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Shigella bacteriology

  • gram stain and shape
  • fermentation
  • mobility
  • respiration
  • intra vs extracellular
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gram (-) rods
non-lactose fermenting and not H2S producing
-non motile
-facultative anaerobe
-facultative intracellular
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If you have a GI infection, what is going to be the general bacteriology (stain)? What is the exception? What is the general respiration?

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Gram (-) bugs; Listeria is the exception; facultative anaerobic

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On culture, how can you distinguish between shigella and e. coli?

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E coli ferments lactose (bright pink on MacConkey), shigella does not

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Shigella Pathogenicity

  • disease names (3)
  • infectious dose
  • presentation
  • mortality risk
  • complication
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shigella enterocolitis, bacillary dysentery, and shigellosis

  • very low (~100 IUs)
  • bloody diarrhea, local inflammation, ulceration
  • worse with poor nutrition
  • Reactive Arthritis (Reiter’s syndrome)
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Reactive Arthritis

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“Can’t see, can’t pee, can’t climb a tree.”

  • associated w/ HLA-B27
  • conjuctivitis, urethritis, and arthritis
  • shigella and chlamydia
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Shigella pathogenesis

  • target
  • cause of presentation
  • immune evasion
  • populations most at risk
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  • invade epithelium of distal ileum and colon and secrete exotoxins
  • exotoxins kill adjacent cells
  • necrosis, apoptosis, host immune response and hemorrhage lead to bloody diarrhea
  • survive phagocytosis and cause macrophage apoptosis
  • children under 5, HIV+, MSM
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Main Shigella virulence factor

  • seen in what other bacteria?
  • secretion system
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shiga toxin: protein-synthesis-inhibiting shiga toxin is plasmid-encoded

  • can be picked up by E coli
  • type 3
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Hemolytic uremic syndrome

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begins when shiga toxin escapes into bloodstream, causes hemolysis, renal failure, uremia, and DIC

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Dx Shigella: Exam

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Very young/very old: fever, dehydration, severe headache, lethargy, watery diarrhea w/ bloody mucous

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Dx HUS: Exam

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hemolysis, thrombocytopenia, uremia requiring dialysis

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Dx Shigella: Lab

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Strain via immunoassays (agglutination); methylene blue stain of fecal sample to determine if neutrophils are present (Shigella, salmonella, campylobacter)

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Dx HUS: Lab

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schistocytes, decreased platelets, increased PMNs, increased lactate dehydrogenase

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Shigella treatment

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fluids/elect replacements; ceftriazone, fluoroquinolone, azithromycin, cefixime; NO antidiarrheal meds

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Shigella prevention

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sewage disposal, water chlorination, handwashing

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E. coli bacteriology

  • stain and shape
  • fermentation
  • respiration
  • mobility
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  • straight gram (-) rod
  • lactose fermentor, H2S/urease negative
  • facultative anaerobe
  • may be mobile (flagella) or nonmobile
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E. coli pathologies (6)

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  • enterotoxigenic diarrhea
  • enterohemorrhagic diarrhea
  • UTI
  • meningitis
  • pneumonia
  • intra-abdominal escape after GI perforation
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Enterotoxigenic E coli (ETEC)

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Traveler’s diarrhea

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Enteropathogenic E coli (EPEC)

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childhood diarrhea

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Enteroinvasive E coli (EIEC)

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causes shigella-like dysentery

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Enterohemorrhagic E coli (EHEC)

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infected by phage STX, produces shiga toxin, causes hemorrhagic colitis or HUS

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Enteroaggregative E coli (EAggEC)

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primarily associated w/ persistent diarrhea in children in developing countries

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Enteroadherent E coli (EACE)

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cause of childhood diarrhea and traveler’s diarrhea in Mexico and N. Africa

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Enterotoxigenic diarrhea pathogenesis

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  • pili attach to jejunum and ileum
  • enterotoxins (exotoxin that acts on the GI tract)
  • enterotoxin LT forces host ion channels to export, host loses fluid, potassium, and chloride
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Enterohemorrhagic diarrhea pathogenesis

