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Term
Encapsulated bugs
Definition

Salmonella

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Haemophilus influenzae

Neisseria meningitidis

Klebsiella pneumoniae

Group B Strep

 

"S SHiN" + GBS + Klebsiella"

Term

Passive Immunity given to pts after exposure to?

(List 4)

 

-preformed abs

Definition
  • Tetanus toxin
  • Botulinum toxin
  • HBV
  • Rabies virus

"To Be Healed Rapidly"

*Note: premature babies are also given passive immunization for RSV in winter mo

Term
Stain used to Dx Whipple's dz
Definition

PAS

 

*Tropheryma whippelii

Term
Facultative Intracellular Bacteria
Definition

Salmonella, Neisseria, Brucella, Mycobacterium, Listeria, Francisella, Legionella, & Yersina (pestis and pseudotuberculosis)

 

"Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY"

Term
Corynebacterium diphtheriae toxin
Definition

ADP ribosylating A-B toxin:

inactivates EF-2

Term
Pseudomonas exotoxin A
Definition

ADP ribosylating A-B toxin:

inactivates EF-2

Term
Cholera toxin
Definition

ADP ribosylation of Gs (permanent activation) → adenylate cyclase activation → ↑ cAMP → ↑ Cl secretion and ↓ Na absorption, water follows → voluminous rice-water diarrhea

-encoded in a lysogenic phage

 

Term
ETEC toxins
Definition

ADP ribosylating toxins:

heat-labile toxin stimulates adenylate cyclase → ↑ cAMP

heat-stabile toxin stimulates guanylate cyclase

 

*both cause watery diarrhea

"Labile like the Air, Stabile like the Ground"

Term
Pertussis toxin
Definition

ADP ribosylating toxin permanently disables Gαi → ↑ AC activation → ↑ cAMP

 

*whooping cough, inhibits chemokine receptor causing lymphocytosis

"turns the off off"

Term
Clostridium perfringes toxin
Definition

α toxin is a lecithinase that acts as a phospholipase to cleave cell membrane → gas gangrene

 

*double zone of hemolysis on blood agar

Term
Tetanospasmin toxin
Definition
blocks the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters GABA and glycine
Term
Botulinum toxin
Definition

blocks release of ACh

-encoded in a lysogenic phage (certain strains)

*CNS paralysis, esp. Cranial nerves

*spores in canned foods

*baby who eats honey → floppy baby

Term
Bacillus anthracis toxin
Definition
edema factor (part of toxin complex) IS an adenylate cyclase itself → ↑ cAMP
Term

Shiga toxin

(& Shiga-like toxin - aka Vero cytotoxin)

Definition

cleaves host cell rRNA → inactivates 60S ribosome (inh. of protein syn.)

 -encoded in a lysogenic phage

*also produced by EHEC

*also enhances cytokine release and toxic to renal endothelial cells → HUS

*production enhanced by Fe def.

*Is an A-B toxin

Term
Yersinia enterocolitica enterotoxin
Definition

activates guanylate cyclase

 

*watery diarrhea and electrolyte loss

Term
Clostridium difficile exotoxins
Definition

Toxin A (enterotoxin) - causes diarrhea; binds to brush border

 

Toxin B (cytotoxin) - cytotoxic; destroys cytoskeleton (depolymerization of actin → cell death; MOA by binding and inhibiting cytosolic GTPases??)

