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Anaerobic Bacteria Flashcards

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What do anaerobic organisms not require?

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Anaerobic organisms do not require oxygen

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What are the main categories of anaerobic microorganisms?

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Obligate anaerobes = harmed by presence of oxygen
Facultative anaerobes = can grow without oxygen but use oxygen if it’s present
Microaerophiles = grow in atmosphere of low oxygen <5%

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Features of anaerobiosis?

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Anaerobic respiration/fermentation

  • Produce energy without oxygen
  • May use fermentation or anaerobic respiration
  • In presence of oxygen = faculative anaerobes can use aerobic respiration
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What occurs in anaerobic fermentation?

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Organic electron acceptor in the absence of oxygen

Glucose - pyruvate (organic e receptors, 2ATP plus acids > incomplete breakdown products) - TCA cycle

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What are the fermentation products?

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Lactic acid
Acetic acid
= streptococcus, lactobacillus

H2, CO2, acetic acid, ethanol, lactic acid, propionic acid
= Enteric bac (E.coli)

H2, CO2, Ethanol, butanol, acetone
= Clostridium
= Live in mouth

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How much glucose is produced by aerobic respiration?

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38/mol glucose

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What is respiration?

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Converting energy from e.g. glucose into a usable form

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What is aerobic respiration?

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ATP is released as electrons are transported along chain to final acceptor O2 (forms water)

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What is anaerobic respiration?

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Uses electron transport chain but the final electron acceptor is not O2

  • Nitrate (NO3- reduced to nitrite NO2-, or N2)
  • Ferric iron (Fe3+ reduced to Fe2+)

Allows growth in low O2 environs
Drawbacks for obligate anaerobes; no ability to resist presence O2 or other radicals that are by-products of aerobic life
Inefficient process
Anaerobes often slower growing

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How are anaerobes diagnosed/studied?

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Jars/cabinets to exclude O2 subculture
Gram stain, spore stain, anaerobes = sensitivity to metronidazole
Sugar fermentation
Toxin production - Clostridia
Gas-liquid chromatography - fatty acid end products
16s RNA sequencing

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Give examples of major anaerobic bac in humans?

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Clostridia
Bacteriodes
Fusobacterium 
Porphyromonas and black pigmented
Gardnerella
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Features of clostridium species?

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Large, straight, gram pos bacilli
Produce endospores and exo-toxins
Cl.perfringens - food poisoning 
Cl.botulinum = botulism (food)
Cl.tetani - tetanus
Cl.difficile - pseudomembranous colitis
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Cl. perfringens features?

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Capsulated, non-motile, gram pos rod
Polysaccharide capsule, repeating units of 6 sugars
Fast growing, spread, BETA hemolytic colonies on BA

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Exo-toxins are differentiated based on? What are the types of exo-toxins?

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Differentiated based on production of major lethal toxins

5 toxigenic types; A-E

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Features of the major exo-toxin?

When are enterotoxins formed? Features?

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Alpha-toxins;

  • Phospholipase C
  • Luses RBCs, platelets, leukocytes, endothelial cells
  • Inflam and major swelling
  • Oedema, bleeding
  • Haemolysis
  • Kidney damage - renal failure
  • Myocardial dysfunction

Other VFs; proteases and hyaluronidase - destroy tissue
Enterotoxin - pore forming, heat labile - produced upon sporulation of ingested bac in stomach acid secretion

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How to test for toxins?

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Nagler test - half plate infiltrated with antitoxin, rxn = fuzzy area, no rxn = colonies grown
clowdiness on side without alpha antitoxin

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Name the diseases caused by Cl.perfringens? Treatment?

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Gas gangrene

  • Spore contamination of wounds - source - soil, animal and human excreta
  • Oedema, gas formation, necrosis, toxaemia, cellulitis
  • Treatment - surgery (amputation), antibiotics
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Features of food poisoning?

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Incubation 10-12hrs
Abdominal cramps, diarrhoea
Resolves in 24hrs

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How is diarrhoea from food poisoning caused?

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C. perfringens/ spores in soil and animal gut
C. perfingens grows in food- meats
spores survive cooking, germinate in food.
Food ingested
Bacteria sporulate and produce Enterotoxin in stomach
Intestinal epithelim damage, inhibition of glucose transport
= DIarrhoea

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Tatanus features? What causes it?

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Acute spastic paralysis caused by potent bacterial neuro-exotoxin
Trismus, rictus grin
Caused by uncontrolled contraction of muscles - mostly in CNS

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Cl.tetani features?

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Incubation 10-14 days
Enters body through wounds, splinters, cuts
Spores ubiquitous in environment
Spores in soil, contaminates wounds
Grows in wounds, toxin released into bloodstream
Motile - thin spreading film on agar (drumstick)

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Name the tetanus toxins and their features? (How does Cl.tenani cause disease)

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Classic A-B neurotoxin;
= Tetanospasmin, TeNT
- A domain contains active site
- B domain > carbohydrate receptor binding - sialic acid containing poly-sialic-gangliosides

Zinc endopeptidase (A domain)
- Breaks down synaptobrevins
- Prevents release of inhibitory transmitter (muscle relaxant)
Absorbed from infectious focus 
- Travels along alpha fibres to CNS
-2.5ng/kg kills a human
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What treats tetanus?

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Anti-toxin/immunoglobulin plus penicillin and metronidazole

Prevention - immunisation; toxoid

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What causes botulism?

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Ingestion of preformed toxin from contaminated food containing Cl.Botulinum bacteria
- Mostly in foods that have been heated, then cooled and stored for long periods

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Symptoms/signs of botulism?

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Flaccid paralysis
Drooping eyelids, progressive motor loss, flaccid paralysis
Neurological symptoms - dizziness, resp and cardiac failure

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Cl.botulinum features?

