Matching Pairs Microbes 2Online version Microbes 9-16 by Tamara Garcia 1 Proteus vulgaris 2 Enterobacter aerogenes 3 Escherichia coli 4 Salmonella enteritidis 5 Shingella 6 Yersinia pestis 7 Klebsiella pneumoniae 8 Salmonella typhi 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. Highly motile. Live in intestines of humans and other animals. 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." Resembles E. coli except it almost invariably produces a variety of enterotoxins. Cause of typhoid fever, a big killer before good sanitation practices. Cause of pneumonia in elderly and immunocompromised. Cause of salmonellisis aka food poisoning. "The prokaryotic guinea pig." Some stains cause diarrhea and strain 0157:H7 is pathogenic (hemolytic uremic syndrome, has killed people, esp. children)
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