VIBRIO & HACEK & Non-Fermenting Gram- BACILLI Flashcards
✓ CURVED or STRAIGHT (comma-shaped) gram-negative rods, ALKALIPHILIC
✓ RAPID DARTING motility or SHOOTING STAR motility
✓ Oxidase: positive
✓ HALOPHILIC except V. cholerae and V. mimicus
Vibrio
✓ RICE WATER STOOL
✓ cultured on APW and TCBS (sucrose fermenter yellow on TCBS)
✓ POLAR OR PERITRICUS, FLAGELLA
Vibrio cholerae
Increases cAMP; Causing Increased Secretion Of WATER AND ELECTROLYTES IN STOOL
Treatment: fluid and electrolyte replacement
Cholera toxin or CHOLERAGEN
Lysis of V. cholerae after injecting into an immunized host
Pfeizzer’s phenomenon
Serogroups/Serotype:
INABA
A. PHILIPPINES
B. INDIA
C. JAPAN
A. PHILIPPINES
Serogroups/Serotype:
Ogawa
A. PHILIPPINES
B. INDIA
C. JAPAN
B. INDIA
Serogroups/Serotype:
Hikojima
A. PHILIPPINES
B. INDIA
C. JAPAN
C. JAPAN
Major Subgroup of V. cholera ASSOCIATED WITH EPIDEMIC CHOLERA
V. choleare O1 and V. cholera O139
Strains that phenotypically resemble V. cholerae O1 but fail to agglutinate in 01 antisera
V. cholera non-01
✓ Reagent: 0/129 (150ug) impregnated disks
✓ POSITIVE (SUSCEPTIBLE): Vibrio cholerae, Plesiomonas shigelloides
✓ NEGATIVE (RESISTANT): Aeromonas spp. , C. violaceum
Vibrostatic test
✓ Rgt: 0.5% sodium deoxycholate
✓ Differentiates Vibrio from Aeromonas and Plesiomonas
STRING TEST
Note:
NEGATIVE: no viscous stringing ( Aeromonas, P.shigelloides, Chromobacterium)
POSITIVE: a viscous stringing resulting TO A LONG TENACIOUS STRING ( Vibrio spp.)
2% sodium deoxycholate
Bile solubility test for S. pneumoniae
✓ WOUND AND EAR INFECTION associated with marine environment
✓ HALOPHILIC
✓ Sucrose Fermentation: POSITIVE
V. alginolyticus
✓ “Summer Diarrhea”
✓ associated with CONTAMINATED SEAFOOD
✓ HALOPHILIC
✓ sucrose fermentation: NEGATIVE
V. parahemolyticus
✓ GASTROENTERITIS AND EAR INFECTIONS associated with marine environment
✓ NON-HALOPHILIC
✓ Sucrose Fermentation NEGATIVE
V. mimicus
✓ Lactose POSITIVE
✓ SEPTICEMIA AND WOUND INFECTIONS involving marine environment
✓ HALOPHILIC
V. vulnificus
✓large, round, raised, opaque. Beta-hemolytic (SBA)
✓FERMENTS LACTOSE, PINK CENTERED COLONIES in CIN
✓ eating Raw Fish in FRESHWATER
✓ Aeromonas hydrophilia (“water loving”) most common isolate
Aeromonas
✓ White To Pink in INOSITOL brilliant green bile salt agar
✓ LDC ODC ADH POSITIVE “positive trio”
✓ Straight Gram Negative Rods that occurs SINGLY in PAIRS, in SHORT CHAINS and FILAMENTOUS forms
✓ SHINY, OPAQUE, SMOOTH, GAMMA HEMOLYTIC in SBA
✓ OXIDASE: POSITIVE
Plesiomonas shigelloides
✓ SMELLS like ammonium cyanide in SBA
✓ VIOLET PIGMENT can interfere with oxidase test
✓ gold standard: QUORUM SENSING
✓ slightly curved gram negative rods with rounded ends
✓ most colonies appear black or very dark purple
✓ NLF in MacConkey
Chromobacterium violaceum