Removal exam Flashcards
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The layer just outside the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane
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peptidoglycan layer
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Composed of repeating disaccharides with 4 amino acids in a side chain extending from each disaccharide
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peptidoglycan layer
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The enzyme that catalyzes the formation of this linkage
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transpeptidase
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The antibiotic penicillin binds to and inhibits this enzyme. For this reason the enzyme is
also called _________
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penicillin binding protein
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Very thick and has extensive cross-linking of the amino-acid side chains
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gram-positive cell wall
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has S layers, not including the periplasmic space.
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gram-negative cell envelope
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contains a phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins
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inner cytoplasmic membrane
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filled with a gel that contains proteins and enzymes.
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periplasmic space
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The thin peptidoglycan layer does not contain teichoic acid, although it does have a small helical lipoprotein
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murein lipoprotein.
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,which is a disaccharide with multiple fatty acid tails reaching into the membrane.
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lipid A
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toxic to humans and is known as the gram-negative
endotoxin.
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lipid A
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Embedded in the gram-negative outer membrane, which allow passage of nutrients. These are also unique to gram-negative organism.
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porin proteins,
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spherical
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Cocci
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rods.
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Bacilli
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Short bacilli
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coccobacilli.
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comma-shaped, S-shaped, or spiral-shaped.
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Spiral forms
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lacking a distinct shape (like jello)
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Pleomorphic
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forms strips of cocci
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Streptococcus
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forms clusters of cocci.
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Staphylococcus
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Two of the 4 gram-positive rods produce
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spores
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spheres that protect a dormant bacterium from the
harsh environment
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spores
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which causes syphilis.
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Treponema pallidum
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It is actually a diplococcus (looks like 2 coffee beans kissing):
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Neisseria
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are weakly gram-positive but stain better with a special stain called the acid-fast stain
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Mycobacteria
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have a gram-negative cell wall but are too small to be seen with the light microscope and so must be visualized with a special darkfield microscope
Spirochetes
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Spirochetes have a gram-negative cell wall but are too small to be seen with the light microscope and so must be visualized with a special __________.
darkfield microscope.
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do not have a cell wall. They only have a simple cell membrane, so they are neither gram positive nor gram-negative.
Mycoplasma
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usually consists of a single circle of double-stranded DNA
Bacterial DNA
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are composed of protein and RNA and are involved in the translation process, during the synthesis of proteins.
Ribosomes
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have smaller ribosomes (70S) than animals (80S), which are eucaryotes.
Bacterial ribosomes consist of 2 subunits, a large subunit (50S) and a small subunit (30S).
procaryotes,
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which surprisingly has endotoxin-surprising because ALL other organisms with endotoxin are gram-negative.
Listeria
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breaks down hydrogen peroxide in the following reaction
Catalase
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also breaks down hydrogen peroxide
Peroxidase
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These critters are just like us
in that they use glycolysis, the Krebs TCA cycle, and the
electron transport chain with oxygen as the final electron acceptor. These guys have all the above enzymes.
Obligate aerobes
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Don't let this name fool you! These bacteria are aerobic. They use oxygen as an
electron acceptor in their electron transfer chain and have catalase and superoxide dismustase.
Facultative anaerobes:
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The only difference is that they can grow in the absence of oxygen by using fermentation for energy
Facultative anaerobes:
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These bacteria use fermentation and have no electron transport system. They can tolerate low amounts of oxygen because they have superoxide dismustase (but they have no catalase).
Microaerophilic bacteria (also called aerotolerant anaerobes)
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These guys hate oxygen and have no enzymes to defend against it. When you are
working on the hospital ward, you will often draw blood for culture.
Obligate anaerobes
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Of the organisms that use chemical sources, those that use inorganic sources, such
as ammonium and sulfide, are called a ___________.
autotrophs
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use organic carbon sources and are called _________
heterotrophs.
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used by many bacteria for oxygen metabolism.
Fermentation (glycolysis)
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broken down to pyruvic acid, yielding ATP directly
Glucose
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There are different pathways for the breakdown of glucose to pyruvate, but the most common
Embden Meyerhof pathway
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This is the pathway of glycolysis that we have all studied in biochemistry
Embden Meyerhof pathway
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used with the aerobic and facultative anaerobic organisms.
Respiration
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are not capable of the metabolic pathways for ATP synthesis and thus must steal ATP from their host.
Obligate intracellular organisms
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These bacteria live in their host cell and cannot survive without the host.
Obligate intracellular organisms
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those that can cause disease.
Virulent organisms
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the degree of organism pathogenicity.
virulence of an organism
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depends on the presence of certain cell structures and on bacterial exotoxins and endotoxins, all of which are virulence factors.
Virulence
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are protein filaments that extend like long tails from the cell membranes of certain gram positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Flagella
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affixed to the bacteria by a basal body.
Flagellum
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does not have flagella.
