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Default shape of bacteria
Coccus
Default shape of bacteria is coccus because it doesn’t have
Mreb cytoskeleton
Elongation of your cell is dependent on your
Mreb cytoskeleton
Curving of bacterial cell is dependent on the
cresentin cytoskeleton
Spore forming genera in gram positive bacilli
Genus bacillus
Genus clostridum
Branching genus appears like a fungi in microscope
Genus nocardia
Genus actinomyces
NON-SPORE-FORMING, NON-BRANCHING, CATALASE POSITIVE:
Corynebacterium
Rothia
Listeria
SPORE-FORMING, NON-BRANCHING, CATALASE POSITIVE:
Bacillus
NON-SPORE-FORMING, NON-BRANCHING, CATALASE NEGATIVE:
Erysiphelotrix
Gardnerella
NON-SPORE-FORMING, BRANCHING:
Nocardia and other actinomyces
Clubbed or irregularly shaped, non-motile, non-capsulated, non-spore- forming, highly pleomorphic
Genus corynebacterium
Why is Corynebacterium highly pleomorphic?
Because it has an incomplete binary fission
Lipophilic (fastidious, slow growers):
C. jeikeium
C. urealyticum
Non-Lipophilic (fermentative/oxidative):
C. ulcerans
C. pseudotuberculosis
C. amycolatum
C. striatum
C. xerosis
C. minutissimum
Non-fermentative:
C.pseudodiphtheriticum
C.auris
C.glucuronolyticum
Inhabits the nasopharynx causes multi organ failure
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Heat-labile polypeptide; alkaline & iron loving, Carried by TOX gene from β-phage
Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Respiratory Diphtheria (toxigenic)
* Pharyngitis characterized by the development of an ______ that covers tonsils, uvula, palate & pharyngeal wall.
exudative membrane (pseudomembrane)
Color of pseudomembrane
Greyish black-leathery
-edema in the neck area (cervical &
submandibular lymphadenopathy)
-common in children, due to lymphadenopathy
(swelling of lymph nodes)
Bull’s Neck Appearance
Difficulty swallowing
Respiratory Diphtheria
Veldt sore or Barcoo root
Cutaneous diphtheria
It is characterized by slow healing ulcers with dirty gray membrane may or may not develop immunity
Cutaneous diphtheria
is disease of the children (6-8 yrs old)
Diphtheria