Bacteriology - Miscellaneous Bacteria Flashcards
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Zoonoses (4) - Bugs From Your Pets
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Brucella abortus, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, Pasteurella multocida
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Undulating fever is caused by
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Brucella abortus
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Source of Brucella
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Unpasteurized dairy products (Unpas=Undulating fever)
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DOC for brucellosis (undulating fever)
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Doxycycline + rifampin
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Tularemia is caused by
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Franciscella tularensis
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DOC for tularemia
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streptomycin or gentamicin
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Transmission of tularemia
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TICKS (Dermacentor - same with erlichosis), Aerosols, Contact, Ingestions
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Most virulent bacteria
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Yersinia pestis
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small, gram negative rods with bipolar staining (safety pin) - 2 answers
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Yersinia pestis and Pasteurella multocida
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Yersinia pestis causes
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plague - bubonic, pneumonic, and septicemic
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Transmission of yersinia
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Flea bite/inhalation
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Buttery colonies with musty odor due to indole production
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pasteurella multocida
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Reservoir of yersinia
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wild rodents
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resorvoir of pasteurella
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cats and dogs
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transmission of pasteurella
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animal bites
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DOC for pasteurella
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Pen G
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reservoir of francisella
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rabbits, deers, rodents
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DOC for yersinina
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Streptomycin and tetracycline
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TB: Prevents leukocycte migration
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Cord Factor (most impt virulence factor of TB)
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TB: subpleural granuloma
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Ghon’s focus
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TB: Ghon’s + LN
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Ghon’s complex
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TB: Radiologically detectable calcification
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Ranke’s complex
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TB: Reactivation focus
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Simon’s Focus
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(+) PPD for HIV, AIDS, old TB, immunocompromised
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> 5mm
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(+) PPD for HR population
>10mm
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(+) PPD for LR population
>15mm
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TB: Completed DOTS -> Declared NEG -> Positive again
Relapse
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TB: Remained smear positive at the end or after tx
Failure
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TB: tx was interrupted for 2 consecutive months
Defaulter
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TB: Cat I - New smear positive
2HRZE + 4HR
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TB: Cat II - Relapse, Failure, Defaulter
2HRZES & 1 HRZE; 5 HRE
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TB: Cat III - New smear neg other than cat I, Less severe extrapulmonary TB
2HRZE + 4HR
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Other use of BCG other than for dTB
Prevention of urinary bladder CA
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TB: causes pulmonary disease in AIDS patient with CD4
Mycobacterium avium-Intracellulare Complex
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DOC for MAI, MAC
Azithromycin
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Fite Ferraco Staining is for…
Mycobacterium leprae (Nocardia - weakly staining also)
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hypopigmented plaques, thickened superficial nerves, significant anesthesia
Tuberculoid leprosy
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DOC for tuberculoid leprosy
Dapsone and rifampin
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DOC for lepromatous leprosy
Dapsone, Rifampin, and clofazimine
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DOC for erythema nodosum leprosum
Thalidomide
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hard, nontender swelling with sinus tracts draining SULFUR GRANULES
Actinomyces israelli
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DOC for actinomyces
Pen G + Drainage
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Orange colonies
Nocardia asteroides
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gram positive rods with aerial hyphae
Nocardia asteroides
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Mycetomas
Nocardia asteroides
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DOC for nocardia
TMP SMX + drainage
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Smallest free living organism
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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Autoantibodies against RED CELLS and BRAIN, LUNG, and LIVER cells
Cold Agglutinins of mycoplasma
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Walking pneumonia (MCC of atypical pneumonia)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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MCC of infectious cause of SJS
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
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DOC for mycoplasma
eryhthromycin or azithromycin
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Causes Chancre
Treponema pallidum
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Causes chancroid
Haemophilus ducreyi (painful)
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Condyloma lata, macupapular rash, fever, headache, malaise, anorexia, lymphadenopathy
secondary syphilis
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Clinical spectrum of tertiary syphillis
Gummas, neurosyphillis, aortitis
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Most important diagnostic test for primary syphilis
Dark field microscopy
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Screening test for syphillis
