category b

• category b agents?

  Food contaminants

  typhus fever

  brucellosis

  epsilon toxin

  glanders

  salmonellosis

  staphylococcal enterotoxin b

  viral encephalitis

  meliodosis

  water safety threats

  cholera

  psittacosis

  ricin toxin

  q fever
• Category C Agents are emerging pathogens that have the potential to be engineered into weapons.
• brucellosis causative agent?

  brucella species
• a zoonotic disease that can be acquired by inhaled aerosols, ingestion or skin abrasions?

  brucella
• epsilon toxin causative agent?

  clostridium perfringens
• it is a “Box Car Shape Bacillus”?

  epsilon toxin
• salmonellosis causative agent?

  salmonella
• cholera causative agent?

  vibrio cholerae
• foodborne illness?

  salmonellosis
• waterborne illness?

  cholera
• glanders causative agent?

  Burkholderia mallei
• glanders is previously know as?

  pseudomonas mallei
• Infectious disease in horses, mules and donkeys?

  glanders
• melioidosis causative agent?

  burkholderia pseudomallei
• melioidosis is previously known as?

  pseudomonas pseudomallei
• melioidosis aka?

  whitmore's disease

  nightcliff gardeners disease
• psitatacosis causative agent?

  chlamydia psittaci
• Causes psittacosis or ornithosis or parrot fever?

  chlamydia psittaci
• transmitted through direct contact with soil and water?

  melioidosis
• psittacosis aka?

  aviah chlamydiosis ornithosis
• q fever causative agent?

  coxiella burnetii
• symptoms of q fever?

  hepatitis and endocarditis
• most toxic agent?

  ricin toxin
• ricin toxin causative agent?

  ricinus communis
• Cause an acute and potentially fatal gastroenteritis?

  ricin toxin
• Harmful substance produced by Staphylococcus aureus?

  staphylococcal enterotoxin b
• Contributes to food poisoning in humans?

  straphylococcal enterotoxin b
• typhus fever causative agent?

  rickettsia prowazekii
• Causes epidemic typhus (louse-born) and Brill-Zinsser disease?

  typhus fever
• viral encephalitis causative agent?

  alphaviruses
• 3 alpha viruses?

  eastern, western, venezuelan equine encephalitis
• water safety threats are caused by?

  vibrio cholerae

  cryptospordium parvum
• cryptosporidiosis causative agent?

  cryptospordium parvum
• most common form of waterborne disease?

  cryptospordium parvum