Pasteurella Multocida
Pasteurella Multocida Morven S. Edwards The organism now designated Pasteurella multocida was isolated first by Kitt in 1878 and subsequently by Pasteur, who identified it as the causative agent of…
Gonococcal Infections
Gonococcal Infections E. Lori R. Patterson Although gonorrhea is most familiar as a urogenital infection in sexually active adults, disease caused by Neisseria gonorrhoeae occurs at a variety of anatomic…
Meningococcal Infections
Meningococcal Infections C. Mary Healy Morven S. Edwards Carol J. Baker Great strides have been made in our understanding of the meningococcus since the initial descriptions of “epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis”…
Listeriosis
Listeriosis Morven S. Edwards Listeria monocytogenes was described in 1911 as a bacillus that produced minute nodular lesions in the liver of a rabbit. It was shown to have infective…
Leptospirosis
Leptospirosis Ralph D. Feigin Leptospirosis is a disease caused by a single family of organisms that contains multiple serogroups and serotypes. The disease is characterized by a broad spectrum of…
Legionella
Legionella Morven S. Edwards A constellation of illnesses caused by Legionella has been defined since the late 1970s. When epidemic pneumonia was diagnosed among delegates attending the 1976 American Legion…
Haemophilus Influenzae
Haemophilus Influenzae Sheldon L. Kaplan Haemophilus influenzae is a fastidious, gram-negative, pleomorphic coccobacillus that is responsible for serious systemic and local infections in children. MICROBIOLOGY H. influenzae is differentiated from…
Diarrheagenic Escherichia Coli
Diarrheagenic Escherichia Coli James P. Nataro Larry K. Pickering Escherichia coli is the predominant aerobic gram-negative organism of the human intestine. Whereas most E. coli isolates are harmless intestinal commensals,…
Diphtheria
Diphtheria Julia A. McMillan Ralph Feigin Corynebacterium diphtheriae may infect the skin or the respiratory tract. Acute disease results when the infecting strain elaborates an extracellular protein toxin and the…
Cat-Scratch Disease
Cat-Scratch Disease Kenneth M. Boyer Cat-scratch disease is a subacute, regional lymphadenitis syndrome that occurs after cutaneous inoculation. Contact with cats, in the form of a scratch by claws or…
