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Student’s Name

Professor’s Name

Course

Date

Microbiology

Question 1

The patient is suffering from a bacterial pneumonia. The presence of a persistent

cough and the use of erythromycin, which is an antibiotic point to bacterial pneumonia as a

possible cause. Due to the existing petechial rashes that the patient has, the specific organism

for this disease is most likely Neisseria meningitidis.

Question 2

The patient has giardiasis from Giardia lamblia. The frothy and greasy stools indicate

steatorrhea. Giardiasis results due to an infection by the protozoa Giardia duodenalis.

Steatorrhea occurs because the virus impairs the integrity of the intestines to break down

saccharides (Dunn and Andrew).

Question 3

The patient has severe amoebiasis, a disease caused by the protozoa Entamoeba

histolytica. The organism has pseudopodia thus making it a possible diagnosis for the patient

in context

Question 4

The child is suffering from Diptheria caused by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. The

bacteria produces a grey pseudomembrane at the back of the throat, and this forms due to

destruction of healthy tissues

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Question 5

The child has impetigo, which is a skin and soft tissue infection caused by

Staphylococcus aureus. Impetigo mostly affects tissues around the mouth, nose, hands and

feet of children. The child in context had crusted pustules around the mouth region.

Question 6

The patient has blepharitis, which is a staphylococcal aureus infection of the eyelids

Question 7

The patient has gangrene of the feet, mostly gas gangrene from Clostridium

perfringens. This is shown by the skin discolouration to almost black colour. The popping

and snapping sound could be due to gas production.

Question 8

The woman is suffering from shigellosis. This is due to the presentation of fever, and

abdominal cramping followed a few days later with bloody mucoid stools (AT Still

University).

Question 9

The patient most likely has tuberculosis from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This is

due to the production of bloody sputum and a mass which most likely is a tuberculoma on

chest x-ray. Tuberculosis is also highly infectious, and the health worker has to wear a mask

for protection

Question 10

The patient has Trypanosoma cruzi, also known as Chagas’s disease. A reduviid bug

causes the condition, and one can detect Ig E euglenozoan antibodies in the blood.

Question 11
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The most likely organism causing food poisoning is staphylococcus aureus. It

commonly results from food handlers contaminated with the bacteria preparing food without

properly washing their hands. This could have resulted in contamination of the gravy and

vegetables the patient took

Question 12

The most likely disease in this text is cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae. This is due

to the presence of rice-water stool on examination

Question 13

The organism is Klebsiella pneumoniae, which is a gram-negative nitrogen-fixing rod

Question 14

The patient has herpes zoster, also referred to as shingles and it results from

reactivation of a latent infection

Question 15

The patient’s presentations point to rabies, a disease caused by the rabies virus, which

is a rhabdovirus.

Question 16

The organism causing the patient’s food poisoning is Bacillus cereus. It causes watery

diarrhea, abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting. Besides, the duration of illness is 24 hours

as it was for the patient (AT Still University)

Question 17

The patient has severe malaria that has complicated with convulsions, likely from

plasmodium falciparum (Bauman). 

Question 18
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The patient is suffering from necrotizing fasciitis. The two primary organisms causing

the condition include staphylococcus aureus and group A streptococcus bacteria.

Question 19

The woman has toxoplasmosis gondii infection. It is an apicomplexan and progresses

to encephalitis in patients with reduced immunity such as older people and those with AIDS.

The patient in context is an older woman who is 70 years.

Question 20

The patient most likely has Tularemia from Francisella tularensis. This is due to the

presence of a bite mark which is in its early stages of becoming an ulcer. The patient also has

lymph nodes in the armpits (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Question 21

The woman has Campylobacter bacteria poisoning. Raw chicken has been found to be

contaminated with Campylobacter mostly and at times, Clostridium perfringens and

salmonella (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).

Question 22

The boy has mumps, which belongs to the paramyxoviridae group of viruses. Mumps

orchitis, an infection that damages the testis is a known complication of the viral infection.

Question 23

The patient has chronic severe amebiasis, and this is a mostly asymptomatic disease.

Entamoeba histolytica causes it.

Question 24

The child has varicella-zoster (Chicken Pox), and this clears on its own in healthy

children.

Question 25
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Yersinia pestis, a bacterium that causes fried egg appearance of colonies, caused the

man’s pneumonia.
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Works Cited

AT Still University. Infections of the Large Intestine. 2017,

https://www.atsu.edu/faculty/chamberlain/website/lectures/Infectionsofthelargeintesti

ne.htm. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020

Bauman, Robert W. Microbiology with diseases by taxonomy. Pearson, 2016.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Tularemia. 2018,

https://www.cdc.gov/tularemia/signssymptoms/index.html. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chicken and Food Poisoning. 2020,

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/chicken.html. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020

Dunn, Noel, and Andre, L. Juergens. Giardiasis. Treasure Island (FL): StatPearls Publishing.

2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513239/. Accessed 28 Apr. 2020