Bacteria Micro Flashcards
All cocci G+ except
GNC: Meningococci Gonococci Veilonella Moraxella
All bacilli G- except
GPB: MACDoNALD Mycobacterium Anthrax Clostridium Diphtheria o Nocardia Actinomycetes Listeria Diphtheroids
Grams staining
Methyl violet 1•
Grams I2
Acetone x 5s (alcohol)
Safranin (carbol or malachite green)
Bipolar stain SAFETY PIN
Yersinia pestis Burkholderia mallei/psedomonas B. psudomallei H ducreyi C. Granulomatis/Kelbsiella V parahemolyticus (7-8%) sea food Fransiella
Burkholderia mallei
Glanders
NON Motile
B pseudomallei
Meliodosis
MOTILE
Motility
Melli
Pseudomallei
Mallei- NON
Pseudo - MOTILE
Donovanosis
GRANULOMA INGUINALE
Calymatobacter granulomatis
Capsulated
PAKIY BMC V Pneumococcus Anthrax Kleb Influenza Yersinia Bordetella Meningo C welchii/ perfringens. Cryptococcosis V PARAhemolyticus 7-8%
Monotrichous
Amphi
Lopho
Peri
Mono- Vibrio cholera
Amphi - Alcaligens fecalis (enterobac)
Lopho~ SPIRILLUM MINUS (rat bite fever)
Peri - Enterobwcteriacea fam, Listeria
Differential motility
37 NON
20-25 MOTILE
Listeria
Yersinia enterocolytica
Swarming
Proteus
Shooting
Darting
V cholera
Tumbling
Listeria
Stately
Clostridium
Cork screw
T palladium spirochetes
ENDOFLAGELLA (periplasmic space)
Lashing
Borrelia
Gliding
Mycoplasma
Falling leaf
Giardia
Twitching
T vaginalis
Rotatory
B coli CILIATA
Hanging drop
Semi solid MMAgar (0.5-1.5%)
Cragies tube
Motility
Blood
Chocolate
Enriched.
Chocolate
Hemophilus
Neisseria
X and V in Chocolate
X - hemin
V - NAD
Eggs for solidification
Green (malachite)
Ruf tuf buff
LJ
Malachite - selective for TB #staph,strep
6-8wks
Mac Conkey
PLANT Peptone Lactose Agar Neutral red Taurocholate sodium (selective)
Name the only 3 LF
E Coli
Clebsiella
Shigella sonnei (LLF)
Differential
Indicator
1. Selective
2. Non selective
1 selective - Mac Conkey
2 non selective- CLED
CLED
Inhibits proteus swarming
Dx
UTI
Sugar media
Sugar
Andrades indicator
Peptone
Cx
Transport for Vibrio cholera 2 Gono&Meningo S pyogenes Shigella
Cholera - VR, Cary Blair
Neisseria - Amies and Stuart
Pyogenes - PIKES
Shigella - SACHS buffered glycerol saline
Obligate aerobe
MTB
Pseudomonas
Obligate anaerobes
ABC
Actinomycetes
Bacteroids
Clostridium
Microaerophilic
H pylori
C jejuni
Capnophilic
Brucella abortus
Pneumococcus
Gull wing at 42*C
C jejuni
GPC catalase
Staph + (bubbles on H2O2)
Strep -
Staph Coagulase
Patho staph +
CONS -
CONS Novobiocin testing MHA
Staph epidermis-sensitive
S saprophyticus - resistant
Mc
Antibiotic sensitivity agar
Method
Mc Muller Hinton > Nutrient
Mc Kirby baur disc diffusion < Stokes (controls, better)
Biofilm
Early prosthetic valve endocarditis <1y
Novobiocin sensitive
Staph epidermis
Young female UTI
Novobiocin resistant
Mc GPC - staph saprophyticus
Mc overall - E. coli
Gram + cocci
Coagulase +
Catalase +
SA
Golden yellow on NA enchanced on milk
Beta hemolytic on blood
SA
Blood beta hemolysis
PIN HEAD
PIN POINT
Head - Staph aureus
Pin - strep
MSA
Salt milk ludlam
Staph aureus
Coagglutination test
STAPH AUREUS: Protein A - Cowan 1 strain
Fc of Ig binds and co agglutinates MENINGOCOCCUS
Staph
Alpha hemolysin
Beta
Alpha - PARADOXICAL action
Inactive at 40. Active at 100
Beta- HOT AND COLD phenomenon
Usually hemolysis better at 37 deg but in staph better at 4*C
Leucocidin toxin by SA
Penton Valentine toxin
Most potent in SA DNAase Thermonuclease Coagulase Hyaluronidase Lipase Phosphatase
Coagulase
Staph food poisoning
Preformed ENTEROTOXIN A
SSSS toxin
Causes TEN adults and Reiters in children
Exfoliative toxin A & B
TSS toxin
Contaminated vaginal tampons
ENTEROTOXIN F
PYROGENIC EXOTOXIN C
