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Gram (-) Bacilli
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 3
11/08/2011

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Term

Salmonella species

Salmonellosis

Definition
  • Gram (-) bacilli
  • salmonella food poisoning

 

Term

Salmonella species

Occurance:

Definition
  • an infection- gastroenteritis
  • is not an intoxication
  • 2000 serotypes
  • 50,000 cases a year reported (2-3million cases actually occur)
  • most commonly reported type of food poisoning
Term

Salmonella species

Resevior:

Mode of transmission:

Incubation period:

Definition
  • Res- gut of birds, mammals, reptiles (especially turtles)
  • MOT- ingestion of food contaminated with salmonella (usually meats, chicken, eggs) and even playing with pets
  • IP-8-48 hours usually 42-78 when you ingest very small amount
Term

Salmonella species

Signs/ symptoms:

Diagnosis:

Definition
  • Fever, abdominal apins, cramps, diarrhea with out vomitting- caused by endotoxin
  • symptoms last several day- making it reported more often
  • Morbidity(how sick you are)- is high
  • Mortality-low except in very old and young or debilitated
  • Diagnosis- culture feces
Term

Salmonella species

Treatment:

Immunity:

Prophylaxis:

Definition
  • treatment: Self limiting, get more fluidsa and elctrolytes
  • for bad infections- ampicillin or amoxicillin
  • if PCN sensitive or resistant- chloramphenicol
  • Immunity: none because 2000 different serotypes
  • Prophy: cook chicken well and do not recontaminate cooked chicken with juices
  • ppl get sick from eating leftovers
  • avoid food with raw eggs- escpecially if cracked...because salmonella is in chicken's where eggs come out
  • homemade mayo, egg nog, homemade ice cream never used cracked eggs.
  • boil egg 7 min; poach egg 5 min; fried egg 3 min on each side- to kill salmonella
Term

Salmonella typhi

Typhoid fever

Occurance:

Resevior:

Mode of transmission:

Incubation period:

 

Definition
  • OCC- aren't common 400-500 cases per year - case fertality rate per year is less than 1%
  • RES- gut of Homo sapiens
  • MOT- Fecal oral contamination of food or water
  • IP-10-14 days because it has to grow
Term

Salmonella typhi

Typhoid fever

Signs symptoms:

Diagnosis:

Definition
  • fever, abdominal pain, head ache, anorexia
  • may spread to other organs through the lymph or blood
  • carriers asymptomatic but have bacteria growing in gall bladder where there is poor blood supply-it is hard to kill all bacteria there because poor vascularization- antibiotic wont work there so cholecystectomy is necessary
  • typhoid mary- cooked food for people and she intoxicated people with salmonella
  • diagnosis: culture salmonella typhi from feces, urine, or blood
Term

Salmonella typhi

Typhoid fever

Treatment:

Immunity:

Prophylaxis:

Definition
  • Treatment- chloramphenical or ampicillin
  • Imm-permanent upon recovery (vaccine available)
  • Prophy-cl2 kills salmonella, cl2 in water, avoid carriers, drink pasteurized milk, and isolation of patients
Term

Shigella species

Shigellosis-bacterial dysentery

Definition
  • Produces endotoxin causing severe inflammation and ulceration of small intestines and colon (others microbes do this also)
  • sign/symptoms: fever, nausea, diarrhea, tenesmus (spaz of anal spincter)
  • resevior: Homo sapiens
  • Mode of transmission: fecal oral contamination that is a big problem in day care centers-affects 11 million kids
  • treatment: fluid and electrolytes with antibiotics: ampicillin, tetracycline, chloramphen, TMX-SMX
Term

Escherichia coli

Travelor's diarrhea

Other coliforms:

Definition
  • Proteus vulgaris
  • Serratia marcescens
  • Citrobacter freundi
Term

Escherichia coli

Facts:

Definition
  • Gram(-) bacilli
  • More good than bad
  • Helps vitamin k absorbtion in the intestines
  • only organisim to break down glucose into lactose- through fermentation
  • is a fermenter
  • creates flatus (gas)
Term

Escherichia coli

Disease causing?

