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1
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Difference in cell wall between gram + and Gram - bacteria?

A

Gram - has LPS present and thinner peptidoglycan (periplasmic space present)

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Techoic acid found on gram negative or positive bacteria?

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Gram +

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3
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What causes Lipid A septic shock?

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LPS on outer membrane of gram -

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4
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What do obligate anerobes lack?

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superoxide dismutase and catalase

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5
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inhibits transformation?

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DNAse

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6
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Viral filter inhibits?

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Transduction

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7
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Conjugation inhibited by?

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bacterial filter

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8
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Which genetic excahnge is with environmental DNA?

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Transformation

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9
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Which gram + coccie is catalase positive and which is negative?

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Catalase positive is staph and negative is strep

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10
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Staph aureus is ccoagulase + or negative?

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+

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11
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Staph aureus responsible for what?

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TSS
Scalded skin syndrome
Wound infection
honey colored crusts

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12
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Coagulase - and novobiocin sensitive?

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staph epidermis

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13
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Staph epidermis causes what?

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think catheters/implanted devices due to biofilm

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14
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Staph sapro is novobiocin resistant of sensitive?

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resistant

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15
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What does staph sapro cause?

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UTI

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16
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Catalase negative (So we know its strep) beta hemolytic and bacitracin sensitive?

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S. Pyogenes

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17
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S. pyogenes (Group A strep) symptoms?

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pharyngitis, scarlet fever, gomerulo nephritis

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18
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S. agalactiae is bacitracin resistant or sensitive?

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resistant

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19
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Neonatal sepsis and meningitis caused by what kind of strep?

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agalactiae

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20
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Catalase negative alpha hemolytic and optochin sensitive is…

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S. pneumo

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21
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What differences between S. pneumo and S. mutans (viridans)?

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S. pneumo has capsule and is bile soluble

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22
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Dental caries?

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S. viridans

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23
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bacteria capsule purpose?

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to prevent it from being phagocytosed

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24
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Anterior nares?

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Staph aureus

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25
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Superantigen?

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Staph aureus and strep pyogenes

26
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Which type of gram + cocci causes food poisoning?

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S aureus

27
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M protein

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Strep pyogenes

28
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Rheumatic fever?

A

Strep pyogenes (group A strep)

29
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Enterobacteriae different from other gram negative bacilli because they are all (5)

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facultative anerobic
ferment glucose
reduce nitrate to nitrite
oxidase (-)
all have LPS or endotoxin on outer membrane
30
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How to tell difference between enterobacteriae?

A

Look at sugar fermentation pathway

31
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What produces tryptophanase and what does it do?

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E. Coli and it cleaves tryptophan, producing indole

32
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ETEC is known as….

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Traveler’s diarrhea

33
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EHEC main symptom?

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bloody diarrhea

34
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common type of EHEC?

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O157: H7

35
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How do screen for EHEC?

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Sorbitol MacConkey agar and confirm with shiga toxin assay

36
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Hemolytic uremic syndrome (think hamburger!) seen in…

A

EHEC

37
Q

Shiga toxin?

A

EHEC

38
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Non-motile gram - bacilli?

A

Shigella

39
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Shigella and lactose?

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Does not ferment

40
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Shigella transmission?

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fecal-oral

41
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Salmonella vs. Shigella?

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Salmonella is motile but also non-fermenting of lactose

42
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Repiles?

A

Salmonella

43
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Salmonella produces

A

H2S

44
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Raw eggs ingestion?

A

Typhimurium (Salmonella)…usually connected to sanitary conditions

45
Q

Rose spots

A

Typhi (salmonella)

46
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How to acquire Typhi

A

ingestion of fecally contaminated water

47
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Morbidity of Typhi due to?

A

enteric fever

48
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Bubonic plague?

A

Yersinia pestis

49
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Lymphadenopathy in groin, black skin lesion?

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Yersinia pestis

50
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Cold temps, mimics appendicitis, puppy feces?

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Yersinia enterocolitica

51
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B burgdorferi transmission?

A

ticks

52
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R. Rickettsii transmission?

A

ticks

53
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Giemsa stain: safety pin

A

Yersinia

54
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currant jelly URI

A

Klebsiella

55
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FAST lactose fermenters (gram negative bacilli)

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Klebsiella, E. Coli, Enterbacter

56
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Gram posiive bacilli non spore forming anaerobic

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Actinomyces, Lactobacillus

57
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Gram posiive bacilli non spore forming aerobic

A

Cornyebacterium diptheriae, listeria, tropheryma whipplei

58
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Grey pseudomembrane

A

Corynebacterium diptheriae

59
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Whipples disease, PAS positive, poor gram staining

A

Tropheryma whipplei

60
Q

Chinese letters

A

Corynebacterium diptheriae

61
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Bullneck

A

Cornyebacterium dip

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