What are the three diseases caused by organisms that form endospores?

Answer 1

Bacterial Spores are a bacterial defensive strategy to survive in harsh environments. Several types of bacteria are capable of using this mechanism. The spores themselves do not cause the disease, they must be first be reactivated to functional bacteria in the proper environment. Bascillis anthasis or more commonly know as anthrax is the most well know due to the potential terrorist threat. The more prevalent bacteria which causes disease is clostridium difficile which reactivates in the colon causing a diarrhea illness usually after someone takes antibiotics which kill off the normal colon bacteria. Up to 5-10% of people carry this in their colon, but this becomes much higher amongst hospitalized patients. There are other spore forming bacteria, but these are not commonly associated with disease.

Answer 2

There are more than 3 diseases caused by endospore producers, but here are a few:

1. Botulism - Clostridium botulinum
2. Pseudomembranous colitis - Clostridium difficile
3. Gas gangrene - Clostridium perfringens
4. Food poisoning - Costridium perfringens
5. Tetanus - Clostridium tetani
6. Anthrax - Bacillus anthracis
7. Food poisoning - Bacillus cereus

Those are the main ones, but there are a few more that aren't as common.

Answer 3

clostridium tetani, clostridium botulinum,and clostridium perfringens

Answer 4

The most common endospore formers are the genera of Bacillus and Clostridium.

Answer 5

Bacillus