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Mycobacterium & NTM 🫁 Flashcards

Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacteria

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aka Koch’s bacillus

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Major virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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cord factor

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Mycobac generation time?

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> 12hrs - grows slowly bc of their hydrophobic cell surface

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Mycobac pH requirement on (culture media)

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6.5-6.8

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2 GROUPS OF MYCOBACTERIA:

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  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC)
  • Nontuberculosis mycobacteria (NTM, MOTT)
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis major virulence factor

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cord factor

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Which of the following is (are) fluorescent stain(s) used in the detection of the mycobacteria?

a. Auramine-rhodamine
b. Kinyoun’s
c. Ziehl-Neelsen
d. Both b and c

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Auramine-rhodamine

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A nonpigmented mycobacterium is isolated that reduces nitrate
to nitrite and is niacin-positive. You should suspect:

a. M. kansasii
b. M. xenopi
c. M. tuberculosis
d. M. avium complex

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c. M. tuberculosis

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The causative agent of Hansen disease:

a. Is highly contagious
b. Readily grows on most mycobacterial media
c. Grows best at core body temperature (37°C)
d. None of the above

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d. None of the above

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The skin test for tuberculosis:

a. Detects antibodies to mycobacterial antigens
b. Detects a cell-mediated immune response to mycobacterial
antigens
c. Uses the bacillus of Calmette-Guérin strain as the antigen
source
d. Both a and b

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b. Detects a cell-mediated immune response to mycobacterial
antigens

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what are the MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS COMPLEX ??

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(TBACM)

  1. Mycobacterium tuberculosis
  2. Mycobacterium bovis
  3. Mycobacterium africanum
  4. Mycobacterium canetti
  5. Mycobacterium microti
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It has the longest replication time among the
mycobacteria (20-22 hours)

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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ID:

Culture: slow growing, buff in color raised and
dry – “cauliflower colonies”, rough colonies
exhibit “cording”
(curved strands of bacilli)

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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ID:

Biochemical tests:
o** (+)** niacin and nitrate reduction😌
o growth on T2H
o (-) 68°C catalase test 😉
o It is inhibited by nitroimidazopyran (NAP)

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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✍️Macrophage destroys intracellular mycobacteria

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✍️Macrophage destroys intracellular mycobacteria

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Part 1/2

✍️MTB does not produce toxin.

The pathologic features of TB are the result of hypersensitivity reaction to mycobacterial antigen.

Which causes :
⬇️ Antigen
⬆️ Hypersensitivity

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✅Granuloma
✅Calcification - as granuloma healing occurs - with scar formation as a reminder of the past infection.

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Part 2/2 (MTB)

⬆️ Antigen
⬆️ Hypersensitivity reaction:

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✅Tissue necrosis – from enzymes of degenerating macrophages
✅No granuloma formation
✅ Necrosis – caseous material at the primary lesion

✍️After healing, the bacilli are not totally eradicated and will stay in granulomas for months or
years

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✍️Overall, children account for most cases of miliary TB, but it is also a common form of
TB in HIV-infected individuals

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✍️ Miliary TB:
seeding of many organs outside pulmonary tree

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✅It is also known as tuberculosis spondylitis or skeletal TB of the spine

✅It is a grave form of tuberculosis caused by the invasion of M. tuberculosis into the
spinal vertebrae

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Pott’s disease

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💊Anti-TB drugs
Primary drugs:

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RIPES

Rifampin (Rifampicin)
Isoniazid
Pyrazinamide
Ethambutol
Streptomycin

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💉Anti-TB drugs
Secondary drugs:

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✅ Injectable drugs: Amikacin, Capreomycin, Kanamycin

✅Fluoroquinolones: Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin, Levofloxacin, Moxifloxacin

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How long is the TB treatment process?

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(6 months) since slow grower…

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✍️MULTIDRUG RESISTANT MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS (MDR-TB)

Happens when :

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✅Happens if the patient is on multidrug therapy and fails to complete the course of medication

✅Acquired by spontaneous mutation as a result of inappropriate use of antimicrobial drugs and
lack of patient compliance

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Primary MDR-TB is resistant to?

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Rifampin and Isoniazid

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Extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) is resistant to?

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Resistance to Rifampin and Isoniazid + Fluoroquinolones + one of the injectable
drugs

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What mycobacterium spp. is the TB vaccine derived from?

