Diseases Caused by Bacteria

 

Name of Disease	Causing Agent	Mode of Transmission
Anthrax	Bacillus Anthracis	infected animals
Chlamydial urethritis	Chlamydia trachomatis	Sexual
Cholera	Vibrio cholerae	Food & water
Diphtheria	Corynebacterium diphtheria	Infected person
Gonorrhoea	Neisseria gonorrhoeae	Sexual
Leprosy (or Hansen's disease (HD))	Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis	Contact
Pertussis (also whooping cough)	Bordetella pertussis	Infected environment
Plague	Yersinia pestis	Infected fleas
Pneumonia	Streptococcus pneumonia	Environment
Salmonellosis	Salmonella	Food
Syphilis	Treponema pallidum	Sexual
Tetanus	Clostridium tetani	Infected environment
Tuberculosis (TB)	Mycobacterium tuberculosis	Infected air
Typhoid	Salmonella typhi	consumption of contaminated food
Typhus	Rickettsia bacteria	Bugs or by other means of contact
Diarrhoeal diseases	E. Coli, Shigella dysenteries	contaminated food and water