Shigella
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are straight filaments arising from the bacterial cell wall, making the bacterium look like a porcupine.
Pili (also called fimbriae)
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Pili can serve as adherence factors (in which case they are called _______
adhesins
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uses its adhesin to bind to ciliated respiratory cells and cause whooping cough.
Bordetella pertussis
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has pili that allow it to bind to cervical cells and buccal cells to cause gonorrhea
Neisseria gonorrhea
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are protective walls that surround the cell membranes of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Capsules
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They are usually composed of simple sugar residues. Bacteria secrete these sugar moieties, which then coat their outer wall.
Capsules
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unique in that its capsule is made up of amino acid residues.
Bacillus anthracis
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Because this stain is not taken up by the capsule, the capsule appears as a transparent halo around the cell.
India ink stain
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This test is used primarily to identify the fungus Cryptococcus.
India ink stain
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The bacteria are mixed with antibodies that bind to the capsule. When these antibodies bind, the capsule swells with water, and this can be visualized microscopically
Quellung reaction
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The process of antibodies binding to the capsule
opsonization
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are formed by only 2 genera of bacteria, both of which are gram-positive
Endospores
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metabolically dormant forms of bacteria that are resistant to heat (boiling),
cold, drying and chemical agents
Endospores
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An outer layer called _______.
exosporium
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Many bacteria are phagocytosed by the host's macrophages and neutrophils yet survive within these white blood cells unharmed.
Facultative Intracellular Organisms
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proteins that are released by both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. They may cause many disease manifestations.
Exotoxins
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produces endotoxin
Listeria monocytogenes
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exotoxins that act on the gastrointestinal (GI) tract to cause diarrhea. Inhibit NaCl resorption, activate NaCl secretion, or kill intestinal epithelial cells
Enterotoxin
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Bacteria colonize and bind to the GI tract, continuously releasing their enterotoxins locally.
Infectious diarrhea
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The diarrhea will continue until the bacteria are destroyed by the immune system or antibiotics (or the patient dies secondary to dehydration)
Infectious diarrhea
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Bacteria grow in food and release enterotoxin in the food. The enterotoxin is ingested resulting in diarrhea and vomiting for less than 24 hours.
Food poisoning
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stimulate the release of cytokines and can cause rash, fever, and toxic shock syndrome
Pyrogenic exotoxins
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allow bacteria to destroy and tunnel through tissues. These include enzymes that destroy DNA, collagen, fibrin, NAD, red blood cells, and white blood cells.
Tissue invasive exotoxins
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which are the principle virulence factors for many bacteria, can cause disease
unique to the individual bacterium. Often the exact roleof the exotoxin is poorly understood
Miscellaneous exotoxins
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is a common and deadly response to both gram-negative and gram positive infection
Septic shock
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the number one cause of death in intensive care units and the 13th
most common cause of death in the U.S.
Septic shock
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This is simply bacteria in the bloodstream
Bacteremia
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Sepsis that results in dangerous drops in blood pressure and organ dysfunction
Septic shock
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endotoxin often triggers the immune response that results in sepsis and shock
endotoxic shock
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These cells, in response to the stimulus, release a host of proteins that are referred to a _________
endogenous mediators
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The most famous endogenous mediator of sepsis.
tumor necrosis factor (TNF).
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TNF is called ________.
cachectin
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double-stranded DNA molecule that is closed in a giant loop.
bacterial chromosome
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Transduction occurs when a virus that infects bacteria, called ________, carries a piece of bacterial DNA from one bacterium to another
bacteriophage
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infecting the bacteria, reproducing, and then lysing and killing the bacteria
Virulent phages
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have a good temperament and do not immediately lyse the bacteria they infect
temperate phages
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The integrated temperate phage genome
prophage
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Bacteria that have a prophage integrated into their chromosome, because at some time the repressed prophage can become activated.
lysogenic
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the term used to describe the ability of an integrated bacteriophage (prophage) to block a subsequent infection by a similar phage
Lysogenic immunity
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these phages can carry bacterial DNA from one bacterium to another. This process is called _______.
transduction
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occurs with phage lambda in Escherichia coli. The site of insertion of the lambda prophage lies between the Escherichia coli gene for biotin synthesis and galactose synthesis.
Specialized transduction
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the gene for biotin synthesis can now be transferred to another bacteria that does not have that capability. You will frequently hear about this form of gene acquisition; it is called ___________.
lysogenic conversion
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For conjugation to occur, one bacterium must have a self-transmissible plasmid
F plasmid
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The self-transmissible plasmid (F plasmid) has a gene that encodes enzymes and proteins that form
the sex penis,
sex pilus
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the extra-chromosomal F plasmid becomes integrated in the neighboring bacterial chromosome much in the same way as a temperate bacteriophage does. The bacterial cell is then called _________.
