Bacteria 6

Diphtheria is caused by which gram positive rod?

By what process is diptheria toxin taken into the host cell?

What ATPase protein pump acidifies the endosome with DTX in leading to B dependant translocation of A across the membrane?

What is caused by accumulation of Ab-Ag complexes that lodge in the kidney glomeruli to cause inflammation?

Yersinia pestis (pneumonic plague) uses injected effector proteins to subvert macrophage function preventing engulfment, what are they called?

What cytolysin is produced by Strep. pneumoniae to resist removal by ciliated/mucous cells?

What bacteria causes whooping cough?

What is the name given to bacteria that can spread from animals to humans?

What small pore forming toxin is released by Mycobacterium tuberculosis?

What type of necrosis occurs in the middle of TB granulomas?

To the nearest 10% what is the mortality rate of untreated colera?

In cholera high cytosolic levels of what molecule disturbs the activity of the CFTR pump?

What is the name given to the watery diarrhoea in cholera?

What gene does salmonella use to inhibit maturation of the phagolysosome, allowing it to survive in macrophages?

What causes typhoid fever?