KEY WORDS Flashcards
Key words that might correlate to a specific organism/disease
Quellung Reaction (Capsular swelling)
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Scarlet Fever
Streptococcus pyogenes
Optochin susceptible
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Glycocalyx (slime layer biofilm)
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Otitis media in children / Acute otitis media
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Endocarditis
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Novobiocin susceptible
Staphylococcus epidermidis
Scalded skin syndrome
Staphylococcus aureus
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Strep viridians
Capsule contains sialic acid
Streptococcus agalactiae
Tumbling motility on gram stain
Listeria monocytogenes
Positive amine or “whiff” test
Gardnerella vaginalis
Gliding motility
Capnocytophaga
Streptococcus that causes dental infections
Strep viridians
Strep that causes abscesses brain/abdomen
Strep viridians –> S. anginosus
Anthrax
Bacillus anthrasis
“Medusa Head Colonies”
Bacillus anthrasis
Box car
Bacillus species
Black escher ulcers
Bacillus anthrasis
Skin contact with livestock hides
Bacillus anthrasis
Lancet shape in pairs
S. pneumoniae
“Ground glass” colony appearance
Bacillus anthrasis
Rapid motility in urine sediment
Trichomonas vaginalis
“Clue cells” - large squamous epithelial cells
Gardnerella vaginalis
“Internal autoinfection”
Strongyloides stercoralis – larvae capable of turning into infective form in intestines of immunocompromised people
Dermatophytes resembling “Birds on a wire”
Trichophyton rubrum
Gram positive bacilli, beaded and branching chains
Nocardia
Umbrella growth in motility agar at room temp but NOT at 35C
Listeria monocytogenes
Cuneiform morphology
Corynebacterium
“Chinese Letters” morphology
Corynebacterium
Black colonies on cysteine-tellurite agar
Corynebacterium
Black colonies with brown halo on Tindale agar
Corynebacterium
Metachromatic granules
Corynebacterium diptheriae
Dead cell pseudomembrane at back of throat
Corynebacterium diptheriae
Not other Corynebacteriums
Skin infection from fish
Erysipelothrix
Satelliting
Haemophilus growing around SA colonies due to it producing NAD factor (V) factor, and hemolyzes the blood releasing hemin (X factor)
“Test tube brush growth” in gelatin
Erysipelothrix
“Bamboo shoot”-looking chains in gram stain
B. anthrasis
“Fried rice” syndrome (food poisoning in fried rice due to toxin)
Bacillus cereus
Fried rice.. you gotta B. cereus?
Neonatal meningitis and sepsis
Listeria monocytogenes
Pink eye
Haemophilus influenza subgroup aegyptius