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Across
  1. 2. Has a thick capsule
  2. 5. lyses formed fibrin clots
  3. 6. Can cause infection given the right opportunity- opportunistic pathogen.
  4. 10. organisms from dental manipulations can enter the blood and implant on the endocardial surfaces leading to infection of the heart and heart damage (usually in hearts with defects).
  5. 19. clostridium oxygen requirement
  6. 20. inactivate complement system
  7. 22. deep skin infections (of the cells). tissue becomes hot, red, shiny and swollen.
  8. 23. causes the skin to slough off (SSS) the skin to slough off (SSS)
  9. 24. toxin that causes food poisoning.
  10. 25. one a the major types of infections of the viridians group streptococci.
  11. 26. major virulence factor of the group A streptococci; highly antigenic
  12. 27. Anaerobe streptococcus oxygen requirement
  13. 29. activates the proteolytic enzyme plasminogen; breaks up fibrin blood clots.
  14. 30. 25% of women are carriers, S. Agalactiae is associated.
  15. 31. Protects organism from opsonization and phagocytosis.
Down
  1. 1. collection of pus usually of the hair follicle (foliculitis)
  2. 3. leads to fibrin formation which provides a protection for the organisms.
  3. 4. contagious infection that usually occurs on the face
  4. 7. associated to Group A beta hemolytic streptococci
  5. 8. secreted as beta- lactamase and can degrade penicillin
  6. 9. also called erythrogenic toxin; found in only a few strains of beta-hemolytic group A strep; is a superantigen (massively stimulates T-cells to pour out cytokines).The cause of streptococcal toxic shock syndrome.
  7. 11. lives in GI tract and can cause similar diseases. Has been correlated with colon cancer
  8. 12. hemolysis of RBCs; oxygen stable; not antigenic
  9. 13. caused by S. intermedius group that can lead to abscesses in the brain or abdominal organs
  10. 14. degrades fat and oils; helps the organism to colonize on the skin
  11. 15. destroys white blood cells; hemolysis of RBS in the group A strep; oxygen labile; antigenic
  12. 16. degrades RBCs, neutrophils, macrophages and platelets
  13. 17. Common cause for UTIs in sexually active women
  14. 18. degrades connective tissues
  15. 21. destroy WBCs
  16. 28. bacillus oxygen requirement