Bacteria Flashcards
What are the 6 major gram positive bacteria and their general characteristics
Staphylococcus
- Cocci
- Catalase +
Steptococus/Enterococus
- Cocci
- Catalase -
Bacillus
- Bacilli
- Spore forming
- Aerobic
Clostridium
- Bacilli
- Spore forming
- anerobic
Corynebacterium
- Non-spore forming
- Club shaped
Listeria
- Bacilli
- Non-spore forming
- Motile at 25 C
Are catalase or coagulase present in the following gram positive bacteria:
Staphylococcus Aureus
Staphylococcus epidermis
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Staphylococcus Aureus: catalase +, coagulase +
Staphylococcus epidermidis: catalase +, coagulase -
Staphylococcus saprophyticus: catalase +, coagulase -
Staphylococcus Aureus
Major disease manifestations
Pneumonia
Superifical skin & underlying soft tissue infections
- Folliculitis
- Impetigo
- Cellulitis
- Abscess
Endocarditis (acute, necrotizing)
- Classic case is IV drug abuser using dirty needles
Staphylococcus Aureus
Role of key Toxins
Gastroenteritis (food poisoning)
- preformed enterotoxin (quick onset)
- Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain
Scalded Skin Syndrome
- Exfoliative toxin A & B
- Peeling of skin
Toxic Shock Syndrome
- Due to TSST-1 toxin (superantigen)
- Long term superabsorbant tampon use
- Diffuse Rash (involves palms and soles)
- Shock, hypotension, death
What organism is known for infecting prosthetic devices (heart valves, hardware, cathethers, shunts) and uses a biofilm as it’s virulence factor?
What is the disease manifestation of this organism
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Subacute endocarditis - low grade fever
What organism is the common cause of community acquired UTIs
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Categorize the alpha, beta and gamma streptococcus
Alpha (partial hemolysis)
- S. pneumoniae
- Viridans Group
Beta (complete hemolysis)
- S. pyrogenes
- S. agalactiae
Gamma (no hemolysis)
- Enterococci group
- S. bovis
Streptococcus pyogens (Group A)
- Disease manifestation
- Virulence factor
- Disease Manifestations
- Streptococcal pharyngitis (strep throat): white exudate of tonsils/pharynx
- Scarlet fever
- Erysipelas: sunburn type appearance (face), warm to touch, peak age 60-80
- necrotizing facitis: rapidly progressive, purplish discoloration
- Impetigo: golden crusted rash see in children
- Cellulitis: Non-necrotizing on subcutaneous tissue, swollen, erythematous, warm
- Rheumatic fever
- Post-Streptococcal Glomerulonephritits
- M protein = inhibits activation of complement
What causes Scarlet fever & what are the clinical manifestations
- Due to pyrogenic exotoxin of Streptococcus pyogenes
- Fever, rough “sandpaper” like rash on trunk and neck. Stawberry tongue. School age children
Rheumatic fever
- Disease manifestation
- Pathogenesis
- Diagnostic test
- JONES: Fever, migratory polyarthritis, large joints, subcutaneous nodules, erythema marginatum (macular rash), heart involment (pericarditis, mitral valvulitis), sydenham chorea (hopping, halthing gait, grimacing)
- Disorder that occurs following a group A S. pyogenes pharyngeal infection caused by antibodies created to the M streptococcal antigen
- Detection of antibodies to streptolysin O and DNase B
* Said will definitly expect us to recognize a classic case presentation of this disease*
Post-streptococcal Glomerulonephritits
- Disease manifestation
- Pathogenesis
- Diagnostic test
- Usually in children, edema, hypertension, hematuria, proteinuria
- Immune mediated rxn to Group A streptococcus, S. pyogenes following pharyngitis or skin infection
- Detection of antibodies to streptolysin O and DNase B
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B)
Disease manifestation
A galacta baby
Neonatal meningitis, pneumonia, sepsis
“B” = Babies, Group B Strep & Beta hemolytic
Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Identifying characteristics
- Clinical manifestations
- Characteristics
- Encapsulated alpha hemolytic
- Positive quellung reaction (swollen capsule)
- Optochin sensitive (antibiotic)
- # 1 cause of MOPS (meningitis, otitis media, pneumonia, sinusitis)
What is the most common cause of community aquired pneumonia & what is the manifestation of pneumonia