Hfr cell
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High frequency of chromosomal recombinants. This integration can result in two unique mechanisms
of DNA transfer
Hfr cell
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are both gram-positive spheres (cocci) and are responsible for a wide variety of clinical diseases
Streptococci and staphylococci
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A second method to differentiate streptococci from staphylococci involves the enzyme
catalase
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incubated overnight on a blood agar plate. B
streptococci
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Completely lyse the RBCs, leaving a clear zone of
| hemolysis around the colony.
Beta-hemolytic streptococci
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only partially lyse the RBCs, leaving a greenish discoloration of the culture medium surrounding the
colony.
Alpha-hemolytic streptococci
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are unable to hemolyze the RBCs, and therefore we should really not use the word "hemolytic" in this situation
Gammahemolytic streptococci
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Used as a major way of differentiating the many streptococci.
Lancefield antigens
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These organisms are so-named because they possess the Lancefeld group A antigen and are beta-hemolytic on blood agar.
GROUP A BETA-HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCI (also called Streptococcus pyogenes)
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which (means pus-producing) and cause the diseases "strep throat," scarlet fever, rheumatic fever, and post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
Streptococcus pyogenes
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used by Rebecca Lancefield to divide streptococci into groups.
C carbohydrate
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C carbohydrates was used by _______
Rebecca Lancefield
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This is a major virulence factor for the group A streptococcus.
M protein
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It inhibits the activation of complement and protects the organism from phagocytosis. However, it is also the weakest point in the organism's defense, because plasma (B) cells generate antibodies
against the M protein.
M protein
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The stands for oxygen labile as it is inactivated by oxygen.
Streptolysin O
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This enzyme destroys red and white blood cells and is the reason for the beta-hemolytic
group A streptococci's beta-hemolytic ability
Streptolysin O
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The stands for oxygen stabile. This is also responsible for beta-hemolysis but is not antigenic.
Streptolysin S
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This is found in only a few strains of betahemolytic group A streptococci, but when these strains invade they can cause scarlet fever.
Pyrogenic exotoxin (also called erythrogenic toxin)
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activates the proteolytic enzyme plasmin, which breaks up fibrin blood clots
streptokinase
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This is the classic strep throat with red swollen tonsils and pharynx, a purulent exudate on the tonsils, high temperature, and swollen lymph nodes. It usually lasts 5 days (penicillin therapy speeds recovery)
Streptococcal pharyngitis
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can range from folliculitis (infections of the hair follicles), cellulitis (a deep infection of the skin cells, producing red, swollen skin which is hot to the touch), and impetigo (a vesicular, blistered, eruption, most common in children, that becomes crusty and flaky and is frequently found
around the mouth)
Skin infections
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("Flesh-eating Streptococcus")
Necrotizing Fasciitis
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This type of group A beta-hemolytic streptococcal infection has actually been around for years but may indeed be on the rise (news coverage certainly is).
Necrotizing Fasciitis
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gram-negative enterics, or mixed infection with more than one of these bacteria
Clostridium species
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Certain beta-hemolytic group A streptococci not only cause a sore throat
Scarlet fever
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Certain beta-hemolytic group A streptococci not only cause a sore throat, but also produce an exotoxin called _________.
pyrogenic toxin or erythrogenic toxin
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It is now clear that beta-hemolytic group A streptococci can cause toxic shock syndrome like that caused by Staphylococcus aureus
Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome
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With the advent of penicillin, is now uncommon. It usually strikes children 5-15 years of age
Rheumatic fever
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Rash, because it has a red margin that spreads out from its center.
erythema marginatum
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Picture John Travolta in the movie Rheumatic Fever, the upcoming sequel to _______.
Saturday Night Fever
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This is an antibody-mediated inflammatory disease of the glomeruli of the kidney
Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
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causes tea colored urine (hematuria).
Acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis
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About 25% of women carry these bugs vaginally, and a baby can acquire these bacteria during delivery. These organisms cause neonatal (< 3 months of age) meningitis, pneumonia, and sepsis.
GROUP B STREPTOCOCCI
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alpha-hemolytic, producing greenish discoloration on blood agar
viridans streptococci
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Some of the viridans streptococci, especially S. mutans, can bind to teeth and ferment sugar, which produces acid and dental caries ( cavities!!).
Dental infections
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Dental manipulations send showers of these organisms into the bloodstream. Subsequently, they can implant on the endocardial surface of the heart, most commonly on a previously damaged heart valve (such as from old rheumatic fever, a congenital heart defect, or mitral valve prolapse)
Endocarditis
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eating heart valves slowly
Viridans Streptococcus
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There is a subgroup of the viridans streptococci, which are microaerophilic and are part of the normal G.I. tract flora.
