Micro EMQ notes Flashcards
Gomori’s methanamine silver stain, flying saucers, boat, co-timoxazole,
Pneumocyctis Jirovecii
Grm +ve cocci in pairs
Strep P
Grm +ve cocci in clusters
Staph A
Acid fast baccili, Ziehl-Neelsen stain, Lowenstein-Jensen medium
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Grm -ve rod, air conditioning, urinary antigen test, hypoNa
Legionella pneumophilia
Grm -ve diplococci, COPD excaerbation
Moraxella catarrhalis
Grm -ve bacilli, chocolate agar, oxidase and catalase test +ve
Haemophilus influenzae
Grm +ve rod, unpastuerized dairy, tumbling motility
Listeria monocytogenes
Grm -ve rod, travellers diarrhoea, haemolytic uraemic syndrome
E coli
Comma shaped, no inflammatroy cells on microscopy, profuse watery diarrhoea
Vibrio cholerae
Pear shaped trophozite,cysts on microscopy
Giardia lamblia
Superantigen
Staph A
Multiplies in Peyer’s patch in the small intestine, rose spots
Salmonella typhi
Flask shaped ulcer
Entamoeba histolytica
CSF - WCC high (polymorphs), glucose low, protein high
Bacterial meningitis
CSF -colourless, WCC high (mononuclear), inc protein, normal glucose,
Viral meningitis
CSF - Turbid, WCC high, high protein, chronic
TB
Microscopic agglutination test
Leptospira interrogans
Thayer-Martin VCN media
Neisseria
India ink, yeast cells w/ halo
Cryptococcus neoformans
Also causes lymphogranuloma venerum
Chlamydia trachomatis
3 clinical stages, painless chancre, widespread rash, multiple organs (neuro).
Syphilis/treponema pallidum
MRSA Tx - Glycopeptide
Vancomycin