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Microbiological Diagnosis of Chest Infection Flashcards

1
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What diagnostic techniques are used for chest infections?

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  • Microscopy and culture of blood and sputum
  • Antigen detection methods
  • Nucleic acid amplification (PCR)
  • Serology (antibody measurement)
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How valuable is gram staining for organisms and pus cells?

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Limited value

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3
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What are the 3 major respiratory pathogens?

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  • Strep pneumoniae
  • Hameophilius influenzae
  • Moraxella Catarrhalis
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What may you expect to find in sputum cultures?

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Normal upper respiratory flora such as viridans streps

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What does previous antibiotic therapy select out?

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Organisms that are not respiratory pathogens such as:

  • E. coli
  • Staph aureus
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How must sputum cultures be interpreted?

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Using the clinical presentation:

  • Community pneumonia
  • Aspiration pneumonia
  • Ventilated patient pneumonia
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How is TB diagnosed?

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Using ZN or auramine phenol stain

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How is TB described?

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Acid and Alcohol Fast Bacilli (AAFB)

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How is a broncho-alveolar lavage done?

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  • Lower airway sample collected at bronchoscopy

- Catheter aspirate in ventilated patient

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What is BAL used in the diagnosis of?

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Ventilator associated pneumonia

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What is an advantaged of BAL?

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Less liable to contamination- more accurate diagnosis of LRTI

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What does BAL produce?

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Quantitative culture of BAL- colony forming units/ml (cfu/ml)

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Who are blood cultures taken from?

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Any patient with severe sepsis

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14
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What do many patients with pneumonia have in their blood?

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Bacteraemia (viable bacteria in the blood)

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Why is blood culture carried out?

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There are too few organisms in blood to see on microscopy

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How is blood culture carried out?

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Blood inoculated into 2 bottle containing culture media and incubated

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17
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What happens on day 1 of blood culture?

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  • Microscopy positive in 6-48 hours (Gram stain)
  • Result is phoed to the clinician and interim recommendations on antibiotics
  • Overnight subculture of sensitivity and identification tests
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What happens on day 2 of blood culture?

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-Full ID and sens- clinical significance is re-assessed

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What organisms are not easily cultured and are known as atypical causes?

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  • Legionella pneumophila
  • Mycoplasma pneumoniae
  • Chlamydia psittaci
  • Coxiella burnetti
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What is antigen detection?

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  • Non-cultural methods of demonstrating the presence of an organism
  • Detect specific antigen immunologically
21
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What antigens can be detected in urine?

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Legionella and pneumococcal

22
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What antigens can be detected in naso-pharyngeal secretions?

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Viruses

23
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What techniques are used in antigen detection?

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  • Agglutination
  • EIA
  • Immunofluorescence
24
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How is latex agglutination done?

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  • Latex particles coated with monoclonal antibodies that are specific for the organism in question are mixed with the clinical specimen
  • Agglutination (clumping) visible by naked eye
25
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What does EIA stand for?

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Enzyme Immuno-Assay

26
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What does ELISA stand for?

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Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay

27
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How is a positive EIA/ELISA result generated?

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Linked enzyme on 2nd antibody generates colour change

28
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What is monoclonal antibody the product of?

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A single clone of plasma cells

29
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Give an example of how ELISA/EIA works.

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  • Monoclonal anti-Legionella coated on well of microtitre plate
  • Incubated with patients’s urine- antigen binds if present
  • Incubated with enzyme linked monoclonal anti-Legionella
  • Enzyme substrate added- colour change if enzyme present
30
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What technique is used for DNA detection?

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Polymerase chain reaction (PCR)

31
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What specific primers are used in PCR?

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Short oglionucleotide sequences

32
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How does PCR work?

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  • Short oglionucleotide sequences bind to target DNA sequences
  • Multiple copies of target sequence are produced
  • Amplified copies of DNA easily detected
33
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What is an advantage of PCR?

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Very sensitive

34
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What is a disadvantage of PCR?

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False positives due to contamination

35
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What does real time PCR allow?

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Enables product of the reaction to be measured as the reaction progresses

36
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What is the generic term for the technical variations of PCR?

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Nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT)

37
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What samples must be collected for diagnosis by PCR?

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Throat swabs or other respiratory sample

38
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What kind of swab is used for PCR?

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Flocked swab

39
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What is routinely screened for using PCR?

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

and a wide range od respiratory viruses (multiples assays)

40
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What respiratory viruses are screened for using multiplex assays?

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  • Influenza A and B
  • Adenovirus
  • RSV
  • Parainfluenza
  • Metapneumovirus
  • Coronavirus
  • Rhinovirus
41
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What does antibody detected by serology measure?

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Host antibody response to organism

42
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What is it usually difficult to do with antibody detection by serology?

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Culture or detect the organism directly

43
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What was antibody detection by serology previously used for?

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Viral infections and so called atypical causes of pneumonia

44
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What is IgM a marker of?

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Current infection

45
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What is IgG a marker of?

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Previous infection

46
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What must be demonstrated if total antibody is measured?

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  • A significant increase in levels during the coarse of the illness
  • Takes some time for antibody levels to rise
47
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What is antibody measurement now mostly used to determine?

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Vaccine response

48
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What organisms cause difficult to diagnose bacterial infections?

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  • Legionella penumophilia
  • Chamydia psittaci
  • C penumoniae
  • Coxiella burnetti

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