Streptococcus intermedius group
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comprised of Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium
enterococci
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comprised of many organisms including Streptococcus bovis and Streptococcus equinus)
non-enterococci
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Traditionally these alpha-hemolytic bacteria have been divided into two subgroups
GROUP D STREPTOCOCCI
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hardy, growing in 40% bile (but not in 6.5% NaCl). It lives in the G.I. tract, and it causes similar diseases
Streptococcus bovis
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A very important organism because it is a major cause of bacterial pneumonia and meningitis in adults, and otitis media in children. pneumococcus is to parents what group B streptococcus is to
Babies
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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When pneumococci on a slide smear are mixed with a small amount of antiserum (serum with antibodies to the capsular antigens) and methylene blue, the capsule will appear to swell
Quellung reaction
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This technique allows for rapid identification of this organism
Quellung reaction
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is the most common cause of pneumonia in adults.
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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occurs suddenly, with shaking chills (rigors), high fevers, chest pain with respirations, and shortness of breath.
Pneumococcal pneumonia
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also the most common cause of otitis media (middle ear infection) in children and the most common cause of bacterial meningitis in adults
Streptococcus pneumoniae
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nuchal rigidity (a stiff neck) is usually present in an adult
meningitis
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forever underfoot, crawling all over hospitals and living in the nasopharynx and skin of up to 50% of people.
Staphylococci
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catalase-positive, thus explaining the cats in the group photo.
Staphylococcus aureus
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can be differentiated from the other beta-hemolytic cocci by their elaboration of a golden pigment when cultured on sheep blood agar
Staphylococcus aureus
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All staphylococci have the enzyme catalase
Catalase test
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Staphylococcus aureus and certain streptococci are beta-hemolytic (completely hemolyze
red blood cells on an agar plate), but Staphylococcus aureus can be differentiated from the other beta-hemolytic cocci by their elaboration of a golden pigment on sheep blood agar.
Culture
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This protein has sites that bind the Fc portion of IgG. This may protect the organism from opsonization and phagocytosis
Protein A
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This enzyme can lead to fibrin formation around the bacteria, protecting it from phagocytosis
Coagulase
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Alpha, beta, gamma, and delta. They destroy red blood cells, neutrophils, macrophages, and platelets.
Hemolysins
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They destroy leukocytes (white blood cells).
Leukocidins
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This is a secreted form of betalactamase. It disrupts the beta-lactam portion of the penicillin molecule, thereby inactivating the antibiotic
Penicillinase
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This protein, also called transpeptidase, is necessary for cell wall peptidoglycan formation and is inhibited by penicillin.
Novel penicillin binding protein
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("Spreading Factor"): This protein breaks down proteoglycans in connective tissue.
Hyaluronidase
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This protein lyses formed fibrin clots (like streptokinase).
Staphylokinase
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This enzyme degrades fats and oils, which often accumulate on the surface of our body. This degradation facilitates Staphylococcus aureus' colonization of sebaceous glands
Lipase
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destroys tissue proteins
Protease
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A diffusible exotoxin that causes the skin to slough off (scalded skin syndrome).
Exfoliatin
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Exotoxins which cause food poisoning, resulting in vomiting and diarrhea
Enterotoxins
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This exotoxin is analogous to the pyrogenic toxin produced by Lancefield group A beta-hemolytic streptococci, but is far more deadly.
Toxic Shock Syndrome toxin
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Staphylococci can grow in food and produce an exotoxin. The victim will then eat the food containing the pre-formed toxin, which then stimulates peristalsis of the intestine with ensuing nausea vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and occasionally fever. The episode lasts 12 to 24 hours.
Gastroenteritis
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This disease is similar in pathogenesis to toxic shock syndrome.
Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome
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Staphylococcus aureus is a rare but severe cause of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia.
Pneumonia
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These patients can present with high fever, stiff neck, headache, obtundation, coma, and focal neurologic signs.
Meningitis, Cerebritis, Brain Abscess
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This is a bone infection that usually occurs in boys under 12 years of age.
Osteomyelitis
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This is a violent destructive infection of the heart valves with the sudden onset of high fever (103-105 F°), chills, and myalgias (like a bad flu)
Acute Endocarditis
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Patients complain of an acutely painful red swollen joint with decreased range of motion
Septic Arthritis
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caused by staphylococci or streptococci usually follow a major or minor break in the skin, with scratching of the site spreading the infection
Skin infections
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This contagious infection usually occurs on the face, especially around the mouth. Small
vesicles lead to pustules, which crust over to become honey-colored, wet, and flaky
Impetigo
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This is a deeper infection of the cells. The tissue becomes hot, red, shiny and swollen
Cellulitis
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is a collection of pus.
abscess
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These may bore through to produce multiple contiguous, painful lesions communicating under the skin
carbuncles
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When a sutured post-surgical wound becomes infected, it must be reopened and often
left open to heal by secondary intention (from the bottom of the wound outward).