*Dx C. diff by detecting one or both toxins in stool

Term
2 types of Transduction
Definition
  • generalized - "packaging event", lytic phage
  • specialized - "excision event", lysogenic phage
Term
Strep. pyogenes Erythrogenic toxin
Definition

super antigen

causes Scarlet Fever

 

-encoded in a lysogenic phage

Term
 Is Staph. epidermidis Novobiocin sensitive or resistant?
Definition

Novobiocin sensitive

 

*Staph saprophyticus is novobiocin resistant

"Fticus puts up a Fight"

Term
Tell me about Listeria monocytogenes
Definition
  • G+ rod
  • beta hemolytic
  • tumbling motility (@ 22°C)
  • "actin rockets"
  • only G+ w/ endotoxin
  • meningitis in newborns
  • unpasteurized milk/cheese and deli meats; vaginal transmission @ birth
  • facultative intracellular microbe (CMI required for elim.)
  • #3 cause of neonatal meningitis
  • can cause spontaneous abortion
Term
I say "rusty sputum", you say?
Definition
Strep pneumo
Term

only bacterium w/ a polypeptide capsule?

(what does it contain?)

Definition

Bacillus anthracis

 

*D-glutamate

Term

Actinomyces vs. Nocardia:

How to differentiate b/t long branching filaments resembling fungi

Definition

Actinomyces israelii: G+ anaerobe, normal oral flora, oral/facial abscesses (often after trauma), yellow "sulfur granules", tx w/ Penicillin

 

Nocardia asteroides: G+ but also weakly acid-fast, aerobe, soil resident, pulm. inf. in immunocompromised, Tx w/ sulfa

Term

M. avium-intracellulare prophylactic Tx in AIDS pts?

(don't want disseminated dz)

Definition
Azithromycin
Term

2 Disease types (leprosy) caused by Mycobacterium leprae:

-and Tx

Definition

Lepromatous: more serious (diffuse, can be lethal), pts have weak T-cell mediated immunity, Th2 (humoral), Leonine facies

Tuberculoid: just a few nodules, intact T-cell response, Th1 response (CMI!)

*M. leprae infects skin and superficial nn., armadillo reservoir

Tx: long-term oral dapsone (hemolysis, methemoglobinemia), *watch for G6PD def.

Term

2 G- comma shaped bacteria:

what are they and how do you differentiate?

Definition

Campylobacter jejuni - grows in 42°C

Vibrio cholera - grows in alkaline media

 

*both are ox+

Term
prophylaxis for close contacts of Meningococci?
Definition

Rifampin

 

*Rifampin prophylaxis is also used for close contacts of pts w/ H.inf type B meningitis

Term

Legionella pneumophila (facultative intracellular organism):

  • Stain?
  • Culture media?
  • Detection?
  • Transmission?
  • Tx?
Definition
  • silver stain
  • charcoal yeast extract w/ iron and cysteine
  • presence of antigen in urine
  • aerosol transmission from water source (NO person-to-person)
  • Erythromycin (macrolides)
Term
VDRL false positives
Definition

"VDRL"

  • V for viruses (mono, hepatitis)
  • D for drugs
  • R for Rheumatic dz (fever, arthritis too?)
  • L for Lupus and Leprosy

 

Term
Chlamydia trachomatis serotypes
Definition

A, B, & C: cause trachoma - blindness due to follicular conjunctivitis in Africa; chronic infection "ABC for Africa/Blindness/Chronic"

D-K: urethritis/PID, neonatal pneumonia (staccato cough), neonatal conjunctivitis

L1-3: lymphogranuloma venereum - swollen, painful inguinal nodes that coalesce, ulcerate, and rupture; leads to fibrosis and anogenital strictures (vs. donovanosis by Klebsiella granulomatis w/ painless, beefy red inguinal ulcers)

*Tx all w/ azithromycin

Term

Which systemic mycoses is the exception to being a yeast in tissue?

(not referring to cutaneous and opportunistic mycoses)

Definition

Coccidoides imitis

 

*spherule in tissue - filled w/ endospores, much larger than RBCs

Term
Classic Triad of Congenital Toxoplasmosis:
Definition
  • chorioretinitis
  • hydrocephalus
  • intracranial calcifications

 

*Tx for Toxoplasmosis is Sulfadiazine + pyrimethamine

Term
What is the only ssDNA virus?
Definition

Parvovirus B19

*ss, linear(-), and non-enveloped

*aplastic crises, "slapped cheeks" (5th dz), crosses placenta

Term
Live attenuated viral vaccines
Definition

Smallpox, yellow fever, chicken pox (VZV), Sabin's polio (oral), MMR, and intranasal influenza

"Live one night only! See small yellow chickens get vaccinated w/ Sabin's and MMR"

*influenza and yellow fever vaccines are egg based - allergic to egg?

