Matching Pairs Microbes 2Online version Microbes 9-16 by Tamara Garcia 1 Escherichia coli 2 Proteus vulgaris 3 Salmonella enteritidis 4 Salmonella typhi 5 Shingella 6 Enterobacter aerogenes 7 Yersinia pestis 8 Klebsiella pneumoniae Cause of salmonellisis aka food poisoning. 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. "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. 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." Cause of pneumonia in elderly and immunocompromised.
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