Wound infections
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can migrate from the skin and colonize central venous catheters resulting in bacteremia, sepsis,
and septic shock
Blood and catheter infections: Staphylococcus aureus
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a strain of Staphylococcus aureus that has acquired multi-drug resistance, even against methicillin and nafcillin.
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
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is one of the few antibiotics useful in treating infections caused by MRSA, although organisms resistant even to vancomycin have been reported in the U.S. and Japan
Vancomycin
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This organism is part of our normal bacterial flora and is widely found on the body.
Staphylococcus epidermidis
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is a frequent skin contaminant of blood cultures.
Staphylococcus epidermidis
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This organism is a leading cause (second only to E. coli) of urinary tract infections in sexually active young women.
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
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It is most commonly acquired by females (95%) in the community (NOT in the hospital). This organism
is coagulase-negative.
Staphylococcus saprophyticus
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causes gastroenteritis (food poisoning).
Bacillus cereus
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causes the disease anthrax
Bacillus anthracis
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This capsule prevents phagocytosis. causes anthrax, a disease that primarily affects herbivores (cows and sheep)
Bacillus anthracis
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This is the active A subunit of this exotoxin and is a calmodulin-dependent adenylate cyclase.
Edema factor (EF)
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promotes entry of EF into phagocytic cells (similar to a B subunit of the other A-B toxins,
Protective antigen (PA)
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a zinc metalloprotease that inactivates protein kinase
Lethal factor
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This toxin stimulates the macrophage to release tumor necrosis factor a and interleukin-1
Lethal factor
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encodes three genes necessary for the synthesis of a poly-glutamyl capsule.
A second plasmid, pXO2
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causes food poisoning (nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea).
Bacillus cereus
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similar to the enterotoxin of cholera and the LT from Escherichia coli (causes nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, lasting 12-24 hours.
A heat-labile toxin
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produces a clinical syndrome similar to that of Staphylococcus aureus food poisoning,
with a short incubation period followed by severe nausea and vomiting, with limited diarrhea.
heat-stable toxin
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also gram-positive spore-forming rods. However, they are anaerobic, and can therefore
be separated from the aerobic spore-forming rods
Clostridium
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produces an extremely lethal neurotoxin that causes a rapidly fatal food poisoning.
Clostridium botulinum
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Eating smoked fish or home-canned vegetables is associated with the transmission of botulism.
Adult Botulism
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spores float in the air and can land on food.
Clostridium botulinum
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occurs when infants ingest food contaminated with Clostridium botulinum spores (cases have followed ingestion of fresh honey contaminated with spore)
Infant Botulism
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causes tetanus, a disease that classically follows a puncture wound by a rusty nail but
can follow skin trauma by any object contaminated with spores
Clostridium tetani
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Clostridium tetani releases its exotoxin,
tetanospasmin
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The tetanus toxin ultimately causes a sustained contraction of skeletal muscles
tetany
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Clinically, the patient with tetanus presents with severe muscle spasms, especially in the muscles of the jaw (lockjaw)
trismus
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The affected patient exhibits a grotesque grinning expression,
sardonicus
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Necrotic skin which grows and damages local tissue.
Clostridium perfringens
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Palpation reveals a moist, spongy, crackling consistency to the skin due to pockets of gas;
crepitus
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These anaerobic bacteria release other enzymes that ferment carbohydrates, resulting in gas formation.
Clostridial myonecrosis
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is the pathogen responsible for antibiotic-associated pseudomembranous colitis (diarrhea), which can follow the use of broad spectrum antibiotics (such as ampicillin, clindamycin, and the cephalosporins)
Clostridium difficile
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Examination by colonoscopy can reveal red inflamed mucosa and areas of white exudate on the surface of the large intestine
pseudomembranes
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The diphtheria antitoxin only inactivates circulating toxin, which has not yet reached its target tissue, so this must be administered quickly to prevent damage to the heart and nervous system
Antitoxin
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Either antibiotic will kill the bacteria, preventing further exotoxin release and rendering the patient non-contagious
Penicillin or erythromycin
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as infection by Corynebacterium diphtheriae does not always result in immunity to future infection by this organism
DPT vaccine
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a gram positive motile rod, actually has endotoxin!
LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES
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shaped like a kidney bean, and a pair of cocci sticks together with their
concave sides facing each other, almost making the diplococcus look like a small doughnut
coccus
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It's time to examine the only pathogenic gram-negative
| cocci,
Neisseria
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These guys hang out in pairs and are thus
diplococci
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drinks a pot of coffee and becomes very nervous and irritable (central nervous system irritation-meningitis
Neisseria meningitidis
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who is a pervert (notice how he is displaying the latest center-fold pin-up). He
enjoys hanging out on sexual organs and swimming in "sexual fluids."
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
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causes life threatening sepsis
meningococcus
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A polysaccharide capsule surrounds the bacterium and is antiphagocytic, as long as there are no
specific antibodies to coat (opsonize) the bacterium.
