Robbins Chapter 8 - Infectious Diseases
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- fatal familial insomnia
- prions
- can't synthesize ATP
- chlamydiae
- lack cell walls
- mycoplasmas
- cause urogenital infections, conjunctivitis, trachoma, respiratory infection
- chlamydiae
- transmitted by lice, ticks, and mites
- rickettsiae
- epidemic typhus is transmitted by ___
- lice
- scrub typhus is transmitted by ___
- mites
- cause atypical pneumonia or nongonococcal urethritis
- mycoplasmas
- tinea cause _____
- athlete's foot
- _______ cause abscesses
- sporotrichosis
- cocidioides, histoplasma, and blastomyces can cause ______
- granulomas
- candida, aspergillus, and mucor cause systemic infection in _____________ with tissue necrosis, hemorrhage, and vascular occlusion
- immunocompromised hosts
- opportunistic fungus which causes pneumonia in AIDS patients
- Pneumocystis jiroveci