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Mycobacterium bovis

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It produces TB in cattle, dogs, cats, swine, parrots, and humans

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Mycobacterium bovis

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Mycobacterium bovis mode of transmission

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✅ingestion of contaminated milk from infected cows

✅exposure to infected animals and their carcasses

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resembles “water droplets” in Middlebrook media

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Mycobacterium bovis

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ID

Biochemical tests:
o (-) niacin and nitrate reduction🦠
o No growth in the presence of T2H
o (-) 68°C catalase test

A

Mycobacterium bovis

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Associates with human cases of TB in tropical Africa

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Mycobacterium africanum

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✅Smooth strain of M. tuberculosis and grows more rapidly (6 days)

✅First human isolate was from a cervical lymph node and from AIDS patient with mesenteric
tuberculosis

✅Biochemical test: (+) niacin and reduced nitrate to nitrite

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Mycobacterium canetti

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✅ Isolated from TB patients in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals

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Mycobacterium microti

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also known as MOTT?

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NONTUBERCULOSIS MYCOBACTERIA (NTM)

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✅Chronic pulmonary disease resembling TB is the usual clinical presentation

✅Found in soil and water

✅Opportunistic pathogens

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NONTUBERCULOSIS MYCOBACTERIA (NTM) AKA MOTT

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☀️💡Photochromogen color

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Nonpigmented (dark)
Yellow pigment (light)

M. kansasii
M. asiaticum
M. marinum
M. simiae

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🌃☀️Scotochromogen color

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Yellow to orange pigment in dark,,

, but will intensify when exposed to constant light source .

M. gordonae
M. szulgai
M. scrofulaceum
M. flavescens
M. xenopi

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✍️Non-photochromogen spp.

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M. avium complex
M. ulcerans
M. terrae complex
M. gastri
M. haemophilum

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✍️Rapid Growers spp. - Pigment variable

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M. fortuitum
M. chelonae
M. smegmatis
M. phlei
M. abscecuss
M. mucogenicum

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✍️Group 1-2-3 are slow growers!!!

Group 4- rapid growers - sila smegmatis etc.

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Group I – Photochromogen
Group II – Scotochromogen
Group III – Non-photochromogen

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  1. aka “Wood pigeon bacilli”
  2. rapid grower or slow grower?
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  1. M. avium subsp. SILVATICUM
  2. slow grower
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✅Causative agent of Johne’s disease (inflammatory bowel disease)

✅Also isolated from bowel mucosa of patients with Crohn’s disease

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Mycobacterium subsp. paratuberculosis

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Also known as the “Yellow bacilli”

🔬Microscopy: long rods with distinct cross-banding
———–“Shepherd’s crook”————–

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Mycobacterium kansasii
(Photochromogenic colonies)

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AKA “Buruli ulcer” - painless nodule under the skin after previous trauma that does not heal

A

Mycobacterium ulcerans

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  • Previously known as M. aquae, also known as:
    ——- “Tap water bacillus”——-
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Mycobacterium gordonae

-CONTAMINATES TAP WATER

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✅can be either non-photochromogen or scotochromogen ‼️

✅Recovered from hot and cold-water taps, especially water storage tanks of hospitals, and from
birds

✅First isolated from African toad

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Mycobacterium xenopi

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LEPROSY / HANSEN DISEASE causative agent

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Mycobacterium leprae

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✅cause of crippling of the hand
✅ERYTHEMA NODOSUM LEPROSUM

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LEPROSY / HANSEN DISEASE
by: M. leprae

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🦠Bacteria ID:

✅Aerobic, acid-fast rods
✅CANNOT be cultured in vitro. Can only be cultured in certain animals
:
-🐁Mouse footpad
- Armadillo
- 🙈Monkeys

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Mycobacterium leprae

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REMEMBER!

✍️Mycobacterium leprae

✅Leprosy
✅Hansen disease
✅Armadillos
✅Erythema nodusum leprosum

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leprae

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✍️Calcified granulomas are generally considered a sign of past or latent TB infection, as they indicate that the body has walled off the active infection and the ** disease is no longer active or contagious. **

(RANKE’S COMPLEX)

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✍️Calcified granulomas are generally considered a sign of past or latent TB infection, as they indicate that the body has walled off the active infection and the disease is no longer active or contagious.

(RANKE’S COMPLEX)

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in MTB why is Cord factor the mot important virulence factor?