Capsule
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The meningococci can release blebs of endotoxin, which causes blood vessel destruction (hemorrhage) and sepsis.
Endotoxin (LPS)
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The blood vessel hemorrhage is seen on the skin as tiny, round, red dots of hemorrhage
petechiae
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This is only found in pathogenic species of Neisseria. This enzyme cleaves IgA (a type of
antibody) in half.
IgA1 protease
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can extract iron from human transferrin via a non-energy requiring mechanism
Neisseria meningitidis
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spreads via respiratory secretions and usually lives asymptomatically in the
nasopharynx
Neisseria meningitidis
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This is septic shock. Bilateral hemorrhage into the adrenal glands occurs, which causes adrenal insufficiency.
Fulminant meningococcemia (WaterhouseFriderichsen syndrome)
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This is the most common form of meningococcal disease, usually striking infants < 1
year of age.
Meningitis
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The classic medium for culturing Neisseria
Thayer-Martin VCN media
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This is chocolate agar with antibiotics, which are included to kill competing bacteria.
Thayer-Martin VCN media
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eliminates fungi
nystatin
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which kills all gram-negative organisms (except Neisseria).
colistin (polymyxin)
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which kills gram-positive organisms.
vancomycin
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required at the first indication of disseminated meningococcemia
penicillin G or ceftriaxone
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Close contacts of an infected patient are treated with
rifampin
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causes the second most commonly transmitted sexual disease
NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE
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A gonococcal infection of the cervix can progress to
pelvic inflammatory disease
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infection of the uterus
endometritis
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infection of fallopian tubes
salpingitis
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infection of ovaries
oophoritis
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most commonly caused by scarring of the fallopian tubes, which occludes the lumen and prevents sperm from reaching the ovulated egg
Sterility
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the most common site for an ectopic pregnancy
fallopian tubes
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The risk of a fetus developing at a site other than the uterus is significantly increased with previous fallopian tube inflammation (salpingitis).
Ectopic pregnancy
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may develop in the fallopian tubes, ovaries, or peritoneum
Abscesses
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Bacteria may spread from ovaries and fallopian tubes to infect the peritoneal fluid .
Peritonitis
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This is an infection by Neisseria gonorrhoeae of the capsule that surrounds the liver
Peri-hepatitis (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome)
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A patient will complain of right upper quadrant pain and tenderness
Peri-hepatitis (Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome)
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can invade the bloodstream. Manifestations include fever, joint pains, and skin lesions (which usually erupt on the extremities).
Gonococcal bacteremia:
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Acute onset of fever occurs along with pain and swelling of 1 or 2 joints. W
Septic arthritis
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Neisseria gonorrhoeae can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her child during delivery, resulting in __________.
ophthalmia neonatorum
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eye drops, which are effective against both Nisseria gonorrhoeae and Chlamydia, are given to all
newborns
erythromycin
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This organism is part of the normal respiratory flora but can cause otitis media, sinusitis, bronchitis, and
pneumonia (all respiratory tract illnesses)
BRANHAMELLA CATARRHALIS
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are gram-negative bacteria that are part of the normal intestinal flora or cause gastrointestinal disease.
enterics
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Methylene blue inhibits gram-positive bacteria, and colonies of lactose fermenters become deep purple to black in this medium
EMB agar
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Bile salts in the medium inhibit gram-positive bacteria, and lactose fermenters develop a pink-purple coloration.
MacConkey agar
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A classic method for determining whether water has been contaminated with feces demonstrates some of the practical uses of biochemical reactions and some important properties of Escherichia coli
Fecal Contamination of Water
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You add the river water samples to test tubes containing nutrient broth (like agar)
that contains lactose
Presumptive Test
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Streak EMB agar plates with the water samples, and the Escherichia coli should form colonies with a metallic green sheen
Confirmed Test
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Colonies that were metallic green are placed in the broth again
Completed Test
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This is the most external component of the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of gram-negative bacteria.
0 antigen
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This is a capsule that covers the 0 antigen
K antigen
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This antigenic determinant makes up the subunits of the bacterial flagella, so only bacteria
that are motile will possess this antigen. Shigella does not have an H antigen. Salmonella has H antigens that change periodically, protecting it from our antibodies.
H antigen
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Diarrhea is caused by the release of exotoxins
enterotoxins in the GI tract
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The bacteria bind to the intestinal epithelial cells but do not enter the cell
No cell invasion
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The bacteria have virulence factors that allow binding and invasion into cells
Invasion of the intestinal epithelial cells
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Along with abdominal pain and diarrhea containing white and red cells, this deeper invasion results
in systemic symptoms of fever, headache, and white blood cell count elevation
Invasion of the lymph nodes and bloodstream
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normally resides in the colon without causing disease
Escherichia coli
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travelers' diarrhea
Montezuma's revenge
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This Escherichia coli causes traveler's diarrhea
Enterotoxig enic Escherichia coli
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These Escherichia coli also have a pili colonization factor like the ETEC but differ in that they secrete
the powerful Shiga-like toxin ( also called verotoxin) that has the same mechanism of action as the Shigella toxin
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC):
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with anemia, thrombocytopenia (decrease in platelets), and renal failure (thus uremia), is associated with infection by a strain of EHEC
Hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)
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This disease is the same as that caused by Shigella
Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
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The acquisition of a pili virulence factor allows Escherichia coli to travel up the urethra and infect the
bladder (cystitis) and sometimes move further up to infect the kidney itself (pyelonephritis).
