Micro Flashcards
2 bac w/ weird cell walls?
Mycoplasma - contains sterols, no cell wall
Mycobacteria - contains mycolic acid, high lipid content
Bugs that don’t Gm stain well
“These Rascals May Microscopically Lack Color”
Treponema (to thin, use fluorescent Ab)
Rickettsia (IC)
Mycobac (high lipid content, use carbolfuchsin in acid-fast stain)
Mycopl (no cell wall)
Legionella (mainly IC, use silver stain)
Chlamydia (IC, no muramic acid in cell wall)
Do Giemsa stain on…
“Certain Bugs Really TRY my Patience”
Chlamydia, Borrelia, Rickettsiae, TRYpanosomes, Plasmodium
PAS stains what?
- used to dx?
“PAS the sugar”
glycogen, mycopolysaccharides
- Whipple’s dz (Tropheryma whipplei)
Ziehl-Neelsen (carbol fuchsin) stains?
acid-fast org’s (Nocardia, Mycobac)
India ink stains?
- Can also use for this bug?
Cryptococcus neoformans
- mucicarmine to stain thick polysacch. cap red
Silver stain is used for?
Fungi (PCP), Legionella, H. pylori
How do you culture H. influenzae?
chocolate agar w/ factors V (NAD+) and X (hematin)
How do you culture Neisseria (gonorrhoeae and meningitidis)?
Thayer-Martin (or VPN) media:
Vanc (inhib’s Gm+)
Polymixin (inhib’s Gm- except Neisseria)
Nystatin (inhib’s fungi)
How do you culture B. pertussis?
Bordet-Gengou (potato) agar
How do you culture C. diphtheriae?
Tellurite plate, Loffler’s media
How do you culture M.Tb?
Lowenstein-Jensen agar
How do you culture M. pneumoniae?
Eaton’s agar
How do you culture lac-fermenting enterics?
- Can also grow E.coli on?
Pink colonies on MacConkey’s agar (fermentation makes acid to turn it pink)
- On EMB (eosin-methylene blue) agar as colonies w/ green metallic sheen
How do you culture Legionella?
charcoal yeast extract agar buffered w/ Cys and Fe
How do you culture fungi?
“SAB’s a FUN GUY”
Sabouraud’s agar
Obligate aerobes?
Obligate anaerobes?
“Nagging Pests Must Breathe”
Nocardia, Pseudomonas, MTb, Bacillus
“Can’t Breathe Air”
Clostridium, Bacteroides, Actinomyces
Obligate IC bugs
Rickettsia and Chlamydia
Facultative IC bugs
“Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY”
Salmonella, Neisseria, Brucella, Mycobac, Listeria, Francisella, Legionella, Yersinia pestis
Positive quelling rxn is for who?
Encap’d bac (cap’s swells w/ antisera)
“SHiNE SKiS”
Strep. pneumo, Hib, Neisseria meningitidis, E. coli, Salmonella, Klebsiella, GpBStrep
Cat(+) bugs
“PLACESS for your cats”
Pseudomonas, Listeria, Aspergillus, Candida, E.coli, S.aureus, Serratia
and Nocardia
Urease-pos bugs
“CHuck norris hates PUNKSS”
Cryptococcus, H.pylori, Proteus, Ureaplasma, Nocardia, Klebsiella, S.epidermidis, S.saprophyticus
Protein A virulence factor:
exp’d by who? does what?
S.aureus
- binds Fc of Ig to prevent opsonization and phagocytosis
IgA protease virulence factor:
exp’d by who? does what?
these org’s also have ability to?
SHiN = S.pneumo, HiB, Neisseria
- cleaves IgA -> can colonize resp mucosa
- take up naked DNA = transformation = competence
M pr virulence factor:
exp’d by who? does what?
- Abs to it can cause what?
GAS
- helps prevent phagocytosis by inhib’ing C’
- RF
Diphtheria toxin -> ?
inact’s EF2 -> inhib’s pr syn via ADP-ribosylation of EF2 -> pharyngitis w/ pseudomem’s in throat and severe lymphadenopathy (bull neck)
- AB toxin
Pseudomonas Exotoxin A -> ?
- also has what other toxin?
inact’s EF2 -> host cell death (AB toxin)
- endotoxin -> F, shock
Shigella Shiga toxin -> ?
inact’s 60S by removing A from rRNA -> GI mucosal damage, dysentery; cytokine release -> HUS
EHEC O157:H7 Shiga-like toxin (SLT) -> ?
inact’s 60S by removing A from rRNA -> cytokine release causing HUS; doesn’t invade host cells (unlike Shigella)
ETEC (enterotoxigenic E.coli) LT (heat-labile toxin) -> ?
incr’d cAMP -> incr’d Cl and H2O out into gut -> watery D
[Labile in the Air (cAmp)]
- AB toxin
ETEC ST (heat-stable toxin) -> ?
incr’d cGMP -> decr’d reab’n of NaCl and water in gut -> watery D
[Stable on the Ground (cGmp)]
- AB toxin
Bacillus anthracis Edema factor -> ?
Lethal factor also contributes to this sx
like AC, incr’s cAMP -> edematous borders of black eschar in cut anthrax
Vibrio cholerae, Cholera toxin -> ?
permanently act’s Gs -> incr’d AC and cAMP -> incr’d Cl and water efflux into gut -> “rice-water D”
- AB toxin
Bordatella pertussis, pertussis toxin -> ?
disable’s Gi -> incr’s AC and cAMP -> impairs phagocytosis -> Whooping cough
- AB toxin
Clostridium tetani, tetanospasmin -> ?
cleaves SNARE pr needed for nt release -> m. rigidity and lock jaw bc prevents release of inhib GABA and Gly nt’s from Renshaw cells in SC
Clostridium botulinum, Botulinum toxin -> ?
heat labile toxin that cleaves SNARE pr needed for nt release -> flaccid paralysis (floppy baby) bc prevents release of ACh at NMJ
Clostridium perfringens, alpha toxin -> ?
phospholipase (lecithinase) that degrades tissue and cell mem’s -> degrades phospholipid C -> myonecrosis (gas gangrene) and hemolysis (2x zone of hemolysis on bl agar)
Strep.pyogenes, Streptolysin O -> ?
- ASO Abs used to dx?
Strep.pyogenes, Exotoxin A -> ?
pr that degrades cell mem -> lyses RBCs (b-hemolysis)
- RF
brings MHC-II and TCR together -> release of IFN-g and IL-2 -> shock (F, rash, shock)
S.aureus, TSST-1 -> ?
- sx?
- exfoliative toxin ->
- enterotoxin ->
brings MHC-II and TCR together -> polyclonal Tcell act’n -> release of IFN-g and IL-2 -> shock
- sx: F, rash, shock
- scalded skin syndrome
- food poisoning
Endotoxin (LPS on Gm-):
- act’s Mphage ->
- act’s C’ ->
- act’s TF ->
- IL-1 (F), TNF (F and hypotension), NO (hypotension)
- C3a (hypotension, edema), C5a (N’s)
- coag cascade -> DIC
Endotoxin -> what sx?
“ENDOTOXIN”
Edema, NO, DIC/Death, Outer mem, TNF-a, eXtremely heat stable, IL-1, N chemotaxis
5 bac toxins encoded in a lysogenic phage:
"ABCDE" ShigA-like toxin (EHEC O157:H7) Botulinum toxin Cholera toxin Diphtheria toxin Erythrogenic toxin of S.pyogenes (Streptolysin O, brks dwn cell mem's, inc'ing of RBCs)