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Organism by test
Various organisms studied in class by gram stain, cell morphology, test reactions etc.
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Microbiology
Undergraduate 4
06/10/2012

Additional Microbiology Flashcards

 


 

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Term

 

 

 

Name all of the Gram-positive cocci organisms that we have discussed in class.

(8)

Definition
  • Staphylococcus aureus
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis
  • Staphylococcus saprophyticus
  • Streptococcus pyogenes
  • Streptococcus agalactieae
  • Streptococcus pneumoniae
  • Streptococcus mutans
  • Enterococcus faecalis
Term

Name the Gram-positive cocci organisms that are catalase positive.

(3)

Definition

All Staphylococcus spp.

 

  • S. aureus
  • S. epidermidis
  • S. saprophyticus
Term

Name the Gram-positive organisms that are catalase negative.

(5)

Definition
  • Streptococcus spp.
    • S. pneumoniae
    • S. pyogenes
    • S. agalactiae
    • S. mutans
  • Enterococcus faecalis
Term

Name the Gram-positive cocci organisms that are catalase positive and mannitol fermentors.


(1)

 

 

 

Definition
Staphylococcus aureus
Term

Name the Gram-positive cocci organisms that are catalase positve and are not mannitol fermentors.

(2) 

Definition
  • Staphylococcus epidermidis
  • Staphylococcus saprophyticus
Term

Name the Gram-positive rods that are spore forming.

(5)

Definition
  • Clostridium spp.
    • C. tetanus
    • C. perfringens
    • C. botulism
    • C. difficile
  • Bacillus anthracis
Term

Name the Gram-positive cocci organisms that are catalase positive, do not ferment mannitol, and novabiocin resistant.

(1)

Definition

 

Staphylococcus saprophyticus

Term

Name the Gram-positve cocci organisms that are catalase negative and alpha hemolytic.

(1)

Definition

 

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Term

Name the Gram-positve cocci organisms that are catalase negative and beta hemolytic.

2)

Definition
  • Streptococcus pyogenes (group A)
  • Streptococcus agalactiae (group B)
Term

Name the Gram-positve cocci organisms that are catalase negative and beta hemolytic and CAMP positive.

(1)

Definition
Streptococcus agalactiae
Term

Name the Gram-positve cocci organisms that are catalase negative and beta hemolytic and CAMP negative.

(1)

Definition
Streptococcus pyogenes
Term

Name the Gram-positve cocci organisms that are catalase negative and bile esculin positive (grow with esculin hydolysis).

(1)

Definition

 

 

Enterococcus faecalis

Term

Name all of the Gram-positive rods that we have discussed in class.

(7)

Definition
  • Corynebacterium diphtheriae
  • Bacillus anthracis
  • Clostridium perfringens
  • Clostridium tetanus
  • Clostridium botulism
  • Clostidium difficile
  • Micobacterium turerculosis

 

 

Term

Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are spore forming.

(5)

Definition
  • Bacillus anthracis
  • Clostridium spp.
    • C. perfringens
    • C. tetanus
    • C. botulism
    • C. difficile
Term

Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are spore forming and strict anaerobes.

(4)

Definition
  • Clostridium spp.
    • C. tetanus
    • C. botulism
    • C. perfringens
    • C. difficile
Term
Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are spore forming and aerobic.
Definition
Bacillis anthracis
Term

Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are not spore forming.

(2)

Definition

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Term

Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are not spore forming and are catalase positive.

(1)

Definition
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Term

Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are not spore forming and are acid fast.

(1)

Definition
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Term

Name the Gram-positive rods organisms that are not spore forming and is not acid fast.

(1)

Definition
Corynebacyerium diphtheriae
Term

 Name all of the Gram-negative rods or commata that we have discussed in class.

(9)

Definition
  • Escherichia coli
  • Klebsiella peumoniae
  • Salmonella spp.
    • S. enterica
    • S. typhii
  • Shigella spp.
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Vibrio cholera
  • Campylobacter jejuni
  • Helicobacter pylori
  • Aeromonas spp.
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase positive.

(3)

Definition
  • Pseudomonas aeruginosa
  • Vibrio cholera
  • Aeromonas spp.
Term
Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase positive and ferment glucose.
Definition
  • Vibrio cholera
  • Aeromonas spp.
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase positive, ferment glucose, and require Na+for growth.

(1)

Definition
Vibrio cholera
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase positive, ferment glucose, and do not grow in Na+ .

(1) 

Definition

Aeromonas spp.

 

Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative.

(5) 

Definition
  • Escherichia coli
  • Klebsiella peumoniae
  • Salmonella spp.
    • S. enterica
    • S. typhii
  • Shigella spp.
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative and lactose positive.

(2) 

Definition
  • Escherichia coli
  • Klebsiella peumoniae
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose positive, and indole positive.

(1)

Definition
Escherichia coli
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose positive, and indole negative.

(1)

Definition
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose positive, and indole negative.

