Question

Names of microorganism are harmful to us

Answer 1

rhino virus=common cold
ascaris lumbricoid= ascariasis
streptococcus pneumoniae= pneumonia

Answer 2

Acinetobacter:    opportunistic infections

Actinomyces:    cervicofacial, pulmonary, abdominal, pelvic or CNS (brain abscess) actinomycosis

Bacillus anthracis:    anthrax

Bacillus cereus:    food poisoning, bacteremia

Bacteroides:    abscess infection, bacteremia, endocarditis, soft tissue infection, gangrene

Bordetella pertussis:    pertussis (whooping cough)

Borrelia burgdorferi:    Lyme disease

Brucella:    Brucellosis (Malta fever)

Campylobacter jejuni:    enteritis, bacteremia, septic abortion, reactive arthritis

Chlamydia pneumoniae:    atypical pneumonia, bronchitis, pharyngitis, sinusitis

Chlamydia trachomatis:    nongonococcal urethritis, pelvic inflammatory disease, proctocolitis, epididymitis

Clostridium botulinum:    infant botulism, food borne botulism, wound botulism

Clostridium difficile:    antibiotic-associated diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis

Clostridium perfringens:    bacteremia, gas gangrene, soft tissue infections, food poisoning

Clostridium tetani:    tetanus

Citrobacter:    lower respiratory tract infection, UTI, hospital associated bacteremia, neonatal CNS infection

Corynebacterium jeikeium:    septecemia, endocarditis, foreign body infection

Corynebacterium other than jeikeium:    UTI, skin infections, bacteremia, pharyngitis, pneumonia, diphtheria (C. diphtheria)

Enterobacter:    lower respiratory tract infection, UTI, hospital associated bacteremia, burn wound infections

Enterocoocus:    bacteremia, endocarditis, osteomyelitis, UTI, intraabdominal infection

Escherichia coli:    UTI, hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, septicemia, neonatal meningitis, gastroenteritis

Gardnerella vaginalis:    bacterial vaginosis, UTI, bacteremia

Haemophilus ducreyi:    genital ulceration with regional adenopathy

Haemophilus influenza:    pneumonia, meningitis, epiglotitis, otitis

Klebsiella:    pneumonia, bronchitis, UTI, bacteremia, wound infection, billiary tract infection

Legionella:    Legionaire's Disease (pneumonia), Pontiac fever

Leptospira:    leptospirosis, Weil's Disease

Listeria monocytogenes:    meningitis, bacteremia, endocarditis, cerebritis, listerosis in pregnancy, granulomatosis infantiseptica

Moraxella catarrhalis:    sinusitis, otisitis media, acute urethritis, respiratory tract infections

Mycobacterium:    tuberculosis, opportunistic systemic infections

Mycoplasma:    community acquired pneumonia, tracheobronchitis, pharyngitis

Neisseria gonorrhae:    gonorrhea

Neisseria menigitidis:    meningitis, urethritis, arthritis, pneumonia

Nocradia:    pneumonia, brain abscess, disseminated nocardial infection, mycetoma, cellulitis, lymphocutaneous nodules, keratitis

Pasteurella:    animal bite wound infections, respiratory tract infection, oppotunistic infection

Proteus:    pneumonia, UTI, wound infection, chronic destructive ear infection, septicemia

Pseudomonas aeruginosa:    bacteremia, endocarditis, pulmonary infection, ear infection, burn wound infection, UTI, gastroenteritis, eye infection, musculoskeletal infection

Pseudomonas cepacia:    pulmonary infection in cystic fibrosis

Rickettsia:    Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

Salmonella:    enteritis, septicemia, enteric fever, typhoid fever

Serratia:    lower respiratory tract infection, UTI, bacteremia, wound infection

Shigella:    Shigellosis dysentery), reactive arthritis

Staph. aureus:    scaled skin syndrome, cutaneous infections, toxic shock syndrome, endocarditis, pneumonia, food poisoning, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, septicemia

Staph. epidermidis:    endocarditis, foreign