Escherichia coli Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs)
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the second most common cause of neonatal meningitis
Escherichia coli meningitis
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the most common cause of gram-negative sepsis.
Escherichia coli sepsis
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a common cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia
Escherichia coli Pneumonia
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This organism is very motile. In fact, when you smear the bacteria on a plate it will grow not as distinct round colonies, but rather as a confluence of colonies as the bacteria rapidly move and cover the plate
Proteus mirabilis
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another common cause of urinary tract infections and hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections.
Proteus
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This highly motile gram-negative rod is part of the normal flora of the intestinal tract.
Enterobacter
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notable for its production of a bright red pigment.
Serratia
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This is the same toxin as in EHEC and EIEC, and its mechanism is the same
Shiga Toxin
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a non-lactose fermenter, is motile (like a salmon), and produces H2S
Salmonella
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This is a polysaccharide capsule that surrounds the O antigen, thus protecting the bacteria from antibody attack on the O antigen
Salmonella's Vi antigen
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This illness caused by Salmonella typhi
enteric fever
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caused by Salmonella typhi, depicted by a Salmon with fever (thermometer) and rose spots on its belly
Typhoid fever
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considered appropriate therapy of typhoid fever
Ciprofloxacin or ceftriaxone
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the most common type of Salmonella infection and can be caused by any of hundreds of serotypes of Salmonella enteritidis
Salmonella diarrhea
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This motile gram-negative rod is another cause of acute gastroenteritis
Yersinia enterocolitica
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This organism can secrete an enterotoxin, very similar to the heat-stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli, that causes diarrhea.
Enterotoxin
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Like Salmonella typhi, this organism possesses virulence factors that allow binding to the intestinal wall and systemic invasion into regional lymph nodes and the bloodstream
Invasion
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can survive and grow in the cold.
Yersinia enterocolitica
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the diarrheal disease caused by Vibrio cholera
Cholera
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curved gram-negative rod with a single polar flagellum.
Vibrio cholera
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The bacteria attach to the epithelial cells and release the cholera toxin, which is called
choleragen
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Physical findings such as diminished pulses, sunken eyes, and poor skin turgor will develop with severe dehydration.
Cholera causes death by dehydration
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This organism is a marine bacterium that causes gastroenteritis after ingestion of uncooked seafood (sushi). This organism is the leading cause of diarrhea in Japan.
Vibrio parahaemolyticus
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(Camping bacteria in the jejunum with nothing better to do than cause diarrhea.
Campylobacter jejuni
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This organism is the most common cause of duodenal ulcers and chronic gastritis (inflamed stomach)
Helicobacter pylori
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You are going to hear so much about this bug while working in the hospital that you will wish the Lord had never conjured it up.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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It also produces a sweet grape-like scent, so wound dressings and agar plates are often sniffed for organism identification.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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carries an extremely high mortality rate
Pseudomonas sepsis
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rapidly becoming an important pathogen, infecting hospitalized patients (burn and cystic fibrosis patients) in a similar manner
Pseudomonas cepacia
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This bacterium is notable for being one of the few gram-negative bacteria that does not contain lipid
Bacteroides fragilis
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This organism produces a black pigment when grown on blood agar.
Bacteroides melaninogenicus
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It lives in the mouth, vagina, and intestine, and is usually involved in necrotizing anaerobic pneumonias caused by aspiration of lots of sputum from the mouth
melaninogenicus
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This bacterium is just like Bacteroides melaninogenicus in that it also causes periodontal disease and aspiration pneumonias.
Fusobacterium
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are gram-positive anaerobes that are part of the normal flora of the mouth, vagina, and intestine
Peptostreptococcus (strip or chain of cocci) and Peptococcus (cluster of cocci)
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means "blood loving." This organism requires a blood-containing medium for growth
Haemophilus
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This bacterium often attacks the lungs of persons debilitated by a viral influenza infection
influenzae
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an obligate human parasite that is transmitted via the respiratory route
Haemophilus influenzae
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This is the most serious infectioncaused by encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae type b. Prior to the introduction of vaccination of U.S. children in 1991
Meningitis
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Haemophilus influenzae type b can also cause rapid swelling of the epiglottis, obstructing the respiratory tract and esophagus
Acute epiglottitis
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can be used for less serious infections, such as otitis media.
