TEST 2 Bugs 2 Part 1/2 Flashcards
Most gram negative rods are in what family and what is their respiration type?
Enterobacteriaceae
Facultative anaerobes
Gram Negative rods are normally found where and commonly cause what?
- Normal GI flora
- Diarrhea and UTI
Gram negative rods are resistant to what two common antibiotics due to their Outer membrane.
Vancomycin and Penicillin
Most gram negative enteric bacteria are resistant to ___________ compared to gram-positives.
Bile Salts
Enterobacteriaceae ferment what?
Oxidase?
Catalase?
Reduction?
- Glucose
- Oxidase: -ve
- Catalase: +ve
- Reduce: nitrates to nitrites (anaerobic respiration)
Which gram negative rods are lactose fermenters?
- Fecal Coliforms = CEEK
- Citrobacter
- Slow lactose fermenters
- Enterobacter
- Escherichia
- Klebsiella
- Citrobacter
Which gram negative rods are lactose nonfermenters?
- ShYPS
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Non-motile, no H2S
- Shigella
- Yersina
- Motile, and produce H2S
- Proteus
- Salmonella
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Non-motile, no H2S
Virulence factors for gram negative rods
- Surface antigens:
- O (PS part of LPS)
- H (flagellar)
- K (capsular, Salmonella’s is Vi)
- Fimbriae, endotoxin (lipid A)
What does E. Coli look like on different plates?
- Eosin-Methylene Blue: Green Metallic sheen
- MacConkey agar: Red colonies
- Triple Sugar iron (TSI): Lactose + Sucrose + Limited glucose fermentation + gas.
E. coli disease-causing strains:
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Diarrhea-causing strains
- EnteroTOXIGENIC (ETEC)
- EnteroPATHOGENIC (EPEC)
- EnteroHEMORRHAGIC (EHEC)
- EnteroINVASIVE (EIEC)
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UTI-Causing strain
- Uropathogenic (UPEC) - P Pili
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Neonate meningitis
- K1 capsule
Describe ETEC:
- Traveler’s Diarrhea & infantile diarrhea in developing world
- Watery diarrhea
- Labile Toxin (LT) - ADP-ribosylates and stimulates Gsa → ^d cAMP.
- Stable Toxin (ST) stimulates cGMP.
- Both toxins cause loss of fluids and ions, causing water, non-inflammatory diarrhea.
Describe EPEC:
- Infantile (Pediatric) diarrhea.
- No toxin or inflammation
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Pathogenicity Is. (PAI) encodes a type III secretion system and intimin adhesin.
- Results in blunt microvilli and prevent absorption → watery diarrhea.
Describe EHEC:
- (O157:H7)
- No ferment sorbitol.
- Do not invade host cell.
- In colon, produces shiga-like toxin that nicks 60S ribosomes.
- Bloody diarrhea
- can turn into Acute renal failure.
Describe EIEC:
- Dysentery: fever, diarrhea, vomiting, abdominal cramping, tenesmus.
- Often blood and pus in stools.
- Invades intestinal epithelium (invasion proteins)
- Similar to shigellosis.
Escherichia coli
UTIs details
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UPEC - Cystitis - E. coli Type 1 fimbriae adhere to perineum.
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Pyelonephritis - P fimbriae (Pili) adhere to uroepithelium
- High risk of septicemia and shock.
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Pyelonephritis - P fimbriae (Pili) adhere to uroepithelium