TRANS (Part 1) Flashcards
General Characteristic of Family Mycoplasmataceae
- Lack cell wall or cell wall deficient (gram staining is not performed)
- Susceptible to antibiotics classified as cell wall inhibitors
- smallest living organism (0.2 to 0.3 um)
- Slow growers
- Facultative anaerobes
Antibiotic classified as cell wall inhibitor
Beta Lactams
Example of beta lactams
Penicillin and Cephalosphorin
All mycoplasma spp. are slow growers EXCEPT
M. hominis (rapidly growing)
All mycoplasma spp. are facultative anaerobe EXCEPT
M. pneumoniae (aerobic, highly fastidious)
M. pneumoniae needs complex media that contains
Cholesterol and Fatty acid
- Formerly referred to as Pleuropneumoniae like organism (PPLO) /Eaton agent
- First mycoplasma to be isolated
M. pneumoniae
Agent of Primary Atypical Pneumonia/Walking Pneuomonia/Community acquired atypical pneumonia
M. pneumoniae
The two genital mycoplasma that are fastidious and agent of Pelvic Inflammatory disease (PID)
M. hominis and M. urealyticum
Causes NGU/Non-gonococcal urethritis
M. hominis and U. urealyticum
Mycoplasma spp. (+) on SBA and Chocolate agar
M. hominis
Applicable fluorescent stain for Mollicutes but not specific
Acridine orange
Ideal culture media for M. pneumoniae and M. hominis
SPF Broth
Solid media to recover M. hominis and Ureaplasma spp.
A8 Agar
Previously called T-strain Mycoplasma
Ureaplasma urealyticum
Agent of Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis
Anaplasma phagocytophilium / Ehrlichia phagocytophilium
The vector of Anaplasma phagocytophilium / Ehrlichia phagocytophilium
Ixodes ticks
Agent of Human Monocytic Ehrlichiosis
Ehrlichia chaffeensis
The vector of Ehrlichia chaffeensis
Lone star ticks
Initially a member of family Rickettsiaceae but since it is not arthropod borne, it is no longer part of this family; a potential bioterrorism agent
Coxiella burnetii
Modes of transmission of C. burnetii
- Inhalation of dried birthing fluids of several animals
- Ingestions of unpasteurized milk
Coxiella burnetii causes
Query Fever (Q fever)
Rickettsial infections are detected using what sero test only
Weil felix (*but not specific since it has antigen from the genus Proteus)
Cause Rickettsial pox
R. akari
Causes scrub typhus
Orientia tsutsugamushi
Agent of Epidemic typhus and Brill zinsser disease
R. prowazekii
Epidemic typhus requires what specific vector?
Louse borne
the repeat/relapse of epidemic typhus; no vector required
Brill Zinsser disease
Agent of Murine typhus
R. typhi
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
R. rickettsii
The organism that remains to be Chlamydia
Chlamydia trachomatis
Organisms that are prev. under Chlamydia but became Chlamydophila
Chlamydophila pneumoniae and Chlamydophila psittacci
General characteristic of Chlamydia/Chlamydophila
- Obligate intracellular organisms, even though they can be cultivated they require cell or tissue culture
- Sensitive to Sulfa drugs
- Has 2 distinct form
Infectious form, has spore-like features because it is resistant to environmental physical stress *has outer membrane that contributes to its resistance
Elementary body
Most prominent component of that membrane is called
Major Outer Membrane Protein or MOMP.
non-infectious form but reproductive form
Reticulated body
Agent of Trachoma, LGV, and Reiter’s syndrome
C. trachomatis
Chronic eye infection, number 1 cause of preventable blindness
Trachoma or TRIC (trachoma inclusion conjunctivitis)
Sexually transmitted disease (STD) and venereally acquired also known as LGV
Lymphogranuloma venereum
Reactive arthritis
Reiter’ syndrome