final exam Flashcards
Gram Positive Cocci
Staphylococcus
Streptococcus
Enterococcus
Gram positive rods
Listeria Erysipelothrix Bacillus Actinomyces Trueperella Actinobaculum Dermatophilus Clostridium- (Anaerobes)
Acid Fast staining bacteria
- Cornyebactierium (Partial)
- Rhodococcus- partial
- Nocardia- Partial
- Mycobacterium
Gram negative Enterobacteriaceae-rods
- E. Coli
- Salmonella
- Yersinia
- Klebsiella
- Shigella
- Proteus
- Enterobacter
Gram negative rods
- Actinobacillus
- Bartonella
- Burkholderia
- Brucella
- Francisella
- Taylorella
- Bordetella
- Moraxella
- Pasteurella
- Mannheimia
- Histophilis
- Hemophilis
- Psuedomonas
- Avibacterium
- Ornithobacterium
- Vibrio
- Aeromonas
- Nicoletella
Gram negative anaerobes
- Fusobacterium
- Bacteriodes
- Dichelobacter
Spirochetes (Gram Negative)
- Brachyspira
- Borrelia
- Leptospira
- Treponema
Cell wall deficient bacteria
- Mycoplasma
- Ureaplasma
Spiral, Gram Negative Bacteria
- Campylobacter
- Helicobacter
- Lawsonia
Vector Borne Bacteria
- Rickettsia
- Neorickettsia
- Anaplasma
- Ehrlichia
- Coxiella
Bacteria characteristics
- prokaryotes (No nucleus)
- complex cell wall
- no sterol
- membrane bound organelles absent
- single circular chromosone
- no histones
- ribosomes (smaller) 70s
- no cytoskeleton
- asexual reproduction- binary fission
Cell wall components-Gram Positive bacteria
-Lipoteichoic acid
Cell wall components- Gram negative bacteria
- outer membrane containing Lipopolysaccharide (LPS)- virulence factor
- Lipid A component (endotoxin) of LPS can activate immune system and exert harmful effects on the host
- polysaccharide component contributes to antigenicity
cellular features of Mycobacteria
- mycolic acid (virulence factor)
- stains with acid-fast stain
Flagella
-locomotion or motility
fimbriae/pili
adherance
Endoflagella/axial filaments
-present in spirochetes
capsule
-outer covering, helps bacteria evade phagocytosis
Characteristics of Fungus
- eukaryotic
- sterols in cell membrane
- contains glucans, mannans, chitin (no peptidoglycan)
- unicellular form= yeast
- multicellular- molds (hyphae)
- dimorphic fungus (exist as yeast and mold)
- sexual and asexual reproduction
Types of Hyaline fungus
- aspergillus
- dermatophytes
Mycotoxins
- Aflatoxin
- Ochratoxin
- Fumonisin
- Ergot alkaloids
- Zearalenone
Types of Yeast
- Candida
- Malassezia
- Cryptococcus
Types of Dimorphic fungi
- Blastomyces dermatitidis
- Histoplasma capsulatum
- Coccidiodes immitis
- Sporothrix schenckii
Fungus-like organisms
- Pythium
- Lagenidum
- Prototheca
Antibiotic
-low molecular substance produced by organism at low concentration, inhibits or kills other microorganisms
Antimicrobials
-any substance of natural, semisynthetic, or synthetic origin that kills or inhibits the growth of microorganisms but causes little or no damage to the host
antimicrobials acting on cell wall/cell membrane
- Beta-lactams (penicillin, ampicillin, cephalosporins, carbapenems, monobactams)
- glycopeptides (Vancomycin)
- bacitracin
- polymyxin
antimicrobials that act on protein synthesis
- tetracyclines
- macrolides
- aminoglycosides
- chloramphenical
- lincosamides
- streptogramins
antimicrobials that are nucleic acid synthesis inhibitors
- sulfonamide/trimethoprim
- nitroimidazoles/nitrofurans
- fluoroquinolones (enrofloxacin, ciprofloxacin)
- novobiocin
- rifampin (RNA)
antimicrobials that target ergosterols in cell wall- antifungal drugs
- polyene
- azoles
Types of antimicrobial susceptibility testing
- disk diffusion (Kirby Bauer test)-must use bacterial isolate in pure culture
- broth/Agar dilution test
Minimum inhibitory concentration
- minimum amount of drug required to inhibit bacterial growth
- lower the MIC, better choice
susceptibility break point
-drug concentration above which and organism is considered resistant, and at or below this value organism is susceptible to drug
Gradient diffusion test
- uses diffusion and dilution
- used to obtain MIC values
What drugs inhibit ergosterol?
