Bacteria Cheat sheets

Question 1

Actinomyces israeli

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 1

2) postive
3) Rods filamentous
4) Strict anaerobe
5) N/A
6) N/A
7) Cant grow
8) N/A
9) Actinomycosis
- Cervicofacial
- Thoracic
- Abdominal or GI
10) Months of penicillin, Tetracycline and surgery
11) N/a
12) Sulfur granule, draining sinus, culture discharge
13) N/A
14) From normal flora to wound in mouth
15) Yes
16) Yes
17) Gorws like yeast
- slow growing and forms hyphae
- mimics TB and cancer
- Complication can lead to Brain abcess and meningitis if it goes through blood stream

Question 2

Trepenoma pallidum

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 2

2) Similar to gram negative
3) Spiral or spirochete
4) Strict anaerobe or micraerophillic
5) N/a
6) N/a
7) Fastidious
8) N/A
9) -1 Syphillis (Hutchings incisors)
- 2 Yaws
- 3 Pinta
- 4 Noma
- 5 Bejel
- 6 necrotizing ulcerative gingivits

10) Penicillin and Met
11) some but not all
12) Darkfield microscopy
- VDRL
- FTAAB
13) N/A
14) Semen, saliva, contact, secretions fetus

15) N/A
16) N/A
17) Motile, moves by rotation or flexion of filaments, can be grown in vitro

Question 3

Pseudomones Aeruginosa

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 3

2) Negative
3) Rod / flagella
4) Obligate aerobe
5) Catalse postive
6) N/A
7) Minimal requirments
8) Postive
9) Peneumonia
- Nosocomial infections
- UTI
- Respiratory pathogesn in CF patients

10) Penicillin, piperacllin, Aminoglycoside and fluoroquinolone
11) Broad Antibiotics resistant
12) gram stain and culture
13) Endotoxin, exotoxin causes riboslates EF-2, inhibiting protein synthesis like diptheria
14) Water aerosols and vegetables
15) only intestine of 10% of people
16) yes
17) Grape like odor, causes osteomylitits in IV drug users and diabetics, Causes hyper inflamation in CF patients by recruiting neutrophils.

Question 4

Legionella pneumophilla

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 4

2) Red but very thin have to use silver stain to visualize
3)Rod with flagella
4)Aerobic
5) n/a
6)n/a
7) Fastidious, Cysteine and iron
8) Positive
9) Legionnaires and Pontic fever as well as Pneumonia usually lobar
10)Fluoroquinolone, macrolides
11) N/A
12) Silver stain culture, urinary Ag and direct fluorescent antibody
13) N/A
14) Aerosoles, water, biofilms
15) no
16) N/A
17) PAMS mediated immunity, a hallmark of it showing WBC but no organisms.
Motile and needs a special stain to visualize.

Question 5

Mycoplasma Pneumoniae

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 5

2) gram negative
3) Cocci
4) Aerobic
5) n/a
6) n/a
7) Fastedious requires yeast serum
8) n/a
9) Walking pneumonia, otitis media, tracheobronchitis
10) Macrolides, erythromycin
11) none
12) Serology and NAAT (Blood agglutination)
13) P1 protein that attaches to human resp tissue
14) Close contact
15) N/a
16) N/A
17) Filamentous, slow spreading, and IgM for serology.

Question 6

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 6

2) Netheri Mycolic acid cell wall
3)Bacillus
4)Aerobic
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7)Fastidious grow in special medium
8)
9)Tuberculosis, pulmonary tuberculosis Test with AFB stain
10) Isoniazid (Inhibits mycolic acid in cell wall) can cause hepatitis and 15% have elevated transaminases.
11)Can be resitant to rifampin, isonizid but rare. Resistance occurs from defect in KatG gene which would normally metabolize pro isonizid to its active form.
12) Skin test only postive after mounted response to it
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17) Replicate very slowly. LAtent TB is not infectious.

Question 7

No Cardia

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 7

2) Postive
3) Rod and filamentous
4)Aerobic
5) Postive
6) N/A
7) Fastidous and in soil
8) none
9) Skin diseases, pulmonary and CNS abscesses
10) Sulfonamides
11)
12) CT and MRI modified AFS
13)
14) Immunodepressed people.
15) n.a
16)n.a
17) Cell mediated immunity is compromised and modified acid fast stain

Question 8

Corynebacteria diptheria

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

Answer 8

2) Positive
3) Rod shaped, pleomorphic
4) aerobic or faculative anaerobes
5) n.a
6)n.a
7) n.a
8)n.a
9)Diptheria;
-Classic or cutaneous
-Classic is due to toxogenisis, pseudomembrane formation
10) DAT and penicillin. PEE.
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13) The tox gene thats heat labile and A domain
14) Via air droplet inhalation or exudos
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Question 9

2) Gram Stain
3) Shape
4) Aerobic/Anaerobic
5) Catalase
6) Coagulase
7) Growth Requirements
8) Oxidase
9) Diseases
10) Treatment
11) Drug Resistance
12) Diagnosis
13) Virulence Factors
14) Transmission
15) Part of flora?
16) Opportunistic?
17) Notable Facts

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