Super antigen (lateral aspect of VB domain of T cell receptor) ——> >20% lymphocytes active and release lymphokines and shock
Doc for TSS staph
toxin rather than bacteria
Clindamycin
Reiters by Chlamydia
See pee dance
Conjunctivitis
Urethritis
Arthritis
Rx
Doxy
Cellulitis Impetigo Uncles BOTRYOMYCOSIS Tropical PYOMYOSITIS Post op parotitis Acute mastitis Acute OM NATIVE VALVE ENDOCARDITITS IVDA endocarditis
Staph aereus
MRSA MOA
PBP2a ——> Mec A gene
Via Bacteriophage TRANSDUCTION (others - conjugation)
Mec A 1-3 : nosocomial >48h
Mec A 4 : community
MRSA screening tests
Cefoxitin at 37 deg with NaCl 4% to enrich MRSA growth»_space;> oxacilin
Staph phage typing
Mc 80/81A
23 total sets
Strawberry tongue
Kawasaki
Strep Scarlet fever
Strep hemolysis
Alpha
Beta
Gamma
Alpha - PARTIAL HEMOLYSIS
Beta - COMPELTE
Gamma - NO
Alpha hemolysis strep
S pneumonia
S viridans
Beta hemolysis strep
Group AV-IJ of LanCefield classification Carbo C
⬇️
80-100 M protein of Griffith
Gamma hemolysis of strep
E fecalis
E faecium
Beta hemolysis strep
Group A
Gp B
Gp D
A - S pyogenes
B - S agalactiae
D - Enterococci ( beta + gamma )
Gp A vs Gp B Strep
- Bacitracin testing
- CAMP test
- Hippurate hydrolysis test
Bacitracin - Gp B resistant
Camp - ✅Gp B
Hippurate - ✅ Gp B
All 3 Gp B ⚠️ ie Agalactiae
Pyogenes ❎
Bacitracin done in which agar
Blood agar
GAS/GABHS
Pyogenes
Longest chain of strep in grams
S salivarius
Crystal violet blood agar
S pyogenes
Triad
Cellulitis
Impetigo
Erysepelas
S pyogenes
Mc acute pharyngitis
NF flesh eating bacteria
Puerperal sepsis
GABHS/ pyogenes
Super antigen of GABHS
Scarlet fever toxin
PYROGENIC toxin
Erthrogenic toxin A&C
Hi recurrent sore throat
Marked IMMUNE response
Complement normal
ASO >200
ARF
Life long penicillin Px
Ho pyodermic infection Mild to mod immune response Low complement ———> normal Anti DNAase B >300-350 Spontaneously comes and goes
AGN
GBS
S agalactiae
Normal commensalism of birth canal
⬇️
Early or late neonatal meningitis
GBS
Overall mc cause neonatal meningitis
E. coli ⬇️ Klebsiella ⬇️ GBS
CAMP test on blood agar
GBS enhances Staph aureus due to CAMP factor
Butterfly zone of HEMOLYSIS ➕
Can grow in 6.5% NaCl 40% bile 9.4 ph Resist temp of 45🌡 for minutes
Enterococci
E fecalis
E faecium
Black colonies in bile aescullin agar
Enterococci
Gram stain
Spectacle shape
Violet G+
Enterococci
Doc Enterococci
Penicillin + AG ⬇️ Resistant ⬇️ Vanco
VRE
Van A gene
(D ala ⏩ D lactate)
A most resistant
⬇️
H least resistant
Doc VRE
Linezolid
Dental caries strep
Mutans
SABE strep
Late onset prosthetic valve endocarditis >1y
Viridans
GPC
Lanceolate 🔥 flame shape
Draughtsman (carrom coin 🪙 on blood 🩸 and chocolate 🍫 agar))
Pneumococcus
Pneumococcus capsular polysaccharide Ag method of typing
90 types
SSS typing: Specific Soluble Substance
Quellung reaction
SEROLOGICAL (capsular Ag-Ab)
Capsule swelling and delineation
✅Pneumococcus
✅H influenza
Pneumococcus BIOchemical reaction
BIO
Bile soluble ✅
Optochin sensitivity ✅
Inulin fermenter ✅
Optochin - 2 ethyl hydrocupriene
COMPS Conjunctivitis Otitis media Meningitis Pneumonia Sinusitis
Pneumococcus
PCV in splenectomised
23 valent polysaccharide
7 valent vaccine
<2y children post Sx
- Cochlear implant
- CSF shunt
Doc for pneumococcus
Penicillin
Capsulated cocci Pink on Grams ➖ Lens shape 👀 Ferments GLU AND MALTOSE Intra and Extra cellular ✅✅
Meningococcus
NO plasmid 🧬 recruitment for resistance
Non capsulated coccus Pink on grams ➖ Kidney shape Ferments only GLU (RCUT) Plasmid 🧬 recruitment for resistance ✅ INTRAcellular mc
GONO coccus
Meningo based on capsular polysaccharide
13 sero groups
ABC YWE9&
Virulence factor GONO AND MENINGO 👯♀️
- Capsular polysaccharide