(1)

Definition
Klebsiella pneumoniae
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose positive, indole negative, methyl red negative, and Vogues-Proskauer positive.

(1)

Definition
Klebsiella pneumoniae pneumoniae
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose positive, indole negative, methyl red positive, and Vogues-Proskauer negative.

(1)

Definition
Klebsiella pneumoniae ozaenae
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative and lactose negative.

(3) 

Definition
  • Salmonella spp.
    • S. typhii
    • S. enterica
  • Shigella

 

Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose negative, and indole negative.

(2) 

Definition
  • Salmonella enterica
  • Shigella sonnei
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose negative, indole negative, and urease negative.

(2)

Definition
  • Shigella sonnei
  • Salmonella enterica
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose negative, indole negative, urease negative, and not motile.

(1)

Definition
Shigella sonnei
Term

Name the Gram-negative rods that are oxidase negative, lactose negative, indole negative, urease negative, motile, and produce H2S.

(1)

Definition

Salmonella enterica

Term

Name the Gram-negative rod that is oxidase positive, ferment glucose, and does not require Na2 to grow.

(1)

Definition
Aeromonasspp.
Term

Which Gram-negative organisms, that were discussed in class, are curved rods?

(2)

Definition
  • Campylobacter jejuni
  • Helicobacter pylori
Term
How do you tell Campylobacter jejuni and Helicobacter pylori apart?
Definition

C. jejuni - urease negative

H. pylori - urease positive

 

C. jejuni - nitrate reduction positive

C. pylori - nitrate reduction negative

 

Term

Name all of the Gram-negative cocci/coccobacilli discussed in class.

(6)

Definition
  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae
  • Haemophilus influenza
  • Bordetella pertussis
  • Yersinia pestis
  • Yersinia enterocolitica
  • Legionella pneumophila
Term

Nisseria gonorrhoeae

 

 

 

 

Definition
  • Gram-negative diplococci
  • non-motile
  • no capsule
  • capnophilic (grow under CO2 conditions)
  • fastidious; grows on chocolate agar

Disease - gonnorrhea (STD) 

Term

Haemophilus influenzae

 

 

 

Definition
  • Gram-negative rods/coccobacillary, small
  • non-motile
  • Fastidious, capnophilic (CO2), faculative anaerobe
  • grows on blood containing enriched media
  • Requires both X-factor (hematin) and V-factor (NAD) for growth and will satellite (grow large colonies around other organisms that secrete V-factor i.e. S.aureus)

Disease - meningitis (capsular type b), osteomyelitis, epiglottitis, otitis; lives in the upper respiratory tract in humans; transmission is air-borne

Term

Bordetella pertussis

 

 

Definition
  • Gram-negative coccobacilli, small
  • fastidious and slow growing
  • will not grow on blood agar
  • will grow on blood charcoal agar

Disease - whooping cough; transmission is air-borne

Term

Yersinia pestis

 

 

Definition
  • Gram-negative rods
  • faculative anaerobe
  • zoonotic
  • grows best of blood and tissue media
  • idendification by immunofluorescence

Disease - Bubonic plague from bite from rat fleas;

Term

Yersinia enterocolitica

 

Definition
  • Gram-negative rods
  • zoonotic
  • non-lactose fermenting
  • urease positive
  • oxidase negative
  • faculative anaerobe
  • grows best and is motile at 25°C (non-motile 37°C)

Disease - enterocolitis; from ingestion contaminated food and drink (raw milk, raw pork, etc.) Symptoms are fever, abdominal pain and diarrhea which may be watery and bloody.

Term
Legionella pneumophila
Definition
  • Gram-negative coccobacilli (in tissue and stain poorly, silver staining is better); pleomorphic on laboratory media
  • fastidious; requires enriched media containing iron and cysteine w/absorbants to remove fatty acids
  • diagnosis based on antibody detection (commonly) 

Disease: Legionnaires' disease; atypical pneumonia; Transmission: saprophyte inhalation of contaminated water from showers, air conditioning, cooling towers.

Term

Name the spirochetes studied in class.

(2)

Definition
  • Treponema palladium
  • Borrelia burgdorferi
Term
Treponem pallidum
Definition
  • coiled spirochetes
  • can be seen with darkield illumination
  • motile (flagella)
  • cannot be grown in artificial media
  • diagnosis is serological or by microscoic examinatin of the fluid from primary lesions

Disease: syphilis;  STD; primary=chancre/secondary/tertiary stages 

Term
Borrelia burgdorferi
Definition
  • spirochetes; visible by light microscopy
  • microaerophilic
  • complex nutritional requirements, long growth time
  • diagnosis by serology or (bull's eye rash)
  • zoonotic

Disease: Lyme disease with bull's eye rash and commonly, joint pains and fatigue ; untreated can cause neurologic and cardiac problems; Transmission is by deer tick bite; Treatment is with antibiotics

Term
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Definition
  • no cell wall
  • long thin like coccci but is pleomorphic

Disease: atypical pneumonia; Transmission is air-borne 

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