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members of fastidious gram neg bacilli group (hacek)

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  • haemophilus spp
  • aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
  • cardiobacterium hominis
  • eikenella corrodens
    -kingella spp
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fastidious, non motile, capnophilic, and facultatively anaerobic bacteria

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haemophilus

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haemophilus cannot grow on ____

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pure blood agars

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haemophilus is both ____ and ____ positive

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catalase and oxidase positive

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haemophilus is both catalase and oxidase positive except for

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haemophilus segnis

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haemophilus growth factors

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X and V factors, porphyrin

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x factor include

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hemin

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V factors include

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nicotinamide, adenine dinucleotide or NAD

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Haemophilus spp. that are V factor dependent do not grow on ___

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SBA

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Clinical laboratories use __ for the recovery of Haemophilus

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chocolate (CHOC) agar

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A phenomenon that helps in the recognition of
Haemophilus spp. that require V factor is?

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satellitism

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a strictly human pathogen, is the causative agent
of chancroid, a highly communicable sexually transmitted genital ulcer disease (GUD).

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H. Ducreyi

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for h.ducreyi _____ should be used to collect
material from the base of the ulcer.

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Swab premoistened with sterile phosphate buffered saline

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___ on selective media at the bedside is preferred instead of using transport media.

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Direct plating

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Are susceptible to drying

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Haemophilus spp.

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.When attempting to isolate H. influenzae, CHOC agar is a commonly used medium incubated between __ and ___

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33° and 37°

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When attempting to isolate H. influenzae, CHOC agar is a commonly used medium in an atmosphere of

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5% to 10% carbon dioxide (CO2)

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It has been shown that CHOC agar supplemented with _____ is an excellent medium for the isolation of Haemophilus spp. from respiratory specimens.

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Bacitracin (300mg/L)

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for heamophilus spp growth on CHOC agar is usually seen after ___ of incubation

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18 to 24hours

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H. ducreyi also grows on enriched CHOC medium, or a ____ can be used.

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Nairobi biplate

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The use of ___ (most H. ducreyi are resistant) in the media helps reduce the growth of commensal biota from genital specimens and improves the detection of H. ducreyi.

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Vancomycin

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H. ducreyi grows best at

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33° C.

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H. influenzae on CHOC agar appear

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Tannish

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Haemophilus spp. sometimes grow on SBA plates around colonies of other bacterial species— a phenomenon known as