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  • attach to mucosal epithelial cells of the colon and may invade
  • lysogenic phage STX encodes shiga toxin which becomes active inside gut cells, shuts down protein synthesis, destroys some
  • inflammation, bloody diarrhea
  • if toxin hits blood stream > HUS
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When does HUS become a threat in EHEC
when antibiotics are used to treat bloody diarrhea
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How does shiga toxin cause renal injury and anemia?
binds to Gb3 on RBCs and uses RBCs as transport to kidney, RBCs/toxin complex clog capillaries in the kidney via platelet-fibrin thrombi (shistocytes)
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Dx E coli: exam
bloody or nonbloody diarrhea, dehydration, recent travel abroad
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Dx E coli: lab
stool culture, EIA test colonies for shiga toxin
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Enterotoxic diarrhea treatment
self limited, hydrate
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Enterohemorrhagic diarrhea treatment
NO antidiarrhea or antibiotics! Just hydrate
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Types of bacteria that can cause gastroenteritis with their toxins but not their virulence? How do you separate these from others clinically.
Staph aureus, bacillus cereus, and botulinum. Onset within hours
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Salmonella bacteriology - stain and shape - fermentation - oxidase, urease, H2S - mobility
- gram (-) rods - seldom lactose - oxidase (-), urease (-), H2S (+) - motile
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Salmonella pathologic presentations (4)
enterocolitis, enteric fever (typhoid fever), septicemia (rare and in combo w/ sickle cell), and reactive arthritis
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Salmonella Enterocolitis - who and where - presentation - infectious dose
- children and nursing homes, ppl on antacids - inflammation, diarrhea, N/V - high (100K)
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Salmonella enterocolitis pathogenesis
-salmonella selectively attach to M cells of Peyer patches, are internalized by receptor mediated endocytosis
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salmonella virulence factors (5)
- Ipf operon (enhances adhesion to M cell) - Type 3 secrection - SipB (causes macrophage apoptosis) - Spi2 ('spy'- S. typhi uses this to turn macrophages into trojan horses for systemic spread) - Vi antigen (S typhi capsule for immune evasion
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Salmonella Enteric and Typhoid fevers - onset - progression - presentation
human restricted fecal-oral infections with S typhi or paratyphi - fever, pain, constipation - 3-4wks: cough, stupor, delerium, GI hemorrhage, bowel perforation, myocarditis, death - recent travel, hotel stay, high fever, headache, anorexia
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treat salmonella enterocolitis
only for very young, very old, or HIV+ (Ab sensitivity before admin)
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treat salmonella enteric fever or septicemia
ceftriaxone or ciprofloxacin; drain abscesses
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Yersinia enterocolitica and pseudotuberculosis bacteriology - stain and shape - fermentation - mobility
gram (-) oval rods - non lactose, urease (+) - motile at 25*C but not at body temp
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Yersinia enterocolitica pathogenicity - what does it cause - infectious dose - virulence factors
- enterocolitis by invading intestinal mucosa and destroying tissue through the Peyer patches - very high (10^9) - carried on plasmids and chromosomes
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Yersinia enterocolitica virulence factors
- pili and Inv adhesin (binding to M cells) | - CNF (dermonecrotic toxin destroys tissues)
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Yersinia enterocolitica presentation - who? where? - complication?
- most common in young children, risk increased with iron overload - cooler climates without food processing - reactive arthritis
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Yersinia pseudoTB pathogenesis - adult presentation - child presentation
- similar, more rare, seen in Immunocomp or pre-existing liver disease - Izumi fever: vasculitis w/ fever, rash, inflammation of oral cavity, erythema/edema of hands and feet
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Dx yersinia: Exam
diarrhea, dehydration, "false appendicitis", recent travel
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Dx yersinia: labs
- culture from stool, blood, or CSF | - grow in cold-enrichment on CIN agar
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How do you distinguish between Y. enterocolitica and pseudoTB
pseudoTB ferments sorbitol and has ornithine decarboxylase activity
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Treat yersinia
- fluids | - if complications then trimethoprim, sulfamethoxazole, cipro
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Using Hektoen Enteric Agar to differentiate - no growth? - Blue-green growth? - orange growth? - Black growth?
- listeria - no lactose or H2S (Shigella) - Lactose w/o H2S (E coli) - H2S (Salmonella
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Listeria bacteriology - stain and shape - respiration - mobility - colony on blood and nonblood agar
