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Comparative Microbiology

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MORPHOLOGY/TAXONOMY

Spore-Forming Bacteria (Have Calcium Dipicolinate)

Bacillus

Clostridium

Non-motile Gram-Positive Rods

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Nocardia

Clostridium perfringens (rest of the pathogenic Clostridia are motile)

Bacillus anthracis (most other Bacillus species are motile)

Acid Fast Organisms

Mycobacterium

Nocardia (partially acid fast)

Cryptosporidium oocysts

Isospora oocysts

Bacteria and Fungi That Characteristically Have Capsules

The "biggies" can be remembered by the mnemonic: Some Killers Have £retty Nice

.Capsules!

Streptococcuspneumoniae

Klebsiellapneumoniae Haemophilus influenzae

Pseudomonas aeruginosa-slime producer especially in cystic fibrosis patients' lungs

Neisseria meningitidis

Cryptococcus neoformans (only encapsulated fungal pathogen)

Bordetella pertussis

Other Important Capsule Producers

E. coli meningeal strains have capsule, mostly K1

Bacillus anthracis---poly D-glutamate capsule

Salmonella enterica subsp. typhi-(virulence; Vi) capsular antigen

Streptococcus pyogenes when first isolated; non-immunogenic (but anti-phagocytic) hyaluronic acid capsule

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Biofilm Producers

Staphylococcus epidermidis (catheter-related infections)

Streptococcus mutans (dental plaque)

Pigment Production

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (blue-green}-pyocyanin, fluorescein

Serratia-red pigment

Staphylococcus aureus-yellow pigment

Photochromogenic and scotochromogenic Mycobacteria-Carotenoid pigments (yellow and orange)

Corynebacterium diphtheriae-black to gray

Unique Morphology/Staining

Metachromatic staining-Corynebacterium

Lancet-shaped diplococci-Pneumococcus

Kidney bean-shaped diplococci-Neisseriae

Bipolar staining-Yersiniapestis

Gulls wings-Campylobacter

Table 11-8-1. Viral Cytopathogenesis

Inclusion Bodies

Virus

lntracytoplasmic (Negri bodies)

Rabies

lntracytoplasmic acidophilic (Guarnieri)

Poxviruses

lntranuclear (Owl eye)

Cytomegalovirus

lntranudear (Cowdry)

Herpes simplex virus

 

Subacute scterosing panencephalitis

 

(measles) virus

Syncytia formation

Virus

 

Herpes viruses

 

Varicella-zoster

 

Paramyxoviruses (measles, mumps,

 

rubella and respiratory syncytial virus)

 

HIV

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Catalase positive organisms are major problems in chronic granulomatous disease (CGD):

•Allstaphylococci

•Pseudomonas aeruginosa

•Candida

•Aspergillus

•Enterobacteriaceae

Coagulase positive

•Staph. aureus

•Yersiniapestis

DETERMINANTS OF PATHOGENICITY

Genetics

Genes encoding pathogenicfactors reside on:

•The bacterial chromosome Endotoxin

•A plasmid

Most toxins and multiple drug resistances

•A bacteriophage genome stably integrated into the host DNA as a pro­ phage. Virulence modified by the stable presence of phage DNA in bacterial cell = lysogenic conversion.

Examples:

C = cholera toxin

0 = Salmonella 0 antigen

B = Botulinum toxin (phage CE13 and DEl3)

E = Erythrogenic toxin of Streptococcus pyogenes

D = Diphtheria toxin (Corynephage 13) S = Shiga toxin

Mnemonic: COBEDS (when 2 people share a bed somebody gets a little pregnant [with phage] )

Antigenic variation

Neisseria gonorrhoeae (pili)

Borrelia recurrentis

Trypanosoma brucei

HIV

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Toxins

Table ll-8-3. Disease Due to Toxin Production

Bacterium

Disease

Activity ofToxin

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

Diphtheria

ADP ribosylation of eEF-2 re­

 

 

sults in inhibition of protein

 

 

synthesis

Clostridium tetani

Tetanus

Binds to ganglioside in

 

 

synaptic membrane, blocks

 

 

release of glycine and GABA

Clostridium botulinum

Botulism

Prevents release of acetyl­

 

