microbio - bacteria Flashcards
Erysipelas - fiery red swelling of face
Strep pyogenes
Group A strep, beta-hemolytic
Strep pyogenes
Disease cause by strep pyogenes
PRAISE Pharyngitis Rheumatic fever Acute post strep glomerulonephritis Impetigo (contagiosa) Scarlet fever - spares the face Erysipelas
Used to diagnose scarlet fever
Dick test
Predictive model for diagnosis of group A strep
Centor criteria
Diagnostic test of step.pyogene that indicates presence of pyrrolidonyl arrylamidase
PYR test
Major virulence factor of strep pyogenes
M protein
Bacitracin-sensitive
Strep.pyogene
Splenic abscess
Steptoccocal species
Bacitracin-resistant
Strep agalactiae
Group B, beta-hemolytic strep
Strep agalactiae
Diseases caused by strep agalactiae
Neonatal meningitis, pneumonia and sepsis
Step agalactiae is hydrolyzed by …
Hippurate
T or F: strep agalactiae is part of normal flora of vagina of pregnant women
True. About 25% of pregnant
Rapidly spreading, diffuse process
Associated with lymphangitis and fever
Milroy’s disease
Strep cellulitis
Job’s syndrome (hyper-IgE syndrome)
Recurrent cellulitis
Spreads from central localized infection.
Staph aureus cellulitis
Lancet shape
Strep pneumoniae
No lancefield classification
Alpha-hemolytic, encapsulated
Strep pneumoniae
Rusty colored sputum in pneumonia
Strep pneumoniae
Optochin, bile and quellung positive
Strep pneumoniae
Strep pneumoniae produces this enzyme for mucosal colonization
IgA protease
Most common cause of meningitis in adults
Strep pneumoniae
Optochin-resistant
Strep viridans
Cause of dental carries
Strep viridans
T or F: strep viridans is part of normal oral flora (found in the nasopharynx and gingival crevices) and GIT.
True
Group D strep, alpha,beta,gamma-hemolytic
Enterococci (strep faecalis and faecium)
Non-enterococci ( strep bovis and equinus)
Group d strep has this thing that helps them bind to heart valves
Dextran
Disease caused by group D strep
Subacute bacterial endocarditis
Biliary tract infection
Urinary tract infection
Can live in 6.5% NaCl and 40% bile
Group D strep
Catalase and coagulase positive
Facultative anaerobe
Staph aureus
Most common cause of post-influenza secondary bacterial pneumonia
Staph aureus
Produces golden yellow colonies
Staph aureus
Honey colored crusting
Staph aureus
Toxins of staph aureus
Exfoliatin
Enterotoxin
TSST-1
Staph that causes continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)
Coagulase negative staph
Causes brain micro abscess, pyomyositis, hematogenous and contiguous focus osteomyelitis, post op infections, Ritter’s disease, localized bullous impetigo, necrotizing and nodular pneumonia
Staph aureus
Most common cause if UTI in sexually active women (second to e.coli)
Staph saprophyticus
Produce medussa head colonies
Bacillus anthracis
Produces black eschar
Bacillus anthracis
Obligate anaerobes
Clostridium
Bacteroides
Microaerophilic bacteria
Helicobacter and campylobacter
Spirochetes
Obligate aerobes
NN BBB LMP neisseria and nocardia Bacillus cereus, bordetella, brucella Legionella Mycobacteria Pseudomonas
Diseases caused by Clostridium septicum
Spontaneous myonecrosis
Spontaneous non traumatic gangrene
Causes spontaneous myonecrosis and spontaneous non traumatic gangrene
Clostridium septicum
Clostridium species that is not motile
Clostridium perfringens
Crepitus positive
Gas gangrene
Food poisoning (no fever)
Clostridium perfringens
Toxin of Cl.tetani which inhibits release inhibitory neurotransmitters (GABA, glycine) resulting in distant muscle contraction (tetany)
Tetanospasmin
Muscle spasm
Trismus
Risus sardonicus
Respiratory muscle paralysis
Tetanus
Neurotoxin of Cl.botulinum inhibits the release of _____ from peripheral nerves. Toxin is not secreted, rather It is released upon the death of bacteria.
Acetylcholine
Flagella of clostridium has this virulence protein
H-antigen
“Bull neck”
Corynebacterium diptheriae
Diagnostic test for diphtheria
Elek’s test
Culture for corynebacterium diptheriae
TELL UR InTErn not to LOEF around
- Potassium tellurite agar
- Loeffler’s medium
Stain that demonstrates the metachromatic granules of corynebacterium diptheriae
Methylene blue
Are corynebacterium and listeria catalase positive
Yes
3rd most common cause of meningitis in children
Listeria monocytogenes
Transmission of L.monocytogenes
Ingestion of contaminated raw milk products and cabbages (coleslaw)
Motility of L.monocytogenes
Tumbling motility
Actin-jet motility
Purpura fulminans
N.menigitidis
Purpura fulminans + asplenia
N.menigitidis. + H.influenzae
Opthalmia neonatorum
Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome
PROM
N. gonorrheae
Primary bacterial peritonitis
honeymoon cystitis
E.coli
Toxin that e.coli has that inhibits protein synthesis by inactivating 60s ribosomal unit
Verotoxin
E.coli strain that causes Hemorrhagic uremic syndrome.
E.coli O157
Indole positive
Beta hemolytic
Ferments lactose
E.coli
Index organism for fecal contamination of water
E.coli
Indole negative
Ferments lactose
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Currant jelly sputum
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Nonmotile enteric
Klebsiella pneumoniae and shigella dysenteriae
Friedlander’s pneumoniae
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Swarming enteric
Proteus mirabilis
Urease positive
Phenylalanine deaminase positive
Indole negative
Does not ferment lactose
Proteus mirabilis
Lactose fermenter enteric
E.coli and klebsiella pneumoniae
Causes UTI having alkaline urine due to urease
Proteus mirabilis
Staghorn calculi
Proteus mirabilis
Cross reacts with rickettsiae species
Proteus mirabilis
Proteus mirabilis cross reacts with _____ species
Rickettsiae species
Most common cause of bloody diarrhea in 1-4yrs old
Shigella dysenteriae
Enteric bacteria
PEKSS Proteus mirabilis E.coli Klebsiella pneumoniae Shigella dysenteriae Salmonella typhi
Most common type of salmonella infection
Inflammatory diarrhea
T or F: salmonella typhi is zoonotic
False. S.typhi is not zoonotic and only carried by humans