeria monocytogenes
umbrella like appearance
Erysopelothrix Test tube brush/ bottle brush/ Pipe cleaner Gelatin Media
rhusiopathiae pattern of growth
Gray to black colonies Cystine Tellurite Blood Agar
Corynebacterium
“Fried egg” appearance Cystine Trypticase Agar
diphtheriae
Black colonies with brown halo Tinsdale Medium (with Tellurite)
Corynebacterium Coral red fluorescence Will only appear on exposure Wood’s
minutissimum lamp due to porphyrin
Mycobacterium Cauliflower like growth
tuberculosis Exhibits “Cording” luxuriant growth in curved strands
Mycobacterium bovis Water droplet colonies
Mycobacterium xenopi Bird’s nest colonies Cornmeal agar
Pink colonies with greenish metallic sheen Eosin Methylene Blue (EMB)/ Levine
Escherichia coli
medium
Klebsiella pnuemoniae Mucoid colonies Due to the presence of capsule
Pink-purple with dark center EMB
Enterobacter
“Fish eye” colonies
Swarming of colonies- growth outside the BAP
Proteus streaking pattern
Burnt gun powder/ burnt chocolate MacConkey Agar (MAC)
Stallactite/ flocculent growth (evenly distributed) Broth
Yersinia pestis
Hammered colonies BAP
Yersinia enterocolitica Bull’s eye colonies Cefsulodin-Irgasan-Novobiocin (CIN)
Serratia marcescens Prodigiosin (red pigment)
Serratia rubidea Prodigiosin (red pigment)
Serratia odorifera Rancid potato like odor
 Bacteriology NOTES
Corn tortilla like odor/ Corn taco like odor/ Due to the release of 2-acetophenone
Overripe grape odor
Pyocyanin (blue pigment)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pyoverdin (yellow-green/ green pigment)
Pyorubin (red pigment)
Pyomelanin (brown pigment)
Pseudomonas fluorescens Pyoverdin only
Pseudomonas putida Pyoverdin only
Pseudomonas stutzeri Wrinkled colonies
Burkholderia pseudomallei Earthy odor Ashdown Media
Ammonia like odor
Stenotrophomonas
Lavander green pigment
maltophilia
Yellow colored colonies Trypticase Soy Agar (TSA)
Acinetobacter Gummy colonies BAP
Acinetobacter faecalis Apple-like fruity odor
Ammonium cyanide odor BAP
Chromobacter violaceum
Violacein (violet pigment)
Dew drop colonies with mousy odor
Haemophilus influenzae Exhibits SATELLITISM luxuriant growth near the source of V
factor
Bordetella pertussis Mercury droplet colonies
Pasturella multocida Musty odor/ mushroom-like odor
Puff ball/ fluff balls appearance (at the bottom Broth
Streptobacillus moniliformis
only)
Actinomyces Star shaped colonies
actinomycetemcomitans
Pits/ corrodes the agar
Eikenella corrodens
With bleach like odor
Actinomyces israelli Molar tooth appearance Old colonies
Bacteroides fragilis Black colonies with dark halo Bacteroides Bile Esculin (BBE)
Bacteroides urealyticus Pits/ corrodes the agar
Rancid butter with three types of colonies
 Irregular/ bread crums/ salt grain like
Fusobacterium nucleatum
 Ground glass/ speckled appearance
 Small smooth gray-white colonies
Prevotella Black pigment
Porphyromonas Bright red fluorescence under UV
Peptostreptococcus Nonhemolytic with sweet odor
anaerobius
Veilonella Red fluorescence under UV
Ureaplasma urealyticus Tiny “fried egg” colonies

GRAM POSITIVE GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIA DESCRITION

Streptococcus
pneumoniae
Bacillus anthracis
Clostridium perfringes
Neiseria meningitidis Listeria monocytogenes Tumbling motility
Vibrio cholerae Shooting star motility
Moraxella catarrhalis Campylobacter Darting Motility
Klebsiella pneumoniae Capnocytophaga gingivalis Gliding/ sliding motility
Haemophlius influenzae (no flagella)
Kingella kingii Twitching motility
Sphirochetes Cork screw like motility
 Bacteriology NOTES
Moraxella catarrhalis Capsule with pili
D-glutamate capsule
Edema factor
Bacillus anthracis
BACTERIA VIRULENCE FACTOR/S Lethal factor