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✅inhibits neutrophil migration and damages mitochondria

✅may be responsible for release of tumor necrosis factor ➡️ “cachexia”

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✍️Specimens for Mycobact

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✅sputum,
✅gastric lavage,
✅urine
✅bronchoscopy specimens,
✅fecal specimens

✅body fluids:
(pleural, pericardial, peritoneal, synovial, CSF), blood, wound, skin lesion aspirates, or tissue

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term used - removal of normal microbiota or other bacterial contaminants from sputum
specimen

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Decontamination

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The term that involves splitting of the sulfide bonds in mucin that may trap mycobacteria, liquefying mucus of sputum

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Digestion

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✍️* After decontamination, mycobacteria are concentrated by centrifugation
✍️* Over treatment with decontamination agents may result in fewer positive cultures
✍️* Failure to isolate mycobacteria from patient with signs and symptoms of disease may indicate
overtreatment of decontamination

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—SPECIMEN COLLECTION AND HANDLING—-

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The most common decontamination agent on sputum - Serves as both a decontaminant and digestant

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  • 2-4% NaOH

✍️* N-Acetyl-L-Cysteine and NaOH
-Both a decontaminant and a
digestant agent
-NALC is also known as
dithiothreitol – a digestion agent

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stain more sensitive than carbol fuchsin

🔬(+) result: bright yellow-orange bacilli against a dark
background

A

Auramine-Rhodamine Flurochrome

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✍️INTERPRETATION OF STAINING RESULTS:✍️

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✅ View a minimum of 300 fields before a slide is called negative.

✅ AFB can be transferred from one slide to another via immersion oil - stained bacilli can float off the slide and can contribute to a false-positive of the next slide.

✅ If at least 2 of the first 3 sputum direct smears are positive, then 3 specimens are often sufficient to
confirm diagnosis.

✅ If none or only 1 of the first 3 sputum smear is positive, additional specimens are needed for culture confirmation.

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AKA: Mantoux Test

✅It detects a patient’s cell-mediated immune response to the bacterial antigens in a type IV
hypersensitivity reaction

✅This test does not differentiate active disease from infection

✅A reactive (+) result indicates past environmental exposure to M. tuberculosis or a previous
tuberculosis vaccination

✅Presence of hard, dense, raised wheal
(induration) that is 10 mm or larger after 48 hours

A

TUBERCULIN SKIN TEST
-Uses Tuberculin purified protein derivative (PPD)

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most commonly used biochemical test to identify MTB

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Niacin Accumulation (Nicotinic acid) Test

-95% of M. tuberculosis isolates produce free niacin

✅(+) result: Yellow – indicates accumulation of free niacin

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  • Detects the production of nitroreductase, which converts nitrate to nitrite
A

Nitrate Reduction Test

(+) result: Red color forms

✅Positive: M. tuberculosis, M. kansasii, M. szulgai, M. fortuitum

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Q

Heat-stable catalase is a catalase that is
resistant to heat at ________? cooled
and reacted with hydrogen peroxide

✅ (+) result: column of bubbles with a height of
more than ⬆️45 mm

A

68°C for 20 minutes

Negative:
o M. tuberculosis complex
o M. gastri
o M. haemophilum
o M. marinum

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Used to differentiate between the species of non-photochromogens and scotochromogens

A

Tween 80 Hydrolysis

✅(+) result: Pink color due to unbound neutral red (from
amber color to pink)

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  • It detects the ability of mycobacteria to convert ferric ammonium
    citrate to an iron oxide

Useful in distinguishing M. chelonae from other rapid growing
NTM

A

Iron Uptake

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✍️Growth on MacConkey Agar without Crystal Violet

*✅M. fortuitum-chelonae complex can grow on MacConkey agar without crystal viole

A
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✅Most rapid test for identification of common mycobacterial species

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Nucleic Acid Hybridization Test

✅For M. tuberculosis complex, M. avium complex, M. intracellulare, M. kansasii, M. gordonae

✅ Required inoculum: single colony (1 mm diameter)

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  • Designed to detect M. tuberculosis complex bacilli directly from the patient
    specimens
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Direct Nucleic Acid Amplification Test

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BACTE ID

*✅ It invades peripheral nerve and skin cells, and becomes obligately intracellular parasite

*✅ Mostly found in Schwann cells that surround peripheral nerve axons and in mononuclear
phagocytes

*✅🔬Microscopy: rod shape exhibiting “cigar pocket/pocket fence” arrangement

A

Mycobacterium leprae

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appears as “cigar pocket/pocket fence” arrangement

A

Mycobacterium leprae

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✍️HANSEN’S DISEASE/LEPROSY
Transmission:

✅ inhalation
✅ with infected skin
✅ arthropod bite
✅ through breast milk
✅ vertical transmission

A

🐋

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  • 2 Forms of Leprosy?
A
  1. Tuberculoid Leprosy - localized
    (+) Lepromin test
  2. Lepromatous Leprosy - systemic
    * (-) Lepromin test

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