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Obligate aerobes

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Nosy and nagging pests must breathe lots of oxygen (nocardia, neisseria, pseudomonas, mycobacteria, bordatella/brucella/B. Cereus, legionella)

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Bacteria not seen in gram stain

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These Rascals may microscopically lack color (treponema, rickettsia, myobacteria, mycoplasma, legionella, chlamydia)

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Obligate anaerobes

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Abc (actinomyces, bacteroides, clostridium)

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Bacteria with IgA protease

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SHiNe My Gong (streptococcus pneumoniae, heamophilus influenzae, neisseria meningitidis, neiseeria gonorrhea)

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Endtoxin

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eNdotoxin is an intergal part of gram Negative cells

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DiGeorge Syndrome

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CATCH 22(cardiac defect-tof, abnormal facies, thymic aplasia, cleft palate, hypocalcemia, 22q11.2 chromosomal deletion)

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Wiskott aldrich syndrome

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How do you TIE a WASP(thrombocytopenia, infections, eczema, WASP mutation)

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Ataxia-Telangiectasia

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ATI(ataxia, telangiectasia, IgA deficiency)

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Novobiocin sensitivity

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NO StRES (novobiocin, saprophyticus resistant, epidermidis sensitive)

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Bacitracin sensitivity

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B-BRAS (bacitracin, group B strep resistant, group A strep sensitive)

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Jones criteria

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PECS(polyarthritis, erythema marginatum, chorea, carditis, subcutaneous nodules)

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Optochin sensitivity

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OVERPASS(optochin, viridans resistant, pneumniae senstive)

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Quelling reaction

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Capsular SWELLUNG

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Encapsulated Bacteria

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Some Killers Have Pretty Nice and Shiny Bodies (streptococcus pneumonia, haemophilus influenzae, pseudomonas aeruginosa, neisseria meningitidis, salmonella typhi, B group streptococci)

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Bile Optochin Resistance

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Viridians streptococci live in the mouth because they are not afraid of the chin (op to chin resistant)

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Bacillus cereus

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Food poisoning from reheated fried rice? Be serious!

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Clostridium

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Clostridium TETani=TETanic paralysis, clostridium BOTulinum= BOTulinum from bad BOTtles of food, Clostridium PERFringens= PERForates a gangrenous leg (gas gangrene), Clostridium Difficile = DIarrhea

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Diphtheria

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ABCDEFG (ADP- ribosylation, beta-prophage, corynebacterium, diptheriae, elongation factor 2, granules-metachromatic)

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Beta prophage

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Abcde (shig A like toxin (EHEC), botulinum toxin, cholera toxin, diptheria toxin, erythrogenic toxin- s. Pyogenes)

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Neisseria

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neisseria MeninaGitidis, ferments Maltose and Glucose, neisseria GOnorrhoeae, ferments Glucose Only

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HACEK

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Nagha-HACEK ng lagim sa mga may sakit sa puso (haemophilus aphrophilus, actinobacilus actinomycetemcomitans, cardiobacterium hominis, eikenella, corrodens, kingella kingae)

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Harmophilus influenzae causes: epiglottitis, meningitis, otitis media, pneumonia

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haEMOPhilus influenzae

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Facultative intracellular bacteria

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Some Bugs May Live FacultativeLY (salmonella, brucella, mycobacterium, listeria, francisella, legionella, yersinia)

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Entetobacteriaceae

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Think MESSY SPECK (morganella, escherichia, shigella, salmonella, yersinia, serratia, proteus, enterobacter, citrobacter, klebsiella)

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Enterobacteria characteristics

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Enterobacteria drink COFFEe (capsular antigen-K, O antigen, Flagellar antigen-H, Ferments glucose, Enterobacteriaceae)

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Neonatal meningitis

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BEL(B group streptococci- s agalactiae, E.coli, listeria-monocytogenes)

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Shigella transmission

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4Fs (Food, Fingers, Feces, Flies)

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Zoonoses

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Bugs From Your Pets (Brucella abortus, Francisella tularensis, Yersinia pestis, Pasturella multcocida)

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Leprosy

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LEpromatous leprosy is LEthal

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Antibiotics for actinomyces

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SNAP(sulfa for Nocardia, for Actinomyces, use Penicillin)

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False Positive VDRL results

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VDRL (viruses- EBV, Hepatitis), drugs- marijuana, Rheumatic fever, Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Leprosy)

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FTA-ABS

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Find The Antibody- Absolutely

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Lyme disease

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BAKE a Key LYME pie(Bell’s Palsy, arthritis, kardiac block, erythema chronicum, migrans)

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Obligate Intracellular Bacteria

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Stay inside when it is Really Cold (Ricketssia, Chlamydia)

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Forms of Chlamydia

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Elementary body= enfectious, enters cell via endocytosis; Reticulate body= replicates in cell by fission

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Trachoma types

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ABC (africa, blindness, chronic infection)

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Sporotrichosis

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Plant a rose in the POT(sporotrichisis may be treated with potassium iodide)

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Histoplasma

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Hides within macrophages

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Aspergillus

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Think A! (Acute angles in aspergillus)

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Naked viruses

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naked CPR and PAPP smear(calici, picorna, reo, parvo, adeno, papilloma, polyoma)

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Segmented genome

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BOAR (bunyaviruses, orthomyxoviruses-influenza, arenaviruses, reoviruses)

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Negative strand RNA viruses

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Always Bring Polymerase or Fail Replication (arenaviruses, bunyaviruses, paramyxoviruses, orthimyxoviruses, filoviruses, rhabdoviruses)

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Sall Polio Vaccine

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salK polio vaccine= Killed

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Killed vaccines

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RIP Always(rabies, influenza, polio-stalk’s, hepatitis A)

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DNA viruses

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DNA viruses are HHAPPPy viruses(hepadna, herpes, adeno, pox,parvo, polyoma, papilloma)

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Herpes viruses

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Get HERPES on a CHEVrolet(CMV, HSV, EBV, VZV)

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Hepatitides

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A- asymptomatic, B- blood borne, C- chronic, cirrhosis, carcinom, carriers, E-enteric, expectant mothers, epidemics ; the VOWELS (A and E) hit your BOWELS

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Picornaviridae

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PERCHed on a PIC(peak) (poliovirus, echovirus, rhinovirus, coxsackievirus, Hepatitis A virus, PICornaviridae)

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Cardinal manifestations of Measles

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3 Cs (cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, koplik spots)

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Mumps

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Mumps make your parotids and testes as big as POM- poms(parotitis, orchitis, meningitis(aseptic))

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Botulism

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Diplopia, dysphonia, dysarthria, dysphagis- 4Ds

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