Lipase- causes skin infection Protective antigen
Hyaluronidase/ Duran Reynal Cholera like toxin- causes food
Bacillus cereus
Factor- spreading/ invasive poisoning
factor Capsule
β-lactamase/ penicillanse- Responsible for the β-
resistance to β-lactams hemolysis:
Staphilokinase- for fibrinolysis  β-hemolysisn
Clostridium
Coagulase- for plasma  Theta toxin
perfringes
agglutination Responsible for the α-
DNase/ Thermonuclease- hemolysis:
decreases the viscosity of  α toxin
exudates giving the organism  Lecithinase
Staphylococcus more mobility Tetanospasmin- causes spastic
aureus β-hemolysin- β-hemolysis/ Clostridium tetani paralysis
destroys RBCs Tetanolysin- β-hemolysis
Protein A- prevents Clostridium Botulinum toxin
phagocytosis botulinum
Enterotoxin A/ B- causes food Toxin A- enterotoxin
Clostridium difficile
poisoning Toxin B- cytotoxin
TSST/ Enterotoxin F- causes Listeriolysisn O- hemolytic
Toxic Shock Syndrome Listeria cytotoxic toxin
Exfoliatin- causes Scalded Skin monocytigenes -makes the organism survives
Syndrome within phagocytes
Panton Valentine Leukocidin Corynebacterium Diphtheria toxin
(PVL)- destroys WBCs; diphtheriae
Community Acquired- MRSA Cord factor- destroys
Methicillin-Resistant MecAgene- encodes PBP2 in Mycobacterium mitochodria
S. aureus/ Oxcillin- the cell wall tuberculosis Sulfatide- prevents
resistant S. aureus phagocytocis
(MRSA/ ORSA) E.coli O157:H7 Verotoxin/ shigatoxin
Staphylococcus Slime production/ Biofilm Klebsiella Capsule
epidermidis production- for attachment pneumoniae
Streptolysin- destroys RBS Endotoxin- causing Bacillary
Shigella
 O- subsurface hemolysis dysentery (bloody diarrhea)
 S- surface hemolysis Shigella dysenteriae Neurotoxin
Erythrogenic Toxin/ Pyrogeninc Salmonella Pili
toxin- responsible for the rashes Klebsiella/ K and Vi toxins
in Scarlet Fever Calymmatobacterium
Streptococcus
Hyaluronidase- spreading factor Vibrio cholerae Choleragen
pyogenes
Streptokinase- for fibrinolysios Helicobacter pylori Urease
M protein- main virulence Exotoxin A- inhibits protein
factor synthesis
Pseudomonas
-prevents phagocytosis Endotoxin
aeruginosa
Protein F- attachment to pili
epithelial cells Alginate (biofilm)
Sterptococcus Capsule Haemophilus capsule
pneumoniae influenzae
Type 4 common pili (n- Pertussis toxin- mucus
Bordetella pertussis
Neisseria gonorrhoea methylphenylalanine) production
endotoxin
Neiserria capsule
meningitidis
 Bacteriology NOTES
Gonorrhoea
Ophthalmia neonatorum
(Prophylactic drug: Crede’s
Neiserria gonorrhoea
BACTERIA DISEASE/S Prophylaxis/ Silver Nitrate)
Boils, Furuncles, carbunlces, Fitz Hugh Curtis Syndrome/
folliculitis, cellulitis Perihepatitis
Impetigo, sty (ocular infection, Bacterial meningitis (child –
lump at the eyelid) early adulthood)
Staphylococcus aureus Meningococcemia
Food poisoning Neisseria meningitidis
Toxic shock syndrome Waterhouse Frederichsen
Scalded skin syndrome/ Syndrome- bleeding of adrenal
Bullous exfoliative dermatitis glands ( positive for DIC)
Staphylococcus Endocarditis Moraxella catarrhalis Otitis media
lugdunensis Bacteremia Cutaneous anthrax- black
Staphylococcus Prosthetic heart valve eschar (most common; least
epidermidis infection severe)
Staphylococcus UTI in young females Pulomonary anthrax/
Bacillus anthracis Woolsorter’s disease/ Rag
saphrophyticus
Picker’s disease/ Hide Porter’s
Rothia Endocarditis
Disease
(old name: Bacteremia in
Intestinal Anthrax- most
Stomatococcus) immunocompromised
severe; least common
Pharyngitis/ stepthroat
Food poisoning
Erysipelas- skin infection
Bacillus cereus  Diarrheal type
Scarlet fever- (+) rashes with
 Emetic type
“strawberry tongue”
Bacillus subtilis Eye infection in heroin addicts
Necrotizing facitis/ galloping