- polyenes
- azoles
- allylamines
Binds to mitotic spindles, ihibits mitosis, administered orally, accumulates in keratin, used for dermatophytes
-Griseofulvin
Inhibits nucleic acid synthesis
-Flucytosine
Cornyebacterium spp.-characteristics
- Gram +
- pleomorphic
- aerobic rods
- mycolic acid
- soil and environmental sources
- commensal of skin and mucous membranes
- opportunistic
- host specific
- facultative intracellular- lives in macrophages
- pyogenic infection
Cornyebacterium diptheriae
-childhood diptheria
Cornyebacterium psuedotuberculosis
- caseous lymphadenitis in sheep and goats
- route of infection: penetrates skin from wounds or bites of infected animals
- causes economic loss- cull
- in valued animals can disinfect/treat abscess
- horses- pigeon fever (ulcerative lymphangitis of lower extremities)
- cattle- bovine ulcerative lympaginitis
Cornyebacterium renale
- contagious bovine polynephritis
- from trauma to bladder/urethra during parturition, contaminated bedding, veneral transmission, or use of non-sterile OB instruments
- AM- high temp, wt loss, colic, smelly pee, decreased rumen contraction
- PM- multifocal abscesses in kidney, uremia, increase in size of renal lymph node
Cornyebacterium kutscherii
- murine pseudotuberculosis
- suppurative pneumonia
- nodular lesions in kidney liver and heart
- arthritis in pedal extremities
- lymphnode hyperplasia
Cornyebacterium bovis
dermatitis and hyperkeratosis of nude mice
Rhodococcus equi- cellular characteristics
- gram positive aerobic rods/coccobacilli
- weakly acid fast- mycolic acid
- facultative intracellular pathogen (in macrophage)
- mycolic acid, techoic acid, peptidoglycan
- opportunistic pathogen in other animals than horse
- lives in soil and manure
Rhodococcus equi- clinically
- Foal pneumonia- 1-4 month foals
- suppurative bronchopneumonia, lymphadenitis, abscess formation
- economic consequences
Nocardia-characteristics
- gram positive, pleomorphic, gram positive
- rods, cocci, coccibacilli, long, branching filaments
- sprophytes in soil and water
- sulfur granules
Nocardia- clinical
- pleural/peritoneal empyema, subcutaneous infections - from wound infections by soil contamination
- nosocomial infections- mastitis
- N. asteroides, N, brasiliensis, N. otitidiscaviarium
Nocardia asteroides
-dogs and cats
Nocardiosis
-opportunistic, noncontagious, pyogranulomatous to suppurative disease of domestic animals, wildlife, people
Actinomyces- characteristics
- branching filaments
- aerobic, anaerobic, capnophilic
- slow-growing and colonies look like molar
- normal flora in mouth of animals and humans
- microcolonies, surrounded by macrophages
- sulfur granules ***
- causes pyogranulomatous disease, when something damages mucosal barrier
Actinomyces bovis
- LUMPY JAW-pyogranulomatous osteomyelitis
- causes facial deformities
- when hay or some shit damages mucosal barrier and bacteria get in- ew
- can treat with penicillin
Actinobaculum suis
- anaerobic
- in prepucial mucosa of boars
- STI
- causes porcine cystitis and pyelonephritis 3-4 weeks post-coitis
- death and renal failure from boars dirty peen
Dermatophilis congolensis
- aerobic gram positive bacteria that looks like a train track
- CAUSES RAIN SCALD-zoospores attracted to moist damaged skin
- can affect cattle, sheep, goats, horses, less frequently pigs, dogs, cats
- keratinolytic activity
- can diagnose by organisms in scabs
Trueperella pyogenes
- pleomorphic, aerobic, non-spore forming, non-motile, non-encapsulated capnophilic
- found in mucous membranes
- big time opportunistic pathogen of cattle- sheep, swine, causes secondary infections
- suppurative infections in ruminants and swine
- disease prevalence sporadic, governed by precipitating stress or trauma
- what it causes : secondary bacterial pneumonia and abcesses, prurulent infections, a shitton of bacteremia, mastitis
Streptococcus- characteristics
- gram positive, aerobic, catalase -, cocci
- mucoid appearance