- gram (+) rod - facultative anaerobic - tumbling motility - beta hemolytic, blue-green colonies
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``` Listeria virulence (2) -immune evasion? ```
- listerolysin (exit macrophage lysosomes) - ActA (rocket thing via actin) - intracellular pathogen, cell to cell spread via ActA
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Listeria presentation | - who?
immunosuppressed, pregnant | -eating environmentally contaminated food
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Listeria outside of GI
meningitis, abscess, endocarditis, septic arthritis, osteomyelitis, pneumonia
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Listeria in pregnancy
bacteria escape GI and begin to grow in the placenta, esp in the third trimester (CMI is lowest) - cause preterm labor, abortion, still birth, intrauterine infection
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Listeria in neonate
- transmission across placenta: early onset sepsis and premature birth w/ abscesses and/or granulomas in major organs - transmission from vagina: late onset meningitis w/ sepsis
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Dx listeria: exam - pregnancy - CNS
- fever, arthralgia, back pain, headache | - mental status change, seizure, cranial nerve deficits, strokelike hemiplegia, tremor, myoclonus, ataxia, brain abscess
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Dx listeria: lab
blood culture, Wet mount of CSF | - gram stain
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Treat listeria
Abs, IV if CNS or bacteremic - amp and gentamicin - reportable
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V. cholerae bacteriology - stain and shape - respiration - fermentation - mobility - reservoirs
- gram (-), curved comma-shape rod - aerobic, facultatively anaerobic - sucrose fermenting, slightly lactose, oxidase (+) - mobile - humans and plankton (indian ocean)
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What marker indicated vimbrio pathogenecity
O cell wall antigen (O1 and O139)
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V cholerae pathogenesis - transmission - infectious dose - risk factors - virulence factors (3)
- fecal-oral transmission - high - ppl on antacids, w/ gastrectomy, or with H pylori infection - mucinase, toxin-coregulated pilus (TCP), cholera toxin
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Cholera toxin - receptor - mechanism
A-B subunit enterotoxin - GM1 on intestinal lining - perisistant activation of adenylate cyclase > loss of H2O and ions
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How does V. cholera encode the toxin
carried by lysogenic bacteriophage CXT
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Electrolyte imbalance in cholera
acidosis and hypokalemia > cardiac and renal failure in hours
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Dx Cholera: exam | -children
-drowsy, coma, fever, hypoglycemic convulsion
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Treat cholera
IV lactated Ringer solution
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Non-cholera vibrio infections (2) - which is more common? presentation? - which is more lethal? presentation
parahaemolyticus, vulnificus - parahaemolyticus: gastroenteritis from undercooked shellfish - vulnificus: cellulitis after seawater infected wound
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campylobacter bacteriology - stain and shape - mobility - oxidase, catalase - respiration
- gram (-), comma or S-shaped rod - motile (flagella) - (+) - microaerophilic
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Campylobacter transmission
fecal-oral, raw milk, undercooked chicken, sexual contact, sick pets (puppies)
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C. jejuni strongly predisposes pts to what?
Guillain-Barre syndrome, Reactive arthritis, HUS
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Campylobacter presentation in children
presents w/ watery foul-smelling diarrhea > progressing to bloody stool w/ fever and abd pain
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Dx Campylobacter: lab | - how can you tell it apart from salmonella, listeria, yersinia
- campylobacter cannot grow at low temp | - grows better under low oxygen atmosphere
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Treat campylobacter - simple gastroenteritis - children, pregnancy - adults w/ worsening symptoms - meningitis
- rehydrate - erythromycin - azithromycin, tetracycline, clindamycin - meropenem, ampicillin, chloramphenicol
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H pylori bacteriology | -stain and shape
curved gram (-) rod
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H pylori pathogenicity
peptic ulcer disease, MALT lymphoma, gastric lymphoma, adenocarcinoma of the stomach
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H pylori virulence
- flagella as attachment - urease (break down urea into ammonia > neutral pH) - Vac-A (vacuolating cytotoxin) - Cag-A (chemotaxis of neutrophils)
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Dx H pylori: exam
urea breath test, biopsy, PCR for stool
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Treat H pylori
reduce irritation with pepto, PPIs -kill bacteria w/ triple therapies (omeprazole+amoxicillin+clarithromycin) (bismuth subsalicyclate+metronidazole+tetracycline) (lansoprazole+amoxicillin+clarithromycin)

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