Micro Flashcards
Transmitted by the Ixodes tick (live on deer and mice)
Anaplasma spp. and Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease)
What bug is associated with cat scratch disease?
Bartonella spp.
What bug is associated with lice?
Borrelia recurrentis - relapsing fever
What bug is associated with unpasteurized dairy and cows?
brucella spp. - undulant fever (granulomatous dz)
What bug is associated with bloody diarrhea + birds(chicken)/pigs as pets or food?
Campylobacter
What bug is associated with parrots and other birds?
Chlamydophila psittaci - psittacosis (fever and dry cough)
What bug is associated with sheep/cattle amniotic fluid?
Coxiella burnetii - Q fever (flu-like sx and fever for weeks), culture negative endocarditis
What endocarditis bug is associated with colon cancer?
Strep bovis
What bug is associated with the Lone Star Tick (amblyomma)?
Ehrlichia chaffeensis (HA, myalgia, fever)
What bug is associated with rabbits?
Francisella tularensis (tularemia - concern for bioterrorism)
What bug is associated with animal urine?
Leptospira spp.
What bug is associated with lepromatous leprosy and transmitted by armadillos?
mycobacterium leprae
What bug is associated with dog and cat bites?
Pasteurella multocida - causes cellulitis, osteomyelitis
What bug is associated with epidemic typhus and transmitted by lice?
Rickettsia prowazekii
What bug is associated with Dermacentor (dog tick)?
Rickettsia ricketsii - RMSF
What bug is associated with endemic typhus and transmitted by fleas?
Rickettsia typhi
What bug is associated with GI disease + reptiles/poultry?
Salmonella spp. (esp. Salmonella typhi)
What bug is associated with fleas and pet prairie dogs?
Yersinia pestis (inflammed/painful LNs)
Four obligate aerobic bacteria
Nocardia, Bacillus, Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Encapsulated bugs
“Even Some Pretty Nasty Killers Have Shiny Bodies” - E.coli, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Niesseria meningiditis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Salmonella typhi, Group B strep
Obligate intracellular bacteria
Rickettsia, Chlamydia, Coxiella
Chemotactic factors for leukocytes (not necessarily micro)
C5a, kallikrein, Leukotriene B4, IL-8
Common cause of pneumonia in immunocompromised patients
Pneumocystis jirovecii
Most common cause of atypical/walking pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Common causative agent for pneumonia in alcoholics
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Cause of interstitial pneumonia in bird handlers
Chlamydophila psittaci
Cause of pneumonia in a patient with a history of exposure to bats and bat dropping
Histoplasma
Cause of pneumonia in a patient who has recently visited South California, New Mexico, or West Texas
Coccidiodes
Pneumonia associated with currant jelly sputum
Klebsiella
Q fever
Coxiella burnetti
Pneumonia associated with air conditioners
Legionella pneumonia
Most common cause of pneumonia in children 1 year old or younger
RSV
Most common cause of pneumonia in children and young adults (college, military)
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Most common cause of pneumonia in neonates (birth to 28 days)
Group B strep, E. coli
Most common cause of viral pneumonia
RSV
Causes wool-sorter’s disease (life-threatening pneumonia)
Bacillus anthracis
Common cause of pneumonia in ventilator patients and those with cystic fibrosis
Pseudomonas, MRSA
Pontiac fever
Legionella
Bugs causing infective endocarditis
Staph aureus, Viridans Strep, strep bovis, staph epidermidis, enterococcus, HACEK (hib, actinomycetes, cardiobacterium, eikinella, kingella), Bartonella, Brucella, Coxiella
Pneumonia in an alcoholic
Klebsiella
Pneumonia in a patient with decreased level of consciousness
Anaerobes
Pneumonia in a patient with cystic fibrosis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Pneumonia in HIV pt
Pneumocystis jirovecii
Pneumonia post-influenza
Staph aureus
Pneumonia from patio-cooling water mister
Legionella
Pneumonia after traveling to southwest US
Coccidiodes
Pneumonia associated with exposure to bird/bat dropping in Ohio/Mississippi River valleys
Histoplasma
Pneumonia associated with pet parrot
Clamydophila psittaci
Meningitis in unvaccinated child
Hib
Meningitis in a dorm
Niesseria meningitidis
Meningitis with petechial rash
Niesseria meningitidis
Meningitis with pt who has HIV
Cryptococcus neoformans
RBCs in CSF + temporal lobe involvement
HSV encephalitis
CSF findings in bacterial meningitis
increased opening pressure, increased WBC, neutrophils, increased protein, decreased glucose
CSF findings in viral meningitis
normal or slightly increased opening pressure, increased WBC count, lymphocytes, increased protein, normal glucose
CSF findings in TB/fungal meningitis
increased opening pressure, increased WBC, lymphs, increased proteins, decreased glucose, NEGATIVE gram stain
Thin, gray-white discharge, fishy odor, increased pH, clue cells, + whiff test
Gardnerella vaginalis
tx = metronidazole, clindamycin
Frothy, yellow-green discharge, fishy odor, increased pH, motile, pear-shaped organism, strawberry cervix
Trichomonas vaginalis
Tx = metronidazole
Vomiting 1-6 hours after eating potato salad at a picnic
Staph aureus
Vomiting 1-6 hours after eating reheated rice
bacillus cereus
Vomiting and watery diarrhea on cruise
Norovirus