 

choline

Vibrio cholerae

Cholera

Choleragen stimulates

 

 

adenylate cyclase

E. coli (ETEC)

Travelers' diarrhea

LT stimulates adenylate

 

cyclase

Clostridium difficile

Diarrhea

Toxin A and B inhibit protein

 

 

synthesis and cause loss of

 

 

intracellular K+

Bordetella pertussis

Whooping cough

Hypoglycemia due to activa­

 

 

tion of islets

 

 

Edema due to inhibition Gi

 

 

Lymphocytosis due to

 

 

inhibition of chemokine

 

 

receptors

 

 

Sensitivity to histamine

eEF-2 = eukaryotic elongation factor-2

Heatstable toxins

60°C

• Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin

• ST toxin of E. coli

• Yersinia enterocolitica toxin

100°c

• Endotoxin

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Facultative intracellularparasites ofhumans

• Bacteria

Francisella tularensis Listeria monocytogenes Mycobacterium tuberculosis Brucella species

Non-tuberculous mycobacteria Salmonella enterica subsp. typhi Legionella pneumophila Yersinia pestis

Nocardia species

• Fungi

Histoplasma capsulatum

Obligate Parasites ThatAre NotIntracellular

(e.g., cannot be cultured on inert media but are found extracellularly in the body)

•

•

Treponema pallidum Pneumocystis jirovecii

EPIDEMIOLOGY/TRANSMISSION

Bacteria That Have Humans as the Only Known Reservoir

Mycobacterium tuberculosis M. leprae (armadillos in Texas)

Shigella species

Salmonella enterica subspecies typhi Rickettsiaprowazekii (epidemic typhus)

Group A -hemolytic streptococcus

Neisseria meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae Corynebacterium diphtheriae Streptococcus pneumoniae

Treponema pallidum Chlamydia trachomatis

Zoonotic Organisms

(Diseases ofanimals transmissible to humans)

Bacillus anthracis

Salmonella enterica all subspecies except typhi Leptospira

Borrelia

Listeria monocytogenes Brucella species Francisella tularensis

Pasteurella multocida (cat bites)

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Vibrio parahaemolyticus (from fish)

Capnocytophaga canimorsus (dog bites)

Bartonella henselae (cat scratches)

Streptobacillus moniliformis (rat bite fever)

Mycobacterium marinum (fish tank granuloma)

Vibrio vulnificus (oysters)

Yersinia pestis, Y enterocolitica, Y pseudotuberculosis

Campylobacterfetus, C. jejuni

Most Rickettsia

Chlamydophila psittaci (birds)

Rabies virus

Arthropod Vectors in Human Disease: Insects

• Lice

Epidemic or louse-borne typhus (Pediculus h. humanus) Epidemic relapsing fever

Trench fever

• True bugs

Chagas' disease (American trypanosomiasis)-kissing bugs (Reduviidae)

• Mosquitoes

Malaria (Anopheles mosquito) Dengue (Aedes)

Mosquito-borne encephalitides: WEE, EEE, VEE, SLE, WNV Yellow Fever (Aedes)

Filariasis

•Sandflies Leishmaniasis

Bartonellosis

•Midges Filariasis

•Blackilies Onchocerciasis

•Deerflies (Chrysops) and horse flies

Loaloasis

Tularemia

• Tsetse flies

African trypanosomiasis

• Fleas Plague

Endemic typhus

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Arthropod Vectors That Are Not Insects

• Ticks

Rocky Mountain spotted fever (Dermacentor) Colorado tick fever (Dermacentor)

Lyme disease (Ixodes)

Ehrlichia (Ixodes, Amblyomma)

Babesiosis (Ixodes)

Tularemia (Dermacentor)

Recurrent fever or tick-borne relapsing fever (Ornithodoros,a soft tick)

• Mites

Scrub typhus (Leptotrombium) (transovarial transmission in vector) Rickettsialpox

Parasitic Infections Transmitted by Ova

Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm)

Ascaris Lumbricoides (roundworm)

Toxocara canis (visceral larva migrans)

Trichuris trichiura (whipworm)

Echinococcus granulosus!multilocularis

Taenia solium (cysticercosis)

Allothers are transmitted in larval stage.

