Microbiology and Immunology 3820A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Enterotoxigenic Escherichia Coli, Urinary Tract Infection, Proteus Mirabilis
28 Nov 2017
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If any pathogenic potential: can always cause endocarditis and sepsis. Escherichia coli: entimiba coli- can get confused, symbiotic relationship- occupy same ecological niche or live in close association with one another. Enterotoxigenic e. coli: (etec: a major cause of traveler"s diarrhea. Verotoxigenic (enterohemorrhagic) e. coli (vtec, ehec: vero cells, cultured cell line that comes from african green monkeys. O157:h7(walkerton: antibiotics contraindicated, if you take antibiotics with vtec, increased risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome 17 fold, can kill you if you take antibiotics. 4: enteric fever, headache, prostration (lying on belly- really weak, rose spots (red spots on abdomen, initial constipation, later diarrhea, diagnosis by isolation from blood, later from stools, from bowel through lymphatics to blood stream, systemic illness. Ill, weak, and sick typhoid fever: antibiotics indicated. Yersinia enterocolitica: pork, cold cuts, contaminated water, diarrhea, causes pseudoappendicitis, gets into the mesenteric lymph nodes serves the bowel produces pain mimics presentation of appendicitis, some arachnoid bites can almost mimic appendicitis.
