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Characteristics of Mycoplasma
Extremely small
Smallest known free-living organism
Atypical cell wall (None)
Highly pleomorphic
Sterols as Plasma Membrane
Resistant to PCN
Fried Egg appearance
Treatment for Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Tetracycline
Macrolides
Fluoroquinolones
Walking pneumonia
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Diagnosis for Mycoplasma pneumonie
Cold agglutin Test
Diagnosis for Mycoplasma pneumonie
Cold agglutin Test
Cause non-gonococcal and non-chlamydial urethritis in men
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Cause lung disease in premature infants
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Characteristics of Chlamydia spp.
Obligate intracellular parasite
Exhibit similar morphological feature (Gram negative coccobacilli)
Multiply in cytoplasm
Staining method for Chlamydia spp
Giemsa Stain
Chlamydia trachomatis is susceptible or inhibited by what drugs?
Sulfonamides
Serotype or serovars of C. trachomatis
15
Diseases caused by C. trachomatis
Trachoma
Nongonococcal urethritis
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Treatment of Trachoma
Azithromycin
Treatment of Lymphogranuloma venereum
Doxycycline
Disease caused by Chlamydia psittaci
Psittacosis
Psittacosis is also known as
Parrot fever
Ornithosis - pneumonia
TF: Chlamydia pneumoniae and psittaci is susceptible to Sulfonamides
False.
C. pneumoniae and C. psitacci is resistant to sulfonamide
Characteristics of Rickettsia spp.
Pleomorphic coccobacilli
Gram negative
Obligate intracellular parasite
Transmission of Ricketssia
Arthropods bite
Treatment of Rickettsias
Doxycycline
Disease caused by Rickettsia rickettsii
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
Disease caused by Rickettsia prowazeckii
Epidemic typhus
Aka
Louse born Typhus
Brill-Zinsser Disease
Disease caused by Rickettsia typhii
Endemic typhus
aka Murine Typhus
Vectors of Rickettsia rickettsii
Hard ticks (Dermacentor andersoni)
Vectors of R. prowazeckii
Pediculus Humanus (Human body louse)
Vector of R typhi
Xenopsylla cheopsis (Flea)
