Midterm 2 - Notes 3 (Part 3) Flashcards
What is the smallest phylum?
Epsilonprobacteria
What are 2 examples of epsilonproteobacteria?
- Campylobacter
2. Helicobacter
Campylobacter (4)
- Pathogenic
- One polar flagellum
- Cant grow with excess presence of O2
- Gram-negative
What is an example of campylobacter?
C. jejuni = causes food borne intestinal disease
Helicobacter (4)
- Pathogenic
- Multiple flagella
- Causes peptic ulcers and stomach cancer
- Gram-negative
What are 5 examples of nonproteobacteria gram-negative bacteria?
- Chlamydia
- Planctomycetes
- Spirochaetes
- Deinococci
What are 2 examples of chlamydiae?
- Chlamydia
- Chlamydophila
- both have no peptidoglycan in the cell walls and grow intracellularly
Chlamydia and chlamydophila (3)
- Pathogenic
- Form an elementary body that is infective
- Gram-negative
What is an example of chlamydia?
Chlamydia trachomatis = causes trachoma and urethritis
What is an example of chlamydophila?
Chlamydophila psittaci = causes respiratory psittacosis
What are the 6 steps to chlamydia?
- The bacterium’s infectious form the elementary body and attaches to a host cell
- The host cell phagocytizes the elementary body, housing it in a vacuole
- The elementary body re-organizes to form a reticulate body
- The reticulate body divides successively, producing multiple reticulate bodies
- The reticulate bodies begin to convert back into elementary bodies
- The elementary bodies are released from the host cell
Planctomycetes (3)
- Non pathogenic
- Gemmata obsuriglobus has a membrane around DNA resembling a eukaryotic nucleus
- Gram-negative
What are 2 examples of planctomycetes?
- Bacteroidetes
2. Fusobacteria
Bacteroidetes (5)
- Non pathogenic
- Anaerobic
- Found in the mouth and large intestines
- Cytophaga degrade cellulose in soil
- Gram-negative
Fusobacteria (4)
- Pathogenic
- Anaerobic
- Found in the mouth
- Causes dental abscesses
- effects the gums - Spindle shaped
- Gram-negative
What shape are spirochatetes and how do they move?
- They are coiled shape
- Move via axial filaments
What are 3 examples of spirochatetes?
- Treponema
- Borrelia
- Leptospira
Treponema (2)
- Pathogenic
2. Gram-negative
What is an example of treponema?
T. pallidum = causes syphilis
Borrelia (2)
- Pathogenic
2. Gram-negative
What is an example of borrelia?
B. burgdorferi = causes relapsing fever and lyme disease
- transmitted by ticks
Leptospira (5)
- Pathogenic
- Animal pathogens excreted in animal urine
- Can be transmitted to humans
- Has a linear genome (B31)
- 1 linear Mb O991, genes = 853
- 3 circular plasmids with 12-29 genes
- 10 small linear plasmids = 25-76 genes - Gram-negative
What are 2 examples of deinococci?
- Deinococcus radiodurons
2. Thermus aquatics
Deinococcus radiodurons (3)
- Non pathogenic
- More resistant to radiation than endospores
- Gram-negative
Thermus aquatics (4)
- Non pathogenic
- Found in a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
- Source of Taq polymerase
- Gram-negative
What are 2 examples of gram positive bacteria?
- Firmicutes
2. Actinobacteria
What is the major difference between firmicutes and actinobacteria?
- Firmicutes have low G and C ratios
- Actinobacteria have high G and C ratios
What are 6 examples of firmicutes?
- Clostridiales
- Epulopiscium
- Bacillales
- Staphylococcus
- Lactrobacillales
- Mycoplasmatales
What are 5 example of clostridiales?
- Clostridium
- C. tetani
- C. botulinum
- C. perfringens
- C. difficile
- all disease causing bacteria
Clostridium (4)
- Pathogenic
- Obligate anaerobes
- Gram-positive
What is the largest bacteria known?
Epulopiscium
Epulopiscium (5)
- Non pathogenic
- Can be seen with an unaided eye
- Daughter cells form within the parent
- no binary fission - Spore forming bacteria
- Gram-positive
What are 4 examples of bacillales?
