Virulence factors

Question 1

E coli

Answer 1

LPS - Sepsis
Capsule - Neonatal meningitis
Shiga-like verotoxin - Inactivates 60s - bloody diarrhea
Heat stable/labile Enterotoxins - watery diarrhea
Fimbria - UTIs

Question 2

Intracellular organisms

Answer 2

Really Cold (Rickettsia, Chlamydia)
Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativelY
S - Salmonella
N - Neisseria
B - Brucella
M - Mycobacteria
L - Listera, Legionella
F - Francisella
Y - Yersinia

Question 3

Listeria

Answer 3

Listeriolysin O - blows hole in phagosome and escapes to cytoplasm of macrophage.

Tumbling motility in fridge