Non Fermenter Bacteria Flashcards
What mode of nutrition do pseudomonas??
Saprophytic
What are nosocomical infections??
Hospital acquired infections
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
It’s mostly responsible for nosocomical infections
Which bacteria is associated with blood transfusion?
P. Florescens
Pyocyanin is produced by just what??
P. Aeruginosa
Temp range of pseudomonas
5-45°C
Which penicillin is used in treatment of pseudomonas
Mezlocilin, ticacilin, pipracilin
Which carbapenem is used to treat pseudomonas
Imipenem, meropenem
Which cephalosporin is used to treat pseudomonas
Ceftazidime, cefepime, cefoperazome
Which monobactum is used to treat pseudomonas
Aztreonem
Which quinolones is used to treat pseudomonas
Ciprofloxacin, levofloxaxin
Which aminoglycoside is used to treat pseudomonas
Gentamycin, tabramycin
Which polymyxin is used to treat pseudomonas
Polymyxin b, colistin
Which antibiotics have many pseudomonas grown resistant to?
Aminoglycoside and quinolones
Which media brings out the pseudomonas pigment more
King’s media
In blood agar, pseudomonas
Forms beta haemolysis
Other opportunistic spp. Of pseudomonas are
P. putida, florescens and stutzeri
Process of infection in pseudomonas can be divided into three stages which are??
-Attachment or colonisation
-Local invasion
-Dissemination or systemic dx
Ethchytema gangrenosa occurs more in pts with?
Neutropenia
Treatment of acentobacter
-It’s resistant to a shit load of antibiotics
-Empirical treatment is by combination of cephalosporin or carbapenem with a floroquinolone or aminoglycoside
-Antibiotics succeptibility testing is carried out
-involve reference lab as appropriate
Cephalosporin that can’t be used to treat pseudomonas
Ceftriaxone, cefotaxime, cefuroxime
What causes melioidisis
B. Pesudomaelli
Antibiotics used in treatment of melioidisis
Tetracycline, sulphonamides, chloramphenicol
Virulence factors for burkholderia
Invasion, elastase, biofilm
