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Enterobacteriaceae Flashcards

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What are the major pathogens of enterobacteriaceae?

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  • E. coli
  • Salmonella
  • Shigella
  • Yersinia
  • Klebsiella
  • Proteus
  • Enterobacter
  • Citrobacter
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enterobacteriaceae are gram ______ with what shape?

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gram negative rods

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Do enterobacteriaceae form spores?

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No they are non-spore forming

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Enterobacteriaceae are ______ fermenting?

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glucose

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Enterobacteriaceae are ______ (areobes or anaerobes)

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They are facultative anaerobes

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What types of bacterial enterobacteriaceae are there?

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normal flora, opportunistic and obligate pathogens.

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How is control of enterobacteriaceae controlled in relation to public health

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  • water and food safety
    -fecal oral transmission common
    trash disposal like rodents and vector control
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How are most Enterobacteriaceae cultured?

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Most grown on common lab media, A variety of differential and selective media; Macconkey agar, Eosin-Methylene Blue agar, Salmonella-Shiegella agar

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9
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Sereotyping of Enterobacteriaceae is on the basis of what?

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O, H K antigens which are also respectively LPS, flagella and capsule.

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E.coli is a common ____ inhabitant

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GI

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E. coli was originally isolated as ______ and renamed as E. coli

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Bacillus coli communis by Escherich

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Normal flora E. coli is associated with what?

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  • intestinal disorders (diarrhea),
  • urinary tract infections (UTI- most common cause of cystitis)
  • Wound infections
  • neonatal meningitis
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How many strains of E. coli are sequenced?

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61 strains

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What are the Diarrhea strains of E. coli

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ETEC
EPEC
EHEC
EIEC
EAggEC
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Strains of E.coli differ in _____ properties these differences are also known as what?

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virulence properties the differences are known as virotyping.

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What does ETEC stand for?

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EnteroToxigenic E. Coli

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What does EPEC stand for?

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EnteroPathogenic E. coli

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What does EHEC stand for?

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EnteroHemorragic E. coli

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What does EIEC stand for?

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EnteroInvasive E. coli

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What does EAggEC stand for?

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EnteroAggregative E. Coli

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What does UPEC stand for?

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UroPathogenic E. Coli

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22
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What does E. coli K1 strains cause?

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neonatal meningitis

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What strains of E.coli cause Gastroenteritis?

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ETEC
EPEC
EHEC 
EIEC 
EAggEC
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24
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what is the genomics for K-12 E. coli strain

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the commensal strain (MG1655) 4.64 Mb

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what is the E.coli strain genomics for K-1

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nenoatal meningitis strain (UMN 026) 5.36 Mb

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26
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What is the UTI strain of E.coli?

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(IAI39) 5.13

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What is the genomics for the E.coli strain HUS, hemolytic uremic syndrome

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(O104:H4 str. 2011C-3493) 5.44 Mb

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What is the genomic E. coli strain of EHEC?

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E. coli O157:H7

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Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) has how many cases and death per year in the USA?

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73,000 cases and 60 deaths per year in the USA

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How is Enterohemorrhagic E. coli caused?

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By the consumption of ground beef and food contaminated with cattle feces.

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Enterohemorrhagic E.coli contains a shiga-like toxin on lysogenic phage with can do what?

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the shiga toxin can move to the kidneys and cause hemolytic uremic syndrome

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What is hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)?

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characterized by hemolytic anemia (anemia caused by destruction of RBC), acute kidney failure (uremia) and low platelet count

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Enterohemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) colonization is aided by what?

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Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron (normal flora)

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Bacteroides theraiotamicron does what?

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aids in EHEC colonization; cleaves fucose from host lycans (mucin); fucose triggers virulence in EHEC>

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In Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) colonization what happens at the tissue surface?

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Epinephrine and norepinephrine from tissue activate type III secretion, toxin introduced to intestinal epithelial cells- bloody diarrhea (dysentery).

