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ENTEROBACTERIACEAE

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What is the medical importance of the enteric family?

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Indicator of fecal pollution of water
30% of hospital acquired cases (nosocomial infection)
Easily studied genetically
Difficult to treat with antibiotics

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Physical characteristics of Enterobacteriaceae

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Gram-neg, medium sized rods
Flagella if mobile
Non spore forming anaerobes

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What are some non-motile Enterobacteriaceae?

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Klebsiella and Shigella genus

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Cultural characteristics of Enterobacteriaceae

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Ferment glucose
Resistant to acid and bile

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What makes Enterobacteriaceae toxic?

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Lipid A
Lipid A + O polysaccs=Lipopolysaccharide (endotoxins) –> on their cell wall

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Selective media used for Enterobacteriaceae

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Unioculated MacConkey

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Which Enterobacteriaceae are lactose fermenters?

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E. coli, Klebsiella, Enterobacter
with a pink pigmentation

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Which Enterobacteriaceae are non-fermeters?

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Salmonella, Shigella
with straw colored colonies

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What are gram inhibitors?

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Dye crystal violet that suppresses unwanted Gram-pos organisms by bile salt or bacteriostatic dye

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Triple Sugar Iron (TSI)

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Indicator media
Tests organisms for carb fermentation, gas production, hydrogen sulfide production

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How do you categorize TSI?

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Black= H2S
Cracks= Gas
Red slant= glucose used (no lactose and peptones used)
Yellow= all sugars fermented

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How is salmonella and proteus classified by the TSI?

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Slant= alkaline (red)
Butt= acid (yellow)
Gas (cracks) and H2S (black) positive

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How is Enterobacteriaceae divided?

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  1. Major pathogens
  2. Opportunistic pathogens
  3. Organisms of uncertain significance
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Major pathogens

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Salmonella
E. coli
3 Yersinia species

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Opportunistic pathogens

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Klebsiella, Enterobacter, Proteus, Edwardsiella, Citrobacter, Morganella, Shigella

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There are over ______ genera and over ______ species

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40
180

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Escherichia coli (E. coli)

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Ferments lactose
165 O chains, 50 H (flagella), 90 K (capsules) strains = over 1000 strains

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Habitat of E. coli

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Large and small intestine of mammals
Excreted in feces and can survive in dust, water and fecal particles for months
E. coli in water= fecal pollution

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Adhesions

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Fimbira/pili
Mediate adherence to the target cells (glycoprotein) in the GI tract

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Capsules

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Protects E. coli from complement cascade and inhibits microbe from attaching to phagocytic cells

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What enterotoxins does E. coli produce

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Heat liable toxin (LT)
Heat stable (STa and b)
Entero-aggregative heat stable (EAST 1)

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How do enterotoxins affect cells?

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Affect control of cyclic nucleotide activity within the affected cell –> deregulation of water and electrocytes

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Predisposing causes of E. coli

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Neonates obtaining insufficient Abs from colostrum
Intensive husbandry system
Poor hygiene
Stress factors

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Why are neonates susceptible to E. coli?

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Normal flora of intestine not fully developed
Naive immune system
Receptor for adhesions of enterotoxigenic present @ 1st weeks of calf life and 6 weeks for piggies

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White Scours (Colibacillosis) in young calf
1-5 days: E. coli 5-14 days: Rota- corona virus 10-30 days: Cryptospordium parvum Any age; Salmonellosis, C. perfringens
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Edema disease in young weaning pig
Recent change in feed (lose maternal Abs) Mild diarrhea noticed few days before
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How is E.coli classified?
E. coli causing intestinal disease or extra-intestinal disease
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Which E. coli strains cause intestinal disease
Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) & Attaching and Effacing E. coli (AEEC) | v Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) & Vero- Shiga- toxin producing strains (VTEC or STEC) | v Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) & Strains of E. coli causing edema disease
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Enterotoxigenic E. Coli (ETEC)
Neonatal calibacillosis in calves, lambs and piglets - first week of life Host specific Produces watery diarrhea
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Pathogenicity of Enterotoxigenic E. coli
Adhesion followed by production of enterotoxins Adherence mediated by fimbriae in pigs and calves
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Fimbrae receptors for Enterotoxigenic E. coli
F4 (K88), F5(K99), F6(987p), F17, F18, F41
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What is significant about Enterotoxigenic E. coli?
No gross or microscopic damage to enterocytes
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Toxins within Enterotoxigenic E. coli
LT (heavier)- stimulates cAMP causing secretions of fluids K+, Cl-, enterocytes ST (smaller)- deregulate cGMP causing fluid and e-accumulation in bowel lumen
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Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC)
Within attaching and effacing E. coli (AEEC) Causes muccoid diarrhea in piglets, lambs and pups by erasing normal structure of intestinal vili (no absorption and losing electrolytes and fluid)
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What are virulence factors of enteropathogenic E. coli encoded by?
Pathogenic island called enterocyte effacement
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Intimin
A key signaling factor of enteropathogenic E. coli that promotes close attachment of E. coli with enterocytes
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Shigatoxigenic E. coli (STEC or VTEC)
Edema disease in pigs associated with O139 and O141 Hemolytic and produce shiga toxin
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O139 and O141 strains
Present in the large intestine of pigs Multiply rapidly under conditions of stress (change in diet)
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What are the 2 subtypes of the shiga toxin?
STx1 and STx2 (STX2e is associated with the edema disease in pigs)
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What does shigtoxigenic E coli target?
Endothelial cells of small arteries of the forehead, eyelids and mesentary
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What produces the shigo disease?
Heavy grain diet --> doesn't produce enough saliva --> makes it easy for the bacteria to invade
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Enterohemorragic E. coli (EHEC)
Cause of food poisoning in humans Associated with cases of hemorrhagic enteritis in calves
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What does eneterohemorragic E. Coli do?
Binds and effaces microvilli and produces shiga toxin Damages adjacent cells and enters circulation
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What strains cause extra-intestinal disease?
Septicemic E. coli (SEPEC) Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) Mammary pathogenic E. coli (MPEC)
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Septicaemic E. coli
Frist step: adherence to the intestinal lining Fimbriae, capsule, aerobactin (iron), endotoxin, colicin V, cytotoxic necrotizing factor, cytolethal factor
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How do you diagnose enterotoxins ST and LT?
ELISA
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How do you diagnose fimbral antigens?
Latex plate agglutination
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Diagnosis of EPEC E. coli
Demonstration of urease production Ileum shows distortion of microvilli and effacement of mucosal surface
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Diagnosis of edema disease
Clinical and post-mortem findings Isolates are hemolytic
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Antimicrobial resistance
Resistance to at least 2 classes of antimicrobial agents is common in vet med Emergence of fluoroquinolone resistance
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How do you determine resistance?
Disc diffusion method or MIC for broth dilutions
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The genus enterobacter
Gram-neg bacilli, short and motile Recovered from bovine mastitis, navel ill/neonatal septicemia, equine uterine infection, canine UTI
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Opportunistic pathogens under enterobacter?
Enterobacter aerogenes and E. cloacae
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Diagnosis of enterobacter
Recovery of agent from clinical material and ID by biochem tests
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What is enterobacter resistant to?
Ampicillin, cephalothin and tetracyline
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The genus citrobacter
Widely distributed in the environment (soil, water) Citrobacter rodentium Transmissible murine colonic hyperplasia
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Where is citrobacter found?
Colon (descending) and cecum --> thickened mucsosa and increasing bowel size
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Diagnosis of citrobacter
PCR and culture

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