anaerobic and aerobic /normal flora Flashcards
What organic material can an obligate aerobes ferment?
None, obligate aerobes have no fermentative pathways
Which bacteria’s lack superoxide dismutase?
Obligate anaerobes
what dominant or medically important bacteria will normally live and form a communal relationship in the body’s blood, soft tissue, CNS and respiratory tract?
None, these areas are sterile.
what dominant or medically important bacteria will cover the skin, outer ear and urethra?
Staphylococcus epidermidis
what dominant or medically important bacteria will cover the inner lining of the nose?
Staphylococcus aureus
what dominant or medically important bacteria covers the oropharynx?
Viridans streptococci and streptococcus mutans
what dominant or medically important bacteria cover the gingival crevices
Prevotella fusobacterium, streptococcus actinomyces
Name all the bacteria that are found in a healthy stomach
None.
what dominant or medically important bacteria in the colon of an adult?
Bifidobacterium, bacteroides (most abundant) escherichia
what dominant or medically important bacteria is in colon of breast fed child?
bifidobacterium
what bacteria is in breastmilk?
lactobacilius and streptococci
what dominant or medically important bacteria is found in the vagina?
lactobacilius
name the colonization factors that are responsible for infectivity on body surfaces?
Adherence to cell surfaces, adherence to plastic and inhibit immediate destruction by immune system.
how do bacteria adhere to cell surfaces?
Pili/fimbriae, teichoic acid, adhesins, IgA proteases.
How does bacteria adherence to plastics or otherwise slippery objects occur?
ph and chemical changes in surface tension of a liquid to allow adherence to a surface that would otherwise be too slippery.
What are the ways that a bacteria could inhibit immediate destruction by the host’s immune system?
Bacteria can use Anti-phagocytic surfaces, which include capsules/slime layers, M proteins, A proteins, pili and IgA proteases.
What can a bacteria do to a pt that causes anemia?
Siderophores can chelate iron in a host that the bac will use to import for cell growth.
Which STD bacteria uses a pili anti phagocytic?
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
What is the ability Invasins, that bacteria use and describe it.
It is an ability to survive intracellularly, by the use of surface proteins that allow an organism to bind to and invade non-phagocytic human cells.
What bacteria is best know for using Invasins? and what does it cause in a host?
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, causes diarrhea
What is another ability that a bacteria could use to survive intracellularly?
Evade intracellular killing and grow intracellularly
What are the two ways a bac could evade intracellular killing and grow intracellularly?
Survive by inhibiting the fusion of the phagosomes and lysosomes OR escaping the phagosomes before lysis of the phagolysosomal membrane
what bac is known for surviving by inhibiting the fusion of the phagosomes and lysosomes?
M. tuberculosis
What bac is known for escaping the phagosomes before lysis of the phagolysosomal membrane?
Listeria
is streptococcus gram + or gram -
gram +
does streptococcus appear in chains or clusters
chains or pairs of cocci
is streptococcus catalase negative or positive
catalase negative
what is the term used when streptococci completely lyse the rbcs leaving it clear
beta hemolytic
what is the term used when streptococci only partially lyse the rbcs leaving it green
alpha hemolytic
what is gamma hemolysis
non hemolytic
streptococcus has which kind of hemolysis
variable
what are 3 differences between strep vs staph
1) lechitin is in cell wall. if you have lechitinase you are destroying cell wall 2) catalyze -3) grouped by c carbohydrates
what is optocin
chemical used in cell culture techniques for the presumptive id of strep pneumoniae
which is the only group sensitive to bacitracin
group a
only species that is sensitive to optocin and lysed by bile
preumococcus