Okay, so I've been getting a lot of requests for some more infectious disease topics.

So today we're going to go over bacterial diseases. High-yo, there's lots of them, and I focused on the highest deal topics that are frequently tested on Bartonella, botulism, chlamydia, cute rheumatic fever, camplobacter-june, as well as many others. Got plenty of mnemonics in here, maybe too many. So we'll get started. As as always a quick thank you for all of the nice

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so thank you so much let's go ahead and get started starting first with cholera so when you see

cholera c h o'l-e-a on an exam question the first thing i want you to do is put a two between the

h-n-o you put a two between the h&O. You put a tube between the H&O. That makes H2O. Why? Because every time you see cholera, I want you to be thinking of water. As everything you need to know about this disease from the infectious organism, the mode of transmission, treatment, clinical manifestations involves water. So if you can remember H2O, you can likely get the question right on the exam.

So cholera is a life-threatening infection caused by toxin-producing strains of an organism called Vibrio-Colerae. Vibrio-Colerae is a comma-shaped gram-negative rod. And again, everything ties back to water, just like we talked about before. and even with Fibrio, R-I-O-R-I-O-R-I-O.

If you speak

spanish you may already see it but vibrio ends in Rio which means river in

Spanish so when you see a vibrio Rio think river think water think H2O so where

people typically exposed to this organism this will most commonly be through the

fecal to oral route through consumption of contaminated water

ingestion of water contaminated with feces is oral route through consumption of contaminated water. Ingestion of water

contaminated with feces is often cited as one of the most common sources of transmission of cholera,

and it's why this is more common in settings with poor sanitation and limited access to clean

drinking water, water, water. With that being said, contaminated food is another one. So consumption

of specific

contaminated foods can also spread the disease. And while there are a number of foods that can

become contaminated, contaminated shellfish is an exam favorite. And I personally got a question on

this in school. And luckily for you, me and my mnemonic shellfish live in, you got it water.

So for transmission, remember contaminated water and shellfish

next let's talk about clinical manifestations the main thing you need to know is this infection

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