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Gram-Negative Rods: Enterobacteriaceae Flashcards

1
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Proteobacteria are _______ or ______

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Gram negative rods; cocci

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Enterobacteriaceae

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Gram neg rods, free living (saphrophytes)

  • part of indigenous flora of people and animals
  • metabolically active
  • fast growing under aerobic and anaerobic conditions
  • motile
  • acid-fast (spore forming)
  • opportunistic pathogens
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Enterobacteriaceae are primarily inhabitants of the ________

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Lower GIT

- main facultative anaerobic portion of bacterial content of the cecum and colon

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Other locations of enterobacteriaceae

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  • female genital tract
  • transient colonizers of skin and oral cavity
  • respiratory tract (small numbers) –> increase in hospitalized patients
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What is the most common species among the indigenous flora of mammals and some birds?

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E. coli

- followed by: Klebsiella, proteus, and enterobacter

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What species are primarily pathogenic and not part of the normal flora?

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  • salmonella
  • shigella
  • certain strains of E. coli
  • yersinia
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Length may vary from ____ to ________

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Large coccobacilli; elongated, filamentous rods

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Sides are _____, ends are _____

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Parallel; round

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Morphological features

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  • motile strains have peritrichous flagella
  • fimbriae
  • capsules and/or slime layers
  • typical features of GN bacteria (cell wall, cell membrane, etc)
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Growth

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Readily grow on simple media (facultative anaerobes)

  • resistance to bile salts and many bacteriostatic dyes
  • grow under almost any conditions –> interferes with isolation of fastidious bacteria when looking at clinical specimens
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What 3 morphological features are used for identifying and subtyping?

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  • LPS
  • capsule/slime layer
  • flagellar antigens
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H, K, and O antigens

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H antigens: flagella (protein)
K antigens: capsule/slime layer (polysaccharides)
O antigens: LPS (polysaccharide)

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What do all enterobacteriaceae have in common?

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All are:

  • facultative anaerobes
  • ferment glucose (with gas produced)
  • reduce nitrates to nitritie
  • cytochrome oxidase negative!!
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Rapid fermentation of lactose is a useful characteristic for ________

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Initial differentiation

  • most common members of intestinal flora ferment lactose promptly in more than 90% of isolates
  • most (esp intestinal pathogens) are rarely positive
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What are common toxins produced by all enterobacteriaceae?

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All possess:

  • LPS (endotoxin)
  • –> leads to: fever, leukopenia, activation of blood coag factors)
  • some produce exotoxins
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Most enterobacteriaceae only infect a host under _______

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Predisposing circumstances

- stress, lack of colostrum, change in diet, infections, antibiotics, etc

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Members of normal flora act as opportunistic pathogens when ______

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They are displaced from their normal site or if local/systemic defense mechanisms are damaged

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What are the most common sites of opportunistic infections?

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Wound and urogenital tract infections

- may occur at any body site, especially in septicemia

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What contributes to the antimicrobial susceptibility of enterobacteriaceae?

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Combo of chromosomal and plasmid-mediated resistance make them the most variable

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What antibiotics are these bacteria usually resistant to?

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  • penicillin G (except in the urinary tract)
  • erythromycin
  • clindamycin
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What is the major facultative anaerobic species of bacteria in the intestine of warm-blooded animals throughout their life?

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E. coli

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Aerobic culture of feces or intestinal contents yields ____

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E. coli

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What are the major diseases caused by E. coli?

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  • enteric infections
  • septicemia
  • urinary tract infections
  • mastitis
24
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How do you identify E. coli?

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  • biotyping
  • serotyping
  • phage-typing
  • colicin-typing
  • virulence factor expression
25
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Fimbrial antigens are referred to as _____ when serotyping

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F antigen

26
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What are the 6 classes of E. coli that cause diarrheal diseases?

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  • ETEC: enterotoxigenic
  • EIEC: enteroinvasive
  • EHEC: enterohemorrhagic
  • EPEC: enteropathogenic
  • EAEC: enteroaggregative
  • AIEC: adherent-invasive
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ETEC commonly infects:

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Travelers and infants

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Clinical signs of ETEC

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Diarrhea, without fever!!

