Bacteria

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Total cards: 24•Content version: v4•Public deck•Updated: 8/1/2026

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Treponema Treponema pallidum

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Spirochete ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Syphilis

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Borrelia Borrelia Burgdoferi

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Spirochete —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Lyme disease - Caused by an arthropod (Tick-borne)

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Leptospira Leptospira interrogans

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Spirochete ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Leptospirosis

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Vibrio Vibrio cholerae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Curved rod (Vibrio) ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Cholera ↣ GI disease

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Campylobacter Campylobacter jejuni

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Curved Rod (S-shaped) —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ GI infections from contaminated meat or water ↣ Guillain-Barre syndrome

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Helicobacter Helicobacter pylori

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Curved rod (Helical shape) ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Peptic ulcer

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Rickettsia Rickettsia Ricketsii

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Rocky mountain spotted fever ↣ Transmitted by vectors

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Chlamydia Chlamydia trachomatis

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Trachoma (Blindness) ↣ STD

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Chlamydophila Chlamydophila pneumoniae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Obligate intracellular parasite —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Pneumonia

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Pseudomonas - Obligate aerobe Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Produces green pigment (Pyocyanin) ↣ An infection found in burn patients ↣ Nosocomial infections ↣ Lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients

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Legionella Legionella pneumophila

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Legionnaire's disease (Pneumonia) ↣ Intracellular pathogens

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Bordetella Bordetella pertussis

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Whooping cough (Pertussis)

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Burkholderia Burkholderia cepacia

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus —————————————————– Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Found in cystic fibrosis patients ↣ Likes moist surfaces (Medical equipment)

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Escherichia

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Found in a normal GI tract ↣ Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

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Salmonella Salmonella enterica

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Typhoid fever ↣ Salmonellosis ↣ Food poisoning

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Shigella Shigella dysenteriae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Dysentery (Shigellosis)

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Klebsiella Klebsiella pneumoniae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Hemorrhagic pneumonia

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Serratia Serratia marcescens

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Opportunistic UTI ↣ Causes respiratory infections ↣ Colonies produce a red/pink pigment at room temperature

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Proteus Proteus vulgaris

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Yersinia Yersinia pestis

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus - Enteric ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Plague

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Enterobacter

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Fusobacterium

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Gingivitis

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Neisseria

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Diplococcus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Neisseria gonorrhoeae ↣ Neisseria Meningitidis

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Haemophilus Haemophilus influenzae

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(GRAM NEGATIVE) Morphology: Pleomorphic Bacillus ----------------------------------------------------- Disease caused/Other characteristics: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ↣ Meningitis ↣ Epiglottitis ↣ Otitis ↣ URI