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Gastrointestinal Organisms Flashcards

1
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Physical characteristics of enterobacteriaceae?

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Facultatively anaerobic

G- Rods

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Enterobacteriaceae use what type of secretion system?

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What antigens are used to type Enterobacteriaceae.

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O, H, K/Vi

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Biochemical tests for Enterobacteriaceae?

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IMViC
Carbohydrate fermentation
Packaged Test Kits

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What does IMViC stand for?

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Indole methyl red Voges-Poskauer citrate

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6
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How are carbohydrate fermentations occur?

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Use MacConkey’s Agar (Lactose)

Lac+ are coliforms

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7
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Name for packaged test kits for Enterobacteriaceae?

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Enterotube

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8
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Three most common causes of foodbourne outbreaks?

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Salmonella
Campylobacter
Shigella

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9
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Relationship of Enterobacteriaceae to endocrine system

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Gut bacteria can respond to stress-induced neuroendocrine hormone levels

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10
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How do bacteria avoid immune response?

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Subvert response to avoid detection

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11
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How can E. Coli be detected on agar?

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Copious acid production detected by green metallic sheen on EMB agar

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12
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Three general clinical syndromes that come from E. Coli

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Enteric/Diarrheal Disease
Urinary Tract Infections
Sepsis/Meningitis

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13
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Most common extraintestinal E. Coli infections?

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UTI via UPEC

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Two ways that E. coli may lead to UTI

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Acquire from proximity of anus to urethral meatus

From increased sexual activity (honeymoon cystitis)

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UPEC is associated with the __ Pilus

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P

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16
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What does EPEC stand for?

What does it do?

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Enteropathogenic
Intimin attached protein, bundle formed pili
Efface small intestine microvilli and inhibit water uptake

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17
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Medical effects of EPEC?

Who gets it?

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Watery, self-limiting diarrhea

Esp. Young Children

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18
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What does ETEC stand for? Nickname?

Medical side effects?

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Enterotoxigenic. “Traveler’s Diarrhea”

Watery diarrhea, increased gut motility, ab cramps

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19
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ETEC is associated with what pili?

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CFA adhesion pili for brush-border membrane

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20
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What toxins are produced by ETEC?

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2 LT Toxins (LT1 like cholera, higher cAMP)

2 ST toxins (activates cGMP)

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21
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What does EHEC stand for?

Medical side effects?

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Enterohemorrhagic
Bloody diarrhea without fever
Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome

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22
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How does EHEC mediate medical effects?

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Verotoxin (Shiga-like) – AB toxin protein synthesis inbititor

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23
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What is Hemolytic-Uremic Syndrome?

Treatment?

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Uremia and organ failure due to glomerular damage

NO anti-biotics – they induce stx gene

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24
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What is EIEC?

Medical effects?

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Enteroinvasive

Bloody fever with fever

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25
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EIEC is Indistinguishable from…

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Shigella dysenteriae type I

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26
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Factors produced by EIEC?

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Invasive colonization factors

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27
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What is EAEC?

Medical Effects?

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Enteroaggregative

Noninflamatory pediatric diarrhea caused by biofilm development

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28
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E. coli K1 is a major cause of…

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neonatal meningitis

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29
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Why is E. coli K1 not a good antibody target?

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Molecular mimic of host NCAM receptors

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30
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Who is E. coli K1 especially dangerous to?

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low birthweight infants

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31
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Salmonella grows on what medium?

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Selective media with bile salts (deoxycholate)

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32
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How is salmonella classified?

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By serotype (O, H, Vi(K))

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33
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All salmonella belong to what species?

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S. enterica

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34
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It is important to distinguish what two categories of salmonella enterica?

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S. typhi and paratyphi vs. all others

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35
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Three types of disease caused by salmonella enterica?

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Typhoid Fever
Bacteremia/Septicemia
Enterocolitis/Gastroenteritis

36
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Typhoid Fever is cause by what forms of salmonella?

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S. Typhi or Paratyphi

37
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Medical effects of Typhoid Fever?

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Invasive disease - reaches bloodstream through mucosa
Disseminates via macrophage to spleen, liver, GB
Death from intestinal hemorrhage

38
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Who gets bacteremia/septicemia from Salmonella?

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Immunocompromised Patients

39
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Medical effects of salmonella enterocolitis/gastroenteritis?

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Nausea, Vomiting, Diarrhea, Fever Common

May colonize GB and shed for weeks

40
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In what food products is Salmonella enterocolitis/gastroenteritis spread?

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Eggs and Poultry Products

41
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Four ways in which salmonella enterocolitis/gastroenteritis is spread?

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Fecally contaminated water
Endemic in Eggs/Poultry
Crops fertilized by excreta
From Pets

42
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Describe pathogenesis of salmonella.

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Binds brush border to invade gut epithelil cells
Invade deep tissues/bloodstream
Produce cytotoxic enterotoxin

43
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Type of toxin? Effect of components?

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A2B5
A1 – ADP-ribosylates G-protein
A2 – damages DNA and halts cell replication

44
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Shigella can also grow in _____ by ______

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Bile
Efflux pumps and DNA repair
Uses Phospholipids as a C-source

45
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Shigella grows on ____ agar

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S-S

46
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Clinical presentation of shigella?

