Laboratory Diagnosis Flashcards
What are the 4 common classification schemes for streptococcus?
- hemolytic patter in SBA
- physiologic characteristics
- serologic grouping/typing pf C carbohydrate (lancefield classification)
- biochemical characteristics
Four groups of physiologic characteristics of strep.
- Pyogenic streptococci
- Lactococci
- Enterococci
- vridans streptococci
How to extract the C carbohydrates from streptococci?
By placing the organisms in dilute acid and heat for 10 mins.
It has been used as an inexpensive test for presumptive identification of S. pyogenes.
Bacitracin Susceptibility
What strep is (S) and (R) to bacitracin?
(S)- S. pyogenes
(R)- S. agalactiae
This biochem. Test is used for identification of S. galactiae.
CAMP Test
3 ways to perform CAMP Test.
- use of B-lysin producing strain of S. aureus
- used of disk impregnated with the B-lysin.
- rapid CAMP test (placing a drop of B- lysin on area of confluent growth of bacteria.
This biochem test is useful test for differentiating S. agalactiae from other B-hemolytic strep.
Hippurate Hydrolysis
This enzyme of S. agalactiae hydrolyze sodium hippurate.
Hippuricase
In hippurate test, when sodium hippurate is hydrolyzed by the enzyme of S. agalactiae into ___.
- Sodium benzoate
- Glycine
This test provides a highly probability for the presumptive identification of B- hemolytic GAS and Nonhemolytic group D.
Pyrrolidonyl-a-naphthylamide Hydrolysis test
It is the only streptococcus that is positve in PYR test.
Strep. pyogenes
What is being detected in PYR test?
The activity of L- Pyrrolidonyl arylamidase (pyrrolidonyl aminopeptidase)
What organisms are positive in PYR?
- S. pyogenes
- Enterococcus
It is a peptidase that hydrolyzes peptide bonds adjacent to a free amino group.
Leucin Aminopeptidase
The substrate leucine-B-naphthylamide is hydrolyzed to___.
B-naphthylamine