gangrene- rapidly progressive Bacillus Flat sour spoilage
Sterptococcus pyogenes stearothermophilus
skin infection
Post sequelae Gas gangrene
Clostridium perfringes Necrotic enteritis- bloody
 Acute
glomerulonephritis diarrhea
 Rheumatic fever Tetanus/ Spastic Paralysis-
manifestation of locked jaw/
Bright’s disease
Clostrdium tetani risus sardonicus/ Sardonic
Septicemia
Streptococcus Smile
Neonatal meningitis
agalactiae Opisthotonus
Postpartum endocarditis
Botulinism/ home canned
Streptococcus UTI
good intoxication
gallolyticus Endocarditis
Floppy Baby syndrome/ infant
(old name: Septicemia Clostridium botulinum
botulinism
Streptococcus bovis)
Sudden Infant Death/ Crib
Entercocci Nosocomial UTI
Death
No. 1 cause of adult meningitis
Pseudomembranous colitis-
Most common cause of Otitis
Streptococcus antibiotic associated diarrhea
Media Clostridium dificille
pneumoniae No. 1 cause of nosocomial
Lobar pneumonia (rusty
diarrhea
colored sputum)
Meningitis in geriatric and
Subacute Bacterial
Streptococcus sanguis immunocompromised
Endocarditis (SBE)
Food poisoning (coleslaw and
Streptococcus mutans Dental caries/ plaques Listeria monocytogenes
soft cheese)
Milleri Streptococci Liver, spleen and brain abscess
Still birth
Complex/
Septicemia
Microaerophilic Strep
Erysopelothrix Erysepeloid/ Butcher’s cut
(S. constellatus)
rhusiopathiae
Group D- Non- Colon caner
Corynebacterium Diphtheria- “Bull’s neck”
Enterococci
diphtheriae appearance
 Bacteriology NOTES
Corynebacterium Mastitis in cattles Mycobacterium terrae Arthritis/ otseomyelitis
ulcerans complex
Corynebacterium Rare cause of lymphadenitis Mycobacterium Dissiminated infection in AIDS
pseudotuberculosis genavense patients
Corynebacterium Erythasma Mycobacterium avium Johne’s disease (in animals)-
minutissimum sub. paratuberculosis resembles Crohn’s Disease
Corynebacterium Agent of UTI No. 1 cause of UTI (UPEC/
urealyticum NPEC)
Corynebacterium Endocarditis No. 2 cause of neonatal
xeroxis UTI meningitis
Corynebacterium Endocarditis Profuse watery diarrhea/
pseudodiphtheriticum Cholera like (ETEC)
Prosthetic Heart valve Shigella like/ bloody diarrhea
Corynebacterium
infection in (EIEC)
jeikeium Escherchia coli
immunocompromised Hospital Acquired infantile
Skin infection in diarrhea (EPEC)
Nocardia brasiliensis
immunocompromised Acute-chronic watery diarrhea
Pulmonary disease in (EAEC and DAEC)
Nocardia asteroides
immunocompromised Bloody like diarrhea which
Primary TB- primary exposure may cause kidney failure too
to MTB and HUS as manifestation
Secondary TB- repeat/ (EHEC/EVEC)
precious exposure to MTB Community acquired
Multi-Drug Resistant TB- Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumonia (currant jelly like
resistance to primary TB drugs sputum)
(Rifampin, Isoniazid, Purulent sinus infection
Klebsiella ozonae
Mycobacterium Pyrizinamide, Ethambutol, atrophic rhinitis
tuberculosis Streptomycin) Klebsiella Granuloma of the nose and
Extensively Drug Resistant- TB- rhinoscleromatis nasopharynx
resistance to primary, Opportunistic infection (UTI,
Enterobacter
secondary, or RTI and Wound)
Fluoroquinolones Necrotizing colitis due to
Enterboacter sakazakii
Pott’s Disease- skeletal TB in powdered infant milk formula
the spine Pneumonia
Proteus mirabilis
Miliary TB- extrapulmonary TB Septicemia
TB in cattles Proteus vulgaris Hospital acquired UTI
Mycobacterium bovis
Intestinal TB in man Morganella morganii UTI and RTI
Leprosy - (2 types): Plague/ 6th century Pandemic
 Tuberculoid-  Bubonic-
paubacillary inflammation of
-skin lesions with inguinal and axillary
Mycobacterium leprae Yersinia pestis
nerve involvement lymph
 Lepromatous-  Pneumonic
multibacillary  Septicemic/ Black
-Slow/ Malignant type Death- black patches
