Micro-bacteria Flashcards
Common catalase positive organisms
Cats Need PLACESS to hide Norcadia Pseudomonas Listeria Aspergillus Candida E Coli Staph Aureus Serratia Children increased risk :( if have CGD -
Encapsulated bacteria
SHiNE SKiS Strep pneumo Heaemohpilus Influenzae Neisseria Gonorrhea E Coli Salmonella Klebsiella Strep (group B) Children increased risk :( if Splenectomy
Jones Criteria for Acute Rheumatic fever - remember most frequent culprit is GAS
Joints - polyarthritis O - carditis (o looks like heart) Nodules (subcutaneous) Erythema marginatum Sydenham chorea
Spore forming bacteria (give me 7)
Bacillus anthracis - anthrax
Bacillus cereus - food poisoning
Clostridium botulinum - botulism - flaccid
Clostridium difficile - colitis (ab associated)
Clostridium perfringens - gas gangrene
Clostridium tetani - tetanus - spastic
Coxiella burnetti - Q fever
If you see black colonies of cystine tellulite agar, what is your biggest concern
diphtheria
Lamivudine
nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor against AIDS and HepB
Penicillin-R
Beta lactamase, ESBL
Mutated PBP
Mutated porin protein
Vancomycin-R
Mutated peptidoglycan cell wall
Impaired influx / increased efflux
Quinolone-R
Mutated DNA gyrase
Impaired influx / increased efflux
Aminoglycoside resistance
AG modifying enzymes
Mutated ribosome subunit
mutated porin protein
Tetracycline - R
Impaired influx / increased Efflux
inactivated enzyme
Rifampin-R
mutated RNA polymerase
If bug has ESBL (extended spectrum beta lactamase) - i.e. cant use penicillins, cephalosporins, or monobactams what do you use?
carbapenems
How do I distinguish between E Coli and Enterobacter cloacae, which are both gram negative, lactose fermenting rods?
Indole test
E Coli is able to convert tryptophan to indole
Enterobacter cloacae is not
Ringing in ears after starting new antibiotic - what would you think she might be taking? - hint - also nephrotoxic
Aminoglycosides - toxicity
nevirapine
efavirenze
NNRTIs
NNRTIs (nevirapine, efavirenze) toxicity
hepatotoxicty
Cryptococcus
morph
yeas form only; round encapsulated cells with narrow based bused
cryptococcus - virulence
thick polysaccharide capsule
cryptococcus epidemiology
opportunisitic
respiratory
pigeon droppings
cryptococcus infection
lung - primary
most common - meningoencephalitis
can disseminate
cryptococcus
diagnosis
india ink CSF
latex agglutination CSF
culture (sabouraud’s)
methenamine (GMS)
Cryptococcus treatment
Amp B and flucytosine (acute meningitis)
fluconazole for prophylaxis
Nonseptate hyphae and branch at wide angles -
Mucor and Rhizopus - tend to cause infection of the paranasal sinuses in immunosuppressed - mucormycosis - but I think can spread to brain? - check into this
germ-tubes (at 37)
candida albicans
CMV related complications for vertical transmission? (greatest risk if infected first tri)
chorioretinitis, sensorineural deafness, seizures, jaundice, heaptomegaly, splenomegaly, microcephaly
Burn victim??? think
pseudomonas - treat with cefepime?
Drug of choice against pneumocystis jiroveci?
TMP/SMX
Doxycycline popular for
tickborne rickettsial and lyme disease
Drug of choice against Toxoplasmosis
TMP/SMX
Broad based buds
Blastomyces (dermatophyte)
Septate 45degree
Aspergillus
Oval yeast with narrow buds
Candida albicans
Spherules (round capsules with endospores) in tissue culture
cocciodes immitis
Round variable sized yeast with narrow based buds -
Cryptococcus neoforms - india ink stain
thick polysaccharide capsule
Small intercellular dimporphic fungus
Histoplasma - South central and eastern US
Broad ribbon hyphae
Rhizopus
Mucor
FTA-ABS
Treponemal antibody test for T. pallidum - patients serum is mixed with T. pallidum (syphillis)