Microbio Systems High Yield Flashcards
Bacteria to cause dental plaques?
S. mutans
“food poisoning from reheated rice”
B. cereus
“food poisoning from reheated meat”
C. perfringens
“food poisoning from contaminated seafood that can also cause wound infections”
V. vulnificus
“food poisoning from meats, mayonnaise, custard from a preformed toxin”
S. aureus
“bloody diarrhea caused by comma shaped organism that grows at 42C”
Campylobacter
“lactose negative, flagellar motility organism that causes bloody diarrhea”
Salmonella
“lactose negative organism that has a very low ID50 that causes bloody diarrhea”
Shigella
which parasite causes bloody diarrhea?
E. histolytica
Which parasites cause watery diarrhea?
Giardia
Cryptosporidium
2 causes of pneumonia in neonates?
GBS
E. coli
What causes pneumonia in children 4wk - 18yo?
RSV Mycoplasma C. trachomatis C. pneumoniae S. pneumo
3 causes of pnemonia in adlts 18yo- 40yo?
Mycoplasma
C. pneumoniae
S. pneumo
5 causes of pneumonia in adults 40yo- 65yo?
S. pneumo H. flu Anaerobes Viruses Mycoplasma
5 causes of pneumonia in the elderly?
S. pneumo
Influenza virus
Gram (-) rods
Name 3 cases of atypical pneumonia?
Mycoplasama
Legionella
Chlamydia
3 causes of post viral pneumonia?
S. aureus
H. influenza
S. pneumo
Listeria causes meningitis in which age groups?
Very old and very young
What is the #1 cause of meningitis in an individual over the age of 6mo?
S. pneumo
What is the imperic treatment for pneumonia?
Ceftriaxone and vancomycin
Common cause of meningitis in HIV (+) patients?
Cryptococcus
Inflammatory cell type seen in bacterial meningitis?
PMNs
What is the inflammatory cell type seen in viral and fungal meningitis?
Lymphocytes
Osteomyelitis in a person bitten by a dog or cat?
Pasturella multocida
Leading cause of UTI?
E. coli
“colonies with a green metallic sheen on EMB agar”
W. coli
Second most common cause of UTIs?
S. saprophyticus
Third leading cause of UTI?
Klebsiella
Which bacteria to cause UTI is associated with struvite stones?
Proteus mirabilis
UTI caused by an organism with fruity odor and blue-green pigment?
Pseudomonas
Classic triad of congenital toxoplasma gondii?
Chorioretinits
Hydrocephalus
Intracranial calcifications
Classic triad of congenial rubella?
PDA/ puonary artery hypoplasia
Cataracts
Deafness
What are the symptoms of congenital CMV?
Periventricular calcifications
hearing loss
seizures
blueberry muffin rash
What are the symptoms of congenital HIV?
recurrent infections
Chronic diarrhea
What are the symptoms of HSV2?
Encephalitis
Herpatic (vesicular) lesions
What are the symptoms of congenital spyphilis?
Stillbirth/hydrops fetalis
facial abnormalities
saber shins
CN VIII deafness
“erythematous sandpaper like rash with fever and sore throat”
S. pyogenes scarlet fever
“vesicular rash that begins on trunk and spreads to face and extremitis with lesions of all different ages”
VZV
Name the STI:
“painful genital ulcer with exudative, inguinal adenopathy”
H. ducreyi
Name the STI:
“urethritis, cervicitis, cojunctivitis, reactive arthritis, PID”
Chamlydia
Name the STI:
“condylomata acuminata (genital warts, loilocytes)”
HPV 6/ 11
Name the STI:
“painful genital vesicles or ulcers that can cause systemic symptoms”
Herpes
Name the STI:
“urethritis, cervicitis, PID, prostatitis, epididymitis, arthritis, creamy purulent discharge”
Gonorrhea
Name the STI:
infection of lymphatic, painless genital ulcers, painful lymphadenopathy”
C. trachomatis (L1- L3)
“infection of the liver capsule and “violin string” adhesions of peritoneum to liver”
PID
Meningitis in an unimmunized child?
HiB
Poliovirus
“Cherry red” epiglottitis in an unimmunized child?
HiB
Pneumonia in CF and burn patients?
Pseudomonas
organism that causes facial nerve palsy?
Borrelia burgdorferi
