8. Nonfermenting GNRs Flashcards
yellow pigment (4)
E. meningoseptica
S. maltophila
B. cepacia
P. stutzeri
MEN MAUL STU and CEP
blue-pink on MAC
A. baumanii
wrinkled colony
P. stutzeri
B. pseudomallei
Grape odor
P. aeruginosa
Nonmotile Nonferms (4)
A. baumanii
Moraxella
E. meningoseptica
B. mallei
MORE MEN with MALlets and BOWS are nonmotile
Ox = (2)
A. baumanii
S. maltophila
H2S +
S. putrifaciens
Lysine + (2)
B. cepacia
S. maltophila
DNase +
S. maltophila
has pyocyanin
P. aeruginosa
has pyoverdine
P. aeruginosa
P. fluorescens
Indole +
E. meningoseptica
Ammonia odor
S. maltophila
Dirt odor (2)
B. cepacia
B. pseudomallei
Assacharolytic
Moraxella
A. baumanii GS
GNCB
Moraxella GS
GNCB
Distinguish Pseudomonas based on temperature
Paer will grow at 42°, and Pflu will not
Paer will not grow at 4°, and Pflu will
A. baumanii SBA
“G
gray
smooth wet”
B. cepacia SBA
yellow
B. mallei SBA
wet/gray
B. pseudomallei SBA
“cream/tan
wrinkled”
E. meningoseptica SBA
yellow
P. aeruginosa SBA
“B/G
dry or mucoid
pigmented
scaled”
P. fluorescens SBA
“med
wet/gray”
P. stutzeri SBA
“dry/wrinkled
yellow”
S. putrifaciens SBA
“orange/tan
mucoid”
S. maltophila SBA
yellow
May oxidize lactose to give false + on MAC
A. baumanii
B. cepacia
B. pseudomallei
Ox + nonferm GNRs (5)
Burkholderia
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica
Moraxella osloensis
Pseudomonas
Shewenella putrifaciens
Ox variable
Burkholderia cepacia
Test unique to E. meningoseptica
Indole
Tests unique to S. putrifaciens
H2S
Ornithine
Test unique to S. maltophila
DNase
OF G/L/M
+/+/+
(2)
A. baumanii
B. pseudomallei
OF G/L/M
+/V/V
(1)
B. cepacia
OF G/L/M
+/=/+
(4)
E. meningoseptica
S. maltophila
P. aeruginosa
P. stutzeri
OF G/L/M
=/=/=
(2)
Moraxella
S. putrifaciens
OF G/L/M
+/=/=
(1)
P. fluorescens
Nitrate + (4)
Elizabethkingia meningoseptica
Moraxella osloensis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas stutzeri
MEN with MORE Nitrate eat PEARS with STU
Arginine + nonferms (4)
Burkholderia mallei
Burkholderia pseudomallei
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pseudomonas fluorescens
Ornithine + (1)
S. putrifaciens
aerobic oxidation of CHO pathway name
Entner-Duodoroff pathway