Random Mnemonics for Bugs

Question 1

Causes of Neonatal Meningitis (5)

Answer 1

-when queen ELIZABETH was a baby in GREAT BRITAIN, she made a wish LIST for COLA and CITRUS

-Elizabethkingia
GBS (S. Agalactiacae)
Listeria
E. Coli
Citrobacter

Question 2

Which antibiotic is administered with another drug to increase its time in the blood?

Answer 2

My words are tattoos, Imma pen em (Imipenem) so my words are everlasting (cilastatin)

Question 3

Which bugs are facultatively intracellular?

Answer 3

• Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY

- Salmonella/ Neisseria / Brucella / Myobacterium / Listeria / Francisella / Legionella / Yersinia pestis

Question 4

Which drugs prolong the Q-T interval?

Answer 4

Edgar Allen Poe’s crows (Macrolide) flew from the flower (Floroquinolone) to the Heart

Question 5

S. Pneumoniae is the most common cause of what?

Answer 5

• MOPS

- Meningitis/ Otitis Media/ Pneumonia/ Sinusitis

Question 6

Most important thing to know about Streptococcus bovis

Answer 6

Bovis in the blood = cancer in the colon

Question 7

Treatment for Actinomyces and Nocardia

Answer 7

SNAP

• Sulfonamide for Nocardia
• Penicillin for Actinomyces

Question 8

Lactose fermenting enteric bacteria

Answer 8

Test with MacConKEE’S agar

-Citrobacter/ Klebsiella/ E. Coli/ Enterobacter

Question 9

4 clinical manifestations of Haemophilus

Answer 9

• haEMOPhilus

- Epiglottis/ Meningitis/ Otitis Media/ Pneumonia

Question 10

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with what pathologies?

Answer 10

• PSEUDDOmonas

- Pneumonia/ Sepsis/ otitis Externa/ UTI/ Drug use/ Diabetes/ Osteomyelitis

Question 11

4 A’s of Klebsiella

Answer 11

• Aspiration pneumonia
• Abscess in lungs and liver
• Alcoholics
• di-A-betics

Question 12

Clinical manifestations of Borrelia

Answer 12

a key Lyme pie to the FACE

-Facial nerve palsy/ Arthritis/ Cardiac Block/ Erythema chronicum migrans