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Bacteriology - Specific pathogens Flashcards

1
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What are the Gram positive bacteria I need to know?

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Streptococcus pneumoniae
Streptococcus pyogenes
Staphylococcus aureus 
MRSA
Clostridum spp
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What are the enteric O-antigen-possessing Gram negative bacteria?

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E. coli
Shigella spp
Salmonella spp
EHEC and EPEC

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What are the mycobacteria I need to know?

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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What are the non-O-antigen.-possessing Gram negative bacteria that I need to know?

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Neisseria gonorrhoeae

Neisseria meningitides

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5
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What does the catalase test distinguish between?

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Staphylococcus and streptococcus

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6
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What bacteria give a positive catalase test?

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Staphylococcus

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What does the coagulase test distinguish?

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Staph aureus or staph epidermidis

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8
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What bacteria give a positive coagulase test?

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Staph Aureus

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9
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What test allows differentiation between different forms of streptococcus?

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Haemolysis

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10
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What type of streptococcus is optichin sensitive?

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Streptococcus pneumonia

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What type of streptococcus is not optichin sensitive?

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Streptococcus viridans

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12
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What can you do following beta haemolysis?

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Lancefield typing to confirm Group D streptococci

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13
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What test would you use to identify a Gram negative coccus?

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Oxidase

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14
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What does a positive oxidase test on a Gram negative coccus mean?

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Neisseria

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15
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What test would you use to test Gram negative rods?

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MacConkey agar

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16
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What does growing on MacConkey agar allow differentiation of bacteria based on?

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lactose fermentation

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17
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Which two Gram negative bacteria ferment lactose?

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E.coli and Klebsiella

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18
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How do you differentiate between E.coli and Klebsiella?

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Indole test

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19
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Which organism gives you a positive indole test?

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E.coli

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20
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What do you use to identify proteus?

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Urease test

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21
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What do you use to identify shigella and salmonella?

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Negative urease test, then use H2S → Salmonella gives positive H2S

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What are the initial reagents of Gram staining?

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Crystal violet and Gram’s iodine

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23
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What do the initial reagents of Gram staining react with to produce a purple colour?

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Bacterial ribonucleotides

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In Gram negative bacteria, what is the initial purple colour washed away by?

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Alcohol and acetone

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25
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After washing out the initial stain in Gram negative bacterial, how can you then stain them red?

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Counter-stain with safranin

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26
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What does Strep. pneumoniae cause?

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Primary lobar pneumonia
Otitis media and sinusitis
Meningitis

27
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What does Strep. pyogenes cause?

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Non-pyogenic complications:
-Streptococcal toxic shock
-Scarlet fever
-rheumatic fever 
-glomerulonephritis
Pyogenic complications:
-Abscesses
-Otitis media
-Sinusitis
-Cellulitis 
-Impetigo
28
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What are symptoms of pharyngitis?

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Fever, sore throat, headache, redness in posterior pharynx and enlarged tonsils

29
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What is rheumatic fever?

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inflammation in a number of tissues in the manner of an autoimmune disease

30
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Where in the body is Staph. aureus a commensal bacterium?

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Nasal cavity, skin, GI and oral cavity

31
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Why is MRSA thought to be resistant to beta lactams?

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Due to the mecA gene - changes binding proteins on the cell surface

32
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What is EHEC?

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Enteroharmorrhagic E coli

33
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Effects and mechanisms of EHEC

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Bloody diarrhoea with little or no fever

Does this by producing shiga toxin

34
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What is EPEC?

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Enteropathogenic E coli

35
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Effects and mechanism of EPEC?

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Associated with infantile darrhoea (watery or bloody)

36
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Describe effects of using thiosulfate to distinguish salmonella and shigella

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Salmonella produces a black precipitate as it produces H2S; shigella does not produce H2S. and appears green

37
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What do E.coli, Shigella spp and Salmonella spp all cause?

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Travellers’ diarrhoea, dysentery, enteric fevers, food poisoning

38
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What is the cell wall of mycobbacteria composed of?

