Protues-Providencia-Morganella Flashcards
Actively motile at 37C, pleomorphic,NLF, urease(+), Phenlyalanine Deaminase(+); Rapidly hydrolyzes urease at 2-4hours. Surface growth that gives off a BURNT GUNPOWDER ODOR; Swarming motile on BAP
PROTEUS
Different strains of proteus, when inoculated in culture medium swarms toward each other, but do not mingle thus leaving a demarcation line between them.
DIENESPHENOMENON
Pathogens of proteus
Wound and Urinary Tract Infection, nosocomial infection, bacteremia, pneumonia
Differenting point of P.mirabilis and P.vulgaris
INDOLE
Most important member of proteus genus. Susceptible to ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalosporin. OX-K(kingsburry); may cause pneumonia and septicemia. Indole (-). Tend to swarm on moist agar producing bluish gray confluent.
PROTEUS MIRABILIS
Targets the immunosuppressed individuals; OX-02 and OX-19; INDOLE (+); may cause nosocomial infections and uti. Resistant to Ampicillin, chloramphenicol, cephalosporin. Has the same antigenic structure as rickettsiae such that O antigen
PROTEUS VULGARIS
To detect rickettsial infections.
WEIL-FELIX TEST
Most important species of morganella. Causes UTI and wound infections as well as diarrhea. Lactose, citrate, h2s and LDC(-); urease and Deaminase (+). Formerly known as P.morganii
MORGANELLA MORGANII
Normal intestinal flora; difficult to treat because most of them are R to antibiotics. Associated with nosocomial infection, gram -, NLF, pleomorphic, motile at 25 , non motile at 31c. Urease - and NLF
PROVIDENCIA
Associated with some cases of diarrhea in children. Infection are rare. Do not swarm on BAP.
PROVIDENCIA ALCALIFACIENS
Other Providencia species
PROVIDENCIA STUARTII, PROVIDENCIA RETTGERI, PROVIDENCIA RUTSIGANII.
NLF, microaerophilic, short coccobacilli, exhibits bipolar granules, ferments sucrose.
YERSINIA
Yersinia on Desoxycholate agar
REDDISH PINK COLONIES; DOES NOT FERMENTS LACTOSE; AEROGENIC
Yersinia on old culture
ORGANISM FORMS SURFACE GROWTH PELLICLE WITH STALACTITE STREAMERS
Virulence factors of Yersinia.
ENDOTOXINS, COAGULASE, FIBRINOLYSIN
Two most important species of Yersinia, that causes enterocilitis.
Y.enterocolitica and Y.pestis
Causative agent of Y.pseudotuberculosis or Y.enterocolitis; can cause a severe intestinal inflammation
Yersiniosis
Opportunistic pathogens of Yersinia.
Y.intermedia, Y.freduikaenii, Y.kristensenii
Most common Yersinia isolated from human. Causes enterocolitis. Most often encountered Yersinia in the lab. Invasive pathogen which can penetrate gut lining and enter the lymphatic system and blood. Infections are usually through an ingestion of contaminated food, which can cause a severe intestinal inflammation. Release of it’s enterotoxin cause a severe pain similar to that found in patients with appendicitis. Easily found because it has the ability to grown in a cold temp and motile at room temp.
Y.enterocolitica
Also known as plaque bacillus.
Y.pestis
Infection of wild rodents transmitted occasionally by bite of fleas
Plague
From oriental rat flea bite. Symptoms niya is swelling of lymph nodes. Nagcacause ng cell death and black purpuric lesions or blak death.
Xenopsylla cheopsis
3 human plague in Y.pestis. Lymph nodes. Buboes
Bubonic plague
3 human plague in Y.pestis. Airborne transmission
Pnuemonic plague
3 human plague in Y.pestis. Black Death due to Schwartzmann phenomenon.
Septicemic plague
Mesetric lymphadenitis, septicemia. LOA –, Urease +, ODC and sucrose -.
Y.psuedotuberculosis
Stained smears of Y.pseudotuberculosis.
Wayson and Giema stain.
Culture of MAC on Y.pseudotuberculosis.
Colorless to peach
Culture of emb in y.pseudotuberculosis.
Colorless to purple
Culture of HEA on y.pseudotuberculosis.
Salmon
Culture of XLD in Y.pseudotuberculosis
Yellow
Culture of SSA on Y.pseudotuberculosis.
Purple
Transport medium for Y.pseudotuberculosis. For transporting and maintaining tissue infected with Y.pestis, also useful for transporting stool for isolation of shigella, salmonella and Yersinia.
Cary-Blaire medium
Found in brackish or salt water. Short, facultative anaerobes, ferments glucose, NLF, reduce nitrates to nitrites, Oxidase + except V.metschnikovii, INDOLE +, catalase +, LOA ++-. Hemophilic organism except V.cholera and V.mimicus, natural habitat is water, usually associated with seafood or dairy. Motile, comma/curved bacillus. Not an enteric gastrointestinal pathogen but has the ability to cause gastroenteritis.
Family Vibrionaceae