Other Bacteria Flashcards
Tularemia
Fancisella tularensis
From unpasteurized dairy product
Brucella abortus
Bruce the cow
Bubonic. Pneumonic, septicemic plague
Rodents
Buboes
Yersinia pestis
Cat bite
Pasteurella multocida
Antipseudomonals
Pen:piperacillin
Carbapenem: Imepenem, Meropenem, doripenem
Monobactam: aztreonam
Ceph: Ceftazidime, cifipime
Aminoglycosides: gentamicin, Amikacin, Tobramycin
Quinolone: cipro, Levo, gati, moxi
Bioluminescence of fireflies, used for drug resistance TB
Luciferase assay
Most important virulence factor in PTB
prevents leukocyte migration
Cord factor
Radiologicaly detectable calcification on PTB
Ranke’s complex
*in contrast to Ghon’s complex
Deactivation TB
Simon’s focus
Red snappers
Mycobacterium leprae
Thickened superficial nerves, anesthesia, hypo pigmented plaques
Tuberculoid leprosy
Dapsone and rifampin
Leonine facies, erythema nodusom leprosum
Fatal
Lepromatous leprosy
Dapsone, rifampin, clofazimine
Broken jaw/dental extraction
Actinomycosis (actinomycesis esraelii)
PCN
Bacteria with fungal behavior, aerial hyphae, lung and brain abscess
Nocardia asteroides
Walking pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Primary syphilis/ secondary syphilis/ tertiary syphilis
chancre/ codyloma lata/ gummas, neurosyphilis (tabes dorsalis, argyle-Robertson pupil), dementia paralytica, endarteritis
Detection of treponema pallidum
Primary: dark field microscopy
Secondary: RPR/VDRL (screening), FTA-ABS (confirmatory)
False positive VDRL
VDRL
Viruses (EBV, Hepatitis)
Drugs (marijuana)
RF, RA
Lupus, Leprosy
Influenza like reaction after lysis of treponemes
Jarisch-Herxheimer reaction
Lyme dse
BAKE me a Lyme
Bell’s palsy
Arthritis
Kardiac block
Erythema chronicum migrans
Doxycycline
Gold standard in lepto dx
LeptoMAT
Most severe form of leptospirosis
Jaundice, bleeding, uremia
Weil syndrome
PenG
Forms of chlamydia
Elementary body= Enfectious, Enters cell via Endocytosis
Reticulate body= Replicate in the cell by fission
Most common STD
Chlamydia trachomatis