- LOS (endotoxic shock - meningicoccemia)
- OMP
- Pilli
- IgA1 protease (destroys surface IgA immunity)
Only GONO ♐️ LACTOFERRIN/TRANSFERRIN extra
Meningo nasopharyngeal carriers
5-15% NORMAL/healthy ppl
Via droplet ➡️ lungs ➡️ blood ➡️ meninges
Fever Headache Vomiting NECK RIGIDITY RASH / PETECHIAE 🤒
Meningococcal meningitis
Theyer Martin
Muller Hinton agar
Meningococcus
Recurrent neisserial infection
C5-9 def
Mc dreadful complication of meningococcus
Waterhouse fredrichson
Adrenal hemorrhagic syndrome
Meningo vaccine
MCV4 (ACYW)
Sero B ➖ WASTE no immunogenicity
Doc for meningo nasal carriers
Doc for cases
Carriers- Rifampicin
Ciprofloxacin
Cases - 3rd gen cephalo
Auxotyping (nutrient needed)
Pili based typing
GONO
Ophthalmia neonatarum
Urethritis males
Cervicitis females
Gono
GONO Cervicitis diagnosis swab
Endocervical
NOT HIGH VAG
Theyer Martin
Modified New York agar
Gono
Water can perinium in males
Gonococcus complication.
Multiple fistulas
Fitz hugh curtis
Perihepatitis
- Gono
- chlamydia
Suppurative arthritis & polyarthritis which GNC
Gono
Resistance in Gono
Plasmid recruitment
Oxidase positive
• Organisms
• Test
• Reagent
Organisms - Gono and pseudomonas
Test - WHITE disk turns BLUE 💙 in 10 sec
Reagent - TetraMethyl p phenylene diamine dihydrochloride
Kleb loefflers bacilli
C diph
Babes earnst granules
C diph
Energy deposits
Ponders
Albert’s
Neisser
(PAN)
C diph
Chinese letter pattern
Cuneiform
C diph bio types
Gravis
Intermedius
Mitis
GIM 🏋🏻♀️
GIM - Colony shape on PTA
Daisys frog eggs are poached
G- Daisy head
I- frog eggs
M - poached eggs
Leffler serum slope
PTA
HMT - Hoyles, Macleod, tinsdale
C diphtheria
PTA - best and most confirmatory
Toxins inhibiting PROTEIN SYNTHESIS
⬇️
#ADP ribosylation of EF2
DPS
Diptheria
Pseudomonas
Shigella
Toxin need IRON for its action (0.1mg/L)
C diph is made pathogenic by
Beta phage that injects a Tox gene
Via LYSOGENIC conversion
DPT vaccine strain
Park William 8 strain i op
Eleks gel ppt
PCR
ELISA
C diph Toxin demonstration for DIAGNOSIS (CDE)
Toxaemia not bacteremia
Shicks test
NEUTRALISATION TEST
C diph (dick)
➕person is susceptible and needs to be immunised
➖ immune
Trench mouth
Vincent’s angina
White membrane ➕
Pseudomembrane of Diph
Mc
Most dangerous
Mc Faucial or tonsil
Md laryngeal 😳
Bull neck in diphtheria due to
Edema and lymphedema
Chronic complications of diphtheria
Myocarditis
Polyneuropathies
Non corynebacterium
Parvum
Minutessimum
Pseudo TB
Jeikum
Non c diph
Immunomodulator
Parvum
Non c diph
Erythresma ➡️ Skin Bx on Wood lamp ➡️ coral red flurorescence 🩸
Minutessimum
Preizz nocard bacillus ➡️ lymphadenopathy
Pseudo TB
Non c diph
MDR isolate
Jeikum
Gram pos bacillus
Non motile
SPORES ➕
Cat A BIOTERRORIST
B anthracis
Capsule of Anthrax
Polypeptide (polyGlutamate)
Mc Feydan reaction
Capsule of B anthracis
Leffler methylene blue
Staining capsule of B anthrax
Bamboo stick on Grams
Medusa head on Agar
String of Pearls on Penicillin agar
Inverted fir 🌲 tree on Gelatin stab cx
Bacillus anthracis
Best selective media for B anthrax
PLET Polymyxin Lysozyme EDTA Thallus acetate
Tripartite toxin
Anthrax PLEase (don’t kill me bro) Protective factor Lethal factor Edema factor
Hide Porter
Cutaneous Anthrax
Dockyard shipyard
ESCHAR ➡️ malig PUSTULE ➡️ VESICLE
Wool sorter
Pulmonary anthrax
10-12y
MEDIASTINAL HEMORRHAGIC NECROSIS
Rx Duckering (dip in formalin to kill spores)
Ascolis thermoppt test
Lab Dx Anthrax
B cereus toxins
Emetic 1-6h (Chinese fried rice 🍚) HEAT STABLE toxin of E. coli
cGMP
Diarrheal 8-16h
HEAT LABILE toxin of E. coli
cAMP
Cx of B cereus
MYPA Mannitol Yolk egg 🥚 Phenol red (polymixin) Agar
GPB
Obligate ANAEROBE
Non capsule (except?)
