Bacteria 6

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Diphtheria is caused by which gram positive rod?
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
By what process is diptheria toxin taken into the host cell?
Endocytosis
What ATPase protein pump acidifies the endosome with DTX in leading to B dependant translocation of A across the membrane?
V
What is caused by accumulation of Ab-Ag complexes that lodge in the kidney glomeruli to cause inflammation?
Glomerulonephritis
Yersinia pestis (pneumonic plague) uses injected effector proteins to subvert macrophage function preventing engulfment, what are they called?
Yops
What cytolysin is produced by Strep. pneumoniae to resist removal by ciliated/mucous cells?
Pneumolysin
What bacteria causes whooping cough?
Bordetella pertusis
What is the name given to bacteria that can spread from animals to humans?
Zoonosis
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What small pore forming toxin is released by Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
ESAT6
What type of necrosis occurs in the middle of TB granulomas?
Caseous
To the nearest 10% what is the mortality rate of untreated colera?
50%
In cholera high cytosolic levels of what molecule disturbs the activity of the CFTR pump?
cAMP
What is the name given to the watery diarrhoea in cholera?
Rice water
What gene does salmonella use to inhibit maturation of the phagolysosome, allowing it to survive in macrophages?
SPI-2
What causes typhoid fever?
Salmonella typhi
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