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Onset with Acute Watery Diarrhea
2 days later - blood and mucus into stool
Subsides in about a week, but lethal dehydration

47
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How is Shigella spread?

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Infection via fecal-oral route

48
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Shigella is most common in what population?

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Children

49
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How is Shigella spread?

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4 Fs

Food, Fingers, Feces, Flies

50
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Explain the pathogenesis of shigella.

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  • Phagocytosed and transmitted through M cells
  • Engulfed by macrophages in lamina propria
  • Lyse phagolysosome and replicate in cyto
  • Macro apop. – release IL1 and cytos that make junctions permeable
  • Induces basal membrane phagocytosis
51
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How does shigella spread?

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Actin tails

52
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How does shigella secrete invasion factors?

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Type III secretions

53
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How does Shiga enterotoxin kill?

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Disruption of protein synthesis

54
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Unique staining seen in yersinia?

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Bipolar staining (Wright-Giemsa, Wayson’s)

55
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How does Yersnia bind?

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YadA

56
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Yersnia uses what secretion system?

What antigens allow intracellular growth?

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Type III

V and W antigens

57
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Yersnia pestis is most commonly known as…

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plague

58
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Three types of yersnia pestis?

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Bubonic
Septicemic
Pneumonic

59
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Symptoms of Bubonic yersnia pestis?

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1-8 day incubation
Malaise, headache, vomiting
Painful Buboes in groin and other lymph nodes

60
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What are buboes full of?

What diseases with buboes must yersnia be distinguished from?

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Bacteria and Pus

Tularemia, Pasturella

61
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Describe septicemic yersnia pestis

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Primary or secondary to bubonic

Sepsis, Purpura, DIC, Necrosis

62
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Describe pneumonic yersnia pestis?

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Primary or Secondary
Primary form inhalation, secondary from intravascular dissemination
Hemoptysis, bilateral alveolar involvement

63
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Outlook for pneumonic yersnia pestis

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Virtually 100% fatal within 24 hours

64
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How is yersnia pestis spread?

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Zoonosis
Typically spread by vector (rat flea)
Reservoirs are Deermice and ground squirrels

65
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How does yersnia pestis effect fleas?

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Toxin blocks flea’s gut, forms blood clot

When flea bites again, clot is regurgitated into host

66
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Aside from natural transmission, yersnia pestis can be seen as…

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A Warfare Agent

67
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Pathogenesis of yersnia pestis?

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  • Type III Secretory System injects toxins
  • Inhibits MAP kinase signalling pathway (YopJ)
    - No cytokine production, no cell replication
  • Inhibits Phagocytosis (YopE)
  • Inhibits Platelet Aggregation (YopM)
68
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How is yersnia pestis controlled?

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Insectiside to kill fleas

Vaccine that must be boosted every 6-12 months

69
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How do you treat a yersnia patient treated?

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Oral tetracycline for exposed and asymptomatic
I.M. Streptomycin once symptoms

Pneumonic plague treatment is rarely successful

70
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Symptoms with Y. enterocolitica

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    • Enterocolitis with intestinal abscess – bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever
    • Mesenteric adenitis
71
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Reservoirs for Y. enterocolitica?

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Cattles, Hogs

72
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How is Y. enterocolitica spread?

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Feces, Contaminated drinking water/milk

73
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How are Y. enterocolitica and Y. pseudotuberculosis treated?

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Ampicillin

Ceph III, SxT

74
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Describe klebsiella pneumonia medical effects.

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Small Percent of Pneumonias

Extensively hemorrhagic and necrotizing (currant jelly sputum)

75
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Treatment success of klebsiella pneumonia?

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50-100% fatal

76
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Describe the pathogenesis of klebsiella granulomatis

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Granuloma inguinale

Mimics syphilis

77
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Describe sores in klebsiella granulomatis.

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Painless anal or genital sores

Gradually progressive lesions destroy large areas of tissue

78
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How is proteus mirabilis seen on agar?

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Swarming motility

79
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Proteus mirabilis is associated with what condition?

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UTI

80
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Proteus miribilis causes what condition? How?

A

Bladder Stones

Urease production

81
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How is Serratia marcescens usually acquired?

Common symptoms?

A

Opportunistic Infection

Pneumonia, Bacteremia, Endocarditis

82
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How are enterobacteria usually treated, generally?

A

Isolate and clean sources

Ampicillin, Cephalosporins, Quinolines, Sulfa

83
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For a uncomplicated UTI, Don’t use_______.
1st choice –
2nd choice –

A

Don’t – Flouroquinolone
1st – Bactrim (SxT)
2nd – Fosfomycin

84
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Why don’t you want to use f’quinolones for UTI?

A

It mimics a quorom sensing signal, can lead to film formation

85
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Typically you would treat Traveller’s Diarrhea with ____

You would treat campylobacter with _____

A

Rifaximin

Azithromycin

86
Q

There has recently been increased appreciation for the importance of restoring normal _______ in GI disorders

A

Mucus Production

87
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Action of MUC2

A

Subdues dendritic cell inflammatory response via Treg activation

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