- mild discomfort to severe cholera-like syndrome

29
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Colonization of ETEC

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Requires fimbriae mediated colonization and elaboration of one or more enterotoxins (ST or LT)

30
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EPEC clinical signs

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Similar to ETEC:

  • watery diarrhea
  • no fever
  • no blood
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Adherence of EPEC

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Due to rearrangements of actin in the vicinity of adherent bacteria to form “attaching and effacing” lesions

  • results in loss of microvilli and absorptive surfaces
  • do not produce ST or LT toxins –> use type 3 secretion system
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EHEC clinical signs

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Copious bloody discharge

  • no fever!
  • well known serotype is O157:H7
33
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What does EHEC infect that is life-threatening?

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Kidneys

- causes hemolytic uremia

34
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EHEC has similar attachement mechanisms as _____

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EPEC

35
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ETEC, EPEC, EHEC are all ______

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Non-invasive!!

- just result in localized infection

36
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EIEC clinical signs

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Dysentery-like diarrhea

  • fever!!
  • bloody diarrhea
  • painful
  • requires higher hospitalization
  • commonly infects humans and primates
37
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EIEC attachment mechanism

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Penetrates and multiplies within epithelial cells (invasive!!) of the colon
= widespread cell destruction
- lack fimbrial adhesins, LT or ST toxin, and shiga toxin

38
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Distinguishing feature of EAEC strains

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Ability to attach to tissue culture cells in an aggregative manner
- “stacks of bricks”

39
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EAEC is associated with _________

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Persistent diarrhea in young children

  • also associated with disease in livestock
  • do not invade
40
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AIEC diseases:

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  • Crohn’s disease in humans
  • histiocytic ulcerative colitis in dogs
  • chronic bloody mucoid diarrhea and weight loss
41
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Flagella

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  • uropathogenic E. coli: contributes to UTI colonization

- enterotoxigenic E. coli: contributes to adhesion

42
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Capsule

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Most septicemias in people are caused by strains with K1 capsular polysaccharide
- some strains that cause diarrhea in calves and pigs have capsules that contribute to adhesion to gut mucosa or serum resistance

43
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K1

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Enhances invasiveness and increases resistance to phagocytosis and serum killing (complement)

44
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LPS

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Contributes to septicemic disease as with all GN bacteria

45
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Fimbriae

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Essential virulence factors in E. coli for adherence to host cell surfaces

46
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Enterotoxigenic E. coli fimbriae

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Mediate adherence to glycoproteins on the surface of intestinal epithelial cells

47
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Cattle and swine fimbrial types

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F4, F5, F6, F18, F41

48
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Human ETEC, plasma encoded fimbriae

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F2 (CFA 1), and F3 (CFA 2)

49
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Receptors for fimbriae are more highly expressed in _____

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Neonates

50
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Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) virulence factors

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Type 1 (F1)
- also expressed by other pathogenic E. coli and other enterobacteriaceae
51
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ExPEC-F17c

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Mediates intestinal adherence to initiate infection

52
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Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC)

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P fimbriae

53
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What are the 2 primary types of enterotoxins?

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LT and ST

- one or both are essential virulence factors (besides fimbriae) for enterotoxigneic E. coli (ETEC)

54
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Shiga toxin

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STx

  • aka: verotoxin, Shia-like toxin, edema disease principle
  • heat-labile high MW toxin similar to Shiga toxin produced by Shigella dysenteriae
55
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Alpha-hemolysin

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RTX toxin

  • produced by certain porcine E. coli
  • damages cell membranes
56
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Iron uptake system

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Important in septicemic strains from calves, lambs, and people
- plasmid genes code for siderophores, specific high-affinity iron uptake systems

57
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Type 3 secretion system

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Used by EPEC

  • encoded in their chromosome (in a pathogenicity island)
  • injects bacterial effector proteins into host cells to affect host cell function

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