*live attenuated - humoral and cell mediated immunity

*MMR is only live atten. that can be given to HIV+ pts

Term
Killed Viral vaccines
Definition

Rabies, Influenza (IM), Salk Polio, HAV

*humoral immunity only, need boosters

"RIP Always"

Term
Recombinant viral vaccines
Definition

HBV - antigen is HBsAg

HPV - types 6, 11, 16, & 18

Term
3 DNA viruses that DON'T have linear genome
Definition

Circular DNA genome

  1. papilloma
  2. polyoma
  3. hepadnaviruses
Term
Only dsRNA viruses
Definition

Reoviridae (R. coltivirus - colorado tick fever)

Rotavirus (#1 cause of fatal diarrhea in children)

 

*both are non-enveloped; linear genome

Term
Positive-stranded RNA viruses
Definition

"I went to a RETRO TOGA party, where I drank FLAVored CORONA and ate HIPPY CALIfornia PICKLES"

retrovirus, togavirus, flavivirus, coronavirus, hepevirus, calcivirus, picornavirus

*equate the party to a positive (stranded) experience

Term
only diploid virus
Definition

Retroviruses

-2 identical ssRNA molecules

 

*all other viruses are haploid (1 copy of DNA or RNA)

Term
only DNA virus to not replicate in the nucleus
Definition

Poxvirus

 

*also note poxvirus purified dsDNA is not infectious (same for HBV)

Term
only RNA viruses to NOT replicate in the cytoplasm
Definition

influenza virus

retroviruses

Term
Naked (non-enveloped viruses)
Definition

"Naked CPR and PAPP smear + Hepevirus (HepE)"

Calicivirus, Picornavirus, Reovirus, Parvovirus, Adenovirus, Papilloma, Polyoma, and hepevirus

 

*Note Poxviruses and Paramyxoviruses are only 2 that start w/ P and are enveloped

Term

Enveloped viruses that acquire envelope from nuclear membrane

(vs. all other from plasma membrane)

Definition

Herpesviruses

1, 2, VZV, EBV, CMV, HHV-6 & 8

Term
Where do you get Clostridium perfringens food poisoning from?
Definition

reheated meat dishes

*C. perfringens causes watery diarrhea and gas gangrene

Term
Salmonella food poisoning sources
Definition

poultry, meat, eggs

 

*assoc. w/ pet reptiles (turtles, snakes)

Term
Osteomyelitis in diabetics and drug addicts
Definition
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Term
Osteomyelitis w/ a Hx of cat or dog bite/scratch
Definition

Pasteurella multocida

*"my bones hurt from chasing animals in the pasture"

Term
Positive nitrite test on urine analysis signifies?
Definition
Gram negative bacterial UTI
Term

TORCHeS

& their classic neonatal manifestations

Definition
  • T - Toxoplasma gondii - chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus, intracranial calcifications
  • O - Other (=Parvovirus B19) - hydrops fetalis
  • R - Rubella - PDA or pulmonary artery hypoplasia, cataracts, deafness, +/- "blueberry muffin" rash (purpura)
  • C - CMV - most common; hearing loss (unilateral), seizures, petechial rash
  • H - HIV (recurrent inf. & chronic diarrhea; use zidovudine) & HSV -temporal encephalitis, herpetic (vesicular) lesions
  • S - Syphilis - usu stillbirth, hydrops fetalis; if child survives: notched teeth, saddle nose, short maxilla, saber shins
Term
Whipple's disease
Definition

Tropheryma whippelii (a Gram+ actinomycete)

MC Sx: arthralgias, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and weight loss; CNS involvement can occur

***small intestinal biopsy with periodic acid-Schiff (PAS)–positive, and diatase-resistant granules in macrophages with characteristic bacillus

Term
Bactericidal Abx
Definition

Vancomycin, Fluoroquinolones, Penicillin, Aminoglycosides, Cephalosporins, Metronidazole

"Very Finely Proficient At Cell Murder"

Term

Tetracyclines used for?

