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Enterobacter Flashcards

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Overt Pathogens

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  • Salmonella
  • Shigella
  • Yersinia
  • E. coli
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Subtypes of E. Coli

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  • Enterotoxigenic (ETEC)
  • Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC)
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General Characteristics of Overt Pathogens

Type and virulence

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Type: rapid growers, facultative anaerobes
Virulence: lipopolysaccharides

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Major Lipopolysaccharides

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Outermost somatic O polysaccharide: epidemiologic classification of strains within species
Core polysaccharide: commen antigen
Lipid A: endotoxin

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Epidemiologic Classification

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  • Somatic O polysaccharide
  • Capsular K/Vi antigen: heat labile, interferes with O detection
  • Flagellar H antigen: heat labile
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Common Virulence Factors

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  • Capsule: protects from phagocytes
  • Antimicrobial resistance
  • Endotoxin, lipid A
  • Antigenic phase variation
  • Type III secretion systems: molecular syringe, delivers virulence factors to target cells
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Escherichia Coli Basics

Trans, clinical, virulence

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Transmission: endogenous, gastroenteritis is from exogenous
Clinical: UTI, extraintestinal, GI tract infections
Virulence: general ones, adhesions, exotoxins

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Escherichia Coli (ESCO) Infection: UTI

how does it infect, main symptom, establishment

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Most common cause
- Adheres to epi cells, doesn’t wash away when you pee

Symptoms: delirium is a big one

Establishment: catheters, pregnancy, hemolysin promotes cell lysis and forms biofilms, gender (longer urethra)

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ESCO Infection: Extraintestinal

2 types

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Neonatal meningitis: major cause of CNS infections in infants <1 y/o
- K capsular antigen
- Common GI commensal

Septicemia
- Originate from UTI or GI infection

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E. Coli: Enterotoxigenic Infection

Disease, symptoms,treatment

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Traveler’s diarrhea: most common cause
- Foodborne outbreaks
- Children at risk

Symptoms: nausea, fever, diarrhea, maybe vomiting
- 3-5 days

Treat with supportive care without antibiotics

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E. Coli: Enterhemorrhagic (EHEC) Basics

Trans, clinical, virulence

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Transmission: eating undercooked ground beef, raw milk, animal fecal contam.
Clinical: hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome
Virulence: toxins like Shiga toxin

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E. Coli: Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Infection

2 diseases, antibiotics?

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Hemorrhagic colitis: stomach cramps, bloody diarrhea
Hemolytic uremic syndrome: kidney damage

Antibiotics don’t always help, can increase HUS risk

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E. Coli Enterohemorrhagic Serotypes

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Major O serotype: O157

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Establishment of GI Infections

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Anatomic alterations: obstruction of secretion flow, stuff gets stuck

Changes in stomach acidity: shigella and escherichia are acid resistant

Normal flora alterations: broad spectrum antibiotics

Encounter with specific pathogenic agents: infectious dose must be reached

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Citrobacter, Enterbacter, Klebsiella, Morganella, Proteus, Serratia: Basics

Where, trans, clinical

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Where: normal GI flora
Tranmission: endogenous, person to person
Clinical: opportunistic and nosocomial infections

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Other Infections: Klebsiella Pneumoniae

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Community/nosocomial: pneumonia
- Capsule, adhesins

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Other Infections: Proteus spp.

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UTI with or without kidney stones
- Biofilm, adhesins, proteases

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Other Infections: Citrobacter Koseri

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Meningitis, brain abscesses in neonates

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Other Infections: Enterobacter/Cronobacter

For both

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Enterobacter: various nosocomial like UTI
Cronobacter: meningitis/sepsis in newborns

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Other Infections: Serratia, Morganella

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Both cause various nosocomial infections

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Salmonella Basics

where, trans, clinical

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Where: typhi and paratyphi in humans, not normal flora
Transmission: person to person, fecal oral, contaminated food
Clinical: gastroenteritis, typhoid fever

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Salmonella Virulence

and pathogenesis

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Can traverse intestinal mucosa

Pathogenesis:
- Ingest microbe, absorb into epi cells in intestines
- Penetrates cells and multiply
- Stimulation of cAMP and fluid secretion from host immune response

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Salmonella Infections

two, treatment

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Gastroenteritis: acid sensitive, vomiting, nausea, diarrhea, can recover without treatment, caused by foods, 4-7 day duration

Enteric fever: typhi or paratyphi, typhoid fever, pain and diarrhea, 4 week duration w some relapse

S. typhi has a vaccine

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Shigella: Basics

where, trans, clinical, virulence

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Where: human host specific, not normal flora
Transmission: fecal oral
Clinical: diarrhea, pediatric disease
Virulence: traverse intestinal mucosa
- S. dysenteriae has an exotoxin

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Shigella: Species

4 and grouping

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  1. S. sonnei, Group D, most common
  2. S. flexneri, Group B, more severe
  3. S. boydii, Group C, more severe
  4. S. dysenteriae, Group A, most serious
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Shigella: Infections

symptoms, recovery, risks

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Shigellosis
- Short incubation
- Low dose
- Watery diarrhea, becomes bloody/mucus, cramps, fever
- 1 week duration
Recovery: often without treatment, immunocompromised may get antimicrobials
Risk: poor hygiene, child care, janitors, mlm

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Yersinia: Basics

3 species, where for each, trans, significance

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Y. pestis: rats, rodents, flea vector | ingestion or inhalation of tissue or airborne droplets | bubonic plague, pneumonic plague
Y. enterocolitica: dogs, cats, rodents, rabbits, pigs, cattle | consumptopn of contaminated food, contact with contam. animal | enterocolitis, pseudoappendicitis
Y. psudotuberculosis: birds, deer, rodents: same as above

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Yersinia Pestis: Virulence Factors

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Plasmids that encounde virulence genes’

  • pPCP1: bacteriocin that kills other bacteria and activates plasminogen, degrades complement and prevents opsonization and phagocytic migration - allows for deep tissue invasion
  • pMT1: murine toxin that enhances survival in the flea gut, F1 capsular antigen
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Yersinia Pestis: Infections

2 of them

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Bubonic plague
- 1 wk incubation
- Fever, swelling of lymph node, bacteremia without treatment, 75% mortality

Pneumonic plague
- 2-3 day incubation
- Fever, malaise, pulmonary symptoms
- Person to person spread possible, highly infectious
- Mortality rate 90% without treatment

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Other Yersinia Infections

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Enterocolitis
- Fever, pain, diarrhea (maybe bloody), vomiting
- Lasts up to 2 weeks
- Meats, oysters, fish, raw milk

Pseudoappendicitis: from abdominal pain of lower right quadrant, thinks its appendix problem

Extraintestinal: arthritis

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Plesiomonas Shigelloides: Basics

where, trans, clinical

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,Where: soil, freshwater, warm and cold blood animals
Transmission: contaminated food or water, reptile exposure
Clinical: gastroenteritis (watery or secretory diarrhea, can be chronic for months even) or opportunistic sytemic (meningitis, bacteremia)

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Salmonella: Serotyping

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  • Somatic O
  • Surface Vi
  • Phase 1 or phase 2 flagellar (H antigen)

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