STEEPLECHASE - BACTERIA & FUNGI Flashcards
(68 cards)

Mycobacteria - Ziehl-Neelsen stain, stains cell wall

Mycobacteria - bacilli

Granuloma of tuberculosis - due to Mycobacterium bovis / Mycobacterium tuberculosis, respiratory lesion

Mycobacterium marinum (‘Fish finger’) - mycobacteriosis

Mycobacterium leprae - mycobacteriosis

Mycobacterium avium paratuberculosis (Johne’s) - mycobacteriosis

Mycobacterium ulcerans - mycobacteriosis

Epithelioid macrophages - lots of cytoplasm + indistinct borders (mycobacteria pathogenesis)

Multinucleated giant cell - usually Langhans type (nuclei ar periphery) = horse-shoe shape (mycobacteria pathogenesis)

Tuberculoid granuloma (mycobacteria)

Tuberculoid granuloma


Mycobacterium bovis - respiratory lesion

Mycobacterium bovis - respiratory lesion, tubercules eroded into pleura and spread into pleural cavity

Mycobacterium bovis - generalised lesion - haematogenous spread, spleen - embolic, miliary TB white foci

Mycobacterium bovis - cervid lesion, superficial lymphadenitis that drains to skin surface = suppurative granulomatous inflammation

Mycoplasma sp.


(Pigs)


(Pigs)


Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae (pigs)








Mycoplasma bovis



































































