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First Micro Mnemonics Flashcards

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Gram stain limitatitions?

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These Microbes May Lack Real Color

Trepenoma (too thin to be visualized)
Mycobacteria (high lipid in cell wall: acid fast or carbofuchsin)
Mycoplasma (NO CELL WALL no penicillins)
Legionella pneomophilia (intracellular pirmarily, silver stain)
Rickettsia (intracellular)
Chlamydia (intracellular, lacks uramic acid in wall)

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What is PAS?

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Periodic Acid Schiff for glycogen to dx Whipple disease (tropheryma whipplei)

PAS the sugar (glycogen, also like whip cream in whipple)

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Obligate aerobes?

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Nagging Pests Must Breathe

Nocardia
pseudomonas aeruginosa
MycoBacterium Tb

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Obligate intracellular?

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stay inside when Really Cold

Rickettsia
Chlamydia

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Facultative intracellular

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Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY

Salmonella
Neisseria
Brucella
Mycobacterium
Listeria
Francesilla
Legionella
Yersinia pestis
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Encapsulated bacteria?

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SHiNE SKiS

Strep pneumo
Haemophilus Influenza
Neisseria MENINGITIDES (not gon)
E coli
Salmonella
Klebsiella
Strep agalatciae

CAPSULE _ protein conjugate for antigen in vaccine

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Catalase positive organisms?

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PLACESS for your cats (catalase)

Pseudomonas
Listeria
Aspergillus
Candida
E coli
Saureus
Sarratia
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Urease positive bugs?

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CHuck norris hates PUNKSS

Cryptococcus
H pylori
Proteus
Ureaplasma
Nocardia
Klebsiella
S epidermidis
S sapro
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Pigment producing bacteria:

Yellow?
Gold/yellow?
Green?
red?

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Actinomyces ISRAELii has granules ISREAL has YELLOW SAND

Staph AUREUS (aureus is latin for gold (think Au)

Pseudomonas AERUGinosa is blue-green (aerugula is green)

Serratia MARCASCENS is RED (RED MARASCHINO cherries)

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IgA protease is in what?

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SHiN

Strep pneumo
H Influenzae type B
Neisseria

Must have it to colonize reap mucosa

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Genes for bacterial toxins encoded in lysogenic phase?

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ABCDE

shgA-like toxin
Botulinum toxin
Cholera toxin
Diphtheria toxin
Erythrogenic toxin of Strep progenies
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What is strep pneumo the most common cause of?

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MOPS

Menigitis
Otitis media in kids
Pneumonia (rusty sputum)
Sinusitis

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ABCDEFG of diphtheria?

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I’m POSTIVE you know this

ADP ribosylation
Beta-prophage
CorynebacteriumDiphteriae
Elongation Factor 2
Granules
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Lactose fermenting?

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Test with macConKEE’S agar (turns pink)

Citrobacter
Klebsiella (fast)
E coli (fast)
Enterobacter
Serratia (slow)
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Neisseria types can be differentiated how?

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MenGococci ferment Maltose and Glucose

Gonococci ferment Glucose

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What does Haemophilus cause?

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haEMOPhilus

EPIGLOTTITIS, Meningitis, Otitis media, Pneumonia

epiglottitis is thumb print on X ray

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How do you recognize legionella? Tx?

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Silver stain, charcoal yeast cultured with iron and cystine

LEGIONNAIRE with SILVER star grilling CHARCOAL with IRON grill b/c he’s not a SISSY (cysteine)

Macrolide or quinolone

18
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What does pesudomonas auruginosa cause? Tx?

A

PSEUDOmonas

Pneumonia
Sepsis
External otitis (swimmer's ear)
UTI
Drug use and Diabetic OSTEOMYELITIS

Associated with hot tub folliculitis

Tx: Aminoglycoside and extended spectrum penicillin

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What do I know about klebsiella?

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4 A’s and of course capsule b/c SHiNE SKiS

Aspiration pneumonia (puking)
Abscess in lung/liver
Alcoholics (puking)
diAbetics

Viscous mucoid colonies with polyachcharide colonies!

20
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How do you remember the symptoms of lyme disease? Tx?

A

FAKE a key Lyme pie

Facial nerve palsy (bilateral usually)
Arthritis
Kardiac block
Erythema migrans

Tx: Doxy or ceftriaxone (good b/c can run out of doxy in outbreaks)

21
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Bugs that can do transformation?

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It can pick up DNA. SHiN (same as IgA protease)

Strep pneumo
H influ
Neisseria

22
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Bugs that cause bloody diarrhea

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Campylobacter
E hystolytica (emeoba)
EHEC (can cause HUS, Shiga like toxin)
Enteroinvasive E coli
Salmonella
Shigella
Y enterocolitica
23
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Watery diarrhea

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C diff (occasionally bloody)
Clostrideum perfrignens
ETEC (Traveler's diarrhea)
Giardia
Cryptosporidium (immunocompromised)
V Cholerae
Virus: rota and noro
24
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Positive stranded RNA viruses: which is double stranded?

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RETRO TOGA gathering and drank FLAVored CORONA and ate HIPPY CALIfornia PICkles

reovirus, togavirus, flavivirus, coronavirus, hepevirus, calicivirus, picornavirus

reovirus is double stranded (repeato-virus)

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What are the DNA viruses? are they double stranded (one is an exception)

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HHAPPPPy virus.

Hepadna, herpes, adeno, pox, parvo, papilloma, polyoma

all double stranded except for parvovirus (partofavirus)

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