Stately motility
Clostridium
Except- B perfeingens
Drum stick spores
Terminal spore in Clost
Tetani
Central spore of Clostridium
C. Bifermentans
Anerobiosis techniques
Mac Intosh (old) Mc GAS PAK Biological method (obligate aerobe Pseudomonas)
Cx media for Clostridium
RCM:
Meat 🍖 becomes Pink —— Saccharolytic
Black —— Proteolytic
Thioglycollate broth
Toxins of c perfeingens
Perfeingens has 13 toxins Alpha beta gamma theta etc ⬇️ A-E types Mc - Type A, alpha
Clostridium myonecrosis
1-2d
Pain and CREPITUS
Gas Gangrene
Crepitus- gas in deep muscle compartment due to low redox potential
Rx
Early - Sx debride + Abx
Late - Amputate + Abx
Gas gangrene Clost sp?
PNS
Perfeingens
Novyi
Septicum
Random- fallax, histiolyticum, edematiens, sporogenes
Citron bodies
Boat shaped
C septicum
Clostridium:
Heat labile enterotoxin
8-24 hours
Type A alpha toxin
Food poisoning by perfeingens
Pigbel
Perfeingens Ppl eating pig ⬇️ Necrotising enteritis TYPE C, BETA toxin
Naegler reacn
Perfeingens NEUTRALISATION reacn Egg yolk agar + Carpet Cx + one half antitoxin ⬇️ Other half has opaque areas due to alpha LECITHINASE (phospholipase)
Stormy clot fermentation
C perf
LITMUS MILK
Foul smell 👃🏻
IMMENSE FERMENTAION
Target hemolysis
Perfeingens
Double zone of hemolysis
Alpha BLOOD AGAR
alpha and theta toxins
Reverse camp test
GBS and C perfeingens
8th day disease
Tetanus
IP 8d
(<8 d GRAVE prognosis)
Toxins of tetani
TetanoSPASMIN main
TetanoLYSIN (hemolysis)
TetanoSPASMIN
#Presyn inhibitory NT (Glycine and GABA) ⬇️ Constant stimulation ⬇️ Lock jaw Opisthotonus
Botulism toxins
Neurotoxin (3kg kills one adult human ☠️)
Enterotoxin (canned food)
Diplopia Dysphagia Dysarthria Constipation Decrease DTR
Botulism
Floppy infant syndrome
Botulism
Honey spores
Flaccid paralysis
CDAD
C difficil ass diarrhoea 🔁 PMC
Abx >2m
Rx
Vanco DOC
C difficicle toxins
Enterotoxin
Cytotoxin
“On Hep2 cell lines”
Difficile is difficult to Cx!
Dx of C difficle
PCR for tox gene
Elisa For toxin demo
Sigmoidoscopy for ulcers
Acid fast why?
20% coz resists decolorisation due to MYCOLIC ACID
Virulence factors for MTB
Cord factor
Lipoarabinomannan
Rankes complex
Gohns complex
Simons complex
Assmans focus
Ranke- calcifies LN in lower lobe of Gohns CHILDREN
Simon - Upper lobe subpleural focus ADULT
Assman - BL infraclavicular
Skin TB
Primary
Secondary
Primary - Lupus vulgaris APPLE 🍎 JELLY NODULES
Secondary - Scrofula from LN rupture
Petroff method
Thick mucus from Sputum assay liquified with Naoh and HCL in TB assessment
Acid fast staining
Carbol fushchin ⬇️ intermittent 🔥 20% H2SO4 ⬇️ 7-8 min Methylene blue 💙
Eugonic growth means what?
Luxuriant growth
Seen in LJ (6-8wks)
Dorset egg Tarshis Petragagni Saural souton Pawlowsky Middle brook Dubo
MTB
Auto liq Cx
BAC T /tec
Only Presumptive
Confirm only LJ 💘
Test for MTB that
Uses BLOOD samples
Gold std assay for LATENT TB
IGRAs
Advanced MDR TB PCR detector?
