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  • Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

    Pseudomonas Aeruginosa

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    Pseudomonas aeruginosa Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Greek Puon = pus and Greek kuanos = dark blue, is referred to Pseudomonas aeruginosa Latin species name = aeruginosus covered in rust. Isolated in 1882 by Gessard. This is the species most known and most widespread of the genus Pseudomonas. The more pathogenic, it is the type species of the…

  • Listeria

    Listeria

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    HISTORY: Listeria monocytogenes, type species of the genus Listeria (named after the English surgeon Lord Lister) was described in 1926 by Murray; The bacterium was isolated during an epizootic reaching rabbits and guinea pigs showed strong increase in circulating monocytes and hepatic necrosis lesions. This bacterium was then isolated from various domestic and wild animals.…

  • Bacillus

    Bacillus

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    GENERAL: The genus Bacillus includes rod-shaped bacteria, usually mobile, spore-forming. These bacilli are Gram-positive, facultatively aerobic or anaerobic strict. Bacillus genus includes about twenty species, but is primarily concerned with B. anthracis, due to its pathogenicity (animals, man) and B. cereus (food poisoning). However, in recent years, many publications make other Bacillus species responsible for…

  • Gram Negative bacilli difficile growth

    Gram Negative bacilli difficile growth

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    Cardiobacterium hominis HISTORY: Slotnick and Dougherthy proposed in 1964 the name C. hominis to designate gram-negative bacilli, polymorphic slow culture, initially placed in the group II-D (related bacteria Pasteurella) responsible exclusively endocarditis.There is no andgénique kinship with Brucella, Streptobacillus, Pasteurella and Haenwphilus. I – HABITAT AND EPIDEMIOLOGY: C. hominis is part of the normal flora…

  • Other non-fermenting bacilli

    Other non-fermenting bacilli

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    Dr. Taoufik

    FLAVOBACTERIUM I – GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS: For years, the genus Flavobacterium presented very heterogeneous: indeed he gathered gram-negative bacilli or positive, stationary or mobile, to ciliature peritrichous, bacilli whose only common property was yellow pigmentation of their cultures. In the latest edition of “Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology,” 1984, the genus Flavobacterium was redefined as comprising…

  • Other aero-anaerobic gram-negative bacilli

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    OTHER BACTERIA BITES: Bacteria cited herein are present in the oral flora of animals and can be found in wounds or when consecutive septicemia bites. These are small Gram-negative bacilli, motionless, giving small colonies that grow slowly on blood agar or chocolate agar incubated in an atmosphere enriched in CO ^. Not yet classified accurately,…

  • Cutaneous Anthrax

    Cutaneous Anthrax

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    – Toxic infection of herbivores due to Bacillus anthracis transmitted to humans by inoculation through the skin (contact with dead animals of coal, flies). Common in tropical regions. – There is also a pulmonary form, transmitted by inhalation and gastrointestinal form transmitted by ingestion of contaminated meat. Clinical signs: – Pruritic papule and vesicle moving…