06 - Bacteriology Flashcards
Most common cause of Acute Suppurative Otitis Media in children?
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Second most common cause of Acute Suppurative Otitis Media in children?
Haemophilus influenza, non-typable
Genus: Gram (+) cocci in clusters
Staphylococcus
Species: Catalase (+), Coagulase (+)
Staphylococcus aureus
Species: Catalase (+), Coagulase (-), novobiocin susceptible
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Species: Catalase (+), Coagulase (-), novobiocin resistant
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Golden appearance of S. aureus on blood agar is due to what pigment:
staphyloxanthin
Normal habitat of S. aureus in the body:
anterior nares and skin
The enterotoxin of Staphylococcus is: heat-stable or heat-labile?
heat-stable
This toxin of S. aureus causes epidermal separation. Identify this toxin. What disease does it cause?
Exfoliatin
-causes scalded skin syndrome (Ritter disease)
Difference between SSS and TEN:
- SSS: separation of skin at the stratum granulosum
- TEN: separation at the dermo-epidermal junction
This toxin of S. aureus causes toxic shock syndrome:
TSST-1 (toxic shock syndrome toxin 1)
This toxin causes marked necrosis of the skin and hemolysis
S. aureus alpha toxin
Identify: bacterium that is the most common cause of acute endocarditis
Staphylococcus aureus
Identify: bacterium that is the most common cause of subacute bacterial endocarditis. Specify!
viridans Streptococcus, specifically, Streptococcus sanguis
Identify: bacterium that is the most common cause of native valve infection
Staphylococcus aureus
Identify: bacterium that is the most common cause of prosthetic valve endocarditis
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Identify: usual scenario (food) of Staphylococcus aureus gastroenteritis
salad with mayonnaise (potato or tuna)
Identify: usual scenario (2) of Staphylococcus aureus Toxic shock syndrome
- tampon-using menstruating women
- nasal packing for epistaxis
results of blood CS in TSS:
-negative
Drug: Treatment for MRSA
Vancomycin
Drug: Treatment for VRSA
linezolid
what is the mechanism of development of resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to methicillin:
altered penicillin-binding proteins
normal habitat of Staphylococcus epidermidis in the body:
skin
Explain predisposition of prosthetics to Staphylococcus epidermidis infection.
S. epidermidis produces glycocalyx which adheres well to foreign bodies and forms biofilms
Identify the organism: Most common cause of osteomyelitis
Staphylococcus aureus
Identify the organism: Most common cause of septic arthritis in prosthetic joints
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Identify the organism: Most common cause of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infections?
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Drug: Treatment for Staphylococcus epidermidis
Vancomycin
Identify: Second most common cause of UTIs in sexually active women.
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Identify:
catalase (-)
alpha hemolytic
opthochin-resistant
viridans Streptococcus
Identify:
catalase (-)
alpha hemolytic
opthochin-susceptible
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Identify:
catalase (-)
beta hemolytic
bacitracin-resistant
Streptococcus agalactiae
Identify:
catalase (-)
beta hemolytic
bacitracin-susceptible
Streptococcus pyogenes
Identify:
catalase (-)
gamma-hemolytic
group D streptococcus
Enumerate: Streptococcal groups that are PYR-positive
groups A and D streptococci
PYR-negative: all the rest
normal habitat of Streptococcus pyogenes:
oropharynx (throat)
This virulence factor of Streptococcus pyogenes activates plasminogen:
streptokinase
This virulence factor of Streptococcus pyogenes degrades DNA in exudates or necrotic tissues:
another name for this virulence factor:
- streptodornase
- DNAse B
This virulence factor of Streptococcus pyogenes inactivates C5a complement:
C5a peptidase
- This toxin of Streptococcus pyogenes is the basis for ASO testing for evidence of antecedent pharyngitis:
- ASO stands for:
Streptolysin O
-Anti-Streptolysin O (antibodies)
-This toxin of Streptococcus pyogenes causes scarlet fever:
Erythrogenic toxin
- Identify: this condition refers to rapidly progressive infection of deep subcutaneous tissues
- what virulence factor facilitates this condition?
- Necrotizing fascitis
- Exotoxin B
Identify: test for documenting antecedent Streptococcal skin infection
Anti-DNAse B
Another name for Streptococcus pyogenes:
Group-A Beta-hemolytic Streptococcus (GABHS)
Possible complication of Impetigo contagiosa:
Post-Streptococcus glomerulonephritis
Identify: superficial infection extending into dermal lymphatics
Erysipelas
- Identify: deeper infection involving subcutaneous/dermal tissues
- what virulence factor facilitates this condition?
- Cellulitis
- Hyaluronidase (spreading factor)
Identify: most common bacterial cause of pharyngitis
Streptococcus pyogenes
Identify: Test for determining immunity or susceptibility to Scarlet Fever:
Dick test
This toxin of Streptococcus pyogenes causes Toxic Shock Syndrome:
pyogenic Exotoxin A
- Pathophysiology of Acute Rheumatic Fever:
- What type of hypersensitivity?
- cross reaction of M protein antigen to the antigens of heart, joints, and brain
- type II hypersensitivity
Enumerate: (2) steptococcal infections that can lead to Post-Strep glomerulonephritis
- Post-pharyngitic
2. Post-impetigo
Enumerate: (3) Infections with these organims can cause severe pulmonary hemorrhage:
- Bacillus anthracis
- Leptospira
- Treponema pallidum (in congenital syphillis)
Another name for Streptococcus agalactiae:
Group B streptococcus
GBS
Most common cause of neonatal meningitis?
