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Gram positive, Cat pos organisms

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  • GPC
  • Catalase positive
  • aerobes and facultative anaerobes
  • only Staph aureus is clinically significant
  • humans are the natural reservoir
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S. Aureus

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GPC , Cat pos

  • have many virulent factors: Catalase, Coagulase, DNAse, hyaluronisase…
  • usually skin and soft tissue infections
  • can cause bactermemia, sepsis, ostomylitis
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Coag Negative staph

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  • coag and DNAse negative
  • Epidermitis Saprohyticus, Lugdunensis
  • form biofilms
  • saprophyticus is resistant to novobiocin
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Catalase test

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use hydrogen peroxide to determine if the organism has catalase

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Coagulase

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is used to differentiate S. Aureus from other coag negative staph.
- Staph produces free and bound coagulase
- mix with rabbit plasma to observe clumping
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Mannitol Salt agar

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is selective and differential media

  • used for the isolation and presumptive ID of S. Aureus
  • SA is able to ferement mannitol turns media to yellow
  • has lots of salt
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Novobiocin

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make a .5 mcfarland standard

  • streak a lawn and place a novo. disc one the media
  • Saprophyticus is resistant
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A Disc

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Bactracin

  • streak for lawn
  • add disc
  • S. Pyogenes susceptible
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CAMP

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Streak S. Aureus down the center then close in the opposite directions streak other things

  • if postive the hemolysis will be arrow shaped
  • Group B strep
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Optochin disc

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P disc

  • used to determine S. Pnuemonia
  • > than 14mm for susceptible
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Klebsiella

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Lactose Ferm on MAC
encapsulated so mucoid colonies
- Pneumo - neg, Oxytoca- Pos

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Proteus

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swarmer

  • non lac ferm
  • mirabilas- neg, virgalis - pos
  • phenolalanine deaminase pos
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MAC plate

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  • uses bile salts and crystal violet in the medium to encourage growth of GNR
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MRVP

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1st part: add methyl red to indicate acid end products fermentation glucose
- VP: detects neutral end products of glucose fermentation

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Oxsidase

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swab colony

  • add oxidase reagent blue is positive
  • pseudomonas: positive
  • E. Coli negative
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indole

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the ability of the oranism to produce indole

  • add Kovacs reagent to tube and a red color is positive
  • Rapid indole: swab colony, indole positive
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Nitrate reduction

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nitrate to nitrite
- add solutions a and B
- if red positive
- if negative add zince to see if it will reduce nitrite to nitrate if red on second time its negative
Tube is a nitrate broth with a durham tube

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Citrate

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to see if the organism uses urea as its carb source and ammonium as its nitrogen source

  • streak a citrate agar (do not stab)
  • positive (K. pneumonia) green to blue
  • negative: E. Coli
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Urea

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ability to produce urease

  • streak urea slant
  • magenta color change positive(K. pneumonia, P. Mirabilis)
  • negative E. coli
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Decarboxylase tests

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the ability to decarboxylate AA to amine form,

  • base has only glucose,then a lysine and ornathine broth =
  • if they are purple they are positive, if yellow negative
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TSI

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differentiates GNR based on Carb fermentation

  • glucose feremnted in slant and butt
  • Lactose and Sucrose can be fermented in the Slant
  • K/K( red/red)= no carb fermenetaion
  • A/A(yellow/yellow)= glucose and sucrose/lactose ferm
  • K/A (red/yellow)= only glucose ferm
  • black butt= glucose fermented/h2s
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LIA

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ability to decarboxylate or deaminate lysine and produce H2S

  • used to screen suspicious shigella/ Salmonella
  • in the butt glucose fermentation and lysine decarbox.
  • in slant demainates
  • K/K(purple/purple)= lysine is decarbylated
  • K/A(purple/yellow= (lysine not decarbox)
  • R/A(red/yellow)= lysine deaminated
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MIO

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determines GNR motility,indole, and ornathine production

  • ornathine = purple throughout tube
  • motility- growth away from the slab line
  • indole= add kovacs reagent red is positive

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