INDEX TO SOME PATHOGENIC BACTERIA IN SLUDGE BIOSOLIDS AND RECLAIMED WATER - All are heterotrophic pathogenic Etiologic Agents -- Also see Etiologic Agents  Viruses - Helminths - Protozoa - Fungus Coliform are included here as well as fecal coliform EPA, WEF and state regulators say these bacteria obey the laws and will not hurt you. Biohazard Level 2 Laboratory safety handling procedures are required.      2008-- "Now E.coli, the most common germ known to cause infection in humans, also has become drug resistant outside hospitals." "The bug produces enzymes called beta lactamase and they physically destroy antibiotics."  "The antibiotics aren't in the food, the resistant bugs are. So food, if not washed or cooked properly, can become a source of contamination." Collignon proved his point by culturing his own faeces before and after a recent trip to China. Despite being fastidiously clean, what he ate produced a drug-resistant strain of E.coli on his return." By, Jim Bynum                                                                                                          Revised  5/31/2009 ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA CREATED IN WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS In the last twenty-five years,acute Illnesses, chronic sickness and deaths have been caused by bacteria once thought to be beneficial. New bacteria have emerged and old ones have become very deadly.   In 1989 EPA  only acknowledged five bacteria in sludge biosolids and said they did not cause serious disease: 1) Campylobacter jejuni - Gastroenteritis; 2) Escherichia coli (pathogenic strains)- Gastroenteritis;  3) Salmonella sp-  Gastroenteritis and enteric fever; 4)  Shigella sp - Gastroenteritis; 5) Vibrio Cholerae - Cholera. EPA continues to fund a multi-millon dollar public relation campaign for WEF to get public acceptance of bacterial contaminated sludge biosolids disposal on food crops, school yards, public parks and lawns. In 1992 published information was limited to, "Most of these pathogens are very deadly to humans and animals. Although the bacteria pathogens Campylobacter Jejuni and Escherichia primarily cause a relative mild case of diarrhea, Salmonella, Shigetla and Vibrio cholerae effect the gastrointestinal tract and can be fatal." Since 1992, all of these bacteria in sludge biosolids have become very deadly and many have taken on the necrotizing "flesh eating" characteristics. They also require biohazard level 2 safety procedures for handling in a laboratory. Necrotizing simply means the bacterial toxins destroy the soft tissue cells and must be surgically removed to  stop the infection. Graphic images of soft tissue infections and necrotizing infections. Many now produce hydrogen sulfide - a poisonous gas. Why would EPA and WEF claim it is safe for our children to play on these bacterial contaminated sludge biosolids and reclaimed water disposal sites -- farms, play grounds, school grounds, state and city parks as well as home lawns? Bacteria Families: See Glossary of Infections and bacteria that produce Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Acinetobacter: A. baumannii can be linked to many hospital acquired infections including skin and wound infections, pneumonia, and meningitis, necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating",Multidrug-resistant   Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Actinomycetes: fungus-like bacteria; marked by indolent inflammatory lesions of the lymph nodes draining the mouth, by intraperitoneal abscesses, or by lung abscesses, necrotizing "flesh eating". Multiple antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Aeromonas: necrotizing "flesh eating". Bacteraemia (bacteria in the blood) is the most common pathogenic manifestation of Aeromonas in humans. Suppressed in coliform test. --Drug resistant.  Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Bacillus : causes anthrax, cause toxin-mediated food poisoning, necrotizing cellulitis "flesh eating" Drug resistant. Bacteroides: some species can cause potentially fatal abscesses and bacteremias, necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating', Antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Bifidobacterium: a large group of probiotic bacteria. Infections due to some species of Bifidobacterium include obstetric and gynecological sepsis, peritonitis, pulmonary infections, urinary tract infections, bacteremia and endocarditis. Bordetella: causes whooping cough, Bordetella bronchiseptica is usually a cause of pneumonia, otitis media, and other respiratory infections in animals. Necrotizing pneumonia "flesh eating" antibiotic-resistant BRUCELLA: can enter the body via the skin, respiratory tract, or digestive tract.  