Bacteria: Gram, biochem, important culture info, etc. (incomplete) Flashcards
What syndrome named after some dudes can be caused by N. meningitidis?
Waterhouse-Friderichsen. Hemorrhage of adrenal glands, associated with sepsis. Means you have to give glucocorticoids with the other treatment
Francisella tularensis:
Gram, morphology, relation to oxygen, WHO bioterror category, culture
Gram neg rods, aerobic, bioterror category A
Culture: Francis medium - glucose, cysteine, rabbit blood
Corynebacterium diptheria:
Gram, morphology, special media, in vivo and vitro tests, and vaccine
Gram+ club-shaped rods Loeffler media, Clauberg media are selective differential. Clauberg turns black to grey. In vivo test Roemer plate In vitro Elek test Vaccine is Toxoid
What are the Gram negative non-fermenting rod genuses?
Pseudomonas, Burkholderia, Acinetobacter, Strenotrophomonas, Legionella
Haemophilus influenzae:
What is the most important type of it, and what does it cause?
B type, causes meningitis (it’s encapsulated - encapsulated bacteria can cause meningitis).
Has vaccine (HiB)
What type of vaccine is the one for Hemophilus influenzae B?
capsule antigen, conjugate vaccine (polysaccharide + protein)
Staphylococcus hemolyticus and hominis:
Gram, differentiating ATB, biochem
Gram +, novobiocin sensitive, catalase +, coagulase -
Pseudomonas aeruginosa:
Gram, morphology, relation to oxygen, capsule, motility
Gram neg non-fermenting rod, obligate aerob, no capsule, motile
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae:
Gram, morphology, motility, biochem
Gram+ rod, non-motile
Catalase neg
Streptococcus in general have what Gram and catalase result?
Gram +
Catalase -
Listeria monocytogenes:
Gram, morphology, relation to oxygen, relation to host cell, hemolysis, biochem tests
Gram+ rod, facultative anaerob, facultative intracellular, motile, beta hemolytic
Catalase +, CAMP+
What type of vaccine are the ones for Streptococcus pneumoniae?
There’s an unconjugated one that triggers IgM, and another 13 valent conjugated to protein that allows IgG response (this from lecture, sketchy micro says its 7 valent, but the 13 valent is a newer conjugate vaccine)
Streptococcus viridans:
Gram, differentiating ATB, bile relation, hemolysis
Gram +, optochin resistant, bile resistant, alpha hemolysis
Streptococcus agalactiae:
Differentiating ATB, biochem
Bacitracin resistant, CAMP +
Bordatella pertussis:
Culture media, biochem
Charcoal or Bordet-Genou media (potato extract, sheep blood, and ATB’s against normal flora. B. pertussis -> mercury drop like appearance, no hemolysis)
Oxidase +, urease -
Burkholderia pseudomallei:
Gram, morphology, major disease association
prob dont need to know
Gram neg rod Causes melioidosis (endemic Glanders-like disease)
Trepenoma pallidum:
Gram, morphology, microscopy, cultivation, major disease
No gram staining, spirochaetales
Use dark field microscopy
Can’t cultivate normally, only done in rabbit testis
Causes syphillis
Haemophilus influenzae:
special culture media
Culture requires factor V (NAD) and factor X (hematin)
Chocolate agar (+ chopped meat + vancomysin to select out gram positives)
Blood agar has satellite phenomenon with staph aureus
Bordatella pertussis:
Gram, morphology, relation to oxygen
Gram neg, coccobacillus, aerobic
What is the major sign of infection by Haemophilus ducreyi?
ulcus molle / chancroid / soft chancre (STD genital ulcers)