Mnemonics

Question 0

Obligate aerobes

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Bacteria not seen in gram stain

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Obligate anaerobes

Answer 2

Abc (actinomyces, bacteroides, clostridium)

Question 3

Bacteria with IgA protease

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Endtoxin

Answer 4

eNdotoxin is an intergal part of gram Negative cells

Question 5

DiGeorge Syndrome

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Wiskott aldrich syndrome

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Ataxia-Telangiectasia

Answer 7

ATI(ataxia, telangiectasia, IgA deficiency)

Question 8

Novobiocin sensitivity

Answer 8

NO StRES (novobiocin, saprophyticus resistant, epidermidis sensitive)

Question 9

Bacitracin sensitivity

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Jones criteria

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Optochin sensitivity

Answer 11

OVERPASS(optochin, viridans resistant, pneumniae senstive)

Question 12

Quelling reaction

Answer 12

Capsular SWELLUNG

Question 13

Encapsulated Bacteria

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Bile Optochin Resistance

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Bacillus cereus

Answer 15

Food poisoning from reheated fried rice? Be serious!

Question 16

Clostridium

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Diphtheria

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Beta prophage

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Neisseria

Answer 19

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

Question 20

HACEK

Answer 20

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

Question 21

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

Answer 21

haEMOPhilus influenzae

Question 22

Facultative intracellular bacteria

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Entetobacteriaceae

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Enterobacteria characteristics

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Neonatal meningitis

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Shigella transmission

Answer 26

4Fs (Food, Fingers, Feces, Flies)

Question 27

Zoonoses

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Leprosy

Answer 28

LEpromatous leprosy is LEthal

Question 29

Antibiotics for actinomyces

Answer 29

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

Question 30

False Positive VDRL results

Answer 30

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

Question 31

FTA-ABS

Answer 31

Find The Antibody- Absolutely

Question 32

Lyme disease

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Obligate Intracellular Bacteria

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Forms of Chlamydia

Answer 34

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

Question 35

Trachoma types

Answer 35

ABC (africa, blindness, chronic infection)

Question 36

Sporotrichosis

Answer 36

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

Question 37

Histoplasma

Answer 37

Hides within macrophages

Question 38

Aspergillus

Answer 38

Think A! (Acute angles in aspergillus)

Question 39

Naked viruses

Answer 39

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

Question 40

Segmented genome

Answer 40

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

Question 41

Negative strand RNA viruses

Answer 41

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

Question 42

Sall Polio Vaccine

Answer 42

salK polio vaccine= Killed

Question 43

Killed vaccines

Answer 43

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

Question 44

DNA viruses

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Herpes viruses

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Hepatitides

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Picornaviridae

Answer 47

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

Question 48

Cardinal manifestations of Measles

Answer 48

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

Question 49

Mumps

Answer 49

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

Question 50

Botulism

Answer 50

Diplopia, dysphonia, dysarthria, dysphagis- 4Ds