Bacteriology Flashcards
First mycoplasma to be isolated
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Cause of PRIMARY atypical pneumonia/walking pneumonia
M. pneumoniae
Causes Non-gonococcal urethritis
Agent of PID
M.hominis
U.urealyticum
Mycoplasma SBA & CAP +
M.hominis
Fluorescent stain of Mollicutes
Arcidine orange
Culture media for M.pneumoniae & hominis
SPF broth
Solid media to recover M.hominis & Ureaplasma sps.
A8 agar
T-strain Mycoplasma
U.urealyticum
Initially ricketssia
Multiply in phagosomes of WBCs
Member of Anaplasmataceae that infects WBCs
MAY form Mulberry like bodies within phagosomes
ERLICHIA
IXODES ticks
Anaplasma phagocytophilium/Ehrlichia phagocytophilium
Borrelia burgdorferi
LYME disease
Lone star⭐️ ticks
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Inhation of dried birthing fluids of SEVERAL animals
Ingestion of UNpasteurized milk
Q FEVER
Coxiella burnetii
Rickettsial pox
R.akari
Scrub typhus
Orientia tsutsugamushi
EPIDEMIC typhus - louse borne
Brin Zinsser
R.prowazekii