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Clinical Bacteriology Flashcards

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Staphylococcus aureus causes….

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  • Inflammatory disease
  • Toxin-mediated disease
  • MRSA infection
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How does Toxic Shock Syndrome (S. aureus) present?

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  • Fever
  • Vomiting
  • Rash
  • Desquamation
  • Shock
  • End-organ failure
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Staphylococcus epidermidis infects….

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prosthetic devices & intravenous catheters

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___________ is the 2nd most common cause of uncomplicated UTI in young women.

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Staphylococcus saprophyticus

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Streptococcus pneumoniae causes….

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MOPS

  • Meningitis
  • Otitis media (children)
  • Pneumonia
  • Sinusitis
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Viridan’s group streptococci causes…

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  • dental caries (Streptococcus mutans)
  • subacute bacterial endocarditis (S. sanguinis)
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Streptococcus pyogenes (group A) causes….

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  • Pyogenic
    • pharyngitis, cellulitis, impetigo
  • Toxigenic
    • scarlet fever, toxic shock-like syndrome, necrotizing fasciitis
  • Immunologic
    • rheumatic fever, acute glomerulonephritis
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J(<3)NES criteria for rheumatic fever

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  • Joints - polyarthritis
  • <3 - carditis
  • Nodules (subq)
  • Erythema marginatum
  • Sydenham chorea
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Scarlet fever triad

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  • Scarlet rash w/ sandpaper-like texture
  • Strawberry tongue
  • Circumoral pallor
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Streptococcus agalactiae (group B) causes….

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mainly in babies

  • pneumonia
  • meningitis
  • sepsis
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Enterococci (group D) causes…

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  • UTI
  • biliary tract infections
  • subacute endocarditis
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Streptococcus bovis (group D) causes….

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  • colonizes the gut
  • bacteremia & subacute endocarditis
  • colon cancer patients
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Symptoms of Corynebacterium diphtheriae

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  • pseudomembranous pharyngitis (gray-white membrane)
  • lymphadenopathy
  • myocarditis
  • arrhythmias
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Corynebacterium diphtheriae pneumonic

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ABCDEFG

  • ADP-ribosylation
  • Beta-prophage
  • Corynebacterium
  • Diphtheriae
  • Elongation Factor 2
  • Granules
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_________ causes spastic paralysis.

_________causes flaccid paralysis.

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Clostridium tetani

Clostridium botulinum

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reheated rice syndrome

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Bacillus cereus

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the only gram (+) organism to produce LPS

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Listeria monocytogenes

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What kind of TB?

  • Ghon focus (mid-zone of lung)
  • Fibrocaseous cavity lesion (upper lobes)
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  • Primary TB
  • Secondary TB
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What are the 4 classic symptoms of TB?

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  • Fever
  • Night sweats
  • Weight loss
  • Hemoptysis
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What are the 2 forms of Hansen disease?

How do they differ?

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  • Lepromatous
    • Leonine (lion-like) facies
    • Low cell-mediated immunity
    • Humoral Th2 response
  • Tuberculoid
    • Hypoesthetic, hairless skin plaques
    • High cell-mediated immunity
    • Th1 type immune response
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Haemophilus pneumonic

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HaEMOPhilus

  • Epiglottitis
    • “cherry red” in children
  • Meningitis
  • Otitis media
  • Pneumonia
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How do you culture Legionella?

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use silver stain –> grow on charcoal yeast extract culture w/ iron & cysteine

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Definitions

  • Legionnaire’s disease
  • Pontiac fever
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  • Legionnaire’s disease
    • Severe pneumonia
    • Fever
    • GI & CNS symptoms
  • Pontiac fever
    • Mild flu-like syndrome
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Pseudomonas pneumonic

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PSEUDOmonas

  • Pneumonia (CF)
  • Sepsis
  • External otitis
  • UTI
  • Drug use
  • Diabetic Osteomyelitis
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Ecthyma gangrenosum

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  • rapidly progressive necrotic cutaneous lesions caused by Pseudomonas bacteremia
  • immunocompromised patients
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E. coli virulence factors

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  • Fimbriae - cystitis & pyelonephritis
  • K capsule - pneumoni, neonatal meningitis
  • LPS endotoxin - septic shock
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EIEC