Bacterial and Fungal Infections That Are Not Considered Contagious

(i.e., no human-to-hwnan transmission)

Nontuberculous mycobacterial infections, e.g., Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare Non-spore forming anaerobes

Legionella pneumophila

All fungal infections except the dermatophytes

Infections That Cross the Placenta

(Mnemonic: TORCH)

Toxoplasma

Other (Syphilis)

Rubella

CMV

Herpes and HIV

<5% perinatal hepatitis B could possibly have been acquired by crossing placenta.

• Viruses

Cytomegalovirus

Rubella

HSV 2 (in primary infection)

Coxsackie B

Polio

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HIV

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•Parasites

Toxoplasma gondii

•·Bacteria

Treponeniapallidum

Listeria monocytogenes

Spread by Respiratory Droplet

Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A)

Streptococcus pneumoniae

Influenza

Neisseria meningitidis

Rubella

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Measles

Bordetella pertussis

Chickenpox

Haemophilus infiuenzae

Pneumocystisjirovecii

Corynebacterium diphtheriae

 

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

 

Spread by Inhalation of Organisms from the Environment

Histoplasma

Coccidioides

Blastomyces

Nontuberculous mycobacteria, e.g.,M. avium-intracellulare (MAC)

Legionella

Chlamydophila psittaci

Pseudomonas (also spread by ingestion and contact)

Spread by Oral/Fecal Route

(Infections may be spreadbyoral sex.)

Salmonella

Shigella

Campylobacter

Vibrio

Yersinia enterocolitica

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Bacillus cereus

Clostridium

Staphylococcus (also other routes commonly)

Enteroviruses, including poliovirus

Rotavirus

Norwalk agent

Hepatitis A

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Toxoplasma-cat feces

Entamoeba

Giardia

All nematodes except filaria and Trichinella

Allcestodes

Contact: (Person-to-Person) Nonsexual

Impetigo (Strep and Staph)

Staphylococcus

Herpes I

Epstein-Barr (kissing)

Hepatitis B (all body fluids)

Molluscum contagiosum (wrestling teams)

Contact: Sexual

Chlamydia

HPV

HBV

Neisseria

HIV

HCV

Treponema

HSV 2

 

Trichomonas

CMV

 

PATHOLOGY

Organisms that Produce Granulomas

(most are intracellular, others have persistent antigen)

Fran Likes My Pal Bruce And His Blasted Cockerspaniel (in) Salt Lake City. (Mnemonic by M. Free.)

(ic) = intracellular organism

Francisella (ic) Listeria (ic) Mycobacterium (ic) Treponema pallidum Brucella (ic) Actinomyces Histoplasma (ic) Blastomyces Coccidioides Schistosoma species

Lymphogranuloma venereum (ic) Cat scratch fever

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Infections Causing lntracerebral Calcifications

Toxoplasma

CMV

Cysticercosis

Cryptococcus neoformans

Tuberculous meningitis

LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS

Special Stains

• Silver stains Dieterle-Legionella

Gomori methenamine-Pneumocystis, fungi

• Acid fast (Ziehl-Neelsen or Kinyoun)

Mycobacterium, Nocardia (partially AF), Cryptosporidium, Tsospora,

Cyclospora, and Microsporidia (oocysts in feces)

•India ink-Cryptococcus (if negative not a reliable diagnostic method)

•Calcofluor white-fungi

•Giemsa

Blood protozoa (Plasmodium, Babesia, Trypanosoma, Leishmania)

Histoplasma capsulatum in RES cells

Name Tests

Tests

Disease

PPD or Tuberculin (Mantoux)

TB

Lepromin

Leprosy

Fungal skin tests

Clinicallyvaluable only to demonstrate

 

exposure or anergy

CAMP test

Strept agalactiae carriers

Elek test

Toxin producing C. diphtheriae strains

Weil-Felix

Rickettsia (with Proteus strain OX antigens)

Unusual Growth Requirements

Haemophilus (most species require one or both)

•X factor == protoporphyrin IX, the precursor ofhemin

•V factor == AD (nicotinamide dinucleotide) or NADP

Mycoplasma

•Cholesterol

Salt (halophilic organisms)

•Staph aureus will grow on high salt media.

