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Gram Negative Bacteria Flashcards

1
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Does salmonella ferment lactose?

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NO

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What type of organisms is pseudomonas?

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Strict aerobic bacilli water and soil organisms

Contaminates medical equipment

Hospital acquired cause of sepsis: pneumonia, UTI Respiratory infection in cystic fibrosis

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What causes tuberculosis?

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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What is the test for syphilis?

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Serology, nucleic amplification tests

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What type of organism is E.Coli?

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Coliform - large gram negative aerobic bacilli

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What are the strains of chlamydia that cause respiratory infection?

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Chlamydophila pneumoniae

Chlamydophila psittaci - contact with birds

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Name a microaerophilic spiral bacilli

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Helicobacter pylori - natural habitat is human stomach - damages mucosa and causes ulcers

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8
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What causes leprosy?

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Mycobacterium leprae

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9
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What is the ZN stain used for?

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Mycobacterium species

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10
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What family do Coliforms belong in?

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Enterobacteriaceae Inhabitants of the gut

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What strain of chlamydia is responsible for the Ophthalmic and genital tract infection?

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Chlamydia trachomatis - trachoma (tropical eye infections) Can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility

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What does salmonella cause?

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Enterocollitis, with or without bloody diarrhoea

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What does typhoid cause?

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Fever and constipation

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What are the sub divisions of gram negative aerobic bacilli?

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Large (coliforms)

Small

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15
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What type of organism is salmonella?

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Gut pathogen Coliform

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16
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What type of bacteria is chlamydia?

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Obligate intracellular bacteria

17
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Give an example of a spirochaetes

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Treponem pallidum - syphilis

Borrelia burgdorferi - lymes disease

18
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What does Moraxella Catarrhalis cause?

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Respiratory tract infections

19
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What are the virulence mechanisms of Escherichia coli?

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pili, capsule, endotoxin and exotoxins produced

20
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What does microaerophilic mean?

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Requires little free oxygen

21
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What are the important anaerobes? (BACILLI)

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Bacteriodes Fragilis - normal colonic flora

Causes intra-abdominal abscess

22
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Define congenital

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Present from birth

23
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What are the gram negative bacilli other than coliforms?

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Bordetella pertusis - whooping cough

Haemophilus infuenzae - cocco bacilli (mixed appearance) respiratory tract infection - capsulate form formerly an important cause of meningitis

24
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What is meant by miscellaneous bacteria

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Can’t be stained with gram stains

Can’t be cultured under standard methods Mycobacterium Spirochaetes Chlamydia

25
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What is the test for gram negative bacilli?

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Lactose fermentation

26
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Name a curved microaerophilic gram negative bacilli

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Campylobacter - commonest cause of bacterial diarrhoea in the UK

27
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How is diagnosis of chlamydia achieved?

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Nucleic acids amplification tests

28
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What are the stages of lymes disease?

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  1. Skin rash
  2. Systemic illness - cardiac or neurological and musculoskeletal symptoms
  3. Chronic disease - skin, nervous system or joint abnormalities
29
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What are the forms of Neisseria spp that are of clinical significance?

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Neisseria Meningitidis - meningitis and septicaemia

Neisseria ghonorrhoeae - urethritis in men - pelvic inflammatory disease

30
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What are the stages of syphilis?

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Primary - Non-painful skin legions

Secondary - Systemic illness and rash

Latent - symptomatic episodes may occur

Tertiary - central nervous system Congenital - stillbirth, neonatal death or disease

31
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What type of bacteria are Neisseria spp and Moraxella catarrhalis?

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Aerobic gram negative cocci

32
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Does E Coli ferment lactose?

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Yes

33
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What is used to detect spirochaetes?

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Dark ground microscopy or immunofluorescence - Often diagnosed by serology

34
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What is the cause of typhoid fever?

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Salmonella typhi

35
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What other commensals of the gut exist? (apart from E.Coli)

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Klebsiella - UTI and pneumonia

Proteus spp - UTI

36
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Name an oral anaerobe

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Prevotella - cause of dental abscess (pus that forms in the teeth and gums), aspiration pneumonia, human and animal bite infections.

37
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Name another gut pathogen that isn’t salmonella or E.Coli

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Shigella - diarrhoea, dysentery

38
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What is the infection usually associated with Ecoli?

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Urinary tract infection

Enterotoxogenic E.Coli - commonest cause of travellers diarrhoea

Enterohaemorrhagic E.coli - Bloody diarrhoea Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

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