If disease causing produces what?

Definition
  • Usually does not cause disease in gut but may spread by trauma or poor hygeine (UTI, Vaginitis)
  • 15.4% causes nosocomial infection
  • May produce enterotoxic food poisoning
  • In septicemia the endotoxin may cause endotoxic shock
  • presense of E.coli in water means FEC
  • Coliform count in lake houston is high!
Term

Escherichia coli

what serotype is extremely virulent and deadly?

Definition
  • Serotype O157:H7
  • causes HUS hemolytic uremic shock
  • invasive and will get into blood
  • b/c of under cooked food with this serotype or swimming in water contaminated by this
  • 5 people died from spinach recall with this in 2006 (more were sick but only old and young died)
Term

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping Cough

"intensive cough"

Occurence:

MOT:

IP:

Definition
  • Gram (-) bacilli
  • 95% of people in the world have had this mild/severe
  • US- 2000 to 4000 cases per year with 10 deaths
  • 2/3 cases in infants or kids because they do not have the Ab against it yet
  • most fatalities less tha 1 year old
  • RES: homo sapiens
  • MOT- aerosol inhalation
  • IP- 7-14 days
Term

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping cough

Signs and symptoms:

Definition
  • bacteria attach to epitheliem of upper respitory track (PSCCE)
  • Do not invade epithelial cells or blood
  • produces pertussis toxin (endotoxin)
  • causing thick mucus formation (by histamine and serotonin)
  • Inhibits ciliary activity
  • may kill PSCCE
Term

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping cough

Catarrhal Stage:

Definition
  • tries to cough of mucus
  • 5-15 rapidly consecutive coughs
  • whoop on inspiration (hurried and deep)
  • may last 1-2 weeks if not treated
Term

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping cough

Paroxymal stage:

Definition
  • 1-2 weeks uncontrolled coughing fits occur suddenly

 

Term

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping cough

Convalescense stage:

Definition
  • may last months
  • secondary complications: bronchopneumonia and otidis media
Term

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping cough

Diagnosis:

Treatment:

Immunity:

Prophylaxis:

Definition
  • DX- cultues methods and serological tests not reliable; acurate diagnosis is difficult but whoop may not present
  • TX- erythromycin
  • IMM- strong lifetime immunity following infection
  • PROPHY- vaccine DPT if under 7
  • most people greater than 7 have immunity
Term

Haemophilus influenzae

Non-epidemic meningitis

Occurence:

Definition
  • #1 cause pf bacterial meningitis- 46%
  • Haemophilus influenze 46%
  • Neisseria meningitidis 27%
  • Streptococcus pneumoniaen 11%
  • Case fatality rate is 7%
  • orginally thought that it caused flu
  • actually causes bronchopneumonia and meninigtis secondary to flu
  • 85% of cases are in children less than three
Term

Haemophilus influenzae

non-epidemic meningitis

MOT-

IP-

SX-

Definition
  • Reservoir: Homo sapiens
  • MOT- aerosols enters through nasopharyngeal
  • IP- Days 2-4
  • SX- fever, vomiting, flu-like symptoms, coma can be common, bulging of fontanels in infants (b/c of accumulation of cerebral spinal fluid in head), stiff neck in children
Term

Haemophilus influenzia

non-epidemic meningitis

Diagnosis-

Treatment-

Immunity-

Prophylaxis-

Definition
  • DX- isolation of organisms from blood or verebral spinal fluid
  • RX- ampicillin and chloramphenicol together
  • Immunity- you can from prior infection
  • Prophy- HIB vaccine (haemophilus influenza strain B at 18 months
  • can also use rifampin to prophy
Term

Haemophilus ducreyi

Chancroid

Occ:

Res:

MOT:

IP:

Definition
  • OCC- more common in men 83% but women may be carries- occurs mainly in tropics- more common than clap
  • Res: Homo sapiens
  • MOT- STD
  • IP- days
Term

Haemophilus ducreyi

Chancroid

Sign and symptoms:

Diagnosis:

Treatment:

 