Ampicillin or amoxicillin
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The key to controlling this organism is to stimulate the early generation of protective antibodies in young children
Hib capsule vaccine
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This species is responsible for the sexually transmitted disease chancroid
Haemophilus ducreyi
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Treat chancroid
erythromycin or trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole
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This organism causes bacterial vaginitis in conjunction with anaerobic vaginal bacteria
Gardnerella vaginalis
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Women with vaginitis develop burning or pruritis (itching) of the labia, burning on urination (dysuria), and a copious, foul-smelling vaginal discharge that has a fishy odor.
Gardnerella vaginalis
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Treat this infection (Gardnerella vaginalis)
metronidazole
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it was discovered in the early 1900's by two scientists named Bordet and Gengou. It
seems that Bordet got the better end of the deal.
Bordetella
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means "violent cough."
Pertussis
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a violently militant critte with a (gram) negative attitude
Bordetella pertussis
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This toxin destroys the ciliated epithelial cells, resulting in impaired clearance of
bacteria, mucus, and inflammatory exudate. This toxin is probably responsible for the violent cough.
Tracheal cytotoxin
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It attaches to ciliated epithelial cells of the bronchi and then releases its damaging exotoxins
Filamentous hemagglutinin
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They are swallowed by host neutrophils, lymphocytes, and monocytes. The internalized adenylate cyclase then synthesizes the messenger cAMP, resulting in impaired chemotaxis and impaired generation of H2O2 and superoxide
Extra cytoplasmic adenylate cyclase
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Like many bacterial exotoxins this toxin has a B subunit that Binds to target cell receptors, "unlocks" the cell, allowing entry of the A subunit
Pertussis toxin
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This stage lasts from 1-2 weeks and is similar to an upper respiratory tract infection, with low-grade fevers, runny nose, sneezing, and mild cough
Catarrhal stage
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The fever subsides and the infected individual develops characteristic bursts of
nonproductive cough.
Paroxysmal stage
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The attacks become less frequent over a month, and the patient is no longer contagious
Convalescent stage
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The swab is then wiped on a special culture medium with potato, blood, and glycerol agar.
Bordet-Gengou medium
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This organism is ubiquitous in natural and manmade water environments
Legionella pneumophila
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an aerobic gram-negative rod that is famous for causing an outbreak of pneumonia at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in 1976 (thus its name)
Legionella pneumophila
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this organism is a facultative intracellular parasite that settles in the lower respiratory tract and is gobbled up by macrophages
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
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responsible for diseases ranging from asymptomatic infection and a flulike illness
Legionella
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severe pneumonia
Legionnaires' disease
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a flulike illness
Pontiac fever
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Like influenza, this disease involves headache, muscle aches, and fatigue, followed
by fever and chills
Pontiac fever
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Patients develop very high fevers and a severe pneumonia.
Legionnaires' disease
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one of the most common causes of community acquired pneumonia and is estimated to be diagnosed correctly in only 3% of cases.
Legionella pneumophila
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Treat for Legionella pneumophila
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The organism now resides in squirrels and prairie dogs of the southwestern U. S.
Yersinia pestis
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heard of bubonic plague and that rats were somehow involved
Yersinia pestis
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This capsular antigen has antiphagocytic properties.
Fraction 1
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These antigens, which are a protein and lipoprotein respectively, are unique to the
Yersinia genus. Their actions are unknown
V and W antigens
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a gram-negative bacterium with a bipolar staining pattern
Yersinia pestis
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a disease that resembles bubonic plague so closely that it is always included in the differential diagnosis when considering bubonic plague
Francisella tularensi
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This disease is most commonly acquired from handling infected rabbits and from the bites of ticks and deerflies.
Francisella tularensi
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Following the bite of a tick or deerfly, or contact with a wild rabbit, a welldemarcated hole in the skin with a black base develops
Ulceroglandular tularemia
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Aerosolization of bacteria during skinning and evisceration of an infected
rabbit or hematogenous spread from the skin
Pneumonic tularemia
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Humans acquire from direct contact with infected animal meat or aborted placentas, or ingestion of infected milk products
Brucella
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(goats)
Brucella melitensis
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(causes abortions in cows)
Brucella abortus
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(pigs)
Brucella suis
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(dogs)
• Brucella canis
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The slow rise in temperature during the day, declining at night. These symptoms can last from months to years, but fortunately the disease is rarely fatal
undulant fever
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This organism is a gram-negative zoonotic organism
Pasteurella multocida
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This bacterium colonizes the mouths of cats much in the same way that Streptococcus viridans colonizes the human nasopharynx.
Pasteurella multocida
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This bacterium causes the most frequent wound infection following a cat or dog bite
Pasteurella multocida
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extremely tiny. It is classified as gramnegative because it stains red with Gram stain technique and has an inner and outer membrane.
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