- Bacillus
- B. anthracis = causes anthrax
- B. thuringiensis = is an insect pathogen
- B. cereus = causes food poisoning
Bacillus (4)
- Pathogenic
- Leads to necrosis
- Endospore-producing rods
- Gram-positive
Staphylococcus (3)
- Pathogenic
- Grape like clusters
- Gram-positive
What is an example of staphlococcus?
S. aureus - causes wound infection
- is often antibiotic resistant
- produces enterotoxin
Enterotoxin
A toxin produced in or affecting the intestines
Lactobacillates (4)
- Non pathogenic
- Aerotolerant anaerobes
- produces lactic acid from simple carbohydrates - Lactobacillus colonize the body and are used commercially in food production
- Gram-positive
What are 3 examples of lactobacillates?
- Streptococcus
- Enterococcus
- Listeria
Streptococcus (5)
- Pathogenic
- Spherical in chains
- Produce enzymes that destroy tissues
- Creates respiratory infections
- lives on mucus in the mouth, GT tract, etc - Gram-positive
What is an example of beta-hemolytic streptococci?
S. pyogenes
What are 2 examples of non-beta-hemolytic streptococci?
- S. pneumoniae
- S. mutans
- both cause dental caries
Enterococcus (3)
- Pathogenic
- Found in the intestinal track
- hospital contaminants - Gram-positive
What are 3 examples of enterococcus?
- E. faecalis
- E. faecium
- both infect surgical wounds and the urinary track
Listeria (2)
- Pathogenic
2. Gram-positive
What is an example of listeria?
L. monocytogenes = contaminates food
Mycoplasmatales (3)
- Pathogenic
- Lack of cell wall
- peomorphic - Gram-positive
What is an example of mycoplasmatales?
M. pneumoniae = causes mild pneumonia
What are 3 E. coli success
- Ability to adhere to surfaces
- Ability to rapidly use nutrients
- Ability to tolerate, resist or destroy the immune defences of the hosts
- allowing them to become pathogenic
Actinobacteria (4)
- High G and C
- Gram-positive
- Often pleomorphic
- branching filaments - Often common inhabitants in soil
What are 8 examples of actinobacteria?
- Mycobacterium
- Corynebacterium
- Propionibacterium
- Gardneralla
- Frankia
- Streptomyces
- Actinomyces
- Nocardia
Mycobacterium (4)
- Pathogenic
- Outer most layer of mycolic acids that is waxy and water resistant
- Often slow growing
- Gram-positive
What are 2 examples of mycobacterium?
- M. tuberculosis = causes tuberculosis
- M. leprae = causes leprosy
- effects nose and upper respiratory track
Corynebacterium (2)
- Pathogenic
2. Gram-positive
What is an example of corynebacterium?
C. diptheriae = causes diphtheria
- diarrhea
Propionibacterium (3)
- Pathogenic
- Forms propionic acid
- Gram-positive
What is an example of propionibacterium?
P. acnes = causes acne
Gardneralla (2)
- Pathogenic
2. Gram-positive
What is an example of gardneralla?
G. vaginalis = causes vaginitis
- inflammatory of the vagina
Frankia (3)
- Non pathogenic
- Forms N-flxing nodules on tree roots
- Gram-positive
Streptomyces (5)
- Non pathogenic
- Grows relatively slow
- Isolated form soil
- Produces most antibiotics
- Gram-positive
Actinomyces (3)
- Pathogenic
- Forms filaments in the mouth and throat
- destroys tissue s - Gram-positive
Nocardia (3)
- Pathogenic
- Forming fragmenting filaments
- acid fast - Gram-positive
What is an example of nocardia?
N. asteroides = causes pulmonary infections in humans
What kind of shape do archea typically have?
an unusual shape
What do archea not have?
Pathogens
What do archea contain?
Different types of membranes and fatty acids
What kind of linkage does archea have?
Ether linkage
What do archea lack?
Peptidoglycan
What are 2 habitats for archea?
- Extremophiles
2. Methanogens
What are 2 examples of etremophiles?
- Halophiles
2. Thermophils
Halophils
Required salt concentration > 25%
Thermophiles
Required growth temperature at > 80%
Methanogens
Anaerobic and produce methane