LPA
High sample load lab centre for TB Dx which technique
Auramine Rhodamine (fluorescent)
🥲high false ➕
Mantaux test
Type 4 HS 0.1 ml PPD id ⬇️ Flexors ⬇️ read after 72h Induration only. NOT REDNESS ❌
<5 ➖
>10➕
TT
False ➕
False ➖
False ➕
Recent BCG
MAC
False ➖
Advanced HIV
Military TB
SEROLOGICAL TB test
BANNED IN INDIA
Runyon classification
Atypical myco
Photo
Scoto
Non chromogens
Photochromogens
MASK Marinum (swimming pool granuloma) Asiaticus Simiae Kansasi
Scoto chromogens
SSG
Szlugai
Scrofula
Gordonae
Non chromogens
AUX
Avian complex (BATTEYS BACILLI)
Ulcerans (BURULI ULCER)
Xenopi
Rapid growers
FAPC Fortium Abscesses Phlei Cheloni
POST INJECTION ABSCESS
5% acid fast
M leprae
2 org not following Koch postulates
M Lep
T pallidum
⬇️
Both grow on Nine banded armadillo Foot pad
Mc Ridley jopling in India
BT
Granulomas
Early nerve involvement
Paucibacillary
Luciophenomenon “periarteritis”
Leonine facies BB
Lepromin test reactions
Type 1
Type 2
Type 1 Early FERNANDES (first) 3days “DOWNGRADING REACN” Type 4️⃣ Ulnar nerve and edema ➕
Type 2 Late MITSUDA (matte) 3 weeks “ENL” Type 3️⃣ Crops of painful nodules (TNF alpha 🥲)
Rx of lepra reacn
Glucocorticoids
MEDICAL EMERGENCY 🆘
RISK OF IRRIVERSIBLE NERVE DAMAGE
Slit skin smear areas
Forehead
BL earlobe’s
Cheeks
Buttocks
Obligate aerobe
1% Acid fast 💨
In SOIL
Pulmonary involvement ➕
Nocardia
Pulmonary nocardiosis ➡️ Brain
Obligate anaerobe Non Acid fast Mouth commensal normally - oral actinomycosis - PID
Actinomyces
⬇️
Cannot be cultured
Triad
Sinuses
Swelling
Sulphur granules ➡️ crushed and gives sun 🌞 ray ap
Mc actinomycetoma: Cervico facial
Actinomycete causing PID
Israeli
Cx by Paraffin bait technique
Nocardia
- Asteroides
- caviae
Doc nocardiosis
Cotrimoxazole
Doc actinomadura
Penicillin
GPCB coccibacilli
Tumbling motility
Peritrichous flagella
Listeria monocytogenes
PALCAM agar 🧫
BA
CA
Listeria
Anton ➕
CAMP test
Catalase ➕
Listeria
Listeria Cx into Rabbit 🐰 eyes
⬇️
Keratoconjunctivitis
Anton test
👶🏻 Granulomatous infantiseptica
👧🏻 meningitis
🤰🏻 chorioamnionitis ➡️ PROM
😷 immunocomp: sepsis
Listeriosis
Doc listeria
Ampicillin
GNB fam
Catalase ➕ except 1
Oxidase ➖
Nitrate reduction ➕
Sugar fermentation ➕ acid and gas on Durham 🧪
Mostly motile except 3
Enterobactereaceae
Catalase ➖ Shigella dys type 1
Non motile “ellas”
Shigella
Salmonella (gallinarum, pullorum)
Klebsiella
IMViC ➕➕➖➖ ➖➖➕➕ Indole (kovac) Methyl red Vogues prauskuar Citrate
➕➕➖➖ E. coli
Klebsiella ➖➖➕➕
UTI
Diarrhea
Neonatal meningitis
E. coli
Virulent mannose resistant factor that can attach to uroepithelial cell
P fimbriae of Ecoli
Significant bacteruria on Std Loop + CLED
> 10^5 /ml urine
10^4 - with symptoms
Even 1 - suprapubic
>2 - contaminated
Calc of Std loop for UTI ecoli
No of colonies (100) x Dilution factor (10^3) = 10^5
Pediatric age diarrhoea
Damages villi ➡️ effacing lesions
EPEC
Resembles Shigellosis
VMA virulence marker Ag INVASIVE
Sereny test ➕
EIEC
Traveller diarrhea
Heat stable cGMP
Heat labile cAMP
ETEC
O157:H7 sero type ⬇️ HUS Verotoxin 1&2 Cx on - Rainbow 🌈 agar 🧫 - SMAC sorbitol Mac conkey
EHEC/ VTEC
Doest ferment sorbitol ❌
Persistent diarrhoea
Some cases of traveller diarrhoea
Stacked brick 🧱 ap on Hep2 cell line
EAEC
Mc neonatal meningitis
E. coli ⬇️ Klebsiella ⬇️ GBS
Mc emphysematous pyelonephritis
E. coli
Mc Scromboid fish 🐠 poisoning
Morganella
⬇️
E. coli
GNB
Non-motile enterobac
Urease ➕ (pink in 2 days)
Klebsiella
Urease ➕ organisms
Staff club mein urease program hain chalo Staph ➕ Klebsiella ➕ Morganella ➕ Urea plasma ➕ Proteus ➕➕➕ H pylori ➕➕➕➕➕ Cryptococcus neo (weak ➕)