Streptococcus agalactiae
Enumerate: species belonging to group D streptococcus
Enterococcus faecalis
Streptococcus bovis
normal habitat of group D strep in the human body:
colon, urethra, female genial tract
This organism causes endocarditis in patients who have undergone GI tract surgery:
Enterococcus faecalis
Treatment for Group D streptococcus:
Penicillin + gentamicin
What does a positive Quellung reaction signify?
Presence of a capsule
Enumerate: encapsulated bacteria
Streptococcus pneumoniae Klebsiella pneumoniae Haemophilus influenzae Pseudomonas aeruginosa Neisseria meningitidis Salmonella typhi B group streptococci (Streptococcus agalactiae)
Some Killers Have Pretty Nice and Shiny Bodies
Identify: what organism is the most common cause of CAP?
Streptococcus pneumoniae
vaccine against Steptococcus pneumoniae
polyvalent (23-type) polysaccharide vaccine
Enumerate: species belonging to viridans Streptococci
Streptococcus mutans
Streptococcus sanguis
Normal habitat of viridans Streptococci
oropharynx
Normal habitat of Bacillus anthracis:
soil
How is Bacillus anthracis transmitted?
inhalation of spores from animal hair
Form of anthrax in which direct epidermal contact with the spores causes formation of a malignant pustule with subsequent eschar and central necrosis
Cutaneous anthrax
Form of anthrax in which ingestion of live spores lead to upper GI ulceration, edema, and sepsis
Gastrointestinal anthrax
- Form of anthrax caused by inhalation of the spores. Another name for this?
- What is the deadly complication of this disease?
- inhalational anthrax (woolsorter’s disease)
- massive pulmonary hemorrhage
Enumerate: two toxins of Bacillus cereus
- cholera-like enterotoxin (heat-labile enterotoxin, diarrheal form)
- staphylococcal-like enterotoxin (heat-stable enterotoxin, emetic form)
Nagtatae at Nagsusuka!
Where is the heat-stable enterotoxin of B. cereus formed?
Reheated food (rice)
Where is the heat-labile enterotoxin of B. cereus formed?
Produced in the gut
Toxin of Clostridium botulinum:
Botulinum toxin
Pathogenesis of botulinum toxin:
Blocks acetylcholine release, causing flaccid paralysis (descending pattern)
commercial form of the botulinum toxin:
Botox
Enumerate: triad of botulism:
- symmetric descending paralysis (with prominent bulbar involvement)
- absence of fever
- intact sensorium
- Pathogenesis of infant botulism.
- another name for this condition?
-babies infest spores in household dust or raw honey, symptomatic due to the lack of competitive bowel microbes
treatment of botulism:
Metronidazole or penicillin
- Identify: rapidly spreading gangrene occurring in dirty wounds infected by bacteria that give off a foul-smelling gas.
- what organism causes this?
Gas gangrene
Clostridium perfringens
What toxin causes gas gangrene?
alpha toxin (of Clostridium perfringens)
What is the pathophysiology of pseudomembranous colitis?
What toxins are involved?
- antibiotics kill flora of the gut, increasing population of Clostridium difficile
- Exotoxins A and B inhibit GTPases, leading to apoptosis and death of enterocytes
Enumerate: (3) antibiotics often associated with pseudomembranous colitis:
- clindamycin
- ampicillin
- 2nd and 3rd gen cephalosporin
Species of Clostridium associated with traumatic wound infections:
Clostridium tertium
Species of Clostridium implicated in toxic shock syndrome associated with septic abortion
Clostridium sordellii
Species of Clostridium associated with nontraumatic myonecrosis in immunocompromised patients:
Clostridium septicum
Identify: test for the toxigenicity of Corynebacterium diptheriae
Elek test
Treatment for Diptheria:
Penicillin G and antitoxin
Virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes that interacts with E-cadherin on the surface of the cells
Internalin
Virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes that helps the organism escape from phagosomes:
listeriolysin
Virulence factor of Listeria monocytogenes that propels the bacteria through the membrane of one human cell and into another
actin rockets
- How is early onset neonatal listeriosis transmitted?
- another name for this disease?
- manifestations?
- transplacentally
- granulomatosis infantiseptica
- multiorgan abscess and disseminated granulomas
- How is late onset neonatal listeriosis transmitted?
- manifestations?
- transmitted during childbirth
- meningitis or meninggoencephalitis
Treatment of Listeriosis:
ampicillin with or without gentamycin
Prevention of listeriosis:
Pregnant women should avoid ingesting unpasteurized milk products and raw vegetable
Identify:
- Gram (-)
- encapsulated
- ferments maltose and glucose
Neisseria meningitidis
Meningitidis = with Maltose
Identify:
- Gram (-)
- insignificant capsule
- ferments glucose only
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
gonorhoeae = Glucose only
Most common cause of meningitis among children 2-18 years old:
Neisseria meningitidis
Identify: dissemination of meningococci into the blood stream
Meningococcemia
Identify: most severe form of meningococcemia, with bilateral hemorrhage of the adrenal glands
Waterhouse-Friderichsen Syndrome