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Lobar consolidation on chest x-ray w/ high fever, chills, cough, SOB frequently seen in elderly (older than 65)
What is the #1 cause of meningitis in young children and what is the classic presentation
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Classic triad:
- high fever >100.4 F
- Nichal rigidity
- Abnormal mental status change
What is the most common cause and basic presentation of otitis media in children
- Bacterial causes
- Streptococcus pneumoniae
- Haemophilus influenzae
- Moraxella catarrhalis
- Ear pain, tugging/pulling at ear
- What role does the spleen have on encapsulated bacteria
- What are the 3 main disease causing encapsulated bacteria
- Encapsulated bacteria are opsonized and cleared by the spleen
- Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenza (type B), Neisseria meningitis
Viridans Group Streptococci
Major disease manifestations
- Dental carries
- Subacute bacterial endocarditis (low grade fever, fatigue). Same in HACEK organisms
- Typical clinical history: Endocarditis following dental procedures that allows organisms to spread hematogenously to heart valves*
Differentiate Enterococci & Group D non-Enterococci
Enterococci (Group D)
- Cause nosocomial infections
- grow on bile and 6.5% salt
Non-Enterococci Group D
- Strongly associated with colon cancer (Streptococci bovis)
- Grown on bile but not salt
Bacillus cereus
- Characteristic
- Major disease manifestation
- Gram positive, spore forming rod that is extremely resistant to heat. Spores germinate, bacteria create toxins.
- Heat stable toxin: emetic disease (nausea/vomiting, abdominal pain)
Heat labile toxin: Watery diarrhea
Bacillus anthracis
- Characteristics
- Risk factors for acquiring
- Disease manifestation
- Gram positive, encapsulated, spore forming rod
- Spore found on herbivore animals products (hides) - sheep
- Manifestations
- Cutaneous anthrax: malignant pustile
- Inhalation anthrax: pulmonary spores —> mediastinal hemorrhage -> death (agent of bioterrorism)
Clostridium difficile
- Predisposing factor
- Virulence
- Pathologic findings
- causative organisms of antibiotic associated colitis (clindamycin, penicillins)
- Virulence factors
- Toxin A: Increases inflammation, increase fluid secretion (diarrhea)
- Toxin B: Cytotoxic to colonic epithelial cells
- Pseudomembranous colitis
Clostridium botulinum
- Mechanism of action
- Risk factors for disease
- Disease manifestation
- Neurotoxin in bacteria inhibits release of acetylcholine at the NMJ
- Canned food, honey
- Bilateral cranial neuropathies, symmetric descending muscle weakness –> respiratory paralysis, death.
Infantile botulism: Spore consumption from honey –> constipation–>difficulty swallowing, muscle weakness
Clostridium tetani
- Mechanism of action
- Risk factors for disease
- Disease manifestation
- Neurotoxin inactivates glycine and GABA leading to sustained contraction of motor neurons
- Deep puncture wounds
- Severe muscle spasms, autonomic instability, Opsisthotonos (arching of headm neck &spine/body), clenched jaw
Clostridium perfringens
- Risk factors for disease
- Disease manifestation
- Deep wounds/trauma
- Manifestation
- hemolysis & hemorrhage
- Cellulitis/wound infections that can progress to myonecrosis (gas gangrene, CO2 production, crepitus), dark purple to black skin discoloration
Corynebacterium (club shaped)
- Virulence factor
- Clinical presentation
- What potentiates its systemic absorption
- AB exotoxin
- Pharyngitis w/ pseudomembrane formation
- Scraping causes systemic absorption of toxin which can lead to
- Myocarditis: Dysrhythmias, AV conduction block
- Neural involvement
Rhodococcus equi (club shaped)
Clinical presentation
Cause pulmonary disease in immunocompromised and can cause abscess cavities with prominent air fluid levels on chest x ray
Listeria Monocytogenes
- Optimal growth conditions
- Risk factors
- Disease manifestation
- Grows at cooler temperatures
- Dairy products, deli meats, sprouts (pregnant women told to avoid)
- Manifestations
- Fetus/neonates: granulomatous infantiseptica & neonatal meningitis
- Pregnant women: sepsis
- Older adults & immunocompromised: meningitis
List the gram (-) diplococci
Neisseria meningitis
Neisseria gonorrhea
Moraxella catarrhalis