RSL - Micro (bacteria) Flashcards
Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis
Associated with Asthma and Cystic Fibrosis; may cause Bronchiectasis and Eosinophilia. Wheezing, fever, migratory pulmonary infiltrates
Disseminated Gonorrheal infection Triad:
Triad: Arthritis, Dermatitis, Tenosynovitis
Posterior auricular lymphadenopathy
Rubella (Rash starting on head) - Togavirus
PCV vaccine
Pneumococcal (conj.)
PPSV vaccine
Pneumococcal (unconj)
Protein A virulence factor
S. aureus, binds IgG and prevents opsonization
E. coli: LT
AC –> Cl- secretion
E. coli: ST
GC –| NaCl reabsorption
B. pertussus: Pertussis toxin
–|Gi–>AC –> impaired phagocytosis. Child coughs on expiration and whoops on inspiration
Lecinithase
C. perfringens; degrades cell membranes
Lysogenic phage toxins
ABCDE;
Shiga-toxin, Botulinum toxin, Cholera toxin, Diptheriatoxin, erythrogenic toxin
Novobiocin sensitive
S. epidermidis
Novobiocin resistant
S. saprophyticus
S. viridans
alpha hemolysis
S. agalactacia
Group B strep
CAMP factor
(S. agalactacia) Increases area of hemolysis of S. aureus
Hippurate test positive
S. agalactacia
Endocarditis of normal valve
S. aureus
Endocarditis of damaged valve
S. viridans (mutans, sanguis)
Endocarditis after GI/GU procedure
enterococcus
Endocarditis in Colon cancer
S. bovis
Metachromatic granules
Corynebacterium diptheria
Elek test (+)
Diptheriae toxin
Capsule composition
polysaccharide
Polypeptide capsule
B. anthrax
Hemorrhagic mediastinitis: widened mediastinum
Pulmonary anthrax
Oral/facial absesses with sulfur granules
actinomyces
Actinomyces treatment
Penicillin
nocardia treatment
sulfonamides
only gram +ve bacteria to make endotoxin
Listeria
Cord factor
inhibits macrophage maturation, induces release of TNF-alpha. induces serpentine growth
Tuberculoid
TH1 intact (minimal disease)
Lepromatous
Th1 non-intact (massive disease process)
Bacterial hyponatremia:
Legionella (no person to person spread)
Anemia, thrombocytopenia, renal failure (acute)
HUS
Current jelly sputum
Klebsiella
Salmonella vs shigella:
Flagella, infectious dose, Antibiotic/excretion, immune response,
Yes/No, High/low, Prolongs/shortens, Monocytes/neutrophils
pseudo-appendicitis
yersinia
Catalase, oxidase, urease positive
H. pylori
Weil disease;
severe leptospirosis;
- jaundice, azotemia, (liver and kidney dysfunction), fever, hemorrhage, anemia
Leptospirosis: symptoms
Conjunctival suffusion, myalgias
Charcot joint
Can’t feel pain –> abuse of joint
Rhagades
Linear ulcers at angle of mouth found in congenital syphillis
Cattle and sheep amniotic fluid
Q fever (coxiella burnetti)
Rash starting at wrists and ankles, spreading to trunk, palms, soles
Rocky mountain spotted fever
Typhus rash
Starts centrally and spreads outward (sparing palms and soles)
Erhlichiosis vs anaplasmosis
Monocytes vs granulocytes
Culture negative endocarditis
coxiella burnetti
elementary body
enters cell
reticulate body
replicates
Types ABC chlamydia trachomatois
Blindness due to follicular conjunctivitis in africa
Types DK
everything else (urethritis, PID, neonatal pneumonia, conjunctivitis)
Types L1,L2,L3
Lymphogranuloma venereum - small painless ulcers on genitals. Inguinal lymph nodes ulcerate (buboes)