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Satellitism

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An organism is identified as haemophilus influenzae Because it requires?
both X and V factors.
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This organism requires V factor only and is identified as
Haemophilus parainfluenzae.
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The ___ is an alternative method for differentiating the heme-producing species of Haemophilus
porphyrin test
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has been associated with meningitis.
C. hominis
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The organisms tend to form rosettes, swellings, long filaments, or sticklike structures in yeast extract.
Cardiobacterium hominis
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Gram-stained smear of Cardiobacterium hominis showing typical ___
Rosettes
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They tend to resist decolorization on Gram stain
Kingella
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require increased CO, for growth and isolation from blood cultures.
Capnocytophaga spp.
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Capnocytophaga spp. are thin and often - resembling
Fusiform ( pointed ends)
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produce gliding motility on solid surfaces.
Capnocytophaga
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On agar Capnocytophaga colonies are often adherent and produce a ___ pigment; they can resemble colonies of E. corrodens.
Yellow- orange pigment
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. ferment sucrose, glucose, maltose, and lactose, although triple sugar iron agar (TSIA) may be negative without enrichment.
Capnocytophaga spp
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are gram-negative, nonmotile, facultative anaerobic coccobacilli that appear ovoid, filamentous, or as bacilli.
pasteurella spp
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safety pin appearance when the poles of the cells are more intensely stained
Pasteurella spp. bipolar staining
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These bacteria are catalase and oxidase positive and ferment glucose with weak to moderate acid production without gas.
Pasteurella spp.
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All Pasteurella spp. grow on __ and __ agar, producing gravish colonies
SBA and CHOC agar
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does not support the growth of most Pasteurella spp.
MAC agar
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small gram-negative, aerobic, nonmotile, unencapsulated bacteria that may appear as coccobacilli or bacilli
Brucellae
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Brucellae colonies
smooth raised, and translucent colonies
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Brucellae are facultative intracellular pathogens that can reside within
mononuclear phagocytic cells.
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can vary in their requirement for CO,. They grow on SBA and CHOC agar and can be isolated on MTM or Martin-Lewis media from contaminated specimens.
Brucella spp.
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Brucellae are oxidase and catalase positive and are - urease positive within
2 hours
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Because of the aerosol mode of transmission, Brucella spp should be handled under
biosafety level 3 conditions
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small, nonmotile, gram-negative bacilli or coccoid bacteria and are strictly aerobic.
Francisella spp.
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fastidious and require supplementation with cysteine, cystine, or thiosulfate for growth on successive passage.
Francisella spp.
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F. tularensis are negative in what test
oxidase, urease, and satellite or X and V test
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F. Tularensis is weakly positive for
Catalase and beta-lactamase
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A presumptive identification for brucella can be made by a positive test result in any one of the following assays:
- Direct fluorescent antibody (DNA) - Immunohistologic staining with monoclonal antibody - PCR - Slide agglutination - Single serology test
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fastidious, aerobic, motile, and non-carbohydrate fermenters legionnaires disease and pontiac ferer
Legionella
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Specimens for culture and direct examination for Legionella spp commonly include
sputum, bronchoalveolar lavage, and bronchial washings
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It is recommended to freeze Legionella spp. specimens at ___ if processing will be delayed for several days.
-70° C
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are pleomorphic, weakly staining, gram-negative bacilli that are approximatelv 1 to 2um × 0.5um in size
Legionella spp
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Extending the safranin counterstaining time to at least _ can enhance the staining intensity of the organisms
10 minutes
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agar that is best for Legionella isolation.
BCYE with 0.1% a-ketoglutaric acid (BCYEo)
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BCYEa agar, colonies appear as
rainbow/ grayish white or blue-green, convex, and glistening
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Characteristic "ground-glass" colony morphology
Legionella
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Legionella has a slow growth which takes
3-5 days
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Legionella Requires ___ for primary isolation
L-cysteine
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The ___ assay is the most common method employed for serologic diagnosis of legionellosis
indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) assay
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small, gram-negative bacilli or coccobacilli, All are obligate aerobic bacteria, do not grow on ferment carbohydrates
Bordetella
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Bordetella grow best at _____
35 -37°C
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Bordetella are non motile except for
B. bronchiseptica
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constitute the specimen of choice for culture and PCR testing for Bordetella.
Nasopharyngeal aspirates or swabs of Dacron polyester with a nonwire shaft
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Transport media that can preserve viability of bordetella for up to 48 hours
casamino acid (1% casein hydrolysate) or amies with charcoal
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Isolation methods for bordetella
Bordet-Gengou potato infusion agar
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On Bordet-Gengou agar, colonies of B. pertussis and B. parapertussis
Hemolytic
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Transport system of B. Pertussis
• Casamino acid (1% casein hydrolysate) • Amies transport medium with charcoal • Regan-Lowe transport medium
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Most vibrio possess - flagella when grown in broth
Monotrichous or multitrichous flagella
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They have been described typically as curved or comma-shaped gram-negative rods, in gram stain
Vibrio
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The vibrios are facultatively anaerobic, are catalase and oxidase positive and able to reduce nitrate to nitrite, except for
V. metschnikovii,
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All species of vibrios, except for V. cholerae and V. mimicus are ___ or salt-loving
halophilic
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stool specimens suspected of containing Vibrio spp. should be collected and transported in
Cary-Blair medium
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is not acceptable, because glycerol is toxic to vibrios.
Buftered glycerol saline
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for specimens suspected of containing Vibrio spp. Feces is preferable, but rectal swabs are acceptable during the ___ of diarrheal illness.
acute phase of diarrheal illness.
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V. cholerae toxin can be detected in stool using an
enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) or a commercially available latex agglutination test
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When stool specimens from patients with cholera are examined using dark-field microscopy, the bacilli exhibit characteristic __\
rapid darting or shooting-star motility.
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on ___ or ___ vibrios produce medium to large colonies that appear smooth, opaque, and iridescent with a greenish hue.
SBA or (CHOC) agar,
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should also be examined for the presence of a- or -hemolysis for vibrio spp
SBA plate
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On this agar, the pathogenic vibrios usually grow as nonlactose fermenters (except for __)
MAC agar, (except for V. vulnificus )
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Vibrio isolate general susceptibility to the ___ (150mg) and ___,distinguishes them from Aeromonas.
vibriostatic agent 0/129 (150mg) and positive string test
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SUCROSE FERMENTERS (YELLOW COLONIES)
V. CHOLERAE V. ALGINOLYTICUS V. METSCHNIKOVII
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NON-SUCROSE FERMENTERS (GREEN COLONIES)
V. MIMICUS V. VULNIFICUS V. PARAHEAMOLYTICUS V. DAMSELA
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vibrio motility test: broth
polar sheated flagella
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vibrio motility test: Solid media
peritrichous, unsheathed flagella
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VIBRIO CHOLERAE is positive in what test
(+) oxidase, indole, lysine and ornithine decarboxylase
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Stool cultures for Vibrio spp. are plated on the selective medium __ agar
thiosulfate citrate bile salts sucrose (TCBS) agar.
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2 biogroups of vibrio cholerae
Classical, el tor
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VP Test (Voges-Proskauer): for vibrio cholerae biogroup
• Classical: Negative (-) • El Tor: Positive (+)
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Chicken RBC Agglutination: biotypes of Vibrio cholerae
• Classical: Negative (-) • El Tor: Positive (+)
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Polymyxin B Sensitivity: biotypes of Vibrio cholerae
• Classical: Sensitive (S) • El Tor: Resistant (R)
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It differentiates sucrose-fermenting ( yellow) from the nonsucrose-fermenting- (green)
Thiosulfate Citrate Bite Salts Sucrose Agar (TCBS)

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