No. 2 Non-MTB to cause TB in Enterocolitis resembling
Mycobacterium kansasii Yersinia enterocolitica
AIDS patients apendicitis
Mycobacterium Swimming granuloma/ Fish Yersinia Mysenteric lymphadenitis
marinum Tank ganuloma pseudotuberculosis
Mycobacterium Cervical lymphadenitis Shigella Bacillary dysentery/ shigellosis
scrofulaceum Salmonella typhimurium Enterocolitis/ gastroenteritis
Mycobacterium xenopi Buroli ulcers and Salmonella
Mycobacterium Skin disease enteritidis
haemophilum Salmonella cholerasius Bacteremia
No. 1 Non-MTB to cause TB in and Salmonella
Mycobacterium avium
AIDS patients paratyphi C
 Bacteriology NOTES
Typhoid fever- positive for
Salmonella typhi rose spots and having pea
soup stool
Salmonella paratyphi Paratyphoid fever
Citrobacter UTI and sepsis
Documented to cause
Citrobacter diversus/
outbreaks of neonatal
Citrobacter koseri
meningitis
GI infections
Edwardsiella tarda Wound infection
Bacteremia
Serratia marcescens Outbreaks of bacteremia
Pleisiomonas Secretory diarrhea in AIDS
shigelloides patients
Donovanosis/ Granuloma
Klebsiella/
inguinale- granulomatous
Calymmatobacterium
lesions in the axillary and
granulomatis
inguinal region
Vibrio cholerae Cholera- rice watery stool
Vibrio parahaemolyticus Gastroenteritis
Wound Infection
Vibrio vulnificus Septicemia
Necrotizing facitis
Wound infection- less virulent
Vibrio alginolyticus than V. vulnificus
Ear infection
Gastroenteritis
Vibrio mimicus
Ear infection
Vibrio fluvialis Diarrheal disease
Vibrio furnissii Diarrheal disease
Aeromonas hydrophila GIT disease
Gastritis
Helicobacter pylori Peptic ulcers
Gastric carcinoma
Antecedent cause of Gullian
Barre Syndrome
Campylobacter jejuni
Diarrhea
Gastritis
Blue pus- a wound infection in
burn patients
UTI
Pneumonia and sepsis in
Pseudomonas patients with cystic fibrosis
aeruginosa Diver’s ear/ Swimmer’s ear/
Mild otitis externa
Jacuzzi/ hot tub syndrome/
Shanghai fever/ Whirlpool
disease
Onion Bulb Rot (in plants)
Burkholderia cepacia
Foot rot (in man)
Glander’s disease (in horses/
Burkholderia mallei
livestock)
Burkholderia Melloidosis/ Vietnam Time
pseudomallei Bomb (glander’s like disease)
Stenotrophomonas UTI and Pneumonia
maltophlia
UTI, wound infections,
Alcaligenes faecalis
diarrhea
Bhleparoconjuctivitis/ angular
Moraxella lacunata
conjunctivitis
Meningitis in toddlers (<5
Haemophilus influenzae
years old)
Pink eye
Haemophilus aegypticus
Brazilian purpuric fever
Soft chancre/ ulcerative
Haemophilus ducreyi
venereal disease
Haemophilus Endocadoitis and pneunomia
aphrophilus
Haemphilus
paraphrophilus
Undulant/ Malta/ Gibraltal/
Brucella Mediterranean Fever
Abortion (in animals)
Whooping cough/ pertussis
 Catarrhal phase – flu
like symptoms
 Paroxysmal- severe
Bordetella pertussis coughing
 Convalescence-
recovery
Lymphocytosis (response to
infection)
Bordetella Kennel cough (in dogs)
bronchiseptica
Bordetella parapertussis Pertussis like symptoms
Tularemia/ Rabbit fever/
Francisella tularensis deerfly fever/ water rat
trapper disease
SEROTYPE 1- Legionairre’s
disease/ Broad street
Legionella pneumophila
pneumonia/ Pontiac Fever
SEROTYPE 6- penumonia
Legionella micdadei Pitsburgh pneumonia
Leionella bozemanii Wiga’s agent of pneumonia
Pasturellosis (in man)
Pasturella multocida Animal bite wound (in man)
Shipping Fever (in cattles)
Bacterial vaginosis (foul
Gardnerella vaginalis smelling grayish vaginal
discharge)
Streptobacillus Rat bite fever/ Haverhill fever
moniliformis
Spirillum minus Sodoku- rat bite fever
Haemophillus influenzae
Aggregatibacter/
Actinobacillus
Sub-acute bacterial
Cardiobacterium
endocarditis
hominis
Eikenella corodens
Kingella kingae
Aggregatibacter periodontis
actinomycetemcomitans
