All Organisms from Handout

These are all of the organisms that he has given us on the handout from the beginning of the semester. I will be updating them as I get information on them. The numbers on the end are the date that they were last updated.

Acetobacter aceti – causes wines to turn sour, pyruvate to acetic acid. creates vinegar. Pasteur worked with it. (10/3)
Actinomyces israelii -
Alcaligenes faecalis -
Alcaligenes viscolactis -
Alternaria tenuis -
Amoeba proteus -
Anabaena azollae - provides oxygen due to the photosynthesis
Arthrobacter globiformis -
Aspergillus niger -
Azotobacter chroococcum – free living nitrogen fixers (doesn't need a plant). Have NIF gene. Good for farming. gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3_
Bacillus anthracis - dangerous, bio-terrorism agent. Koch worked with it. Rod shaped. (9/11)
Bacillus cereus -
Bacillus megaterium -
Bacillus mycoides -
Bacillus polymxa -
Bacillus stearothermophilus
Bacillus subtilis – we have the second most information on this cell. Common soil organism. Rod shaped.
Bacillus thuringiensis
Bacteroides fragilis – found in your gut BUT if this gets into your peritoneum you will be very sick.
Balantidium coli
Blastomyces dermatitidis
Bordetella pertussis - whooping cough. (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3)
Borrelia burgdorferi - causes lyme disease. Spirochete shape. (9/11)
Borrelia recurrentis
Branhamella catarrhalis
Brucella abortus - bioterrorism agents. Found in cattle. gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3)
Campylobacter jejuni - causes gastroenteritis. Upset stomach. It is a fecal organism. It has gull wings – two cells that come down. Strict oxygen requirements. Aerobic/microaerophilic, motile, helical/vibrioid gram (-) bacteria (Section 2 of classification sheet that was handed out on 9/21) (10/3)
Candida albicans – most common cause of vaginitis (localized pathogen). It, like yeasts, buds. Fungal. Has conidia spores (9/19)
Caulobacter vibrioides
Cephalosporium acremonium
Chlamydia psittaci
Chlamydia trachomatis - STD, can come out of the eye. Pelvic inflammatory disease (9/11)
Chlorobium limicola
Chromatium okeii
Chromobacterium violoaceum
Clostridum botulinum – causes botulism, potent toxin, 2 grams would take out Chicago! It is an exo toxin. Anaerobic.
Clostridium difficile – causes AAPMC – antibiotic associated pseudo membranous colitus. We all have it in our intestines (small numbers). Antibiotics kill the good guys and these guys take over. Sexually transmitted.
Clostridium histolyticum -
Clostridium perfreingens – gas gang green or turkey day food poisoning. Anaerobic. Food borne and water borne.
Clostridium sporogenes
Clostridium tetani – lock jaw, potent toxin, 2 grams would take out chicago. anaerobe.
Clostridium thermosaccharolyticum
Coccidioides immitis - causes valley fever. Breath it in and it spreads. Primarily in southwest US (California, Arizona). (9/21)
Corynebacterium diptheriae
Coxiella burnetii - causes Q fever (9/17)
Cryptococcus neoformans - yeast pathogen (9/19)
Desulfotomaculum nigrificans
Desulfovibrio desulfuricans
Eikenella corrodens
Entamoeba histolytica – montazoomas revenge. protozoan. Can get it from street vendors food/water in foreign countries. eukaryotic (9/11)
Enterobacter aerogenes - associated with plants. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Enterbacter cloacae
Enterococcus faecalis
Epidermophyton floccosum - jock itch (9/19)
Erwinia cartovora
Escherichia coli - we have the more information about this organism than any other in the world. Food borne and water borne. Found in fecal matter. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/1)
Flavobacterium aquatile
Francisella tularensis – sometimes called rabbit fever. Causes tularemia. goes through unbroken skin. aerobic. (9/11)
Gardnerella vaginalis
Geotrichum candidum
Giardia lamblia - get it from tainted water (9/17)
Haemophilus duceryi
Haemophilus influenzae - Doesn’t cause the flu, the flu is a virus. This had been considered to cause it but as it turns out Haemophalis influenza actually kicks you while you are down with the flu. (10/3)
Helicobacter pylori – stomach acid (see handout), causes ulcer’s, found in the stomach. linked to stomach cancer. (9/11)
Histoplasma capsulatum – starts in the lung, found in dirt that has been enriched with bird poop. Severe lung disease that goes throughout your body – systemic. AIDS patients are more susceptible. (9/21)
Hormodendrum
Klebsiella pneumoniae -
Lactobacillus acidophilus
Lactobacillus brevis
Lactobacillus bulgaricus
Lactobacillus plantarum
Legionella pneumophila - picked up on air conditioners and water towers. gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (Section 4 in the handout from 9/21). (10/3)
Leptospira interrogans
Leuconostoc mesenteroides
Listeria monocytogenes
Methanobacterium
Methanosarcina
Micrococcus luteus
Micrococcus roseus
Microsporum audouinii - ringworm of the scalp (9/19)
Microsporum canis – a mold (spore forming). Gives you a small ring on your skin, get it from puppies/cats. (9/19)
Moraxella lacunata - found in toddlers and old folks that continually rub there eyes → pink eye. (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3)
Morganella morganii
Mycobacterium avium complex
Mycobacterium leprae – ancient leprosy. Can't do Koch's postulates on them. Found in armidillo. STD
Mycobacterium tuberculosis – causes tuberculosis, closely related to ancient disease leprosy. major disease in the world. Relatively slow grower. (10/3)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae - causes walking pneumonia (PAP). too small to visualize by light microscope. no cell wall.