- Lancefield grouping
- opportunistic
- mucous membranes
- poor survival in environment
- fastidious
- B-hemolytic pyogenic
- capsule
- important virulence factors: Hyaluronic acid capsule, M protein
Streptococcus equi subspecies equi
- Lancefield group C
- causes Strangles in horses-abscesses in lymph nodes, contagious respiratory tract disease contagious upper respiratory infection
- REPORTABLE, quarantine
- complications: Bastard Strangles, prupura hemorrhagic, Guturral Pouch Empyema and Chondroids
- killed S. equi vaccine- maintain high levels of M protein
Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus
- opportunistic pathogen of horses and other species
- broad pathogen range
- prurulent infections
- upper respiratory tract infections,
- foal septicemia
Streptococcus pyogenes
-Group A- cause disease in humans
Streptococcus canis
- group G streptococcus
- affects kittens** and puppies
- infection from vagina or umbilical vein can cause bacteremia
Streptococcus suis
- type 2 is most problematic
- weaning and growing pigs
- septicemia, serositis, meningitis, polyarthritis, pneumonia, abortions, abscesses, endocarditis
Streptococcus iniae
-zoonotic- in fish
Streptococcus porcinus
-Jowl abscesses in pigs
Steptococcus pneumonia
-pneumococcal pneumonia, septicemia, menigitis in humans
Streptococcus- viridans groups
-found in healthy humans and animals
Entercocci
- part of normal intestinal flora
- opportunistic, may cause nosocomial infections
Staphylococcus-
-gram positive aerobic cocci
-form grape like clusters
-commensal and survive well in environment
-opportunistic pathogen and may be in nosocomial infections
-coagulase positive are more virulent strains (S. aereus, S.hyiacus, S. psuedointermedius)
-methicillin resistance
-inducible clindamycin resistance in macrolide resistant staph
pyogenic infections
-found in nose and on hands- just don’t be gross
Staphylococcus aureus
- pyogenic opportunistic infections
- skin/wound infections, local necrosis, pus, TSS, UTI, food-borne intoxication
- nosocomial infections
- mastitis in cattle
- Bumble foot in poultry
- Botryomycosis in lab animals, humans, horses
Staphylococcus pseudintermedius
-canine pyoderma
Staphylococcus hyicus
-greasy pig disease, 1-6 week old piglets
Coagulase negative staph
-rarely causes disease in immunocompetent animals
Erysipelothrix spp
- small, gram positive, aerobic
- tonsils and intestines
- mostly pig
- through ingestion
- resistant to harsh environment
Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
- *DIAMOND SKIN DISEASE (Swine Erysipelas)
- she fucking loves this
- 30-50% healthy swine have in tonsils and lymphoid tissue (sometimes in feces
- transmitted: orally +(through skin abrasion)
- young and pregnant susceptible
- subacute= septicemia, acute = dermatopathy (diamond skin disease), chronic= arthritis and endocarditis
- turkeys= acute: septicemia, chronic=endocarditis, arthritis
- sheep= post dipping lameness (non-suppurative polyarthritis)
- humans- cellulitis in fingers, occupational hazard
Listeria spp.
- small, gram positive, coccobacilli
- grow at wide range of temperature (resistant to harsh conditions)
- shed in feces and ruminant milk
- ubiquitous in environment
- facultative intracellular
- problem for immunocompromised
Listeria monocytogenes- ruminants
- winter/spring, tight spaces- economically important
- can cause visceral and neural disease due to poor quality silage (ingestion, inhalation, through wounds)
- CIRCLING DISEASE, FACIAL PARALYSIS (DROOPY)- trigeminal and facial nerve paralysis
- localizes in brain stem**, intestinal wall, placenta
- cause septicemia- focal hepatic necrosis and hemorrhagic gastroenteritis, abortion, encephalitis
- virulence factors: listerolysin O, Act A
Listeria monocytogenes in monogastric animals/young ruminants
-systemic listerosis, focal hepatic necrosis, hemorrhagic gastroenteritis
What impact does Listeria monocytogenes have on humans?
