VIBRIO & HACEK & Non-Fermenting Gram- BACILLI Flashcards

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✓ 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

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Vibrio

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✓ RICE WATER STOOL
✓ cultured on APW and TCBS (sucrose fermenter yellow on TCBS)
✓ POLAR OR PERITRICUS, FLAGELLA

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Vibrio cholerae

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Increases cAMP; Causing Increased Secretion Of WATER AND ELECTROLYTES IN STOOL

Treatment: fluid and electrolyte replacement

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Cholera toxin or CHOLERAGEN

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Lysis of V. cholerae after injecting into an immunized host

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Pfeizzer’s phenomenon

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Serogroups/Serotype:

INABA

A. PHILIPPINES
B. INDIA
C. JAPAN

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A. PHILIPPINES

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Serogroups/Serotype:

Ogawa

A. PHILIPPINES
B. INDIA
C. JAPAN

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B. INDIA

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Serogroups/Serotype:

Hikojima

A. PHILIPPINES
B. INDIA
C. JAPAN

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C. JAPAN

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Major Subgroup of V. cholera ASSOCIATED WITH EPIDEMIC CHOLERA

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V. choleare O1 and V. cholera O139

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Strains that phenotypically resemble V. cholerae O1 but fail to agglutinate in 01 antisera

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V. cholera non-01

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✓ Reagent: 0/129 (150ug) impregnated disks
✓ POSITIVE (SUSCEPTIBLE): Vibrio cholerae, Plesiomonas shigelloides
✓ NEGATIVE (RESISTANT): Aeromonas spp. , C. violaceum

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Vibrostatic test

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✓ Rgt: 0.5% sodium deoxycholate
✓ Differentiates Vibrio from Aeromonas and Plesiomonas

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STRING TEST

Note:
NEGATIVE: no viscous stringing ( Aeromonas, P.shigelloides, Chromobacterium)

POSITIVE: a viscous stringing resulting TO A LONG TENACIOUS STRING ( Vibrio spp.)

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2% sodium deoxycholate

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Bile solubility test for S. pneumoniae

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✓ WOUND AND EAR INFECTION associated with marine environment
✓ HALOPHILIC
✓ Sucrose Fermentation: POSITIVE

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V. alginolyticus

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✓ “Summer Diarrhea”
✓ associated with CONTAMINATED SEAFOOD
✓ HALOPHILIC
✓ sucrose fermentation: NEGATIVE

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V. parahemolyticus

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✓ GASTROENTERITIS AND EAR INFECTIONS associated with marine environment
✓ NON-HALOPHILIC
✓ Sucrose Fermentation NEGATIVE

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V. mimicus

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✓ Lactose POSITIVE
✓ SEPTICEMIA AND WOUND INFECTIONS involving marine environment
✓ HALOPHILIC

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V. vulnificus

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✓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

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Aeromonas

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✓ 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

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Plesiomonas shigelloides

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✓ 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

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Chromobacterium violaceum

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Key tests to differentiate Aeromonas and Plesiomonas from Vibrio

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Sodium requirement and mannitol fermentation

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Top three that causes nosocomial infection

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1 P. aeruginosa

#2 A. baumanni
#3 S. maltophilia

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Present in tap water in HOSPITAL

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S. maltophilia

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TCBS: +
STRING TEST: +
0/129 (150ug) Susceptible: +
BROTH W/O NaCl: +
BROTH W/ 6.5% NaCl: +
INOSITOL FERMENTATION: (-)
MANNITOL: +

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Vibrio cholerae

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TCBS: (+)
STRING TEST: (+)
0/129 (150ug) Susceptible: (-)
BROTH W/O NaCl: (-)
BROTH W/ 6.5% NaCl:(+)
INOSITOL FERMENTATION: (-)

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Other Vibrio

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TCBS: (-)
STRING TEST: (-)
0/129 (150ug) Susceptible: (-)
BROTH W/O NaCl: (+)
BROTH W/ 6.5% NaCl: (-)
INOSITOL FERMENTATION: (-)
MANNITOL: (+)

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Aeromonas

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TCBS: (-)
STRING TEST: (-)
0/129 (150ug) Susceptible: (+)
BROTH W/O NaCl: (+)
BROTH W/ 6.5% NaCl: (-)
INOSITOL FERMENTATION: (+)

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Plesiomonas

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Campylobacter associated with gastritis and diarrhea

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C. jejuni, C. coli

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✓ Microaerophilic and capnophilic, motile, gram negative rods that are associated with gastritis and diarrhea
✓ optimum temperature for growth: 42 to 43°c
✓ single polar flagellum= DARTING MOTILITY
✓ Culture Medium: CAMPY-BAP, SKIRTOW’S medium

