GRAM NEGATIVE BACILLI Flashcards
H2S producers
Salmonella Proteus Providencia Arizona Citrobacter freundii Edwardsiella
Gram (‐) rods
• Motile w/ peritrichous flagella EXCEPT
Klebsiella, Shigella
• Facultative anaerobe
• Ferments GLUCOSE
• Often produce gas
• Catalase (+) EXCEPT Shigella dysenteriae
• Oxidase (‐) EXCEPT Vibrio, Plesiomonas
shigelloides
• Reduce nitrate to nitrite EXCEPT Erwina,
Pantoea agglomerans
Enterbacteriaceae
Antigenic structure
Kag, Oag, Hag
capsular antigen; heat labile
*Salmonella ‐ ViAg
Kag
somatic Ag; heat stable; IgM
‐ reacts to H antibodies
Oag
flagellar antigen; destroyed by alcohols, heat
denaturation; IgG
HAg
Sucrose: Lactose: Glucose ratio in TSI
10:10:1
H2S indicator in TSI
FeSO4
MR (+) control
E. coli
MR (-) control
Enterobacter cloacae
reagent in Baritts method (VP)
α‐napthol and KOH
reagent in Coblentz method (VP)
α‐napthol and 40% KOH in creatine
(+) VP
” KESH”
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
Serratia
Hafnia
Simmon-Citrate (+) control
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Simmon-Citrate (-) control
E.coli
Acetate (+) control
E.coli
Malonate (+) control
Salmonella
Acetamide (+) control
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Rapid Urease
“PPM”
Proteus
Providencia
Morganella
Slow Urease
“CKEYS”
Citrobater Klebsiella Enterobacter gergovae Yersinia Serratia
Rapid lactose fermenters enzymes
B- galactosidase
Lactose permease
Rapid lactose fermenters
“EKE”
Escherichia
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
Late Lactose Fermenters enzyme
B- galactosidase
Late Lactose Fermenters
”: S2HYCS”
Salmonella arizonae Shigella sonnei Hafnia Yersinia Citrobacter Serratia
Non‐lactose Fermenters
All salmonella except S. arizonae
All shigella except S. sonnei
the rest of enterobacteriaceae
rapid test to detect B- galactosidase
ONPG
ONPG (+)
Late Lactose Fermenters
“S2HYCS”
; (‐) control for ONPG
S. typhimurium
(+) control for ONPG
E.coli
Methyl Umbelliferyl β‐D‐
Glucoronide (MUG)
(+) RESULT
Electric blue fluorescens
Methyl Umbelliferyl β‐D‐
Glucoronide (MUG)
(+)
All escherichia spp. except E. coli O157:H7
1 cause of UTI
Escherichia
shigella-like infection
EIEC
Cholera-like toxin
ETEC
“Childhood diarrhea”
ETEC
Virulence test for EIEC
Sereny test