Microbiology Flashcards
dipicolinic acid is found in
spores
organisms that don’t gram stain well
treponema, leptospira
mycobacteria
mycoplasma, ureaplasma
legionella, rickettsia, chlamydia, bartonella, ehrlichia, anaplasma
alternate to Ziehl-Neelsen stain
auramine-rhodamine
PAS stain for this microbe
t whipplei
India Ink for this microbe
crytococcus neoformans
Bordet-Gengou medium (use, contents)
bordetella pertussis. (must be collected with calcium alginate swab). contains charcoal and hoarse blood
tellurite agar use
corynebacterium diptheria. positive colonies usually black on these plates
Lowenstein agar use
TB
Charcoal yeast extract agar (buffered with cysteine and iron) use
Legionella
Obligate intracellulars
rickettsia, chlamydia, coxiella
Urease positive organisms
Proteus, H. pylori, ureaplasma, Nocardia, cryptococcus, staph epidermidis and saprophyticus, klebsiella
these have IgA protease
s pneumo, h flu, neisseria
these have T3SS
pseudomonas, salmonella, shigella, e coli (EPEC)
toxins encoded in lysogenic phage
GAS erythrogenic toxin, botulinum, cholera, diphtheria, shiga
diphtheria toxin MOA
inactivate elongation factor. similar to pseudomonas exotoxin A
pseudomonas aeruginosa exotoxin A MOA
inactivate elongation factor. similar to diphtheria toxin
shiga (and shiga-like) toxin MOA
inactivate 60S ribosome. SLT is in EHEC/STEC
ETEC LT MOA
increases cAMP to increase gut secretion
ETEC ST MOA
increases cGMP to decrease gut reabsorption
anthracis edema toxin MOA
mimics cAMP. causes black eschar
cholera toxin MOA
increases cAMP (via Gs activation) to increase gut secretion
pertussis toxin MOA
increases cAMP (via Gi inhibition) to imapir phagocytosis and permit survival of microbe
c perfringens alpha toxin MOA
phospholipase
gram-positive, aerobic bacilli
listeria, bacillus, corynebacterium
gram-positive, sporulating bacteria
bacillus (aerobic), clostridium (anaerobic). both bacilli
gram-positive, anaerobic bacilli
clostrdium
gram-pos, branching filaments
nocardia (aerobic), actinomyces (anaerobic)
gram-pos, acid-fast branching filaments
nocardia
gram-pos, aerobic branching filaments
nocardia
gram-pos, anaerobic branching filaments
actinomyces
gram-pos, catalase-pos cocci
staphyloccus
gram-pos, catalase-pos, coagulase-pos cocci
s aureus
gram-pos, catalase-pos, coagulase-neg cocci
staph saprophyticus (novobiocin resistant), staph epidermidis (novobiocin sensitive)
gram-pos, catalase-pos, coagulase-neg, novobiocin-resistant cocci
saprophyticus
gram-pos, catalase-pos, coagulase-neg, novobiocin-sensitive cocci
epidermidis
gram-pos, catalase-neg cocci
strep
gram-pos, catalase-neg, alpha-hemolytic, optochin sensitive cocci
s pneumo
gram-pos, catalase-neg, alpha-hemolytic, optochin resistant cocci
s viridans
gram-pos, catalase-neg, alpha-hemolytic, bile soluble cocci
s pneumo
gram-pos, catalase-neg, alpha-hemolytic, bile-insoluble cocci
s viridans
gram-pos, catalase-neg, beta-hemolytic, bacitracin-sensitive cocci
GAS (pyogenes)
gram-pos, catalase-neg, beta-hemolytic, bacitracin-resistant cocci
GBS (agalactiae)
gram-pos, catalase-neg, gamma-hemolytic cocci that grow in 6.5% NaCl
Group D (enteroccus != enterobacter) i.e. E faecium, E faecalis
gram-pos, catalase-neg, gamma-hemolytic cocci that do NOT grow in 6.5% NaCl
nonenterococcus: s bovis
which strep are PYR positive
GAS and enterococcus
use this drug to tx tetanus muscle spasms
diazepam
C diff A and B toxins
A binds to brush border. B causes cytoskeleton disruption.
Note: these aren’t the A and B subunits that mean active and binding for other toxins
tx nocardia
sulfonamides
tx actinomyces
penicillin
gram-neg coccobacilli
h flu, bordetella pertussis, pasteurella, brucella, francisella tularensis
gram-neg diplococci
Neisseria and moraxella
gram-neg diploccoci that do NOT ferment maltose
n gonorrhoeae and moraxella
gram-neg diplococci that ferment maltose
n meningitidis
gram-neg, comma-shaped rods
(all oxidase positive): campylobacter, cholerae, h pylori
gram-neg, comma-shaped rod, grows in 42C
campy
gram-neg, comma-shaped rod, grows in alkaline media
cholerae
gram-neg, urease-pos, comma-shaped rod
h pylori
gram-neg, lactose fermenting bacilli
fast: klebsiella, e coli, enterobacter
slow: citrobacter, serratia
gram-neg non-lactose fermenting bacilli
pseudomonas (oxidase-pos), salmonella, proteus, shigella, yersinia
gram-neg non-lactose fermenting, oxidase-pos bacilli
pseudomonas (aerobic)
gram-neg non-lactose fermenting, oxidase-neg bacilli
H2S + : salmonella, proteus
H2S - : shigella, yersinia
gram-neg non-lactose fermenting, oxidase-neg, H2S pos bacilli
salmonella, proteus
gram-neg non-lactose fermenting, oxidase-neg, H2S neg bacilli
shigella, yersinia
bug causing relapsing fever
borrelia recurrentis
bug causing undulating fever
brucella
pasteurella multocida causes
cellulitis, osteomyelitis
bug causing epidemic typhus
rickettsia prowazekii. can transport human to human
bug causing endemic typhus
rickettsia typhi
bug causing rocky mountain spotted fever
rickettsia rickettsii. tick vector
lab findings in ehrlichiosis
monocytes with morulae
MEGA berry
lab findings in anaplasma
granulocytes with morulae
MEGA berry
bacteria that can mimic TB
klebsiella, nocardia
treatment for blood-borne trypanosoma brucei
suramin