Bacterial Presentations Flashcards
1
Q
- Gram positive
- White exodase
- Anterior cervical lymphadenopathy
A
Streptococcus pyogenes
2
Q
- Gram positive
- swollen lymph nodes
- low fever/fatigue
- skin rashes
- sore throat
- Vaccines of TDap
A
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
3
Q
- Gram negative
- Common in COPD
- Otitis media infections in children
- Sinusitis including fever
- Headache and pain in maxillary frontal region
A
Moraxella catarrhalis
4
Q
- Gram negative
- Can look septic arthritis or cellulitis
- Not good in children under 5 or adults over 65 and immunocompromised individuals
- symptoms range from mild ear infection to severe blood infection
- SOB
- Fever
- Muscle pain and tenderness
A
Haemophilus influenza
5
Q
- Gram negative
- Fever, HA, N/V
- purpura fulminans
- photophobia
- petechiae or hemorrhagic rash
- Dx = lumbar puncture
A
Neisseria meningitidis
6
Q
- Whooping cough
- Gram negative
- “whooping in babies”
- Rapid coughing spells with forced inhale
- Testing: obtain nose and throat culture
A
Bordetella pertussis
7
Q
- Gram negative
- From water supply (hot tub)
- Two forms: disease/pontiac fever
A
Legionella pneumophila
8
Q
- Gram negative
- person to person contact
- Causes jelly-like sputum
A
Klebsiella pneumoniae
9
Q
- Gram positive
- grows in chains and is the most common cause of bacterial pneumonia
- spreads by coughing, sneezing, or coming into contact w/ respiratory droplets
- community acquired
A
streptococcus pneumoniae
10
Q
- Atypical pneumonia
- Common cause of community acquired pneumonia
- Walking pneumonia
A
mycoplasma pneumoniae
11
Q
- Person to person through air (coughing, speaking, singing)
- We are at risk for this
- 10 mm positive signs
- symptoms: active (bad cough, chest pain, coughing up blood, weakness, fatigue/chills); latent: no symptoms, cannot spread
A
mycobacterium tuberculosis
12
Q
- Gram positive
- Looks like grapes
- vertical transmission
- abscesses, cellulitis, blood stream, pneumonia
A
staphylococcus aureus
13
Q
- gram negative
- found everywhere in environment
- passes from person to person
- smells like grapes
- hospitals most at risk (ventilators, caths, post surgery)
- immunocompromized
- pneumonia, endocarditis, skin and soft tissue, UTI
A
pseudomonas aeruginosa
14
Q
- gram positive
- skin and soft tissue; found in nose
- endocarditis
- sepsis
- bacteremia
A
streptococcus agalactiae
15
Q
- Gram negative
- black-legged tick transmission
- Lyme disease
A
borrelia burgderfori
16
Q
- Rocky mountain spotted fever
- gram negative
- hard bodied ticks
- flu like symptoms, rash, malaise
A
- riskettsia rickettsii
17
Q
- spores
- gram positive
- lock jaw or tetanus
A
clostridium tetani
18
Q
- gram positive
- spores
- food borne with improper canning or storing of food
- spoiled food
- muscle weakness and bilateral eyelid drooping
A
clostridium botulinum
19
Q
- gram positive and spore forming
- food left out (meat poultry and gravies)
- alimentary track
A
- clostridium perfringens
20
Q
- protozoan
- acquired through water, food, fecal oral; furry friends
- diarrhea, fatigue, stomach pain, asymptomatic
- dehydration and failure to thrive
- lactose intolerance
A
giardia lamblia
21
Q
- gram positive and spore forming
- found in water, soil, and GI tract of human
- fecal-oral transmission
- foul and distinct smell
- dehydration, diarrhea, fever, tachycardia
A
clostridium difficile
22
Q
- gram negative
- contaminated food or water
- fecal oral
- typhoid fever
- travelers most at risk
- hemorrhage of ileal peyer patches
A
salmonella typhi
23
Q
- Gram negative
- Found in humans
- infected feces
- bloody stool, fever, rectal tenesmus
A
shigella
24
Q
- gram positive
- spore forming
- GI issues
- endophthalmitis
A
bacillus cereus
25
Q
- Gram negative
- fecal oral
- mostly poverty
- rice-water stools
- leg cramps
A
vibrio cholerae
26
Q
- gram negative
- raw or undercooked ground meat and milk
- pools, lakes, ponds
- watery diarrhea, abdominal pain
A
escherichia coli
27
Q
- gram negative
- undercooked pork
- diarrhea
A
yersinia enterocolitica
28
Q
- gram positive
- found in soft cheese, deli meat
- HA, stiff neck, LOB and convulsions
A
listeria monocytogenes
29
Q
- gram negative
- raw or undercooked chicken
- temporary paralysis
A
campylobacter jejuni
30
Q
- bacterial vaginosis
- vaginal discomfort, discharge, fishy odor
A
gardnerella vaginosis
31
Q
- protozoan
- male and female affected
- STD
- irritation, vaginal discharge and pain (female)
- pain, penial discharge and irritation (male)
A
trichomoniasis vaginalis
32
Q
- Gram negative
- STD
- Burning sensation when peeing, genital discharge
- throat pain
- rectal symptoms
A
neisseria gonorrhoeae
33
Q
- Gram negative
- STD
- conjunctivitis
- vaginal bleeding, genital discharge, testicular pain
- painful urination
- reactive arthritis
A
chlamydia trachomatis
34
Q
- atypical
- STD or mother to offspring at birth
- spherical or coccobacillary shaped
- asymptomatic
A
ureaplasma urealyticum
35
Q
- gram negative
- STD primarily in gay men
- can be congenital through placenta or intrapartum
- Chancre, rash
A
treponema pallidum
36
Q
- gram negative
- HACEK group
- infected hand wound after a bar fight (human bite)
A
eikenella corrodens
37
Q
- gram negative coccobacillus
- zoonotic infections (especially cats and dogs)
- bacteremia, meningitis, endocarditis
- necrotizing fasciitis
A
pasteurella multocida
38
Q
- Aerobic
- gram negative
- comes from cats
- cat-scratch fever
- lymphadenopathy within 2 weeks of scratch or contact with cat
A
bordatella henselae