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Motile Gram-positive bacillus;

  • Sub-terminal spores
  • Widely distributed saprophyte e.g. soil
  • Optimum growth 35°C, some can grow 1-5°C

Causes botulism

  • Severe form of food poisoning
  • Incubation 1-2 days

Toxin released as Progenitor complex to protect during passage through stomach» intestine> bloodstream

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Botulinum toxin features?

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Potent neurotoxin - BoNT

  • 7 types - A-G (A, B, E most common)
  • A domain contains active site
  • B domain > carbohydrate receptor binding - sialic acid containing DI-sialic-gangliosides
  • Zinc endopeptidase; Affects peripheral cholinergic synapses, blocks release of acetylcholine, irreversible binding
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How to treat botulinum toxin?

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Remove toxin

Polyvalent anti-toxin

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What can botox do? How?

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Can weaken muscles temporarily when injected in small amounts
Uses botulinum toxin

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What can botox treat?

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Used to treat spasms and dystonias e.g.

  • Strabismus (cross eye)
  • Bruxism = bone loss
  • Toricolis (neck spasms)
  • Muscle spasms in cerebral palsy
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Antibiotic associated diarrhoea C.difficile features?

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Associated with broad spectrum antibiotic use - clindamycin and ampicillin
Outcompetes rest of pop after antibiotic course complete
Risk in elderly
Spore forming - resistant to heat and disinfectants, shed in faeces
Severe diarrhoea
2 exotoxins A and B
Pseudomembranous colitis; bowel disease - can lead to rupture

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What is Pseudomembranous colitis?

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Antibiotic-associated diarrhoea

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Cl. Difficile- treatment?

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Therapy is vancomycin or metronidazole
+ remove offending selective antibiotic e.g. clindamycin
Prevention measures: cleaning, hand-washing, quarantine

Limit use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in ‘at-risk’ patients

Treatment; Removal of broad spectrum antibiotic - metronidazole or vancomycin

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Name the other gram pos and gram neg anaerobes

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Gram-negative anaerobes

  • Bacteroides =Abdominal wound infections, Peritonitis
  • Prevotella = Oral and genital infections
  • Porphyromonas = Oral infections
  • Fusobacterium = F.nucleatum - oral and vaginal infections, F.necrophorum - Necrobacillosis - systemic sepsis and multisystem abscesses

Gram-positive anaerobes

  • Peptostreptococcus (Parvimonas)
  • Eubacterium
  • Bifidobacterium
  • Gardnerella
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List the black pigmented anaerobes

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Prevotella
Porphyromonas
Fusobacterium

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Features of prevotella? What can it cause?

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Gram neg, non-motile, rod shaped
Colonise in oral cavity by binding or attaching to other bacteria in addition to epi cells = larger infection in previously infected areas
Abscesses, bacteraemia, wound infections, bite infections, periodontitis

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Porphyromonas features?

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Non motile, Gram negative, rod-shaped
PD - P.gingivalis = commonly found in biofil with other spp.
Forms black colonies on blood agar

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What does P.gingivalis do?

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Releases cysteine proteases - gigipains = bind and degrade erythrocytes, destroy receptors, degrade complement components and subvert cell signalling

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Fusobacterium features? Treatment?

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LONG Rod shaped spindle-shaped bacillli, Gram negative
Associated with periodontal disease (F.nucleatum), skin ulcers, respiratory infections, BV, ANUG- often in mixed infection
Highly effective at biofilm formation
Treatment – antibiotics (Clindamycin, Chloramphenicol)
main spp.
F.nucleatum - oral and vaginal infections, PTB
F.necrophorum - Necrobacillosis - systemic sepsis and multisystem abscesses- Lemierres syndrome- rare head and neck origin

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What is F. nucleatum linked to?

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Colon cancer - FadA adhesin stimulates oncogenic response in colon

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What is GPAC?

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‘GPAC’- Peptostreptococcus-
normal flora of all mucocutaneous surfaces (inc. oral)
Often isolated from infections such as chronic deep organ abscesses, obstetric and gynecological sepsis + intraoral infections.
Not well studied: difficulties with laboratory identification, isolated from mixed infections.

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Features of Eubacterium and Bifidobacterium?

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Gram Positive rods, rarely isolated from abdominal infections POST oral/ genital trauma.

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Features of Gardnerella and Mobilincus?

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Bacterial Vaginosis in females, associated with dysbiotic communities and PreTerm Birth

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Cl.difficile toxins?

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Produces TcdA and TcdB
- GluActivate host neurons&raquo_space;> diarrhoea

Induce cytokines»> attract PMNs&raquo_space;>
disrupts cell junctions»> Tcd-B damages underlying mucosa and tissues

Septicaemia and bowel damage cosyltransferases
- Toxin present in pt’s stool (primary diagnostic marker)

Cell receptor for TcdA is disaccahride Gallß1-4GlcNac

Inactivates Rho (family of GTPases)

  • Actin condensation, rounding of the cells, membrane blebbing, cell apoptosis
  • Leads to neutrophil infiltration, disruption of tight junctions, fluid accumulation
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Cl.difficile toxin mechanisms?

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TcdA and TcdB:
- Activate host neurons&raquo_space;> diarrhoea
- Induce cytokines»> attract PMNs&raquo_space;>
disrupts cell junctions»> Tcd-B damages underlying mucosa and tissues

Septicaemia and bowel damage

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Bacteriodes Fragilis features?

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Most common anaerobe recovered from non-oral clinical infecs

  • Abdominal, pelvic, brain, liver
  • Involved in bacterial vaginosis

Gram neg bacillus
Toxigenic strains - some cause diarrhoea
- Toxin cleaves E-cadherin

Resistant to numerous antibiotics - clindamycin, some strains of metronidazole

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