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36
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Cattle can be a natural reservoir of ______

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Enterohemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC)

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What are the symptoms of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC)?

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Abdominal cramps
bloody diarrhea
little or no fever

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What is the main toxin of Enterohemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC)?

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Shiga toxin (A-B5 toxin) which is similar to the main toxin from shigella dysteriae (shiga toxin). The shiga toxin (A-B toxin) binds to globotriaosylceramide-3 (Gb3) (found in colon. G3b is also found in renal glomeruli.

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39
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Many virulence genes encoded on pathogenicity island 1 in Enterhemorrhagic E. coli is also called what?

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Locus of Enterocyte Effacement (LEE)

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40
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Antibiotic treatment of Enterohemorrhagic E. coli can do what?

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cause risk of hemolytic uremic syndrome

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41
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HUS stands for what and is it life threatening?

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Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), potentially life-threatening complications.

42
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What type of secretion is used for Enterhemorrhagic E. coli virulences?

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Type 3 secretion.

43
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Stx (shiga toxin) acts against what? which does what?

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acts against host 28S rRNA which inhibits protein synthesis.

44
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what is the diagnostic of Enterhemorrhagic E.coli?

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Detection of toxin in stool/culture

45
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what is the infectious dose of Enterhemorrhagic E. coli?

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estimated as 10^-100 CFU

46
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IS Enterhemorrhagic E. coli acid resistant?

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yes

47
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Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) does what to lesions?

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attaches and effaces.

48
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Enterohemorrhagic E.coli has genes for acid resistance with are ____ regulated ______

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quorum regualted (sdiA) luxR homolog- E.coli lack lux so need Acyl-homoserine lactones (AHLS) from other bacteria.

49
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Ethanolamine is also a signal molecule receptor for ____ which responds to _____ stimulating ____?

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ethanolamine (qsec) also responds to host epineprine which stimulates stx and lee gene.

50
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Entertoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) causes what?

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Traveller’s diarrhea

51
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Does Entertoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) cause damage to intestinal cells like EHEC does?

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No apparaant damage

52
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Toxins of Enterotoxigenic E. coli causes what?

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  • diarrhea similar to cholera but less severe
  • Vomiting
  • cramps
  • fever
53
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Enterotoxigenic E. colie (ETEC) is a major cause of child death where?

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third world countries.

54
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Enterotoxigenic E.coli (ETEC) causes an increase in levels of what?

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cAMP or cGMP

55
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Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) has heat stable and labile toxins which does what?

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stimulated hyper secretion of fluids and electrolytes.

56
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Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) has similar symptoms as _____ except _____

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similar symptoms as ETEC except has more persistne diarrhea, Mucoid stool.

57
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Enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) infections are usually what?

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self-limiting and responsive to oral rehydration therapy.

58
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How is Enteroaggregative E. colie (EAEC) diagnoses?

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HEp-2 cell-adherence assay

59
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What are the virulence factors for Enteroaggregative E.coli (EAEC)?

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-Aggregative adherence fimbriae (AFF I)
-aggR
-fimbriae (pili)
-enterotoxins
dispersin
protease
-siderophores
-several other factors

60
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The virulence factoe Aggregative adherence fimbriae (AFFI) for Enteroaggregative E.coli (EAEC) is what?

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cause E. coli to clump together on the surface of intestinal cells.

61
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The virulence factor aggr in EAEC is what?

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master regulator of pathogenicity island

62
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The virulence factor dispersin in EAEC is what?

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spread across the EAEC mucosa

63
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The virulence factor protease in EAEC is what?

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involved in mucin degradation

64
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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) causes what symptoms?

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Pediatric diarrhea (watery)

65
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How is Enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) transmitted?

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person to person

66
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How is Enterpathogenic E. coli (EPEC) ‘s adherence?

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its patchy

67
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What in Enteropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) causes attachment and effacing?

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Actin rearrangement

68
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What are the virulence factors of Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)?

