Respiratory Path 7 - SRS Flashcards
Pneumonia is?
Inflammation of the lung parenchyma from any cause, infectious, radiation, chemical exposure, etc.
What organ system is more often than any other involved in infections?
Respiratory tract!
Riddle me seven pneumonia agents!
- • Bacterial
- • Mycobacterial
- • Fungal
- • Pneumocystis
- • Viral
- • Chemical
- • Physical (radiation)
If a pneumonia patient has elevated CRP and/or procalcitonin then what is the likely cause?
Bacterial more likely than viral pneumonia
What are the major predisposind conditions that cause compromise in the conducting airway defenses?
3
- Accumulation of secretions
- Loss or supression of normal cough reflex
- Injury to mucociliary apparatus
What major predisposing factors cause problems in the lower respiratory tract’s defense mechanisms?
- Edema and congestion
- Complement defects
- Abnormalities of phagocytosis or bactericidal activities (EtOH, tabacco, O2)
- HIV, immunosuppression
What is the one huge thing that majorly increases a patients risk of infection by encapsulated organisms?
What are two ways this can happen?
- Splenectomy (encapsulated pneumoccocus a big deal)
- surgical splenectomy
- Autosplenectomy via sicke cell anemia
What is the most common community aquired pneumonia?
Streptococcus pneumoniae G+ diplococci, (MOST COMMON, ↑risk with splenectomy/sickle cell need vaccine)
2?
In COPD patients what is the most common community acquired pneumonia?
Haemophilus influenzae
Moraxella catarrhalis G- diplococci, #2 in COPD
What is the most common post viral pneumonia/influenza?
Staphylococcus aureus. Also most common in IV drug abusers
What is the most common community acquired pneumonia in those with cystic fibrosis and neutropenia?
Pseudomonas aeruginosa G- coccobacilli
What are the three big community-acquired atypical bacterial pneumonias?
- Mycoplasma pneumoniae
- chlamydia species
- coxiella burnetti (Q fever)
What shoud you look for in a patient with a suspected mycoplasma pneumoniae infection?
Cold agglutanins
Aspiration pneumonia can be anaerobic oral flora admixed with aerobic bacteria. What are four anaerobic oral flora that can lead to this?
- bacteriodes
- prevotella
- fusobacterium
- petpostreptococcus
What are the 7 distinct categories of pneumonia syndromes?
- Community-acquired acute pneumonia
- community-acquired atypical pneumonia
- health care associated pneumonia
- Aspiration pneumonia
- Necrotizing pneumonia and lung abscess
- chronic pneumonia
- pneumonia in the immunocompromised host
If you see an immunocompromised patient presenting with pneumonia, what is the most likely organism?
Probably still just going to be S. pneumoiniae.
These patients will still get all the regular ones, they will just also sometimes present with the wierd ones like pneumocystis jirovecii.
Gomez made a point about this, might see him make it again on the exam. If you see an immunocompromised patient with pneumonia don’t jump to a wierd one. If you see a patient with a wierd one, think that they might be immunocompromised.
What shape is streptococci?
What formation do they assume?
What is the exception to the shape rule?
Gram positive cocci that form chains/
The exception is S. pneumoniae which is lancet shaped.
Pretty important distinction for this section
Which of the streptococci are encapsulated?
S. pneumoniae
S. Pyogenes
S. agalactiae
What is the number one cause of bacterial pneumonia in adults?
What makes this virulent?
S. pneumoniae α hemolysis- virulent because of the capsule
What else besides bacterial pneumoniae is S. pneumoniae the number one cause of?
2
- Otitis media in children
- meningitis in adults
After culturing S.pneumoniae, how would you differentiate it from the also α hemolytic S. viridans?
S. pneumoniae is optochin sensitive
What shape is haemophilus? Gram stain?
Gram negative coccobacilli
What is the major virulence factor of haemophilus?
Capsule
Name as many things as you can that haemophilus influenzae is implicated in!
Gomez listed 11
- pneumonia
- acute epiglottitis
- bacteremia
- meningitis
- septic arthritis
- cellulitis
- otitis media
- purulent pericarditis
- endocarditis
- arthritis
- osteomyelitis
There are six serological types of H. influenzae, based on capsular polysaccharide antigens.
Which is the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in children from 6 months to 2 years?
H. influenza type B
Unencapsulated strains of H. influenza cause ear, sinus and respiratory infections in what three patient groups typically?
Chronic smokers
Alcoholics
Elderly
What is the gram status and shape of moraxella catarrhalis?
Gram-negative diplococcus
What are three common afflictions caused by M. catarrhalis?
- common cold
- otitis media
- sinusits
What are four less common afflictions associated with m. catarrhalis?
In children
- laryngitis
- bronchitis
- pneumonia
In adults
- chronic lung disease
What is the gram status, shape and arrangement for Staphylococci?
Gram positive cocci in clusters
Staph aureus is a non-motile, oxidase -, facultative anaerobe. What will a coagulase test reveal for S. aureus?
Coagulase positive
S. aureus can do major damage to the skin, what are some examples?
- furuncle=boil
- carbuncles
- scalded skin syndrome
- impetigo
Apart from the skin presentations, what are some other major issues that S. aureus is known to cause?
8 with four bolded
- Deep abcesses
- Sepsis
- pneumonia
- meningitis
- acute endocarditis
- osteomyelitis
- toxic shock syndrome
- food poisoning
What are the major virulence factors for S. aureus?
- resistance to penicillins and vancomycin
- clumping factor (fibrinogen receptors)
- surface protein A (disables Ig)
- Exfoliative A and B toxins (scalded skin)
- Superantigens
What are the two superantigens associated with S. aureus?
Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSST1) Toxin
Heat stable enterotoxin
What is the gram status and shape of legionella?
Gram negative bacilli
Legionellae are associated with aerosolized water, why?
They are ubiquitous saprophytes that can live in amoebae and biofilms.
Legionnaire’s disease is a severe lobar pneumonia, how does it present clinically?
What does it lead to if not treated?
- cough, non productive
- fever
If untreated, the fever will lead to multi-organ disease and death if untreated.
What is the virulence of legionella proportional to?
Its ability infect and multiply within macros
Pontiac fever was and epidemic flu like condition caused by L. Pneumophila, what was the course of the sickness?
fever, chills, headache and malaise that lasted 2-5 days and resolved.
What is the gram stain and shape of klebsiella?
gram negative bacilli
Klebsiella is an encapsulated gram-negative bacilli. What will you see if you culture it on McConkey’s agar?
Reddish colonies, indicating lactose fermentation
What is klebsiella the most common cause of?
Nosocomial respiratory tract infections
What is a pretty distinctive characteristic presentation of a K. pneumoniae pneumonia?
Hemorrhagic pneumonia with red currant jelly colored sputum.
What are the capsular types of K. pneumoniae that are associated with 3% of bacterial pneumonias?
Capsular types 1 and 2
What is the gram-stain and shape of pseudomonas?
Is it motile?
Is it a fermenter?
Oxidase status?
Gram-negative rods
non-fermenter
oxidase positive
motile
What is the major virulence factor that is associated wtih pseudomonas?
•Antiphagocytic exopolysaccharide (alginate) slime biofilm