Can be fucking bad dude, can range from flu-symptoms and gastroenteritis to menegitis, septicemia, and abortion
-pregnant and immunocompromised
Listeria ivanovii
-not really important, can cause ruminant abortion
Bacillus spp
- large, gram positive endospore forming
- rectangle shaped rods (in chains)
- aerobic/facultative
- ubiquitous/ soil sprophytes
- virulence factors: cell associated: D-glutamic acid capsule, extracellular= tripartate anthrax toxin (edema factor, lethal factor, protective antigen)
- extracellular and cell associated factors must be encoded on plasmids and needed for virulence
- stains with methylene blue- pink capsule
Bacillus anthracis
- BSL-3 reportable
- ingestion/inhalation of spores in soil (oxygen causes sporulation), enters blood stream, causes septic shock
- obligate mammalian pathogen- spores germinate in macrophages
- ruminants cattle- septecemia death within 1-5 days with unclotted blood from orifaces, massive spleen, respiratory distress
- horses- acute septicemia, colic, diarrhea, edema, asphyxiation
- pigs and dogs- pharyngeal, lymphadenitis (local), obstructive edema, death, hemorrhagic enteritis
- local anthrax- less susceptible spp. malignant carbuncle
- found in tainted meat
- can live in soil for decades
What do you do if you suspect Bacillus anthracis?
YOU CALL THE AUTHORITIES SON, that shit can live in the soil for decades
- DO NOT DO A FIELD NECROPSY UNLESS YOU WANT TO FUCKING DIE
- bury the carcass more than 6.5 feet underground with quicklime, incinerate
Zoonotic form of B. anthracis
- Woolsorter’s disease
- pulmonary anthrax
Bacillus subcutis/Bacillus cerus
-rare cause of opportunistic infections, wound infections, food poisoning
Bacillus lichenformis
-abortion in cattle
Mycobacterium
-gram positive, aerobic
-acid fast positive staining rods
-survive well in environment
-different species-
(saprophytic, opportunistic, obligate pathogens)
-survive in macrophages
-cause granulomatous infection and chronic bacterial infection
-virulence factors: Mycolic acid, cell protein antigen (tuberculin)
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- humans, dogs, cats, pigs, non human primates, birds
- can transmit elephant to human
- inhalation or P.O
- macrophages bring to lymph node and cause lymphadenitis
- formation of tubercule, chronic granulomatous infection and caseous necrosis
Mycobacterium bovis
- zoonotic tuberculosis
- ingestion, PO, wide host range, poor survival in environment
- GI is main portal of entry
- can be dormant and cause progressive disease, sometimes won’t clinical signs and will only see at slaughter
- tuberculin test
- human vaccine BCG
Mycobacterium avium subs paratuberculosis
- Johne’s disease- cattle and ruminants
- chronic progressive granulomatous enteritis
- in macrophages and local lymph nodes
- can take up to 2 years before symptoms will show
- iceberg effect (asymptomatic shedders)
- diarrhea, weight loss
- granulomatous proliferation of ileo-cecal mucosa
- Johne’s ELISA
Mycobacterium avium complex
- opportunistic, granulomatous infection in humans, animals, birds
- widespread in soil and treated tap water
Mycobacterium ulcerans and Buruli ulcer
-tropical wetlands, causes tissue necrosis
Mycobacterium leprae
- Hansen’s disease/ Leprosy
- chronic granulomatous debilitating disease, skin lesions, neuropathy, nerve thickening
- shed through nose
- from armadillos
Mycobacterium lepraernarium
- feline and murine leprosy
- solitary/multiple cutaneous nodules/ulcerated lesions, fastidious
- granulomatous dermatitis panniculitis
E.coli- pigs
- ETEC- watery diarrhea, effects neonates, 2-4 weeks and at weaning- F4 adhesion factor, heat labile toxin in vaccine, heat stable toxins
- VTEC- edema disease-edema on eyelid, sow to piglet, select for F18 negative
- EPEC- rare- eae gene on PCR, T3SS needle
- UTI- causes UTI
- MMA- post-partum dysgalactiae
- septicemia- secondary
Fusobacterium necrophorum
- ruminants- foot rot, hepatic abscesses, diphtheria (GI tract and laryngitis)
- necrotic laryngitis in cattle
Escherichia coli