enters the blood and the lymphatics, eventually cause bacteremia (bacterial blood infiltration), necrotizing orchitis 'flesh eating", antibiotic-resistant, Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Campylobacter jejuni: leading cause of enteric illness,  infections,  heart valves (endocarditis, meningitis, pneumonia, miscarriage, and a severe form of Guillain-Barré syndrome, necrotizing arteritis/periarteritis "flesh eating", antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Cedecea: (coliform) bacteremia, Resistance to antibiotics Citrobacter: (coliform) infections of the urinary tract and infant meningitis. necrotizing meningo-encephalitis, multiple antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Clostridium:  causative agent of botulism, important cause of gas gangrene, colitis, and food poisoning,  enteritis, necrotizing "flesh eating" intestinal tissue, Multiply antibiotic- resistant.  There  was a 35% increase in deaths between 1999 and 2004. Reported mortality rates from Clostridium difficile disease in the United States increased from 5.7 per million population in 1999 to 23.7 per million in 2004, (Sept. 2007) deaths included septicemia (n = 7,654, 37%), renal failure (n = 4,786, 23%), pneumonia (n = 3,430, 17%), urinary tract infection (n = 1,496, 7%), and anemia (n = 785, 4%). HIV was reported for 81 CDAD-   related deaths (<1%).  Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Chromobacterium Sepsis: cause severe life-threatening sepsis with metastatic abscesses similar to melioidosis Corynebacterium:  causes diphtheria, granulomatous lymphadenitis, pneumonitis, pharyngitis, skin infections, and endocarditis, necrotizing lymphadenitis "flesh eating", resistant to antibiotics. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Coxiella: Q Fever - hepatitis -  high fevers (up to 104-105° F), severe headache, general malaise, myalgia, confusion, sore throat, chills, sweats, non-productive cough, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and chest pain. endocarditis --  Organisms are excreted in milk, urine, and feces of infected animals. organisms are resistant to heat, drying, and many common disinfectants Cyanobacterial toxins can be classified into two different types: neurotoxins and hepatotoxins. Neurotoxins include anatoxin-a, anatoxin-a(s) and saxitoxin, and are commonly produced by the Anabaena and Oscillatoria species. Consumption of large amounts of these toxins by animals or humans can result in muscle cramps, twitching, paralysis and cardiac or respiratory failure. Symptoms can appear within a few hours of exposure, but may take up to 36 hours to manifest themselves. Desulfovibrio:  Produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Escherichia coli: (Coliform -- fecal coliform)  E. coli is unique in that the most deadly bacteria  0157:H7 only ferments lactose at 25°C (77°F) , while the coliform test is for bacteria that ferment lactose at 35°C (95°F ), and the fecal coliform test is for a thermotolerant E. coli bacteria that ferments lactose at 44.5°C. (112.1°F) The current  public relation ploy is that because E. coli is a part of the normal gut flora it is not harmful to humans. However, once E. coli leaves the gut it can be very deadly as in urinary tract infection or cause sepsis and meningitis in newborns. As a group E. causes inflammatory diarrhea , destruction of red blood cells and kidney failure (hemolytic-uremic syndrome), urinary tract infections, bacteremia, meningitis, severe, lung infection , pneumonia, abscesses  in the lining of the lungs (empyema), necrotizing "flesh eating"  infections in the urinary tract and the abdominal cavity. Sequelae of ETEC, EPEC, and EIEC infection are not well described. Enteroaggregative E. coli may cause chronic diarrhea. There is no formal surveillance system for diarrheogenic E. coli and most laboratories are unable to identify them. Causes clinical mastitis in cattle. "Tests take 3 to 7 days, depending on the pathogen, officials have said." Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Edwardsiella: (coliform) produces hydrogen sulfide, cause gastroenteritis and wound infections in humans, necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", antibiotic resistance Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Enterobacter: (coliform) cause hospital infections, urinary tract and respiratory tract infections, necrotizing enterocolitis "flesh eating", antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Enterococci:  cause urinary tract infections, bacteremia, bacterial endocarditis, diverticulitis, and meningitis, necrotizing "flesh eating" wound infections. Drug resistant. EUBACTERIUM:  occasionally causing necrotizing "flesh eating" infection of soft tissue, attack carbohydrates, endocarditis and wound infections, Antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Ewingella: (coliform) cause severe, life-threatening bacteremia,  Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome, septicemia (blood poisoning), naturally resistant Flavobacterium: a penicillin resistant bacterium that can cause neonatal meningitis, Bacteremic necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Antibiotic Resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Fusobacterium:  infection in the oral cavity (the mouth), causes of gingivitis, necrotizing "flesh eating" infections, liver, lungs, and other tissues, chronic ulcer of the colon, Antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Haemophilus: cause of lethal meningitis in infants, acute contagious conjunctivitis, chancroid, vaginitis, respiratory infection, blood stream, central nervous system, chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, bacteremia, conjuctivitis, and a host of other illnesses, Necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Multiple Antibiotic Resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Hafnia alvei: (coliform)  urinary tract infections, community-acquired cholangitis, cholecystitis, appendicitis, psoas abscess and prosthetic endocarditis, antibiotic resistance Helicobacter  is the leading cause of peptic ulcers and chronic gastritis in America, causes proctitis and colitis, septicemia in neonates and immunocompromised patients; gastric carcinogenesis, antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Kingella kingae colonizes the respiratory and oropharyngeal tract in children.  Cause invasive disease, primarily osteomyelitis/septic arthritis in young children, bacteremia in infants, and endocarditis (heart valves) in school-aged children and adults, lower respiratory tract infections and meningitis. Klebsiella: (coliform) antibiotic resistant, urinary tract infection, pneumonia, causes lung destruction, surgical wound infections,  blood (known as bacteremia), may progress to shock and death if not treated early in an aggressive fashion, necrotizing fasciitis, "flesh eating”, antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Kluyvera: (coliform) cause central venous catheter infection and/or sepsis, urinary tract infection, enteritis, and,  fatal peritonitis, necrotizing cholecystitis "flesh eating",  antibiotic resistance Koserella: (coliform) cause septic knee, bacteremia, antibiotic resistance . Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Legionella: cause respiratory infections, gastrointestinal haemodialysis fistulae, pericarditis,  central nervous system, wound and skin infections, Bacteraemia, severe pneumonia, Necrotizing cellulitis "flesh eating", antibiotic-resistant Leminorella: (coliform) causing Urinary Tact infection,  surgical site infection, soft tissue infection, primary bacteremia and secondary peritonitis, antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Leptospira: cause lymphocytic meningitis, hepatitis, and nephritis,  varying in severity from a mild carrier state to fatal disease, antibiotic resistant. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Listeria: cause Abortion, stillbirth, preterm labor, sepsis, meningitis, CNS infection, diarrheal disease, Necrotizing ring ulcer "flesh eating", antibiotic resistance  Causes “circling disease” in cattle and death. Morganella morganii: (coliform)  M morganii has been associated with urinary tract infections, sepsis, pneumonia, wound infections, musculoskeletal infections, central nervous system infections, pericarditis, chorioamnionitis, endophthalmitis, empyema, and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Antibiotic Resistance Mycobacterium: cause tuberculosis, leprosy, pulmonary disease resembling tuberculosis, lymphadenitis, skin disease, or disseminated disease, necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Antibiotic Resistance Neisseria: cause meningitis, specific etiologic agent of meningococcal meningitis, gonorrhea, endotoxin shock, death, Necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Antimicrobial Resistance.  Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Nocardia is found in soil around the world. It can be contracted by inhaling contaminated dust or via contamination of a wound with soil containing Nocardia..." Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. PASTEURELLA: etiologic agent of the hemorrhagic septicemias, cellulitis, arthritis, Necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Antibiotic Resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Peptostreptococcus: cause septicemic, bones, joints, brain, liver, breast infections,  lung abscesses, as well as generalized necrotizing"flesh eating" soft tissue infections. Drug resistant. