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Mycobacterium tuberculosis: bacteria that cause pulmonary tuberculosis (microscope image)
Introduction
Many types of bacteria that settle in the human body can cause disease. These bacteria can penetrate the human body in a variety of ways (body cuts, insect bites, contaminated food, air and water).
Major diseases and bacteria causing
- Pulmonary Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacillus.
- Leprosy (leprosy): Hansen bacillus (Mycobacterium lepra).
- Diphtheria: diphtheric bacillus.
- Pertussis (pertussis): Bordetella pertussis bacteria
- Whipple's disease: Tropheryma whipplei bacteria.
- Bacterial pneumonia: Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteria.
- Scarlet fever: Streptococcus pyogenes.
- Tetanus: Tetanus bacillus (Clostridium tetani)
- Tularemia: caused by the bacterium Francisella tularensis
- Leptospirosis: Leptospira interrogans.
- Trachoma: Chlamydia trachomatis.
- Gonorrhea: Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria
- Lyme disease: caused by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi
- Syphilis: Treponema pallidum bacteria.
- Carbuncle (anthrax): Bacillus anthracis bacteria
- Spotted Fever: bacteria: Rickettsia rickettsii
- Meningococcal meningitis: bacteria called meningococcus.
- Cholera: Vibrio cholerae bacteria
- Typhoid: Salmonella typhi
