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14 - Intro to Bacteriology Flashcards

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Bacteria prokaryotes or eukaryotes

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Prokaryotes

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Aechaea prokaryotes or eukaryotes

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Prokaryotes

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Eukarya prokaryotes or eukaryotes

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Eukaryotes

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4
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Universal phylogenetic tree

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shows evolutionary relationships based on 16S rRNA sequence comparisons

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Bacteria

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  • single-celled
  • Cell walls contain peptidoglycan
  • no membrane-bound nucleus
  • no membrane-bound organelles
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6
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Smallest bacterium

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Mycoplasma (0.3 μm diameter)

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7
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Most common shapes of bacteria

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Coccus (cocci) and rods (bacillus/bacilli)

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Function of capsules and smile layers

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Resistance to phagocytosis, adherence to surfaces

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9
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Fimbriae and pili function

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Adherence to surfaces, DNA transfer, twitching and gliding motility

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10
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Flagella function

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Swimming and swimming motility

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Endospore function

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Survival under harsh conditions

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12
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What colour do gram positive bacteria stain

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Purple

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13
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What colour do gram negative bacteria stain

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Pink or red

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Gram positive cell envelope

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  • Cell wall is thick, multi layered peptidoglycan containing teichoic acids
  • Plasma membrane
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Gram negative cell envelope

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  • Cell wall is a thin peptidoglycan layer
  • Large periplasmic space between outer and inner membranes
  • Outer membrane containing lipopolysaccharides (LPS)
  • Plasma membrane
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16
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Why does gram positive stain purple

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Thick cell wall traps crystal violet

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Why does gram negative stain pink

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Cell wall cant hold crystal violet and is washed away by alcohol and counter stained with safranin

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Flagella

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  • Mediate swimming bacterial motility (flagella rotate to propel the bacteria forward)
  • helical proteinaceous structures extending from the plasma membrane and
    cell wall
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19
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Polar flagella

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Flagella at one or both ends of a cell

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Peritrichous flagella

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Flagella spread over the whole surface of the cell

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Pili / Fimbriae

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  • proteinaceous structures extending from the plasma membrane and cell wall
  • Thinner, shorter, straighter than flagella
  • Mediate attachment of bacteria to surfaces including host cells
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22
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Sex pili

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Mediate the transfer of DNA from cell to cell

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23
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Type IV pili

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mediate twitching motility by extending and retracting to
pull the cell forward

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Endospores

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  • Heat and chemical resistant
  • Radiation resistant
  • Dormant
  • Thick-walled
  • Develop within the vegetative (mother) cells of some species
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Examples of genus that produce endospores

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Bacillus and Clostridium

26
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Bacterial growth

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Logarithmic or exponential (number doubles at each generation)

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Generation time (g)

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The time for a cell to
produce 2 cells or the time for a bacterial population to double in number

28
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Generation time of E.coli

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g = 20 mins

29
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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g = ~ 12 hours

30
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Factors that limit bacterial growth

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  • Nutrients are used up
  • Metabolic wastes accumulate
  • Living space may become limited
  • Aerobes may suffer from oxygen depletion
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Four main phases of bacterial growth curve

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  • Lag phase
  • Exponential or log phase
  • Stationary phase
  • Death phase
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Lag phase

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synthesis of new components, preparing to divide

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Log or exponential phase

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growth at maximal growth rate possible

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Stationary phase

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Total number viable bacteria constant

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Causes of stationary phase

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  • Balance between cell division and cell death
  • Nutrient or O2 limitation
  • Accumulation of toxic by products
36
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Obligate aerobe

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  • Depend on atmospheric O2
    for growth
  • Gain energy by respiration
37
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Microaerophile

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Require 2-10% oxygen (lower than atmospheric)

38
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Facultative anaerobe

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Do not require O2 but grow better in its presence

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Aerotolerant anaerobe

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Grow equally well in presence or absence of O2

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Obligate anaerobe

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Killed by O2 (may gain energy by fermenting sugars)

41
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Bacterial pathogen O2 requirement

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Helps decide which body site is targeted

42
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Mesophile

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Moderate temperature (20-45ºC)

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Psychrophile

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Cold loving (15ºC)

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Thermophile

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Heat loving (60ºC)

45
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Hyperthermophile

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Extremely thermophilic (found in ocean hydrothermal vents at 85-100ºC)

46
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Which temperature group do most human pathogens belong to

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Mesophiles as human body temp constant 37ºC

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Acidophile

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0 - 5.5 pH

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Neutrophile

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5.5 - 8 pH

49
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Alkaliphile / alkalophile

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8 - 11.5 pH

50
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Which pH group do most human pathogens belong to

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Neutrophiles but there are some important exceptions

51
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what is the culture media for bacteria determined by

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  • Sources of carbon, electrons and external energy used for growth
  • The diversity of chemicals needed to make bacterial cell components
  • The need for growth factors (e.g. vitamins, amino acids)
52
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Two common methods of culturing bacteria

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  • Liquid culture: Bacteria grown as a liquid suspension (‘broth culture’)
  • Solid culture: Bacteria grown on an agar suface (‘plate culture’)
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Types of culture media

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  • Complex media
  • Selective media
  • Differential media
54
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Complex media

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  • Contain some ingredients of unknown chemical composition
  • May include peptones, meat extract, yeast extract, blood
  • Useful as many bacteria can grow on them
55
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Examples of complex media

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Nutrient agar, TSA, blood agar, MacConkey agar

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Selective media

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allow the growth of some bacteria while inhibiting others

57
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Differential media

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distinguish between different bacteria and may allow tentative identification

58
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How is MacConkey agar both selective and differential

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  • Bile salts and crystal violet inhibit Gram positive bacteria but not Gram negative bacteria
  • Lactose and neutral red, a pH indicator, differentiate lactose fermenters (pink) from non-fermenters (colourless)

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