  • Toxin & Mechanism
  • Presentation
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  • invades intestinal mucosa
  • necrosis & inflammation
  • invasive, dysentery
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ETEC

  • Toxin & Mechanism
  • Presentation
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  • heat-labile & heat-stable enterotoxins
  • traveler’s diarrhea (watery)
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EPEC

  • Toxin & Mechanism
  • Presentation
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  • adheres to apical surface
  • flattens villi, prevents absorption
  • diarrhea in children (Pediatrics)
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EHEC

  • Toxin & Mechanism
  • Presentation
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  • O157:H7 is the most common serotype
  • Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome
    • Anemia
    • Thrombocytopenia
    • Acute renal failure
  • dysentery, doesn’t ferment sorbitol
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The 4 A’s of Klebsiella

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  • Aspiration pneumonia
  • Abscess in lungs & liver
  • Alcoholics
  • di-A-betics
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Typhoid fever

  • Cause
  • Characteristics
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Salmonella typhi

  • rose spots on the abdomen
  • fever
  • headache
  • diarrhea
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major cause of bloody diarrhea in children

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Campylobacter jejuni

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Leptospirosis

  • Cause
  • Characteristics
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*Leptospira interrogans *

  • flu-like symptoms
  • jaundice
  • photophobia w/ conjunctival suffusion
    • erythema w/o exudate
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Weil disease

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  • _icterohemorrhagic leptospirosis _
  • severe from w/ jaundice & azotemia from liver & kidney dysfunction
  • fever, hemorrhage & anemia
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Lyme disease pneumonic

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FAKE a Key Lyme pie

  • Facial nerve palsy (bilateral)
  • Arthritis
  • Kardiac block
  • Erythema migrans
37
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primary syphilis

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painless chancre

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secondary syphilis

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  • secondary = systemic
  • constitutional symptoms
  • maculopapular rash (palms/soles)
  • condylomata lata
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tertiary syphilis

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  • gummas (chronic granulomas)
  • aortitis (vasa vasorum destruction)
  • neurosyphilis (tabes dorsalis)
  • Argyll Robertson pupil
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congenital syphilis

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  • saber shins
  • saddle nose
  • CN VIII deafness
  • Hutchinson teeth
  • mulberry molars
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Argyll Robertson pupil

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constricts w/ accommodation

not reactive to light

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Anaplasmosis

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Anaplasma spp.

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Cat scratch disease

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Bartonella spp.

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Lyme disease

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Borrelia burgdorferi

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relapsing fever

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Borrelia recurrentis

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Brucellosis/undulant fever

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Brucella spp.

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bloody diarrhea

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Campylobacter

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Psittacosis

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Chlamydophila psittaci

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Q fever

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Coxiella burnetii

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Ehrlichiosis

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Ehrlichia chaffeensis

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Tularemia

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Francisella tularensis

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Leptospirosis

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Leptospira spp.

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Leprosy

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Mycobacterium leprae

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cellulitis, osteomyelitis

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Pasteurella multocida

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Epidemic typhus

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Rickettsia proawazekii

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Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

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Rickettsia rickettsii

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Endemic typhus

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Rickettsia typhi

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Plague

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Yersinia pestis

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fishy smell

clue cells

vaginosis

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Garderella vaginalis

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Rash

  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  • Typhus
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  • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
    • starts at wrists & ankles
    • spreads to trunk, palms, soles
  • Typhus
    • starts centrally & spreads out
    • spares palms & soles
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  • monocytes w/ morulae in cytoplasm
  • granulocytes w/ morulae in cytoplasm
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  • Ehrliciosis
  • Anaplasmosis
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2 forms of Chlamydiae

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  • Elementary body
    • “Enfectious”
    • Enters cell via Endocytosis
  • Reticulate body
    • Replicates in cell by fission
63
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frequent outbreaks in military recruits & prisons

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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burn victims

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Pseudomonas aeruginosa

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red “currant jelly” sputum

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Klebsiella

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

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flu-like syndrome after antibiotics are started

due to killed bacteria releasing pyogenes

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classic triad of Rocky Mountain spotted fever

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  • headache
  • fever
  • rash (vasculitis)

First Aid: Microbiology (13 decks)

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