Mnemonics Flashcards
Obligate aerobes
Nosy and nagging pests must breathe lots of oxygen (nocardia, neisseria, pseudomonas, mycobacteria, bordatella/brucella/B. Cereus, legionella)
Bacteria not seen in gram stain
These Rascals may microscopically lack color (treponema, rickettsia, myobacteria, mycoplasma, legionella, chlamydia)
Obligate anaerobes
Abc (actinomyces, bacteroides, clostridium)
Bacteria with IgA protease
SHiNe My Gong (streptococcus pneumoniae, heamophilus influenzae, neisseria meningitidis, neiseeria gonorrhea)
Endtoxin
eNdotoxin is an intergal part of gram Negative cells
DiGeorge Syndrome
CATCH 22(cardiac defect-tof, abnormal facies, thymic aplasia, cleft palate, hypocalcemia, 22q11.2 chromosomal deletion)
Wiskott aldrich syndrome
How do you TIE a WASP(thrombocytopenia, infections, eczema, WASP mutation)
Ataxia-Telangiectasia
ATI(ataxia, telangiectasia, IgA deficiency)
Novobiocin sensitivity
NO StRES (novobiocin, saprophyticus resistant, epidermidis sensitive)
Bacitracin sensitivity
B-BRAS (bacitracin, group B strep resistant, group A strep sensitive)
Jones criteria
PECS(polyarthritis, erythema marginatum, chorea, carditis, subcutaneous nodules)
Optochin sensitivity
OVERPASS(optochin, viridans resistant, pneumniae senstive)
Quelling reaction
Capsular SWELLUNG
Encapsulated Bacteria
Some Killers Have Pretty Nice and Shiny Bodies (streptococcus pneumonia, haemophilus influenzae, pseudomonas aeruginosa, neisseria meningitidis, salmonella typhi, B group streptococci)
Bile Optochin Resistance
Viridians streptococci live in the mouth because they are not afraid of the chin (op to chin resistant)
Bacillus cereus
Food poisoning from reheated fried rice? Be serious!
Clostridium
Clostridium TETani=TETanic paralysis, clostridium BOTulinum= BOTulinum from bad BOTtles of food, Clostridium PERFringens= PERForates a gangrenous leg (gas gangrene), Clostridium Difficile = DIarrhea
Diphtheria
ABCDEFG (ADP- ribosylation, beta-prophage, corynebacterium, diptheriae, elongation factor 2, granules-metachromatic)
Beta prophage
Abcde (shig A like toxin (EHEC), botulinum toxin, cholera toxin, diptheria toxin, erythrogenic toxin- s. Pyogenes)
Neisseria
neisseria MeninaGitidis, ferments Maltose and Glucose, neisseria GOnorrhoeae, ferments Glucose Only