 Bacteriology NOTES
Human bite wound Mycoplasma Primary atypical pneumonia/
Eikenella corrodens
Clenched face infection pneumoniae (EATON walking pneumonia
Actinomycosis of the Jaw/ agent/ PPLO)
Actinomyces israelii Lumpy Jaw- pus filled with Post abortal fever
sulfur granules Mycoplasma hominis Post partum fever
Proprionebacterium Agent of acnes in adolescence PID
acnes
Barteroides fragilis Bacteremia
Fusobacterium Aspiration pneumonia
nucelatum
Syphilis/ Great Pox/ French
Disease:
 Primary Stage- Hard
Chancre/ Hunterian
Chancre BACTERIA VECTOR DISEASE ASSOCIATED
Treponema pallidum  Secondary stage- Lyme disease/ Tick
sub. pallidum condyloma latum borne relapsing fever
 Latent stage- absence  Stage 1-
of clinical symptoms/ Erythema
positive for serotests chronicum
 Tertiary stage- migrans
Gummas (bull’s eye
Treponema pallidum Yaws/ Frambresia rash)
Borellia Deer ticks
sub. pertenue  Stage 2- ECM
burgdorferi (Ixodes)
Treponema pallidum Pinta thru blood;
sub. carateum may affect
Treponema pallidum Bejel/ Endemicum Syphilis bone, heart
sub. endemicum and liver
Anicteric/ septicemia- high  Stage 3-
Leptospira interrogans fever with severe headache development
serovar. Icteric Leptospirosis / Weil’s of neurologic
icterohemorrhagia Disease- involvement of liver abnormalitis
and kidneys Pediculus Louse borne relapsing
Leptospira interrogans infectious jaundice humuas fever or famine fever
serovar. canicola Borrelia capitis/
Leptospira interrogans Swineherd disease reccurentis Pediculus
serovar. mitis humanus
Leptospira interrogans 7 day fever corporis
serovar. hebdomadis Borrelia duttoni Soft ticks Tick borne relapsing
Leptospira interrogans March fever Borelia parkeri (Ornithodorus fever
serovar. grippotyphosa Borrelia hermsii spp.)
Leptospira interrogans Fort Bragg/ pretibial fever Rickettsia Rocky Mountain
serovar. autumnalis rickettsi Spotted fever
Psittachosis/ ornithosis/ Parrot Boutonneus fever
Chlamydia psittaci Ricketssia Wood, dog, Mediterranean
fever
Chlamydia pnuemonia Mild respiratory infections conorii brown ticks spotted fever/ Indian
(TWAR strain) tick typhus
Trachoma inclusion Ricketssia North Asian tick
conjunctivitis (TRIC) – sibirica typhus fever
nonvenereal; preventable Rickettsia akari Mouse mite Rickettsial pox
Chlamydia trachomatis Presumably Murine typhus Like
blindness Cat Flea
Lymphoganuloma veneruem flea bites or Illness
Rickettsia
(LGV)- most common STI feces
Chlamydia trachomatis Rickettsia QueenslandTick
Tick bite
Mycoplasma hominis Non gonococcal urethritis australis typhus fever
Ureaplasma urealyticum Rickettsia Pesumably Oriental spotted fever
 Bacteriology NOTES
japonica tick bite
Body louse/ Epidemic typhus
Squirrel flea
and louse
Rickettsia No vector Brill Zinsser disease
prowazekii (recurrence)
Feces of flea Flying squirrel typhus
or louse of fever
flying squirrel
Murine typhus/
Rickettsia typhi Rat flea
endemic typhus
Rickettsia Chigger or Scrub typhus
tsutsugamushi mite bite
Tick bites, Q fever
inhalation of
aerosols from
infected
Coxiella burnetti
animals,
ingestion of
animal
products
Orroya/ veruga
Bartonella peruana/ Carrion’s
Sandfly bite
bacilliformis disease (destroyts
RBCs)
Bartonella Cat scratch diseae/
henselae Kitten scratch Peliosis hepatitis
Bartonella or bite Minor cat scratch
clarridgeaie disease
Bartonella Bite or Rate Endocarditis
elizebethae fleas Bacteremia
Bartonella Trend Fever
Feces of
quintana/
Pediculus
Rochalimease
louse
quintana
Ehrlichia Human monocytic
Lone star Tick
chaffeensis Ehrlichiosis
Anaplasma Human granulocytic
Presumably
phagocytophilia/ ehrlichiosis
deer tick
Ehrlichia equi
Ehrlichia Sennetsu Rickettsiosis
Tick bite
semmetsu
LEGEND:
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