Freidlander bacillus
Klebsiella pneumoniae
⬇️
Typical pneumonia
Red current jelly 🍮
Bulging fissure on CXR
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Superbug NDM1 - New Delhi beta lactamase 1
Klebsiella MDR
GNB
Swarming+
NLF
Fishy odour on PPA (phenyl pyruvic acid) agar
Proteus
Methods to stop swarming of proteus
2% agar ➡️ 6%
Boric acid
Chloracne hydrate
CLED
Dienes phenomenon
Proteus vulgaris vs P mirabilis
Dienes stain
Mycoplasma
Weil Felix reacn or
Heterophile agglutination
OX19, OX2 and OXK Ag
🔽
Non motile strains of proteus CROSS react with Ricketssias
Chronic UTI
Stag horn calculi in Alkaline ph
Proteus
Typhoid fever
Enteric fever 🥵
Typhoid - only S typhi
Enteric - typhi ➕ paratyphi ABC
Classification- koffman white scheme
Step ladder fever
Rose 🌹 spots
Longitudinal ulcer
Typhoid
Longitudinal ulcer
Transverse ulcer
Flask shape ulcer
Long -typhoid
Transverse- TB
Flask - amebiasis
Lab Dx typhoid
Week 1234
Test BASU
Bone 🦴 1st > Blood 🩸
Overall best - Blood 🌹
Blood Cx in Typhoid
1:10
5ml blood 🩸 + 50ml Cx fluid + SPS
- Bile broth or
- glucose broth
SPS - sod polyethanol sulphate REMOVES ABX EFFECT
Widal test principle
O and H Ag
Somatic and Flagellar (1:200)
1:100
H - more immunogenicity
⬆️sensitivity ⬇️specificity
⬆️false ➕
Paired test for Widal
4 fold Ab rise over 2 weeks
⬇️
➕
Selenite F broth
Tetrathionate broth
Enrichment media for salmonella
Best selective media for Salmonella
Wilson and Blair 💚
⤵️
Jet black colonies ⚫️
DCA
XLD
SS
HE
Selective media for Salmonella Deoxycholate Xxylose lysine deoxycholate Salmonella shigella Hektoen enteric
Chronic carrier for salmonella which sample to Cx
Gall bladder
O
H
Vi
In salmonella
Vi- Ab for epidemiological typing with PHAGES
⤵️
➖ BAD PROGNOSIS
Non salmonella typhi
Doc
S typhimurium: poultry ↪️ GE
S enteritidis
S cholerasius: sepsis
Doc 3rd gen ceph
GNB Non motile Endo ➕ exotoxin Mannitol fermentation classification VMA ▶️ invasiveness
Shigella
Mannitol fermentation ➕ A/e Shigella DYSSENTRIAE
Catalase ➕ all except DYSSENTRIAE type 1
Endo ➕ exotoxin
Shigella
Listeria
Pseudomonas
Mc bacillary dyssentry in India
World
India - S flexnerri
World- Sony
Shigella with
LLF
Colicin based typing
S sonnei 📺
NO ❌
Tetrathionate
Wilson and Blair
Shigella
Doc shigella
Ampicillin
Non fermenters
Pseudomonas
Mallei
Pseudomallei
Acinetobacter baumanni
GNB
Catalase
Oxidase ➕
Pseudomonas
Alginic acid
Endo toxin
Exotoxin A&S
Pseudomonas virulence factors
Pyoverdin which pseudomonas
P aerogenosa
Pseudomonas pigment enrichment in which media
Kings media 👑
Best selective media for pseudomonas
Cetrimide agar
Shanghai fever Malignant otitis externa VAP Ecthyma gangrenosum UTI RTI Burns wound infection 50%
Pseudomonas
Polymixin➕Colistin
FQs
Whit morells bacilli 🦠
Veitnam bomb 💣
Meliodosis
MDR isolate of ICU
Oxidase ➖
Acinetobacter baumanii
GNB
Comma
Tests- COINSS ➕
VIBRIO
Catalase Oxidase Indole Nitrate red String test Sucrose
Non agglutinate vibrios
Non O1
2-139
Classical O1
- Mukherjee phage
- Polymixin B sensitivity
- Agglu of chick 🐣 embryo
- Vogues proker (VP)
- Camp test
Mukerjee- Phage 4 susceptible Polymixin - sensitive Agg 🐣 ❌ VP ➖ Camp ➖
El tor
- Mukherjee phage
- Polymixin B sensitivity
- Agglu of chick 🐣 embryo
- Vogues proker (VP)
- Camp test
Mukerjee - sensitive to Phage 5 Resistant to polymixin Agg chick 🐣 ✅ VP ➕ Camp ➕
Cholera toxins
2A
5B
Cholera A toxin
ADP ribosylation of GTP ⬇️ adenyl cyclase ➕ ⬇️ Increase CAMP ⬇️ Massive diarrhoea = As Rice 🍚 💦
Cholera toxin B
GM1 ganglioside receptor ➕
String test
Stool ➕ Sod Deoxycholate
