Matching Pairs Microbes 1Online version Microbes 1-8 by Tamara Garcia 1 Neisseria gonorrheae 2 Neisseria meningitidis 3 Campylobacter jejeuni 4 Pseudomonas 5 Helicobacter pylori 6 Treponema pallidum 7 Borrelia burgdorferi 8 Legionella pneumophila Meningococcal meningitis Common in water and soil. Resistant to antibiotics and disinfectants. Serious pneumonia in people with cystic fibrosis and grows thick and sticky mucus in lungs. Green/blue pus that smells like Concord grapes. causes syphilis, a sexually-transmitted disease infection with this organism is a necessary prerequisite for a gastric ulcer. So ulcers are now treated with a course of antibiotics. causes Lyme disease. Vectored into humans by the bite of the deer tick, Ixodes scapularis. Found in cattle, pig, chicken intestines and contaminating meat products. Probably as common a cause of food poisoning as Salmonella. cause of gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted disease; often results in pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) which can scar Fallopian tubes and cause sterility; neonatal infections from mother at birth are possible discovered when it sickened 182, killed 26 in a mysterious pneumonia outbreak at a 1976 American Legionnaire’s convention in Philadelphia. Now known to be common in streams as well as sometimes in the water lines of air- conditioning systems. Responsible for a significant number of pneumonia cases in nursing homes.
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