What bacteria cause disease?

Answer 1

Bacteria That Cause Human Disease Only a small fraction of the thousands of species of bacteria on the earth cause disease in humans. Bacterial infection can be prevented by killing bacteria with heat, as in sterilization and pasteurization. If a bacterial infection does occur, doctors may treat it with antibiotics. However, overuse of antibiotics in recent years has enabled the development of strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics, such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which causes tuberculosis.

Bacillus anthracis

1. Anthrax

Bacillus cereus

1. B. cereus food poisoning

Clostridium botulinum

1. Botulism

Clostridium perfringens

1. Clostridial myonecrosis (gas gangrene)

Clostridium tetani

1. Tetanus (lockjaw)

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

1. Diphtheria

Escherichia coli

1. Diarrhea

Klebsiella pneumoniae

1. Bronchopneumonia

Legionella pneumophila

1. Legionnaire's disease

Mycobacterium leprae

1. Leprosy

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

1. Tuberculosis

Salmonella species

1. Salmonella

Salmonella typhi

1. Typhoid fever

Salmonella typhimurium

1. Salmonella gastroenteritis

Shigella dysenteriae

1. Bacillary dysentery

Shigella species

1. Shigellosis

Yersinia enterocolitica

1. Yersiniosis,
2. gastroenteritis

Yersinia pestis

1. Plague

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

1. Mesenteric lymphadenitis

Chlamydia Chlamydia trachomatis

1. Trachoma
2. conjunctivitis

Coccobacillus Bordetella pertussis

1. Pertussis (whooping cough)

Brucella species

1. Undulant fever

Hemophilus influenzae

1. Meningitis
2. bacterial pneumonia

Hemophilus pertussis

1. Pertussis (whooping cough)

Coccus Neisseria gonorrhoeae

1. Gonorrhea
2. pelvic inflammatory disease

Neisseria meningitidis

1. Meningitis

Staphylococcus aureus

1. Pneumonia
2. Toxic shock syndrome
3. skin infections
4. meningitis

Streptococcus pneumoniae

1. Pneumonia
2. ear infections
3. meningitis

Streptococcus pyogenes

1. Strep throat
2. rheumatic fever

Streptococcus species

1. Scarlet fever
2. puerperal fever

Listeria Listeria monocytogenes

1. Listeriosis
2. perinatal septicemia
3. meningitis
4. encephalitis
5. intrauterine infections

Mycoplasma Mycoplasma pneumoniae

1. Pneumonia

Rickettsia Rickettsia prowazekii

1. Epidemic typhus
2. Brill-Zinsser disease (spread by lice)

Rickettsia rickettsii

1. Rocky Mountain spotted fever (spread by ticks)

Rickettsia typhi

1. Endemic typhus (murine typhus, spread by rat fleas)

Spirillus Campylobacter fetus jejuni

1. Campylobacteriosis (bacterial diarrheal illness)

Spirillum minor

1. Rat-bite fever

Spirochete Treponema pallidum

1. Syphilis

Vibrio Aeromonas hydrophila

1. Gastroenteritis
2. septicemia
3. cellulitis
4. wound infections
5. urinary tract infections

Plesiomonas shigelloides

1. Gastroenteritis
2. diarrhea

Vibrio cholerae 01

1. Epidemic cholera

Vibrio cholerae non-01

1. Gastroenteritis

Vibrio parahemolyticus

1. V. parahemolyticus-associated gastroenteritis

Vibrio vulnificus

1. Wound infections
2. gastroenteritis
3. primary septicemia

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Pathogenic Bacteria
Here is a list of some of the names of pathogenic bacteria that cause disease and what disease they cause:

• CLOSTRIDIUM BOTULINUM - causes botulism (potentially deadly form of food poisoning)
• CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE - causes diptheria
• LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA - causes legionellosis
• VIBRIO CHOLERAE - causes the diarrheal illness cholera

Answer 2

Pneumonia, meningitis, and food poisoning are some bacteria that can make you sick.

Answer 3

It is the other way around...bacteria cause infections and disease.