⬇️
Strings of vibro
Akaline peptone water
TCBS
Enrichment media
Vibrio
Best selective media for vibrio
TCBS Thiosulfate Citrate Bile salt Sucrose
Green ➡️ turns Yellow
Halophilic vibrios
7-8% parahemolyticus
8% vulnificus
10% alginolyticus
Sea food poising ➕ renal failure 😣
V parahemolyticus
Kanagawa phenomenon
On wagatsuma agar
⤵️
Enchanced beta hemolysis by Parahemolyticus
Chancroid
Painful
Soft sores
LOVES CHOCOLATE 🍫 AGAR 🧫
H ducreyi
School of fish ap
Tram track ap
H ducreyi
Pfeffiers bacillus
H influenza
H influenza
Capsulated
Non capsulated
Capsulated - INVASIVE dis
Meningitis
Epiglottitis
Non capsulated- Simple
Sinusitis
Otits media
H influenza Type b capsular polysaccharide
PRP/PRPP (biochem thingy)
⬇️
Hib
Levinthal filde agar 🧫
Blood agar
Chocolate agar
H influenza
Satellitism
On BA, H influenza grows close to Staph due to release of V&X
CSF refrigeration kills which bacteria
H influenza
Pink eyes
Brazillean purpuric fever
H aegypticus
HÁČEK
Hemophilus - parainfluenza, aprophilus, para aprophilus Actinobacillus. Aggregatibactor Cardiobacterium Eikenella Kingella
Immunodeficiency ➕ Culture neg endocarditis
HÁČEK
Ghee broth
Yersinia pestis
Stalactite type of growth
Y pestis
Cheopis index
Plague
IP of
Bubonic plague
Pneumonic
Septicemic
Bubonic and Septicemic. 2-7d
Pneumonic: 1-3d MOST DANGEROUS
Wayson stain
Bubo/blood smear ➕ this Stain
⬇️
BIPOLAR SAFETY PIN 🧷
PLAGUE
Undulent fever
Malta fever
Mediterranean fever
Brucella melitensis
Hosts BRUCELLA B melitensis B abortus B canis B sius
Melitensis. Sheep goat cattle
Suis- pig
Abortus cattle
Canis dog 🐶
Meat 🍖 and milk 🥛 contamination
Castaneda method
Brucella Blood Cx (1:10) minimises contamination
Erythritol use in brucella
Stimulates growth of brucella on adding to Cx
Catalase ➕
Oxidase ➕
Urease ➕
Brucella
Best serological test for brucella
SAT
Standard agglutination test
Test for contaminated milk
Rose 🥀 Bengal Card test
Milk 🥛 ring 💍 test
Whey agglutination
100 day cough
Barking dog 🐕 cough
Bordetella pertussis
⬇️
Bordet gengou
Regan love media
Bisected Pearl ap
Bordet gengou media
⬇️
Cough plate method
Stages of pertussis
Catarrhal 🦠
Paraoxysmal WHOOPS
Convalescent recovers
Doc pertussis
Erythromycin
Pertussis toxoid
Fimbrial hemagglutination
Pertactin
Agglutination 123
Acellular pertussis vaccine
2nd Aerosols in central AC
Mc: Drink contaminated water
Leigionella pneumophilia
Pontiac fever
Legionella
Atypical pneumonia + Encephalitis +diarrhoea
Legionarres disease
Acid fast Legionella
L micadeli also
BYCE
Buffered CHARCOAL yeast extract
Legionella
Doc macrolides
Spirichaetes
T palladium
Leptospira
Borrelia
Dark ground microscopy
Reflected light used
Treponema
Painless
Hard ulcer
Painless LNpathy
Primary Syphillis
Rash over palms and soles Condyloma LATA (most infectious skin lesion)
Secondary Syphillis
Tabes dorsaljs
GPI
Aneurysm aorta - CVS syph
Tertiary Syphillis
Non treponema tests
VDRL
RPR
Needs 🔬 Costly Reconstituted fluid <24h used CSF ✅ Best test for Px of Syphillis (negative immediately after resolution :))
VDRL
Card test for Syphillis
Cheap
Reconstituted fluid <24h used
CSF/Neurosyph ❌
RPR
Treponemal tests
FTA ABS: First to come ➕
TPI
TPPA
TPHA routinely done
Most sensitive treponemal test
FTA ABS
First to come ➕
Most specific treponemal test
TPI
⬇️
Live so dangerous 💀
Cong Syphillis test to detect
IgM in FTA ABS
Non sexually transmitted:
Pinta
Yaws
Endemic/BEJEL
Pinta Caratum 🥕
Yaws - Pertenue
Endemic - endemicum
Relapsing fever
Relapse due to Ag variation
Borrelia recurrentis
EPIDEMIC LOUSE
Endemic TICK relapsing