•Group D enterococci will grow on 6.5% NaCl.

•Vibrio species requires NaCl to grow and grows at 6.5%.

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Cysteine requirement for growth

•Four Sisters Ella of the Cysteine Chapel (mnemonic by M. Free)

Francisella, Legionella, Brucella, and Pasteurella

Cultures that must be observed for a long time

•Mycobacterium tuberculosis and all non-tuberculous mycobacteria except rapid growers

•Mycoplasma pneumoniae

•Systemic fungal pathogens (Blastomyces, Histoplasma, and Coccidioides in U.S.)

TREATMENT/PREVENTION

Treat Prophylactically

•Neisseria meningitidis (household and day care contacts-vaccination also used in outbreaks)

•Mycobacterium tuberculosis with a recent skin test conversion

or known household (i.e., significant) exposure; or persons under 35 with a positive skin test who have never been treated

•Haemophilus influenzae B (unvaccinated household contacts <6 years old) -also vaccinate

•Neisseria gonorrhoeae (sexual contacts)

•Treponema pallidum (sexual contacts)

•Yersinia pestis

•Neonatal eyes (Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, Treponema pal­ lidum)

Vaccines Available in the U.S.

Inactivated vaccines (RIP-A; ll_est ln feaceAlways)

•Rabies

•Influenza virus

•Salk polio (killed)-all primary vaccinations in U.S., including IC patients

•Hepatitis A

•Japanese encephalitis and several other encephalitis vaccines

•Vibrio cholerae

Live, attenuated vaccines

•Francisella tularensis

•Measles (rubeola)

•Rubella

•Mumps (killed vaccine available for IC patients)

•Sabin polio (oral)

•Smallpox

•Yellow fever

•Varicella-Zoster

•Rotavirus

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Live, Pathogenic Virus (in enteric-coated capsules)

• Adenovirus

Toxoid: ChemicallyModified Toxin-Vaccines

•Tetanus

•Diphtheria

•Pertussis toxoid (in DTaP)

Subunit Vaccines

•Haemophilus-purified capsular polysaccharide conjugated to protein

•Neisseria meningitidis-capsular polysaccharides, pediatric version is

conjugated to protein

•Pneumococcal-capsular polysaccharide (7 and 23 serotypes) (pediatric version is conjugated to protein)

Recombinant Vaccines

•Hepatitis B-HBsAg (produced in yeast)

•Human papilloma virus vaccine, 4 capsid proteins

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• Normal in skin,

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nose, mouth, gut

• CAMP test hemolysin

• Subacute endocarditis in

• Salt-tolerant

IV drug users

• Mannitol salt agar

• Catheter, prosthetic

• Yellow/gold pigment

device infections

• Normal in nose, skin

• Novobiocin sensitive

• Toxic Shock synd

 

• Scalded Skin synd

 

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• Food poisoning (2-6 h)

 

• Acute endocarditis

 

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• Vaccine for elderly (23 serotypes)

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S. sanguis

S. mutans

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•DOC: penicillin + aminoglycosides

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• Catalase (+)

 

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• Oxidase (+). black

 

• Eikenella

 

 

 

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• Kingella

• Non-hemolytic

 

• Endotoxin present

 

 

• UTI in sexually

 

 

 

 

• Utilize glucose

 

 

active adolescents

 

 

 

 

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• Novobiocin resistant

 

 

 

 

• Chocolate agar

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Candle jar, co2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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N. gonorrhoeae

 

 

 

• Polysaccharide capsule

 

 

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Friderichsen synd.

 

 

 

· DOC: Ceftriaxone

 

 

 

• Tetravalent vaccine

 

 

 

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•Hyaluronidase

•Erythrogenic toxin (SPE-A)

•Rheumatic fever

•Post-Strep acute GN

•Cellulitis

·Impetigo

·DOC: Penicillin GN

• CAMP Test (+) (Incomplete hemolysin)

• C carbohydrate

• Hydrolyzes hippurate

• Salt-tolerant

• Colonizes vagina in 15-20%

• Screen. preg treat with ab .J. meningitis

• #1 for neonatal meningitis (.J.ing)