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Mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan (mAGP) complex

39
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Describe the mAGP complex

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Mycobacterial peptidoglycan forms the basal layer
then arabinogalactan layer
mycolic acids attach to arabinogalactan layer

40
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What is an example of an acid fast stain?

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Ziehl-Neelsen stain

41
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What is the initial stage of mTB infection?

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  • transmission via droplet infection
  • receptor-mediated phagocytosis by alveolar macrophages to internalise the bacteria
  • then reside in phagosomes by arresting phagosome maturation and preventing fusion with the lysosome
42
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What is a grauloma?

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A compact aggregation of immune cells that form in response to persistant stimuli of an infection or non-infectious nature

43
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Describe the host response to mTB infection

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  • infected macrophages release TNF-a which causes inflammation and IFN-gamma which is responsible for the recruitment of further macrophages to the site of infection
  • Granuloma forms with infected cells at the centre as more immune cells are recruited
44
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What may the macrophages in the granuloma differentiate to become?

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  • multinucleated giant cells
  • foam cells
  • epithelioid cells
45
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What is the centre of the granuloma called? Describe it

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The caseum

Generally necrotic

46
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What happens to the granuloma in individuals with a healthy immune system?

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The granuloma undergoes fibrosis + calcification, forming a tubercle, successfully controlling the infection
this occurs due to recruitment of fibroblasts

47
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What may happen in immunocompromised individuals if mTB resides as a latent infection?

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  • can be reactivated

- may penetrate the airways and bloodstream

48
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Describe treatment for mTB

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Long-term antibacterial cocktail
First-line → 4 drug cocktail consisting of RIPE 
Rifampicin
Isoniazid 
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol
49
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How may Mtb evade macrophage function?

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  • Inhibition of phagosome-lysosome fusion
  • Inhibition of vacuolar acidification
  • Inhibition of apoptosis within Mtb infected macrophages
50
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What does Staph. aureus cause?

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Abcesses
Surgical wound and burn infections
Food poisoning

51
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What are the two species of Clostridia that I need to know?

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Clostridium tetani and Clostridium difficile

52
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What is expression of virulence determinants regulated by in S. pyogenes?

53
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What does C. difficile cause?

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Watery diarrhoea and pseudomembranous colitis

54
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Why is the risk of female infection with gonorrhoea much greater than the risk of male infection?

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Partly due to the fact that gonococcus can bind to human sperm

55
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How does the capsule aid immune evasion of meningococcus?

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All capsule serogroups expect A contain sialic acid in their capsule, which allows the meningococcus to become less visible to the host immune system via molecular mimicry

56
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How many meningococci evade complement-mediated killing?

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  • By expression of the lipoprotein, factor H binding protein →mimic the host by recruiting factor H which is an inhibitor of the alternative pathway
  • Expression of Neiserria surface protein A which also binds to human factor H
  • Binding of PorA to C4b-binding protein
57
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Does N. gonorrhoea have a capsule?

58
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Give examples of immune evasion strategies of S.aureus

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  • SpA → released following hydrolysis, binds the Fc part of IgG, reducing activation of complement
  • Adenosine synthase A → anti-inflammatory (converts extracellular AMP to adenosine, an anti-inflammatory)
  • Sbi (staphylococcal binder of immunoglobuin) → binds with C3 and factor H
59
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What three important toxins does S.aureus secrete?

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y-haemolysin
Leucocidin
TSST

60
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What does gamma-haemolysin do?

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S.aureus toxin

→ insert into the membrane of erythrocytes to form beta-barrel pores, causing cell lysis

61
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What does leucocidin do and which organism produces it?

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S. aureus

Destroys WBCs and causes production of pus

62
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What does TSST cause and what organism produces it?Describe its mechanism

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S. aureus
- Superantigen that binds to MHCII, which leads to activation of Th cells without any need to undergo intracellular processes
This may lead to a cytokine storm and symptoms of toxic shock → high fever, rash, vomiting, diarrhoea, hypotension, death

63
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What colour do Gram positive bacteria stain?

64
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What colour do Gram negative bacteria stain?

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Red or pink

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