Borrelia duttoni
B hermesi
LYMES
Borrelia burgdorferi
IXODID tick
⬇️
Erythema migrans
BSK Cx
Barbour stannour kelly
Borrelia burgdorferi
Vincent angina
GingiValis Trench mouth
⬇️
B Vincenti and fusiformis
Rainy
Rice field
Rat urine
Leptospirosis interrogans
Weils disease
L interrogans
⬇️
Icterohemorrhagic fever
EMJH media
Fletcher
Kortakoff
Leptospirosis
Best serological test
MAT
Microscopic agglutination test
Nat referral centres NRC Leptospira Cholera Salmonella Staph phage Samonella phage NCDC CDC
Leptospira: Port Blair Cholera: Kolkata Salmonella: Kasauli Staph phage: MAMC Samonella phage: Lady hardigne NCDC: Delhi CDC: Atlanta
Obligate intracellular
Arthropod transmission
Fever
Rash
LN pathy
Ricketssia
EPidemic typhus
R Prowezeki
⬇️
LICE
Endemic typhus
R thyphi
⬇️
FLEE
Rocky Mountain 🏔 spotted fever
Ricketsii
⬇️
TICK
Indian tick typhus
BOUTANEAUSE FEVER
R conori
⬇️
Tick
Ricketsiia pox
R akari
⬇️
Mite
Scrub typhus
Orientia tsutsugamushi
⬇️
Mite
Brill zinser disease
Epidemic typhus recrudescence
Weil felix OX19 OX2 OXK Epidemic typhus Endemic RMSF Scrub
OX19. OX2. OXK Epidemic ➕. ➕ Endemic. ➕. ➕ RMSF. ➕➕ ➕➕ Scrub. ➕➕
Neil moser reaction or Tunica reaction
Diff Epidemic ➖ and Endemic ➕
Blood injected into peritoneal cavity of male gunia pig
➕ is inflammation or peritonitis
Doc ricketssia
Doxy
Q fever
No rash
No arthropod spread
Aersosol spread ➕
Coxiella burneti
Killed by FLASH pasteurised
Coxiella burnetti
Culture neg endocarditis
Coxiella burnetti
HÁČEK
Bartonella sp
B henslae
B bacilliformis
B quintana
Oroya fever
Bartonella bacilliformis
Trench fever
Sometimes baccilaryangiomatosis
Bartonella quintana
Cat scratch disease
HIV - baccilaryangiomatosis
Bartonella henslae
Elementary body
Reticulate body
Chlamydia
EB - Extracellular
⬇️
Infections
RB- intracellular
Replicating
Chlamydia
ABC
D-K
L1,2,3
ABC - Trachoma
D-K - Inclusional conj, Infantile pneumonia and Genital chlamydia
L123- LGV
Bird pneumonia
Parrots
Aerosols
Psittacosis
Adult pneumonia
Atherosclerosis
Asthma
C pneumoniae
HProwazek
LCL
Miyagawa
Hp - trachoma
LCL- Psittacosis
MIYAGAWA ➖LGV
IOC chlamydia
NAAT PCR
Mc coy cell line
Chlamydia
Freis test
LGV
ESTAIOMENE
L2>1 Painless ulcer with Painful LN PARARECTAL LN ⬇️ PARARECTAL/ vuvlval strictures
Eaton agent
Mycoplasma
No cell wall
CM - sterols
Passes through bac filters
Mycoplasma
PPLO agar
Cx for mycoplasma
Fried egg ap
On PPLO
For mycoplasma
Dienes staining
Done for mycoplasma
Walking pneumonia
Mc atypical pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumonia
Most sensitive test for mycoplasma
CAT
Cold agglutination test
CAT SAT on a MAT
MBL
Mary Beats her Lambs
CAT mycoplasma
SAT brucella
MAT leptospirosis
NGU
CUM
Chlamydia trachomatis
Ureaplasma
Mycoplasma GENITALIUM HOMINIS
Swimming pool conj
Fitz Hugh
C trachomatis
Microaerophilic GNB Motile with MICROFLAGELLA Gull wing Contaminated poultry - diarrhoea
C jejuni
Fecal leukocytes in stools
Inflammatory diarrhea
⬇️
C jejuni
Butzler media
SKIRROW
Campy BAP
Charcoal based for C jejuni
GBS which bacillus
Children - C jejuni diarrhoea
GNB
Microaerophilic
Motile
Strongly UREASE ➕
H pylori
PUD
MALToma
Ca stomach
H pylori
BV organisms
Gardnerella vag
Mobiluncus
Prevotella
Rat bite fever
SPIRILLUM minus
Haverhill fever
Streptobacillus monoliformis
Donovanosis
Donovan bodies
⬇️
Safety pin 🧷
Callymatobacter
GNB
Obligate anaerobe
Normal gut commensal
Brain abscess in immunocomp
Bactericides fragilis
Human bite
Eikenella
Anaerobic strep
Cat and dog bite
Pasteruella
Human monocytic ehrichichiosis
Ehrichia caffenensis
Ricketssia