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Other Bacteria Flashcards

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DOC Tularemia

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Streptomycin

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Organisms found in unpasteurized milk (2)

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Listeria monocytogenes

Brucellosis abortus

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Bipolar safety pin staining

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Yersinia pestis

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Most virulent bacteria

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Yersinia pestis

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4
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Buttery colonies with musty odor

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Pasteurella multocida

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Lowenstein-Jensen medium

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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6
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Assay used to detect drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Luciferase

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Ziehl-Neelsen or Kinyoun

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Most important virulence factor in mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

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Cord factor: prevents leukocyte migration

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Radiologically detectable calcification in mycobacterium tuberculosis

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Ranke’s complex

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10
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Sub pleural granuloma + associated lymph node

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Ghon’s complex

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Usually seen in the apices with reactivation tuberculosis

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Simon’s focus

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12
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Most common extra pulmonary TB

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Scrofula (TB lymphadenitis)

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13
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Appearance of CSF in TB meningitis

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Xantochromic

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14
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Uses of BCG vaccination (2)

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TB prevention

Adjunct treatment for bladder cancer

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Signal of acute flare-up of lepromatous leprosy

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Erythema nodosum leprosum

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16
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Treatment of Tuberculoloid leprosy

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Dapsone (SE: methemoglobinemia)

Rifampin

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Treatment of lepromatous leprosy

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Dapsone
Rifampin
Clofazimine (SE: bronze discoloration)

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18
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Treatment of erythema nodosum leprosum

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Thalidomide

SE: Phocomelia

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Hard, non tender swelling with sinus tracts draining sulfur granules

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Actinomycosis (due to Actinomyces israelii)

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Fite-faraco stain

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Nocardia asteroides

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Orange colonies

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Nocardia asteroides

Lung & brain abscesses

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22
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Antibiotics for actinomycetes

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S-N-A-P

Sulfa for Nocardia
Actinomyces (israelii) use penicillin

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23
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Smallest free living organisms

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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24
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Eaton’s medium

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Facilitates attachment of Mycoplasma pneumoniae to cells

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Toll-like receptor 2 protein (P1 adhesin)

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Walking pneumonia 
(Most common type of atypical pneumonia)
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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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27
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Most common infectious cause of Steven-Johnson syndrome

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Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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DOC Mycoplasma pneumoniae

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Erythromycin or azithromycin

do NOT use penicillins or cephalosporins: inactive due to lack of cell wall

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Painful chancroid

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H ducreyi

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Painless chancre

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Treponema pallidum (primary syphillis)

31
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Gummas

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Tertiary syphillis

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Hutchinson triad (3)

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Hutchinson teeth, deafness, keratitis

Seen in congenital syphillis

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Confirmatory test for secondary/tertiary syphillis

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FTA-ABS (Fluorescent Treponemal Antibody-Absorption)

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Influenza-like symptoms after receiving penicillin due to lysis of treponemes and Leptospira

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Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction

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DOC Borrelia burgdorferi

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Doxycycline

36
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Largest medically important bacteria

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Borrelia burgdorferi

37
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Giemsa or Wright stain (2)

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B burgdorferi

Rickettsia

38
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Diseases due to Ixodes scapularis (deer ticks)

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Borrelia burgdorferi

Babesia microtti

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Pathognomonic sign of Lyme disease

Stage 1 of Lyme disease

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Erythema chronicum migrans

40
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Acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans

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Stage 3 of Lyme disease

41
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Shepherds crook

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Leptospira interrogans

42
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Medium used for Leptospira interrogans

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Ellinghausen-McCullough-Johnson-Harris (EMJH) medium or Fletcher’s medium

43
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Hallmark lesion of Leptospira interrogans

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Vasculitis

44
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Gold standard test for Leptospira interrogans

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Leptospire microscopic agglutination test (lepto MAT)

45
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Snow flake lesion on CXR

A 
Leptospira interrogans 
(pulmonary involvement during the immune leptospiruric phase)
46
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Triad of Weil syndrome

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Jaundice, bleeding, uremia

47
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Most severe form of leptospirosis

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Weil Syndrome

48
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Chemoprophylaxis used for Leptospirosis

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Doxycycline

49
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2 forms of Chlamidya trachomatis

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Elementary body (inactive, infectious, extracellular) 
Reticulate body (active, intracellular)
50
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Most common STD overall

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Chlamidya trachomatis

51
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Most common infectious cause of blindness

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Trachoma

Chlamidya trachomatis types A-C

52
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Halberstadter-prowazek inclusions

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Chlamidya trachomatis

Round to oval cytoplasmic inclusion bodies near the nuclei of conjunctival epithelial cells

53
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Associated with Reiters syndrome

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Chlamidya trachomatis

54
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What disease is associated with Chlamidya pneumoniae? (2)

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Atypical pneumonia

Atherosclerosis

55
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Bird fancier’s disease

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Psittacosis

Chlamidya psittaci

56
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DOC Chlamidya STD

A

Azithromycin

57
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DOC Chlamidya LGV

A

Doxycycline

58
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DOC Psittacosis

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Azithromycin

59
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DOC for ALL Rickettsial infections

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Doxycycline

60
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Test for detection of Rickettsiae

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Weil-Felix test/reaction

EXCEPT Coxiella burnetti

61
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Weil-Felix reaction utilizes antigens of of strains from this pathogen

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Proteus vulgaris

62
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Only Rickettsial disease that presents with Escher

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Rickettsia okari (rickettsial pox) from mites (chiggers)

63
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Type of Rickettsial disease which presents with NO rash and has the highest mortality rate. It also has NO vector.

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Coxiella burnetti (Q fever)

64
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Cat scratch disease

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Bartonella henselae

65
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Cause of bacterial vaginosis

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Gardinerella vaginalis

66
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Clue cells

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Bacterial vaginosis

67
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Chocolate agar with factor X (heme)

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Haemophilus ducreyi

68
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Pseudoappendicitis

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Yersinia enterocolitica

69
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Bipolar densities that look like closed safety pins

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Donovan bodies

Seen in Klebsiella granulomatis

70
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Another term for Granuloma inguinale

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Donovanosis

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