Bacteria IV Flashcards
4 Ws
wind
water
wound
wire
pseudomonas aeruginosa
infect hospitalized patients
- green and blue pigments
- grape odor
green and blue pigment with grape odor
pseudomonas aeruginosa
malignant external otitis
diabetics
-pseudomonas aeruginosa
pseudomonas cepacia
individuals with CF
-gram - rod
stenotrophomonas maltophilia
gram -
-pneumonia on ventilators
hospital acquired, coccobacillary, diplococci, confused with neisseria
acetinobacter
invasive h. influenza
type B
non-encapsulated h. influenza
local infection
- otitis media in children
- also COPD exacerbations
COPD exacerbations
h. influenza - non-encapsulated
age 6 months to 3 years
lacking h. influenza antibodies
-important to have mothers breast milk
most serious Hib infection
meningitis
sore throat, fever, stridor, excessive saliva, red epiglottis
acute epiglottitis
-haemophilus influenza type b
number one cause of septic arthritis in infants
Hib
-pleomorphic gram negative rods
chancroid
h. ducreyi
painful - no systemic symptoms
unilateral painful nodes that coexist with ulcer
syphilis
painless ulcer
treponema pallidum
herpes
starts as vesicles then break open
-systemic fever and myalgias**
systemic fever with genital ulcer??
herpes
lymphogranuloma venerum
chlamydia trichomatis
painless nodes
ulcer disappear before nodes enlarge
diagnosis for genital ulcer
PCR multiplex
bacterial vaginalis
gardnerella vaginalis
pruritis, fishy discharge, clue cells in vagina
gardnerella vaginalis
vaginal epithelium with pleomorphic bacilli in cytoplasm
clue cells
-gardnerella vaginalis
whooping cough
bordetella pertussis
-gram - rod
pertussis toxin
increased cAMP
-histamine sensitization, increased insulin, lymphocyte synthesis
extra-cytoplasm adenylate cyclase
pertussis virulence factor
-impairs chemotaxis and decreased H2O2 in immune cells
filamentous hemagglutinin
FHA
-virulence factor in pertussis
binding to bronchial epithelia
tracheal cytotoxin
pertussis virulence factor
-destroys ciliated epithelial