A simple list of bacteria and infections/diseases they cause for intro microbiology course, organized alphabetically for ease. Re-organize in Excel and print!
| Bacteria | Diseases they cause | ||
| Aeromonas caviae: gastrointestinal disease, chronic diarrhea Afpia felis: Cat Scratch fever, noscomial infections. | |||
| Bacillus anthracis: Anthrax disease | |||
| Bacillus cereus: Food poisoning | |||
| Bartonella henselae: Cat scratch fever | |||
| Bordetella Pertussis: whooping cough | |||
| Borrelia burgdorferi: Lyme disease | |||
| Brucella abortus: Brucellosis/undulant fever, Bang's disease. Brucella melitensis: Brucellosis (AKA undulant fever) | |||
| Burkholderia mallei: glanders | |||
| Burkholderia mallei: Glanders | |||
| Campylobacter fetus: Food poisoning, intestinal infection Campylobacter jejuni: foodborne intestinal illness | |||
| Chlamydia trachomatis: Chlamydia | |||
| Clostridium botulinum: botulism | |||
| Clostridium difficile: C. difficile-associated diarrhea to severe colitis. | |||
| Clostridium Tetani: (lock-jaw), tetanus | |||
| Corynebacterium diptheriae: diptheria | |||
| Coxiella Burnetii: Q fever acute and chronic | |||
| Ehrlichia chaffeensis: human monocytic ehrlichiosis | |||
| Enterobacter aerogenes: Urinary tract infections and other hospital acquired infections, septicemia and meningitis | |||
| Enterococcus faecalis: endocarditis, UTI's, and bateremia | |||
| Escherichia coli: traveler's diarrhea; others can cause urinary tract infections (UTI). | |||
| Francisella tularensis: tularemia (rabbit fever) Gardnerella vaginalis: bacterial vaginosis | |||
| Haemophilus ducreyi: Chancroid (STD) | |||
| Haemophilus influenzae: Pneumonia (lung infection), Bacteremia (bloodstream infection), and | |||
| Meningitis (infection of the covering of the brain and spinal cord). | |||
| Heliobacter pylori: gastritis, peptic ulcer | |||
| Klebsiella pneumoniae: Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia | |||
| Klebsielle oxytoca: infections in the urinary tract, respiratory tract, and gastrointestinal tract. | |||
| Listeria monocytogenes: meningitis, abortion, septicemia, Mastitis. | |||
| Moraxella catarrhalis: Sinusitis, otitis media, and lower respiratory infections, Normal respiratory flora | |||
| Moraxella Lacunata: blepharoconjunctivitis (pink eye with inflammation of the eyelid) | |||
| Mycobacterium avium: non- tuberculous mycobacteria.tuberculosis | |||
| Mycobacterium Leprae: leprosy or Hansen's disease | |||
| Mycobacterium ulcerans: Buruli ulcer or Bairnsdale ulcer, Daintree ulcer, Mossman ulcer, and Searl ulcer | |||
| Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Gonorrhea | |||
| Neisseria meningitidis: Meningitis and sepsis called meningococcemia | |||
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