Intro to bacteria Flashcards
gram positive rods
Bacillus, clostridium, corynebacterium, lactobacilli, listeria, propionibacterium
Gram negative cocci
Moraxella, neisseria
gram negative Non enteric rods
bartonella, bordetella, brucella, burkholderia, francisella, haemophilus, legionella
gram nefative Enteric rods
campylobacter, enterobacter, eschericia, helicobacter, klebsiella, proteus, salmonella, shigella, vibrio, yersinia
curved shapes
helical, spiral (VIBRIO)
diplococci example
streptococcus pneumoniae
streptococci example
streptococcus pyogenes
staphylococci example
all staphylococcus
tetrad example
sarcina
coccobacillus
very short fat rod
pleomorphic
used for young or old when we are unsure of their shape.
acid fast stain used for
mycobacterium tuberculosis and nocardia spp.
colors for acid fast
for ZN and Kinyoun stain(cold) red and pink= acid fast, blue green= non acid fast. for FC stain, yellowish green against a black ground =acid fast.
flagella are never found on
cocci
Monotrichous example
vibrio
amphitrichous example
spirillum
lophotricous esxample
pseudomonas sp
lateral pertirchous example
proteus.
helical filament in flagella is composed of
flagellin H- antigen
rotor/bushing for flagella
S ring and M ring/L ring P ring
rotation of flagella to produce smooth swimming motion
counter clockwise
pilus
made of pilin, F-pilus is sex pilus and found only on gram -ve
Fimbriae
used for adhesion and colinization predominantly gram-ve, some gram +ve (Corynebacterium renale, actinomyces naeslundii)
glycocalyx
AKA capsule, slime layer and s-layer
surrounds cell, Slime layer is poorly organizatio and weak attachment to cell wall (staph, epidermis)- this is easily removed and can attach to plastics.
Capsule- organised adheres to cell wall (K-antigen (M-strep pyogenes, V1 for slamonellae)