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Propionibacterium: cause chronic blepharitis and endophthalmitis, linked to endocarditis, wound infections, and abscesses, septic arthritis, corneal ulcers, acne, necrotizing lymphadenitis "flesh eating", antibacterial resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Proteus: (coliform) cause diarrhea of infants, wound and urinary tract infections, cystitis, secondary invader in various localized suppurative pathologic processes, Antibiotic Resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Providencia: (coliform) diarrhea in children, (hospital acquired) urinary tract infections, Necrotizing skin & soft tissue "flesh eating", Antibiotic resistance PSEUDOMONAS: colonize the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients, urinary tract infections, sepsis, pneumonia, pharyngitis, gangrene, and necrosis "flesh eating". Drug resistant. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Rahnella: (coliform) acute pyelonephritis, bacteremia from a renal focus, necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", antibiotic resistance Salmonella: (coliform) cause arterial infections or endocarditis, pneumonia or empyema, urinary tract infections, meningitis, septic arthritis and osteomyelitis, Enteric fever, rose spots) on the chest and abdomen,- intracranial, bone and joint, soft tissue, arterial, pancreatic, gallbladder and liver, kidneys (glomerulitis), the genitourinary tract  infections, Necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Typhoid {enteric fever), bacteremia, Pneumonia, heart valves (endocarditis), pericarditis, peritonitis, otitis media, cholecystitis, endophthalmitis, cutaneous abscesses, and infected cephalhematoma, Antibiotic Resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Serratia: (coliform) cause urinary tract infections, wound infections, and pneumonia. Necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", Drug resistant Shigella: (coliform) cause watery diarrhea,  develop seizures, eye inflammation and reactive arthritis (Reiter's syndrome), intestinal perforation may occur, part of the rectum to be pushed out of the body, Permanent loss of bowel control can result, Necrotizing "flesh eating" enterocolitis: antimicrobial resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Staphylococci:  Methicillin-resistant (MSRA), cause toxic shock syndrome, scalded skin syndrome, septicaemia, genitourinary tract infections, Necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", destroys white blood cells, pneumonia, meningitis, boils, arthritis, and osteomyelitis (chronic bone infection). Drug resistant. (August 2007) We found an increase in MRSA infections, from 0.2 to 5.9 per 1,000 visits (p<0.  01); most were community-associated SSTIs. Molecular typing showed that >80% of MRSA infections were caused by USA300. In addition, SSTI visits increased from 20 to 61 per 1,000 visits (p<0.01). The proportion of SSTI cultures that yielded MRSA increased from 4% to 42%. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas.   Streptococci: skin and throat infections, rheumatic fever, glomerulonephritis,  reactive arthritis, septicemia, streptococcal toxic shock syndrome, and necrotizing fasciitis "flesh eating", strep throat, meningitis, bacterial pneumonia, endocarditis, erysipelas,  otitis media, meningitis, dental abscesses, acute rheumatic fever, scarlet fever, and acute glomerulonephritis, upper respiratory system, lungs, urogenital infections, tooth decay, antibiotic resistance.  Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas. Tatumella: (coliform)  respiratory tract infection, neonatal sepsis, antibiotic resistance Vibrio: cause  septic blood stream infections, necrotizing "flesh eating" wound infections, Cellulitis or ulcer formations may result, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, may lead to kidney failure, shock, coma, and death, Antibiotic resistance Yersinia: (coliform) cause severe abscess of the lung, diarrhea, hepatic and splenic, Focal (oral) infections, bacteremia, pharyngitis, meningitis, osteomyelitis, pyomyositis,    conjunctivitis, pneumonia, acute proliferative glomerulonephritis, peritonitis, and primary cutaneous, necrotlzlng "flesh eating" enterocolitis, pseudotuberculosis, acute gastroenteritis and mesenteric lymphadenitis, arthritis, septicemia, and erythema nodosum, Reiter's syndrome, black plague, Antibiotic resistance. Now produces poisonous Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) gas.