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Bacteria Flashcards

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Neisseria spp.

A

Meningitidis - septicaemia and swelling on meninges
Gonorrhoea - urethritis and inflammation
Gram negative
PCR test

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Morexella catarrhalis

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Respiratory tract infections

Negative

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Coliforms

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Gram negative bacilli
Enterobacteriacae
Commensals of large intestine
Lactose formation test

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Escherichia coli

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Ferments lactose
Gram negative
UTI endotoxins and exotoxins

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Salmonella enterica

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Gram negative
Doesn’t ferment lactose
Diarrhoea

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Salmonella typhi

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Causes typhoid fever
Isolated from blood cultures and faeces
Gram negative

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Campylobacter spp.

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Curved gram negative
Microaerophilic
Diarrhoea

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Helicobacter pylori

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Negative
Curved rods
Damages mucous and creates ulcers
Cancer causing

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Haemophilia influenza

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Coco bacilli
Respiratory tract infection
Negative

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Pseudomonas spp.

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Hospital acquired infections
Gram negative
CF

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Bactericides fragilis

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Commensalism
Can spread
anaerobe
Causes abscesses

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Acid and alcohol fast bacilli how do you identify?

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Special stains Zhiel Neelsen or Auramine and culture

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13
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Tuberculosis

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Negative

Mycobacterium

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14
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Spirochaetes examples and how you identify

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Long spiral shaped 
Dark ground microscopy 
Immunofluorescence 
Serology 
Syphillus 
Lyme disease
Leptospirosis 
Gram negative
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Chlamydia

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Gram negative
Obligate bacteria
Serology
Culture only in cell lines

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Cocci and bacilli mean?

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Cocci round

Bacilli rod shaped

17
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Staph and strept mean?

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Staph- clusters

Strept-chains

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Staphylococci

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Positive
Coagulate test, positive means MRSA, negative commensal
Major infection problem

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Coagulate negative staphylococci

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Range of species
S. Lugdunensis
Skin commensals
Form biofilms in presence of foreign bodies

20
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Streptococci

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Positive 
Alpha (pneumonia) and beta haemolytic (range of types A pyogenes necrotising, B agalactiae (meningitis and bacteraemia) D enterococcus UTI commensals and non haemolytic) non haemolytic
21
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Streptococci test?

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Alpha turns blood agar green
Beta - clears blood agar
Non haemolytic - no effect

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Clostridium difficile

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Difficult to culture
Positive
Diarrhoea
Spreads by spores

23
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Clostridium perfringens

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Soil
Positive
Contaminated food
Gas gangrene

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Clostridium tetani

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Toxin leads to tetanus
Toxoid for immunisation
Positive

25
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Clostridium botulinum

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Positive
Botox
Spores

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Bacillus anthracis

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Positive
Anthrax
Spores

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