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  • actin rearrangement
  • Pathogenicity island (locus of enterocyte effacement (lee))
  • bundle forming pili
  • cytolethal distending toxin and cytotoxic necrotizing factors.
69
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Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) has what symptoms which are similar to what?

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watery diarrhea which may lead to Dysentry (scant blood); similar symbtoms to Shigella infection

70
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How is Enteroinvasive E. coli transmitted?

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Cell to Cell spread by actin tail

71
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How is the virulence genes in Enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) and shigella carried?

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by plasmid

72
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Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) causes a majority ______% of what?

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More than 80% of uncomplicated cystitis

73
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What is cystitis?

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lower urinary tract infection refering to the inflammation of the bladder specifically the wall of the bladder.

74
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Uropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) causes what?

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  • Urethritis (urethra)
  • but more commonly cystitis (bladder)
  • also Pyelonephritis (kidney) which is the most serious
75
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What is urethritis?

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inflammation of the urethra

76
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What is Pyelonephritis?

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Inflammation of the kidneys due to bacteria infection

77
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Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) is mostly in what group of people?

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young girls 20-40

78
Q

Cranberry juice is effective for what?

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Preventing UTI’s.

79
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Antibiotics are given in the case of Uropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) when?

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After in vitro susceptibility test.

80
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Uropathogenic E.coli (UPEC) is generally what?

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an ascending UTI

81
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Uropathogenic E.coli (UPEC) need what for colonization of the urinary tract?

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Motility and adhesion; witching mechanism is not fully understood however

82
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THe virulence factors associated with uropathogenic E.coli (UPEC) include what?

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  • adherence
  • motility
  • metal acquisition (Fe, Zn)
  • toxin production (hemolysin)
  • immune evasion
83
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Pili (fimbriae) can influence what in Uropathogenic E.coli (UPEC)?

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influence tissue tropism

84
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What different types of pili (fimbriae) do uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) have?

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Type 1
p fimbriae
and S fimbrae

85
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Type 1 pili fimbrae in UPEC is what?

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mannose sensitive and commonly found in most strains

86
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the p fimbrae in UPEC is what?

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associated with pap gene; is the pyelonephritis associated pili; binds sugar same as human blood group. P- can undergo antigenic variation.

87
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the S. fimbrae in UPEC is what?

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mannose resistant.

88
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Proteus is found where?

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GI tract

89
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Proteus is a common cause of what?

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complicated cystitis and other urinary tract infections (UTIs)

90
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What is the major virulence factor of Proteus?

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Urease

91
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The pili of proteus can what?

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undergo antigenic variation

92
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How can the cells of proteus change?

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from normal morphology to very elongated cells with many flagella.

93
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What is involved in the grup behavior of proteus?

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signaling

94
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What is a common feature of growth of proteus in agar?

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swarming

95
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A proteus swarm colony from a spot less than 10 raised to the 4 bacteria can cover ___ diameter in apetri dish in about ____ at 32 degrees Celsius

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9 cm diameter petri dish in about 12-16 hours at 32 degrees celsius.

96
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what is the equation for urease?

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NH2CONH2 —>2NH3 + CO2

97
Q

What is the equation for Struvites?

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NH2MgPO4

98
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Proteus can block what? how?

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urinary catheters via biofilms

99
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Normal urine pH is what? Struvite needs a pH of what?

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Normal pH is slightly acid at ~ a pH of 5.8 While Struvite needs a pH more than 7 often even a pH of 8 or 9.

100
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Proteus biofilm growth can create what? enhancing what?

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create microenvironments and enhance mineral formation

101
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What is a typical difference between Uropathogenic E.coli (EPEC) UTI and a Proteus (p. miriabilis) UTI?

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UPEC typically causes an uncomplicated UTI and proteus’s bacteria like P . mirabillis typically causes complicated UTIS.

102
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Estimated mortality of infected neonates with E.coli meningitis?

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40%

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