- lactose positive, oxidase negative, motile rods
- gram negative, facultative anaerobic rods/coccobacilli
- nosocomial infection
- O(o antigen) :26, K(capsule):60, F(fimbriae)41, H(flagella) :11
Escherechia coli- bovine
- ETEC- neonates, diarrhea, F5
- EPEC/EHEC- zoonotic- mucoid diarrhea
- Mastitis
- Septecemia- NTEC/ExPEC, CNS signs, extraintestinal
E.Coli- cats and dogs
- Enteric- ETEC, EPEC, VTEC, EIEC- CNF1-pups
- cystitis/pyometra
E.Coli- poultry and avian
- important in broilers and layers
- APEC- extraintestinal, O1, O2, O78- neonatal colibacillosis–>death and decreased growth, respiratory colibacillosis and septicemia, peritonitis in layers and decreased egg production (chronic)
- E.Coli 078, 02- scabby hip/necrotic dermatitis (broilers)
E.Coli- Rabbits
-RPEC/EPEC- O1O9 serotype, suckling rabbits, intimin eae
Salmonella enterica
- only strand to affect warm-blooded animals
- obligate symbiotic
- high resistance in environment when protected by organic material (feces) or in dry environment (dust, feed)
- facultative intracellular
- antimicrobial resistance
- zoonotic
Salmonella enterica- S. typhimurium serotype
- bovine
- non-typhoid
- zoonotic
- diarrhea, abortion
Salmonella enterica - S. dublin
- typhoid (host specific)
- diarrhea in calves and adults
Porcine Salmonella enterica
- S.typhimurium- non typhoid, zoonotic, diarrhea, hyperacute: acute mortality, acute: cyanosis, chronic: non-specific, lesser growth
- S. choleraesuis-typhoid (non-zoonotic) , fever, pain rash
Equine Salmonella enterica
- S. abortus equi- rare
- mild= non-host specific horse salmonella, causes general symptoms and slight diarrhea, self limiting
- acute= non-typhoid(zoonotic), most frequent, severe symptoms–>cyanosis shock, laminitis
- hyperacute: foal, endotoxic shock, death
Feline/canine Salmonella enterica
- non-host specific
- enteritis and septicemia
- carriers: dogs-0-36%, cats 0-20%
Pigeon Salmonella enterica
- S. typhimurium var copenhagen
- typhoid- not-zoonotic
- causes paratyphus
- acute paratyphus- mainly during breeding
- chronic paratyphus- can’t fly
parrot/ perching bird salmonella enterica
- S. typhimurium- non-typhoid, zoonotic
- apathic, decreased food and water intake
- chronic diarrhea
- in birdhouses
Poultry Salmonella enterica
- S. pullorum- typhoid-Pullorum disease, reportable, younger animals (chicken, turkeys, pheasant), high mortality, granulomatous lesions, oophoritis
- S. gallinarum- typhoid- reportable- older animals- fowl typhoid- hyperacute mortality, hemolytic anemia
- S. enterica ssp. arizonae- turkeys,typhoid
- S. Enteriditis- paratyphoid (non-typhoid), zoonotic causes egg contamination of undercooked and raw eggs- vaccine can cross react and may come up positive with S. pullorum and gallinarum
When your mom tells you you can’t eat raw cookie dough (sigh) because you might get salmonella, which subspecies is she actually referring to?
S. Enteriditis
Klebsiella species
- K. pneumoniae
- K. oxytoca
- coliform
- opportunistic pathogen
- waters, soil, environment, GI tract
- nosocomial infections in humans
Equine Klebsiella
- umbilical infections
- Equine metritis
- vaginitis, infertility, abortion
- use: amoxycillin + clavamox
Klebsiella- dogs
- pyometra/cystitis
- rare
Klebsiella- bovine
-mastitis
Yersenia pestis
-zoonotic
-plague!!!
-travels in proventriculus of fleas of wild rodents
transmitted from fleas of wild rodents, to cats, then to humans
-fleas, airborne, oral
Yersenia pestis-humans
- bubonic- local lymphadenitis
- pneumonic- pneumonia
- septicemic- septicemia
Yersenia pestis- cats
-cats die
Yersenia pseudotuberculosis
- zoonotic
- obligate symbiont, facultative intracellular
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis-humans
- zoonotic
- colic
Yersenia psuedotuberculosis-birds/rodents
-sepsis and multiplication in blood
Yersenia psuedotuberculosis- passeriformes
- fatty liver disease, rodentiosis, affinity for liver
- chronic causes weight loss/respiratory distress
- lesions- acute: splenomegaly
Yersenia psuedotuberculosis- turkeys
-rare, high mortality in young