Bacterial Taxonomy Flashcards
List the acid fast bacteria
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Mycobacterium leprae
Atypical Mycobacteria
List the obligate intracellular organisms (poor gram staining)
Rickettsia
Chlamydia
List the spiral bacteria (poor gram staining)
Treponema Pallidium
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Leptospira interrogans
List the wall-less bacteria (poor grain staining)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
List the gram positive cocci
Staphylococcus aureus
Staphylococcus coagulase
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A)
Streptococcus agalactiae (Group B)
Streptococcus bovis
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Virideas Streptococci
Enterococci faecalis
Enterococci Faecium
List the anaerobic gram positive rods
Clostridium (spore former)
List the spore forming aerobic gram positive rods
Bacillus cereus
Bacilllus Anthracis
List the branching, non-spore forming, aerobic, gram positive rods
Actinomyces
Nocardia
List the non-filamentous, non spore forming, aerobic, gram positive rods
Corynebacterium diptheriae
Listeria monocytogenes
List the gram negative cocci
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Neisseria meningitidis
Moraxella catarrhalis
List the strict aerobes (gram negative rods)
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Stenotrophomonas
List the strict anaerobes (gram negative rods)
Bacteroides fragilis
Prevotella
Fusobacterium
Porphyromonas
List the curved facultative anaerobes (gram negative rods)
Vibrio cholerae
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Helicobacter pylori
Campylobacter
List the zoonotic straight facultative anaerobes (gram negative rods)
Brucella
Francisella
Yersinia
Pasteurella
List the respiratory, straight facultative anaerobes (gram negative rods)
Haemophilus influenzae
Bordetella pertussis
Legionella pneumophila