First Micro Mnemonics Flashcards
Gram stain limitatitions?
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)
What is PAS?
Periodic Acid Schiff for glycogen to dx Whipple disease (tropheryma whipplei)
PAS the sugar (glycogen, also like whip cream in whipple)
Obligate aerobes?
Nagging Pests Must Breathe
Nocardia
pseudomonas aeruginosa
MycoBacterium Tb
Obligate intracellular?
stay inside when Really Cold
Rickettsia
Chlamydia
Facultative intracellular
Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY
Salmonella Neisseria Brucella Mycobacterium Listeria Francesilla Legionella Yersinia pestis
Encapsulated bacteria?
SHiNE SKiS
Strep pneumo Haemophilus Influenza Neisseria MENINGITIDES (not gon) E coli Salmonella Klebsiella Strep agalatciae
CAPSULE _ protein conjugate for antigen in vaccine
Catalase positive organisms?
PLACESS for your cats (catalase)
Pseudomonas Listeria Aspergillus Candida E coli Saureus Sarratia
Urease positive bugs?
CHuck norris hates PUNKSS
Cryptococcus H pylori Proteus Ureaplasma Nocardia Klebsiella S epidermidis S sapro
Pigment producing bacteria:
Yellow?
Gold/yellow?
Green?
red?
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)
IgA protease is in what?
SHiN
Strep pneumo
H Influenzae type B
Neisseria
Must have it to colonize reap mucosa
Genes for bacterial toxins encoded in lysogenic phase?
ABCDE
shgA-like toxin Botulinum toxin Cholera toxin Diphtheria toxin Erythrogenic toxin of Strep progenies
What is strep pneumo the most common cause of?
MOPS
Menigitis
Otitis media in kids
Pneumonia (rusty sputum)
Sinusitis
ABCDEFG of diphtheria?
I’m POSTIVE you know this
ADP ribosylation Beta-prophage CorynebacteriumDiphteriae Elongation Factor 2 Granules
Lactose fermenting?
Test with macConKEE’S agar (turns pink)
Citrobacter Klebsiella (fast) E coli (fast) Enterobacter Serratia (slow)
Neisseria types can be differentiated how?
MenGococci ferment Maltose and Glucose
Gonococci ferment Glucose
What does Haemophilus cause?
haEMOPhilus
EPIGLOTTITIS, Meningitis, Otitis media, Pneumonia
epiglottitis is thumb print on X ray
How do you recognize legionella? Tx?
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
What does pesudomonas auruginosa cause? Tx?
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
What do I know about klebsiella?
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!
How do you remember the symptoms of lyme disease? Tx?
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)
Bugs that can do transformation?
It can pick up DNA. SHiN (same as IgA protease)
Strep pneumo
H influ
Neisseria
Bugs that cause bloody diarrhea
Campylobacter E hystolytica (emeoba) EHEC (can cause HUS, Shiga like toxin) Enteroinvasive E coli Salmonella Shigella Y enterocolitica
Watery diarrhea
C diff (occasionally bloody) Clostrideum perfrignens ETEC (Traveler's diarrhea) Giardia Cryptosporidium (immunocompromised) V Cholerae Virus: rota and noro
Positive stranded RNA viruses: which is double stranded?
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)
What are the DNA viruses? are they double stranded (one is an exception)
HHAPPPPy virus.
Hepadna, herpes, adeno, pox, parvo, papilloma, polyoma
all double stranded except for parvovirus (partofavirus)