Neisseria gonorrhoeae - clap, meningitis. STD. gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3)
Neisseria meingitidis – spinal meningitis. Kills overnight. Airborne bacterial. Bioterrorism agent.
Neisseria mucosa
Neisseria sicca
Nitrobacter winogradskyi - chemoautotroph (get energy from oxidation of inorganic substances). Carry out key role in nitrogen cycle.
Nitrococcus - chemoautotroph (get energy from oxidation of inorganic substances)
Nocardia asteroides
Pasteurella multocida - more common than rabies. Get it from a bite. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Penicillium chrysogenum
Penicillium griseofulvium
Penicillium notatum
Penicillium roqueforti
Peptostreptoccus
Photobacterium phosphoreum
Plasmodium falciparum - can cause malaria
Plasmodium vivax - can cause malaria
Pneumocystis carinii
Propioibacterium acnes
Proteus mirabilis
Proteus vulgaris
Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Tough to treat. Blue green puss. gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3)
Pseudomonas cepacia
Pseudomonas fluorescens
Rhizobium leguminosarum – soybeans, alpalpha, clover. Nitrogen fixers. The organisms live on the plants. They have the NIF gene.
Rhizopus nigricans
Rhodopseudomonas
Rhodospirillum rubrum
Rickettsia prowazekii
Rickettsia rickettsii - John denver’s disease - Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. Usually spread through a vector (like a tic) (9/11)
Rickettsia tsutsugamushi
Saccharomyces carlsbergensis - beer making. If you can take their yeast you can recreate their beer (9/19)
Saccharomyces cerevisiae – baking yeast, eukaryotic cell, easy to grow (9/19)
Salmonella choleraesuis – Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Salmonella enteritidis var. typhimurium – causes food poisoning, gives you severe diarrhea. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Salmonella typhi – causes typhoid fever. Mixing of drinking water and sewege you can get typhoid – tough disease. Food borne and water borne. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Schizosaccharomyces octosporus - budding and fission reproduction (asexual). Has 8 spores in the ascospores (9/19)
Serratia marcescenes
shigella dysenteriae – dysenteriae causes diahrea. Was the cause of more deaths than anything else in the civil war. Food and water borne. Rod shaped. Fecal - blood in poop. Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Shigella flexneri - Facultatively Anaerobic Gram (-) rods. (10/3)
Spirillum volutans - we saw it in lab. Has flagella at both ends. Usually free living. Aerobic/microaerophilic, motile, helical/vibrioid gram (-) bacteria (Section 2 of classification sheet that was handed out on 9/21) (10/3)
Sporothrix schenckii - subcutaneous infection. Causes rose gardner’s disease. Soil organism. Get it by being pricked by a thorn. Looks like a red train track from original puncture towards the center of your body.(9/21)
Staphylococcus aureus - causes staff infections. Causes about 25 diseases. One of the toughest is Abbreviated MRSA. Pasteur studied it. Grown in mannitol salt agar. (10/3)
Staphylococcus epidermidis - found all over our skin. 1-10mm (9/11)
Streptococcus cremoris
Streptococcus lactis
Streptococcus mutans - causes plaque and cavities
Streptococcus pneumoniae - one of the worst causes of primary pnemoniae - PAP. causes pneumococcal pneumoniae and meningitis.
Streptococcus pyogenes - strep throat. Airborne bacterial. causes puerperal fever.
Streptococcus salivarius
Streptococcus thermophilus
Streptomyces erythreus
Streptomyces griseus
Streptomyces venezuelae
Thiobacillus thiooxidans
Toxoplasma gondii – get it from a cat (feces). disease is called taxoplasmosis. protozoan. AIDS patients and pregnant women in first trimester
Treponema pallidum - causes syphilis. can't do Koch's postulates on them.
Treponema vincentii
Trichomonas vaginalis
Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Trichophyton rubrum - (red mold)– ringworm of the foot, athletes foot. Get it from shower floors. (9/21)
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Veillonella alcalescens
Vibrio cholerae – organism comes out in the poop. Causes cholerae. Associated with Snow (9/11)
Yersinia pestis – the plague microbe. Can be transmitted by infected fleas. (9/11)
Zoogloea ramigera - sewage treatment. gram-negative aerobic rods and cocci (Section 4 from handout on 9/21). (10/3)