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Campylobacter

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✓ Associated with PEPTIC ULCER
✓ The natural habitat is the HUMAN STOMACH where the organism is found in the MUCOUS SECRETING CELLS
✓ S- shaped, seagull wings, MICROAEROPHILIC, LOPHOTRICHOUS FLAGELLA

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Helicobacter

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Non-invasive test for H. pylori

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UREA BREATH TEST

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HIPPURATE HYDROLYSIS: (+)
GROWTH @ 42°C: (+)
GROWTH @ 25°C: (-)
UREASE: (-)
NALIDIXIC ACID: SUSCEPTIBLE
CEPHALOTIN: RESISTANT

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C. jejuni subsp. jejuni

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HIPPURATE HYDROLYSIS: (-)
GROWTH @ 42°C: (-)
GROWTH @ 25°C: (+)
UREASE: (-)
NALIDIXIC ACID: RESISTANT
CEPHALOTIN: SUSCEPTIBLE

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C. fetus subsp. fetus

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HIPPURATE HYDROLYSIS: (-)
GROWTH @ 42°C: (+)
GROWTH @ 25°C: (-)
UREASE: (+)
NALIDIXIC ACID: RESISTANT
CEPHALOTIN: SENSITIVE

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H.pylori

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✓ Obligate aerobe
✓ Motile and Rod Shape, polar flagellum
✓ Sweet or Grape Like or Corn Taco Like ODOR

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P.aeruginosa

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✓ Grows well @37°C, its growth @ 42°C will differentiate it from other Pseudomonas sp.
✓ Oxidase POSITIVE
✓ DOES NOT ferment carbohydrates
✓ TSI: K/K or K/NC

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P. aeruginosa

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✓ Produces infection of wound and burns giving rise to BLUE-GREEN PUS
✓ causes Meningitis, UTI, Pneumonia, Sepsis
✓ mild otitis external or media= SWIMMERS EAR
✓ Resistant To A Number Of Disinfectants and has been responsible for SERIOUS NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS
✓ Skin lesion: ecthyma gangrenosum, Jacuzzi hot tub/ Whirlpool dermatitis

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S. aeruginosa

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Causes GLANDERS a disease of horses and similar animals transmissible to humans

Horses: pulmonary involvement
Humans: fatal, begin as ulcer of skin and mucous membrane followed by lymphangitis and sepsis

Non motile

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Burkholderia mallei

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Causes MELIODOSIS (Vietnamese Time Bomb), an endemic glanders like disease of animals and humans

✓DEEP PINK, WRINKLED COLONIES IN ASHDOWN MEDIUM;
✓SMOOTH-WRINKLED= BAP
✓BIPOLAR STAINING IN GRAM STAIN
✓EARTHY ODOR

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Burkholderia pseudomallei

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✓ Oxidase and LDC POSITIVE
✓ Motility: LOPHOTRICHOUS
✓ PC agar: PINK COLONY
✓ Earthy or Dirt like odor
✓ Causes: Heart Valve Endocarditis, FOOT ROT IN HUMANS
✓ SECOND MOST COMMON RESPIRATORY INFECTION IN CF

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Burkholderia cepacia

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✓ TSI: K/K
✓ CPON
✓ NON-MOTILE
✓ DRUG RESISTANT
✓ MaC= Purple Colony
Associated disases: UTI, WOUND, DIARRHEA

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Acinetobacter spp

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MOTILITY: (-)
OXIDASE: (-)
CATALASE: (+)
LDC: (-)

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Acinetobacter

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MOTILITY: (+)
OXIDASE: (-)
CATALASE: (+)
LDC: (+)

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S. maltophilia

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MOTILITY: (+)
OXIDASE: (+)
CATALASE: (+)
LDC: (-)

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Pseudomonas

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Oxidizer, growth @42°C

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Acinetobacter baumanni

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Non-oxidizer

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Acinetobacter iwoffi

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✓Third most common nosocomial infection
✓Old name: Xanthromonas
✓Oxidase: Negative
✓DNAse: Positive
✓LDC: Positive
✓ strong oxidizer of Maltose
✓ LAVENDER GREEN colony
✓ AMMONIA LIKE ODOR
✓ TSA= Yellow pigment
✓ causes WOUND INFECTION (farming equipment)

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Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

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✓ Oxidase, Catalase: POSITIVE
✓ urease: NEGATIVE
✓ Motility: Peritrichous
✓ Apple-like “fruity” odor
✓ Assacharolytic
✓ Asso. Infections and Disease: UTI, WOUND, DIARRHEA

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Alkaligenes faecalis

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Oxidase, DNAse, Gelatin Hydrolysis, Indole(+)
Non-motile
MaC(-)
Produces yellow Pigment (flavin)
Asso. With SEPSIS NEONATAL MENINGITIS

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Chryseobacterium (Flavobacterium) meningosepticum