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Definition
Streptococcus Pneumoniae
Klebsiella
Haemophilus Influenzae
Neisseria meningitidis
Salmonella
Group B strep
"Some killers have nice shiny bodies" |
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Term
| Bacteria with unusual cell wall |
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Definition
Mycobacterium (mycolic acid)
Mycoplasma (sterol) |
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Term
| Bacteria that do not gram stain well |
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Definition
Treponema (too thin)
Rickettsia (intracellular parasite)
Mycobacteria (high lipid content cell wall requires acid fast)
Mycoplasma (no cell wall)
Legionella
Chlamydia |
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Term
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Definition
Giemsa - chlamydia, borrelia, trypanosomes, plasmodium
PAS - glycogen mucopolysaccharides. tropheryma whippeli
Zhiehl-Neelsen - acid fast organisms
India Ink - Cryptococcal neoformans
Silver Stain - fungi, legionella |
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Definition
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Bugs with exotoxins:
TSST-1 |
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Definition
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Erythrogenic toxin causing toxic shock/Scarlet fever |
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Definition
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Inactivates elongation factor (EF-2) |
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Definition
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Pseudomonas exotoxin A |
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
ADP robosylation of G protein stimulates adenylyl cyclase.
Pumps Cl- into gut |
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Definition
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Increases cAMP by inhibiting G-alpha1 receptors (inhibit the inhibitors) |
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Definition
Bordetella pertussis via diptheria toxin
Whooping cough |
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Blocks the release of inhibitory neurotransmitters GABA (CNS) and glycine (PNS) |
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Definition
Clostridium Tetani
Lock Jaw
Inhibitsglycine release from RENSHAW cells in spinal cord. |
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Blocks the release of acetylcholine. Found in canned food/honey |
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Definition
Clostridium Botulinum
Floppy baby
Causes anticholinergic symptoms, CNS paralysis. |
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Alpha toxin causes gas gangrene. Phospholipase activity causes necrosis |
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Definition
Clostridium perfringens
via alpha toxin (lecithinase)
Double zone of hemolysis on blood agar. |
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Releases edema factor. Spores from contaminated wool. |
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Definition
Bacillus anthracis
Lethal factor and edema (mediastinal widening). Transmitted via contaminated wool.
Can cause cutaneous and pulmonary anthrax |
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Cleaves 60S ribosome |
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Definition
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Term
Bugs with exotoxins:
Streptolysin O (a hemolysin), an antigen for ASO antibody. |
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Definition
Strep Pyogenes
Used to diagnose rheumatic fever |
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Term
Culture for:
H. Influenza |
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Definition
Chocolate agar
with factors V (NAD+) and factor X (hematin) |
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Term
Culture for:
N. gonorrhoeae |
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Definition
Thayer Martin (or VPN)
VPN = Vancomycin, polymyxin, nystatin) |
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Term
Culture for:
B. Pertussis |
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Definition
| Bordet Gengou (potato) agar |
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Term
Culture for:
C. diptheriae |
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Definition
Tellurite Plate
Loffler's media |
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Term
Culture for:
M. tuberculosis |
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Definition
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Term
Culture for:
Lactose-fermenting enterics |
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Definition
MacConkey's agar
E. Coli also grown on eosin-methylene blue agar (EMB) |
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Term
Culture for:
Legionella and yeast |
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Definition
| Charcoal Yeast buffered with cysteine |
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Definition
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Bugs of exotoxins:
ADP ribosylation from gram negative bacteria |
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Definition
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Definition
Clostridium
Bacteroides
Actinomyces
anaerobes "Cant Breath Air"
Tx:
Metronidazole
Clindamycin |
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Term
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Definition
Nocardia
Pseudomonas
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Bacillus anthracis |
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Term
| Acquired from ingestion of unpasteurized milk/cheese and vaginal meats or by vaginal transmission at birth |
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Definition
Listeria monocytogenes
One of the most common neonatal infections with (ecoli and GBS). Causes meningitis.
Only gram positive bacteria with endotoxin. |
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Term
| Anaerobic gram positive aerobe that forms yellow sulfur granules |
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Definition
Actinomyces israelii
Apart of normal oral flora
Causes abcesses that drain through tract of skin |
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Term
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Definition
S. pneumoniae
H. influenzae type B
Neisseria spp. |
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