(tetracycline, doxycycline, demeclocycline, minocycline)

Definition

"VACUUM THe BedRoom"

Vibrio cholerae, Acne, Chlamydia, Ureaplasma Urealyticum, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Tularemia, H. pylori, Borrelia burgdorferi, Rickettsia

 

*use doxy in pts w/ renal failure (is fecally eliminated)

Term

Trimethoprim toxicities?

How do you alleviate them?

Definition

-megaloblastic anemia, leukopenia, granulocytopenia

-leucovorin rescue - supplemental folinic acid (bypasses DHFR step)

Term

Polymyxins

Examples?

MOA?

Use?

Toxicity?

Definition

-Polymyxin B, Colistin

-Binds cell membranes and disrupts osmotic integrity (are cationic basic proteins acting like detergents)

-resistant G- inf. ("last resort against multidrug resistant Pseudomonas"

-neurotoxicity, acute renal tubular necrosis (ATN)

Term
TB prophylaxis and treatment
Definition

Prophylaxis: isoniazid

Treatment:

  • Rifampin - inhibits DNA-dep RNA polymerase, orange body fluids; also prophylactic for HinfB and meningococcus
  • Isoniazid - inhibits syn. of mycolic acids (bacterial catalase-peroxidase has to activate it); lupus, neurotoxic due to pyridoxine def, hepatotoxic
  • Pyrazinamide - requires acidic environ. (engulfed TB in phagolysomes); hepatoxic, arthralgias
  • Ethambutol - inhibits arabinosyltransferase (carb. polymerization of cell wall); optic neuropathy (red-green color blindness, central scotoma; reversible)
Term
MAI prophylaxis and treatment
Definition

Prophylaxis: azithromycin (start when CD4 <100)

Tx: azithromycin, rifampin, ethambutol, streptomycin

 

Term
M. leprae Tx
Definition

Dapsone (same MOA as sulfonamides - PABA antimetabolite inhibiting dihyropteroate synthetase)

rifampin

clofazimine (binds guanine bases of DNA preventing DNA use as a template, increases PLA2 activity)

Term
DOC for oral or esophageal Candidiasis (thrush)?
Definition

Nystatin

"swish and swallow"

Term
Tx for cryptococcal meningitis in AIDS pts?
Definition

Initial Tx upon Dx is Amphotericin B, usu w/ addition of Flucytosine

(ampho B does NOT cross BBB and must be given intrathecally)

 

Maintenance Therapy for Life: Fluconazole

-the azole that can cross the BBB

Term
The 3 NNRTIs in HIV therapy
Definition

Nevirapine, Efavirenz, Delaviridine

*non-competitive, do NOT require phosphorylation

Term
Superantigens and the bugs that produce them
Definition

S. aureus: TSST-1 (TSS), enterotoxins (food poisoning), exfoliatin (SSSS)

S. pyogenes: erythrogenic toxen (toxic shock-like syndrome)

Term
Common presentation of Legionnaire's Dz
Definition

very HIGH fever in a smoker accompanied by diarrhea, confusion, and cough causing chest pain; radiographic evidence of pneumonia

Tx w/ erythromycin

*Legionella is a G- rod, but often no bacteria seen in sputum gram stain; test for anitgen in urine

*more in eldery vs. Mycoplasma in young

*NOT always going to see the assoc. w/ water in the ?

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