Bacteria - special characteristics Flashcards
Obligate intracellular (3)
Stay inside (cells) when it is Really CHilly and COld Rickettsia Chlamydia Coxiella RELY ON HOST ATP
Facultative intracelluary (8)
Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY Salmonella Nocardia Brucella Mycobacterium Legionella Francisella Listeria Yersinia
Encapsulated Bacteria (7)
SHiNE SKiS Strep pneumo Haemophilus influenza Neisseria E Coli Salmonella Klebsiella Strep (group B)
Urease Positive Oganisms (8)
CHuck PUNKSS Cryptococcus H. Pylori Proteus Ureaplasma Nocardia Klebsiella S. epidermidis S. saprophyticus
Catalase positive organisms (i.e. will fuck with people with NADPH oxidase deficiency)
Cats Need PLACESS to hid Nocardia Pseudomonas Listeria Aspergillus Candida E Coli Staph Serratia
Sulfur (yellow) granule pigment producing bacteria
Actinomyces israeli - special feature
Yellow pigment bacteria (not sulfur)
S. aeureus - namesake
Bacteria that makes blue/green
psuedamonas - color
red bacteria
serratia - color
Protein A virulence factor - who has it what is it?
Staph
Bind Fc of Ig and prevent opsonization
IgA protease virulence factor - who has it what is it?
cleaves IgA
S. pneumo
H influenze B
Neisseria
M protein virulence factor - who has it what is it?
Group A strep
prevents phagocytosis - 92 varieties
similar to human epitope - molecular mimicry
may explain autoimmune in ARF
Type III secretion - who has it?
Pseudomonas
Salmonella
shigella
(i.e. gram negative needle)
Mode of action of endotoxin?
induces TNF, IL-1, IL-6
Which gram positive is unique in that it has endotoxin?
listeria
