E coli Flashcards
1
Q
Morphology
A
Gram neg rod
2
Q
Things E coli causes
A
UTIs, blody diarrhea, travelers diarrhea
3
Q
How does E coli become pathogenic
A
Acquire splasmid via conjugation, DNA via transduction, transposon via transposition
4
Q
ETEC
A
Enterotoxigenic E coli causes watery diarrhea….similar to cholera toxin…stimulates adenylate cyclase
5
Q
EHEC
A
Enterohemorrhagic E coli…shiga-like toxin causes bloody diarrhea
6
Q
EHEC toxin uses what mechanism
A
AB toxin and A subunit binds small ribosome
7
Q
E coli UTI mechanism
A
P pili binds to uroepithelial cells and can move up into the kidney to cause pyelonephritis
