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Disease cause by this organism Reservoir and Mode of Transmission Diagnosis

Helicobacter pylori - It is mostly infecting your - Human stomach - Standard triple therapy

stomach. A critical time - Transmitted person-to- - Two different antibiotics at

when in childhood era. person by saliva. once.

Common cause of peptic - Recommend to use proton

ulcers and gastritis. pump inhibitor or ranitidine

bismuth citrate.

Campylobacter enteritis - It can cause stomach flu or - Mostly lives in the intestines - Usually people recover from

gastroenteritis. By eating of animals. the infection without any

raw or undercooked poultry - Chicken, wild birds, cows, antibiotic’s treatment.

or eating something that was sheep, cats and dogs. - It is recommended to drink

contaminated by it. extra fluids as long as

diarrhea lasts.

- Azithromycin therapy.
Clostridium botulinum - It causes ‘Botulism’ is a rare - Surfaces of fruits and - Antitoxin does not repair the

but serious illness caused by vegetables or in seafood. toxin's previous damage.

a toxin that attacks the - Soil and agricultural The patient may need to

body’s nerves and causes products. stay in the hospital for weeks

difficulty breathing. - Marine sediments. or even months before

Weakness of the muscles he/she are well enough to go

that controls the eyes, face, home, depending on the

mouth, and throat. severity of your symptoms.

Staphylococcus aureus growing in - It is the main cause of boils - Found in humans specifically - Prescribing penicillin but in

food or abscesses. It is one of the in the nose perineal area, certain situations it

most important bacteria that mouth, mammary glands, sometimes develops a

cause disease in humans. axillae, hair, intestinal, and resistance.

The boil, a pus-filled pocket mucous membranes - Substances that has

that develops in a hair follicle - Some farm and domestic hydrogen peroxide.

or oil gland, is the most animals - Cefazolin, nafcillin,

frequent staph infection. vancomycin, daptomycin,

telavancin or linezoid

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