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1
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Why can’t you stain mycobacteria?

A

cell wall has high lipid content

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2
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why can’t you stain mycoplasma/ureaplasma?

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no cell wall

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3
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Why can’t you stain chlamydia?

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primarily intracellular + lacks classic peptidoglycan because of decreased muramic acid.

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What other bugs can’t you stain and why?

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Intracellular like Legionella, rickettsia, chlamydia, bartonella, ehrlichia, anaplasma

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5
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Giemsa staining for

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Chlamydia
Borrelia
Rickettsia
*Trypanosomes
*Plasmodium
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6
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What does PAS stain?

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Glycogen, mucopolysaccharides

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7
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other name for Ziehl-Neelsen

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carbol fuchsin

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8
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What else can you use Ziehl-Neelsen for

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1) acid-fast bacteria (nocardia)

2) protozoa (cryptosporidum oocysts)

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9
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Alternative stain for acid-fast bacteria to Ziehl-Neelsen and characteristics of test?

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Auramine-rhodamine for screening (cheep, more sensitive but less specific)

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10
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Mucicarmine affect?

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stains thick polysaccharide capsule of cryptococcus red

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11
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what else do you use silver stain for?

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1) coccidoides
2) legionella
3) H pylori

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12
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What can you stain viruses with?

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Fluorescent antibody stain

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13
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Example of selective media

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Thayer-Martin (contains antibiotics)

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14
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significance of differential/indicator media?

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yields a color change in response to metabolism of certain organisms

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15
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example of indicator differential media?

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MacConkey (contains a pH indicator)

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16
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culture requirements for H influenza?

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Factors V (NAD+) and X (hematin)

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17
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n meningitides media?

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Thayer-Martin

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18
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How does Thayer-Martin agar work?

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1) inhibits gram positives with vancomycin
2) inhibits gram negatives (except neisseria obviously) with trimethoprim and colistin
3) inhibits fungi with nystatin

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19
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what does Regan-Lowe medium contain?

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Charcoal, blood, antibiotic

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20
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tb culture?

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Lowenstein-Jensen agar

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21
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M pneumonia media?

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Eaton agar. Requires cholesterol.

22
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Effect on MacConkey agar?

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Used for lactose-fermenting enterics. Fermentation produces acid, causing colonies to turn pink.

23
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e coli medium?

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eosin-methylene blue (EMB) agar

24
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affect of EMB agar

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colonies with green metallic sheen

25
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legionella agar

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charcoal yeast extract buffered with cysteine and iron

26
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What do you stain fungi with?

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Sabouraud’s agar

27
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Aerobes?

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Nocardia
Pseudomonas
Mycobacterium tuberculosis

28
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anaerobes?

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Clostridium
Bacteroides
Fusobacterium
Actinomyces

29
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Anaerobe characteristics

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1) susceptible to oxidative-damage (don’t have catalase or superoxide dismutase)
2) foul smelling (short-chain fatty acids)
3) hard to culture
4) produce gas in tissue (CO2 and H2)
5) normal flora in GI tract but pathogenic elsewhere

30
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Why are ahminoglycosides ineffective against anaerobes?

A

ahminoglycosides require O2 to enter into bacterial cells.

31
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obligate intracellular bugs

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Rickettsia
Chlamydia
Coxiella

32
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why are certain bugs obligate intracellular?

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rely on host ATP production

33
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facultative intracellular bugs?

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Salmonella
Neisseria
Brucella
Mycobacterium
Listeria
Francisella
Legionella
Yersinia
34
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immunologic response to encapsulated bacteria?

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Opsonized, then cleared by spleen.

35
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what vaccines do asplenics need?

A

1) s pneumo
2) h flu
3) n menigitidis

36
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why are vaccines conjugated to a carrier protein?

A

promotes T-cell activation and class switching

37
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what is the pneumococcal vaccine?

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1) Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), ie Prevnar

2) PPSV, pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine with no conjugated protein, i.e. Pneumovax

38
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Other conjugate vaccines?

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  • H influenza type B

- meningococcal vaccine

39
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Urease action

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hydrolyzes urea to release ammonia + CO2, thus increasing pH.

40
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Urease-positive organisms

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Proteus
*cryptococcus
H pylori
Ureaplasma
*Nocardia
Klebsiella
*S epidermidis
S saprophyticus
41
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catalase MOA

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Degrades H2O2 into H2O and bubbles of O2. This prevents H2O2 from being converted to microbicidal products by myeloperoxidase.

42
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Catalase positive organisms?

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Nocardia
Pseudomonas
Listeria
Aspergillus
Candida
E coli
Staphylococci
Serrate
B cepacia
H pylori
43
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s aureus pigment?

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yellow (aureus is latin for gold)

44
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pseudomonas pigment?

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blue-green

45
Q

Other biofilm-producing bug?

A

*Nontypeable H influenza

46
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What does nontypeable mean?

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Unencapsulated

47
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Contact-lens associated keratitis caused by?

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pseudomonas

48
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s aureus virulence factor?

A

protein A; prevents opsonization and phagocytosis

49
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bugs that have an IgA protease?

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1) S pneumonia
2) H flu type B
3) Neisseria

50
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Function of M protein?

A

prevents phagocytosis.

51
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autoimmune response to ARF MOA?

A

M protein of group A strep shares similar epitopes to human cellular proteins (molecular mimicry).

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