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Enterobacteriaceae Opportunistic Pathogens Flashcards

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What are the GENERAL characteristics of Enterobacteriaceae?

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  • Gram negative bacilli
  • Non-spore forming
  • All ferment glucose
  • Catalase pos (except Shigella dysenteriae)
  • Oxidase neg (except Plesiamonas sp.)
  • Most reduce nitrate to nitrite (ones causing human infections)
  • Peritrichous flagella if motile
  • All grow on BA and CHOC
  • Grow well at 35-37
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Epidemiology of Enterobacteriaceae

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E. coli : NF of bowel (human and animal), may inhabit female genital tract

Citrobacter spp, Enterobacter spp, Klebsiella spp, Morganella spp, Proteus spp, Providencia spp and Serratia spp: NF in human GIT

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Their mode of transmission?

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  • Often endogenous and opportunistic

- Person-to-person (often nosocomial)

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Virulence factors include:

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Endotoxins (fever, vasodilation, inflammation, shock, DIC), capsules, adhesion proteins, multiple antimicrobial resistances

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These can cause what in these types of patients?

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Nosocomial infections of RT, UT, blood and other sterile sites in hospitalized or debilitated patients

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Virulence factors of E.coli causing extraintestinal infections

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Endotoxins, pili, capsule

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Enterotoxigenis E.coli (ETEC) and their virulence factors

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  • Potent toxins (serious GI infections)

- Pili, enterotoxins

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Enteroinvasive E.coli (EIEC) and their virulence factors

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  • Invades enterocytes (serious GI infections)

- Similar mechanisms to Shigella

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Enteroaggregative E.coli (EAEC) and their virulence factors

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  • Attach to mucosal cells of GI and change cell surface (serious GI infections)
  • Pili, enterotoxins
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Enterohemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC/VTEC/STEC) and their virulence factors

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  • Toxin (life threatening systemic illness)

- SHIGA toxin

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Colonial appearance on BA

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Large, grey, smooth. glistening, moist, E.coli often B-hemolytic, Kleb + Enterbacter spp. may be mucoid, Proteus spp. often swarm

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Gelatin Hydrolysis

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  • Determines ability to produce gelatinase
    Procedure:
  • Stab 4-5 times, inc in 02 up to 14 days
  • Place in 4 degrees daily to check for liquification
  • Use uninoculated tube for control, ensure it gels
  • Pos= partial/total liquefaction @4deg (control solid)
  • Neg= solid at 4deg

Pos QC=Bacillus subtilis
Neg QC=E.coli

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4-Methylumbelliferyl-β-D-Glucuronide (MUG) test

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  • Rapid test to ID E.coli
  • Subsrate:4-Methylumbelliferyl-β-D-Glucuronide

Procedure:

  • Impreg substrate on paper disc
  • Inoc and inc in 2 hrs
  • Pos=electric blue fuorescence (E.coli)
  • Neg=no fluorescence (Kleb. pnuemoniae)

NOTE: only test oxidase-neg orgs

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What are the categories of E.coli?

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Uropathogenic (UPEC)
- Pathogenicity islands coding for adhesions and toxins

Meningitis/sepsis-asscosiated (MNEC)
- neonatal meningitis w/ high morbidity and mortality. Spread fr. blood

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E.coli are:

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  • Most are LF, dry (may see precip of bile salts on MAC
  • Indole pos
  • VP neg
  • Citrate neg
  • Lysine pos
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Klebsiella spp. characteristics

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  • Klebsiella pnuemoniae, Klebsiella oxytoca
  • NF in Nasopharynx and GIT
  • UTI, pneumonia, septicemia, liver abcesses
  • K.oxytoca: associated w/ self-limiting, antibiotic-associated hemorrhagic colitis
  • K.pneumoniae: intrinsically resistant to ampicillan
  • Possible multidrug resistance
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Kleb spp. are:

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Culture:
- Mucoid, Mac-LF &lrg

Tests

  • Non-motile
  • VP pos
  • Ornithine neg
  • Urea pos
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What test differentiates K.pnuemoniae and K.oxytoca?

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Indole
K.pnuemoniae - neg
K.oxytoca - pos

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Enterobacter spp. is part of which tribe?

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Klebsielleae

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NF and infections of Enterobacter spp.

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  • NF in human GIT (also in soil and water)

- UTI, respiratory and cutaneous infections, nosocomial (contaminated medical devices

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Culture and tests of Enterobacter spp

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Culture
- Mac: LF; often mucoid (capsule); may have plasmids

Tests

  • Motile
  • Ornithine pos
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Test that differentiates E.aerogenes from E.cloacae

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Lysine
E.aerogenes = pos
E.cloasae = neg

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Serratia spp., name 2, what tribe are they a part of.

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Serratia marcescens
Serratia liquifaciens

Tribe Klebsiella

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What can be caused by Serratia spp.?

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UTI, pneumonia, septicemia, wound infections

Nosocomial opportunist

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What does Serratia marcescens look like in the lab?

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Typically red, pigment prodogiosin (not all)

  • Motile
  • LLF
  • DNase pos
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Where can you find Citrobacter and how is it transmitted?

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  • NF of the GIT

- Person to person transmission

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Infections caused by Citrobacter

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  • UTI is most common

- Septicemia, meninitis, brain abscesses, neurological complications

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What does Citrobacter look like in the lab

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  • LLF

- May have inducable AmpC genes=resistance to ampicillin etc

29
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Where is Proteus spp. found?

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  • NF of GIT
  • UTI, wound and ear infection
  • vulgaris; infection in immunocomp’d, especially after antibiotics
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Describe Proteus in the lab

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  • Swarming on non-inhibitory plates (most strains)
  • Distinct odour (chocolate cake
  • NLF
  • PDA pos
  • Urea pos
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Which tests differentiate P. mirabilis from P. vulgaris?

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Indole:

  • P. mirabilis = neg
  • P. vulgaris = pos

Ornithine:

  • P. mirabilis = pos
  • P. vulgaris = neg
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Where do you find Morganella spp.

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  • NF in GIT
  • UTI, wound infections?
  • Questionable clinical significance
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What does Morganella morganii look like in the lab

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  • NLF
  • PDA pos
  • Urea pos
  • Citrate neg
  • Ornithine pos
  • Indole pos
  • H2S may be pos
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What does Providencia spp. look like in the lab

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  • NLF
  • PDA pos
  • Citrate pos
  • Urea pos (P. rettgeri)
35
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Name the H2S producing:

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  • Proteus mirabilis
  • Proteus vulgaris
  • Morganella morganii
  • Citrobacter freundii
36
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VP positive:

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All except E. coli and Citrobacter freundii

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PDA pos:

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  • Proteus spp.
  • Morganella morganii
  • Providencia spp.
38
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Non-motile and urea positive

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Klebsiella spp.

39
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Only LF’s that are indole positive:

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  • E. coli
  • Klebsiella oxytoca
  • Citrobacter Freundii
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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)

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  • Can be chronic, attach to enterocytes in small bowel

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