Micro High Yield Flashcards
Toxins that increase cAMP
ETEC Heat-Labile toxin, Bacillus Anthracis Edema factor, Cholera toxin, and pertussus toxin
Inflammatory component of gram negative LPS
Lipid A Note: Lipoteichoic acid induces TNFa and IL-1 from G+
Novobiocin–
Sensitive: Staph epidermidis
Resistant: Staph saprophyticus
Quellung Reaction
Strep Pneumo Note: Strep pneumo capsule swells when bound by Ab (specific); Lancet shaped diplococci
Bacitracin:
Sensitive: Strep Pyogenes
Resistant: Strep agalactiae
Endocarditis following GI/GU procedures
Enterococcus Note: Can grow in bile and 6.5% NaCl
Gram Positive Rods with Metachromatic (blue and red) granules
Corynebacterium diptheriae Note: Black colonies on cystine-tellurite agar; ADP Ribosulates EF-2; ELEK test for toxin
tetanospasmin block GABA and glycine release from?
Renshaw cells in the spinal cord Note: trismus (lockjaw), Risus Sardonicus, and Opisthonotos (eyes locked)
Serpentine chains of G+ rods
Bacillus anthracis Note: spore forming; edema factor inc cAMP; + lethal toxin
Only G+ that produces LPS
Listeria Note: Tumbling motility and can grow at 4 degrees celcius (cold enrichment)
Acid fast+ and G+, causes pulmonary infections
Nocardia Note: weakly acid fast (carbolfuschin); TX with sulfonamides
Oxidase+, G- that grows at 42 degrees
Camplyobacter Note: Comma shaped, undercooked chicken; Guillane-Barre and Reactive Arthritis
Oral abscess or facial abscess (draining through sinus tract) with yellow sulfur granules
Actinomyces Note: Branched G+ bacteria; TX with penecillin
Asthma and CF pts at risk for this infection causing bronchiectasis and Eosinophilia
Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis (ABPA) Note: Can lead to bronchiectasis
Bacteria that causes Lymptocytic Leukocytosis
Bordetella pertussis Note: Produces lymphocytosis promoting factor that blocks lymphocytes from leaving blood for lymph node
Grows in both bile and 6.5% NaCl (G+ coccus)
Enterococcus
Only bacteria with a polypeptide capsule
Bacillus anthracis Note: D-glutamate; Cutaneous- ulcer with black eschar
Gonorrhea immune evasion
Rapid Ag variation of Pilus proteins Note: also often intracellular in neutrophils (culture negative UTI)
Chlamydia/Gonorrhea Tx regimen
Ceftriaxone + Azithromycin/doxycycline
G- coccobacillus causing otitus media, bronchitis, conjunctivitis
Nontypable Haemophilus influenze Note: No capsular Ag
Pneumonia with Hyponatremia, watery diarrhea, heachahe and GI pain
Legionella Note: can cause SIADH and decreased tubular reabsorption; Charcoal Yeast Extract
Key E coli virulence factor for: UTI? Pneumonia? Neonatal Meningitis? Sepsis?
UTI- Fimbrae/P-pili; Shock-LPS
Pneumonia/Meningitis- K Capsule
E. Coli strain that does not ferment sorbitol or produce glucuronidase
EHEC Note: O157:H7, Shiga-like/Verotoxin causes microthrombi to form on toxin-damaged endothelium–>HUS
Woolsorter’s disease
Bacillus anthracis Note: inhalation of SPORES from contaiminated wool; flu-like with rapid progression to fever, hemorrhage, mediastinitis and shock