Relacionar Columnas Microbes 2Versión en línea Microbes 9-16 por Tamara Garcia 1 Escherichia coli 2 Enterobacter aerogenes 3 Shingella 4 Yersinia pestis 5 Salmonella typhi 6 Klebsiella pneumoniae 7 Salmonella enteritidis 8 Proteus vulgaris Cause of salmonellisis aka food poisoning. Cause of typhoid fever, a big killer before good sanitation practices. Vectored into humans by bites of infected fleas, causes plague. Bubonic plague (mortality rate 50-75%), pneumonic plague (nearly always kills.) Probable cause of "Black death." A.k.a. the 'enteric' bacteria. Live in intestines of humans and other animals. Generally ferment glucose and various other carbs (which help us identify them.) Generally nonpathogenic but can cause urinary tract infections and wound infections. Resembles E. coli except it almost invariably produces a variety of enterotoxins. Cause of pneumonia in elderly and immunocompromised. "The prokaryotic guinea pig." Some stains cause diarrhea and strain 0157:H7 is pathogenic (hemolytic uremic syndrome, has killed people, esp. children) Highly motile. Live in intestines of humans and other animals.
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