Bacterial diseases

Cards (9)

  • Salmonella food poisoning is spread by:
    • bacteria ingested in food
    • food prepared in un hygienic conditions
  • In the UK, poultry have been vaccinated against salmonella to control the spread
  • Salmonella secretes bacteria and toxins, this effects of this are:
    • fever
    • abdominal cramps
    • vomiting
    • diarrhoea
  • Gonorrhoea is an STD
  • symptoms of gonorrhoea
    • thick yellow or green discharge from vagina or penis
    • Pain when peeing
  • Gonorrhoea is caused by bacterium
  • Gonorrhoea used to be treated with the antibiotic penicillin. but bacteria strains were resistant to some of it
    • Gonorrhoea is spread by sexual contact
    • gonorrhoea can be controlled with a treatment with antibiotics or barrier contraception (condom)
  • Bacterial diseases
    • gonorrhoea
    • salmonella