Pathogenicity

the disease-causing ability by some bacteria.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

causes tuberculosis

Vibrio cholerae

causes cholera

Borrelia burgdorferi

Lyme disease

Treponema pallidum

causes syphilis

Neisseria gonorrhoeae

causes gonorrhea

Chlamydia trochamatis

causes chlamydia

Bacillus anthracis

causes anthrax

Clostridium botulinum

causes botulism (used in botox)

Endotoxins

are released only when bacteria die and the cell breaks down. -salmonella(Gram negative)

Exotoxins

are released by living bacteria and can persist even when bacteria are gone. -Clostridium botulinum -Vibrio cholerae (Gram Positive)

Giardia intestinalis

causes an intestinal infection called giardia (Phylum Diplomonadida)

Trichomonas vaginalis

causes an STD called trichomoniasis (Phylum Parabasala)

Trypanosoma

causes sleeping sickness (Phylum Kinetoplastida)

Plasmodium vivax

causes malaria and is carried by the vector which is a female Anopheles mosquito (Phylum Apicomplexa)

Phytophthora infestans

a parasitic water mold responsible for causing the Irish Potato Famine (Phylum Oomycota)

Entamoeba histolytica

parasitic amoeba that causes amebic dysentery--an infection of the large intestine. is contacted through contaminated drinking water, food or utensils (Phylum Entamoeba)

Pfiesteria

the “cell from hell” and causes red tides and secretes toxins into the water (Phylum Dinoflagellata)

Peridinium

a mutualistic symbiont of coral reefs (Phylum Dinoflagellata)

Euglena gracilis

a freshwater euglenid (Phylum Euglenophyta)

Trichonympha

a termite flagellate-mutualistic relationship the the__ digests the cellulose of wood that the termite ingests (Phylum Parabasala)