Definition
  • SX- localized vunereal infection - soft chancre ulcer type lesion
  • Not sharply demarcated from the surrounding tissue-PAINFUL (unlike syphilitic chancre- which is hard painless and sharply democrated)
  • Treatment: there is no treatment- it amy spread to lymphatics and cause BUBO (large inflammed lymph node- that dark blue from hemorraging)
  • Diagnosis- isolation of bacteria from lesion
  • Treatment- erythromyocin or TMP-SMX
Term
Haemophilus aegypticus
Definition
  • Conjunctivitis (pink eye)
  • Localized infection of the conjunctiva (bulbar or palpebral)
  • Conjunctiva= membrane covering the eye
  • Purulent exudate (puss fluid)
  • MOT: usually by direct contact, gnats can be vectors
  • TX: erythromycin ointment
Term

Yersinia pestis

Occurrence:

Resevoir:

MOT:

IP:

Definition
  • Bubonic plague (black plague, black death) formerly Pasteurella pestis
  • Occ: 25 million Europeans died of this in past; Zoonosis; found in rabbits & rodents; btw. 1974-1983 9 western states reported plague cases to CDC; animals die when sick
  • Res: rabbits & rodents
  • MOT: direct contact w/ tissues of infected animal; vector=flea, ticks, flies
  • IP: 2-6 days
Term

Yersinia pestis

 SN/SX:

DX:

TX:

IMM:

Definition
  • SN/SX: fever; swollen inguinal (groin) lymph nodes (=BUBO); septicemia may develop spreading to lungs causing plague pneumonia (spread by aerosols) or meningitis
  • DX: stained material from bubo, sputum, or CSF; blood tests (FA=flourescent antibodies
  • TX: streptomycin, tetracycline, chloramphenicol; without TX 50% die
  • Imm: no lasting immunity, vaccination OK but dangerous & requires frequent boosters
Term
Brucella melitensis 
Definition
  • Brucellosis (Undulant Fever)
  • Happens in animals
  • MOT: Zoonosis- STD spread by animals or other direct contact; unpasteurized milk can cause human infections
  • Bacteria live within macrophages & reproduce inside them then spread out- causing endotoxin to be released (results in fever)
  • Localizes in rep
  • Reproductive organs, causes sterility in males
  • *story about man in hospital having sex w/ sheep
Term
Legionella pneumophilia
Definition
  • Legionaires disease
  • First outbreak in 1957 at Legionaires convention in Minnesota (hence the name)
  • Worldwide distribution
  • Res: A/C cooling towers & evaporative coolers
  • MOT: airborne
  • IP: hours-days
  • SN/SX: anorexia, malaise, myalgia, HA; does not occur under age 20, common age is 50
  • Male/female ratio 5:2
  • TX: erythromycin (maybe w/ rifampin)
  • Not effective: PCN, cephalosporins, aminoglycosides
Term

Francisella tularensis

EA:

Res:

 

Definition
  • Tularemia
  • EA: A gram (-) rod becoming pleomorphic, non-motile, obligate aerobe named after the person that discovered the cause of disease & location first found (Tulare, CA); Zoonotic disease occurring in a wide variety of animals including: mammals, birds, fish, ticks & insects, INTRACELLULAR PARASITE; A lipid capsule helps evade phagocytosis
  • Res: Found in aquatic ecosystems in temperate areas of Northern hemisphere; rabbits, muskrats, ticks harbor the organism
Term

Francisella tularensis

MOT:

SN/SX:

RX:

Definition
  • MOT: direct contact w/ infected animal; organism is very small- has ability to pass directly through unbroken skin; ticks pass organism through feces; consumption of contaminated meat or HOH results in disease in gut; inhalation of aerosols causes pulmonary problems
  • SN/SX: fever, chills, malaise, fatigue & a skin ulcer at point of infection
  • RX: Beta-lactamase provides resistance to PCN & cephalosporins; Doxycycline & ciproflaxacin; CFR 10% in unTX
Term

Top 5 Potential Threats Various Infectious

Agents Pose To Human Beings:

Definition
  1. Smallpox
  2. Anthrax
  3. Plague
  4. Botulism
  5. Tularemia
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