RPR/VDRL
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Confirmatory test for syphillis
FTA-ABS (Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption)
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Snuffles, Mulberry molars, Hutchinson triad, saber shins, rhagades, Higoumenakis sign, clutton's joints
Congenital syphilis
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Hutchinson triad
Hutchinson teeth; deafness; keratitis
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unilateral enlargement of sternoclavicular portion of the clavicle
Higoumenakis Sign
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False positive VDRL results
V-D-R-L: Viruses, Drugs (marijuana), RF/Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus/Leprosy
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DOC for syphillis
Pen G
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influenza like symptoms few hours after receiving pen g for tx of syphilis
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
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largest medically important bacteria
borrelia burgdorferi
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Stain for Borrelia
Aniline dyes (Giemsa/Wright)
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Cause of Lyme Disease
borrelia burgdorferi
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Transmission of Lyme Disease
bite from deer ticks (Ixodes)
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Spectrum of Lyme Disease
BAKE a LYME pie - Bell's palsy, Arthritis, Kardiac (Myocarditis - AV Block), Erythema chronicum migrans
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DOC for Lyme Disease (Borrelia)
Doxycycline (alternative: amox or cefuroxime)
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Programmed Rearrangements =
Relapsing fever
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Cause of relapsing fever
Borrelia recurrenttis
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Diagnostic test for relapsing fever
microscopy
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DOC for relapsing fever (B. Recurentis)
Tetracycline or eryhromycin
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Transmission of relapsing fever
Human body louse (pediculus humanus)
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Shepherd's crook
leptospira interrogans
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Gold standard for detection of leptospirosis
LeptoMAT (blood and CSF --> urine)
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Most severe form of leptospirosis
Weil Syndrome
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Triad of Weil Syndrome
Jaundice + Bleeding + Uremia
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DOC for leptospirosis
Pen G
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MCC cause of STI overall
Chlamydia trachomatis (Types D-K)
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Chronic Keratoconjuctivitis progressing to scarring and blindness
Trachoma (C. trachomatis type A-C)
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Stacato cough =
C. trachomatis neonatal pneumonia
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Lymphogranuloma venereum
C. trachomats L1-L3
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suppurative inguinal lymphadenitis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
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Positive Frei test
Lymphogranuloma venereum (intradermal injection of antigen)
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Associated with atherosclerosis, atypical pneumonia
Chlamydia pneumoniae
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Psittacosis =
Chlamydia psittaci
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bird fancier's disease =
Psittacosis caused by C. psittaci
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DOC for chlamydia
Azithromycin
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DOC for chlamydia conjuctivitis
erythromycin
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DOC for LG venereum
doxycycline
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DOC for psittacosis
Azithromycin
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Detects anti-rickettsial antibodies in a patient's serum by agglutination of proteus organisms
Weil-Felix Test
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Cause of rocky mountain spotted fever
Rickettsia rickettsii
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Cause of Rickettsial pox
Rickettsia akari
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Cause of epidemic typhus
Rickettsia prowazekii
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Cause of endemic typhus
Rickettsia typhi
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Cause of Scrub typhus
Orienttia tsutsumagushi
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Cause of Q fever
Coxiella burnetti
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Cause of ehrlichiosis
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
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Transmission of Rocky Mountain Spotted fever
Ticks (deer ticks - same with lyme disease)
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Transmission of rickettsial pox
Mites (chiggers) - like scrub typhus
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Transmission of epidemic typhus
Body Louse (like relapsing fever)
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Transmission of Endemic typhus
Rat flea
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Transmission of Scrub typhus
Mites (chiggers) - like rickettsial pox
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Transmission of Q fever
NONE
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Transmission of Ehrlichosis
Ticks (Dermacentor - like tularemia)
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Manifestation of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
rash starts in the wRist, spreads centriPetally ("Rocky mountain sPotter fever")
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Manifestation of Typhus
rash starts in Trunk, spreads centriPHUgally ("TyPHUs")
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Diseases with Palm and Sole Rash
"C"oxsackievirus Type "A", "R"ocky mountain spotted fever, "S"yphillis - you drive CARS using your palms and soles
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Cat Scratch Disease
Bartonella henselae
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DOC for cat scratch disease
doxycycline
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DOC for ehrlichosis
doxycycline
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Clue cells =
Bacterial Vaginosis
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Bacterial vaginosis =
Gardnerella vaginalis
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Test for bacterial vaginosis
whiff test
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DOC for bacterial vaginosis
metronidazole
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DOC for chancroid
azithromycin or ceftriaxone
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Pseudeoappendicitis (mesenteric adenitis)
Yersinia enterocolitica, self-limiting
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Donovanosis =
Klebsiella granulomatis
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Closed safety pins=
Donovan bodies (like yersinia)
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Beefy red ulcer with velvety surface
Klebsiella granulomatis
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DOC for klebsiella granulomatis
azithromycin