• DOC: Ampiclllin + aminoglycoside

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• Non-enterococcal

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• "Jets" from cell to cell

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• Partially acid-fast

• Fae intracellular organism

Heart, Nerves, epithelium

• Cavitary bronchopulmonary

• Beta-hemolytic

• Volutin granules on

• Multiple brain abscesses

• Cold enrichment

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• Mycetoma (granules)

· Sepsis

 

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· DOC: Sulfonamides

• Crosses placenta

· ELEK test

 

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Renal transplant

 

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Gentamicin for IC

 

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•IUD-associated infections

•Solitary brain abscess

•Mycetoma

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B. anthracis

C. tetani

 

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C. perfringrens

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• Neurotoxin

• Nosocomial

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• Diarrhea to

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pseudomembranous

 

Phospholipase C

• Heat-labile toxin:

· In R-E cells

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• Flaccid paralysis

colitis

• Enterotoxin

 

diarrhea

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Glycine

• Canned-food poisoning

• Antibiotic {Clindamycin)

• Stormy fermentation

· Fried rice

Protective Ag

· Tetanus

• Trivalent antitoxin

usage

• Double-zone hemolysis

· Food poisoning (2-18 h)

Lethal factor

Spastic paralysis

· DOC: antitoxin

• Yellow plaques

• Egg yolk agar

 

• Symptomatic Rx

Edema factor (an

• DOC: hyperimmune

 

 

 

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· Colon

• Normal in colon

 

 

 

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globulin, Penicillin

• Infant botulism

· Toxins A + B

• Food poisoning

 

 

 

• Painless skin ulcer 95%

PLUS spasmolytic

 

 

 

human hyperimmune

· DOC: Change or

• Gas gangrene

 

 

 

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• Toxoid vaccine

 

 

 

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• Woolsorter's disease

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Facultative Anaerobes

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AEROBES

B.pertussis

•Adhesion to cell via hemagglutinin and pertussis toxin

•Adenylate cyclase txn (local edema)

•Tracheal toxin

•Dermanecrosistoxin

•Endotoxin - Lipid X, A ADP-R of GNBP

•Bordet-Gengou agar

•Regan-Lowe agar

•Whooping cough

·DOC: Erythromycin

•Vaccine toxoid and filamentous hemagglutinin

Bruce/la sp

F. tularensis

· In R-E cells

· In R-E cells

• Endotoxin

• Requires CVS

• Requires CVS, C02

• Dermacentortick bite

• Unpasteurized milk

Transovarian trans.

• Undulant Fever

· Aerosol

Bang's disease

• Rabbits, rodents

Malta fever

• Granulomatous rxn

• B. abortus

· Tularemia - AR, MO, TX

• Live, attntd vaccine

cattle, mild

• B. suis

• DOC: Streptomycin

pigs

suppurative, chronic

•B. melitensis goats severe, acute

•DOC: rifampin and

doxycycline

L.pneumophila

•Water-loving

air conditioning

•Requires CVS & Fe

•Buffered Charcoal Yeastagar

•Dieterle silver stain

•Stains poorly Gram (-)

•Atypical pneumonia

•Mental confusion

· Diarrhea

•DOC: Erythromycin

•Not contagious

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SPIROCHETES

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Thin-Walled

 

ANAEROBES

 

 

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Spiral-Shaped

 

Bacteroides sp

 

Treponema sp

• Axial Filaments

 

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Jarisch-Herxheimer Rxn

• B. fragilis obligate

pallidum - Syphilis

 

 

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T.Obligate parasite

 

 

Borrelia sp

• Predominant colonic flora

1·- PAINLESS chancre, infectious

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Microaerophillic

• Normal in oropharynx, vagina

• 2·- Rash infectious

•

Giemsa stain

• Predisposing factors:

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B.

burgdorferi

 

surgery, trauma

· Congenital: stillbirths, malformed

 

 

 

 

 

 

• VDRL & RPR - Screening tests

 

Lyme disease

 

chronic disease (cancer)

 

 

(/. scapularis), I. pacificus

• Septicemia, peritonitis

•

Reagin ab - xrxn with Cardiolipin

 

Reservoirs: mice, deer

 

aspiration pneumonia

• FTA-ABS (immunofluorescence)

 

 

 

CT, WI, CA

• Prevotella melaninogenica

 

specific test

 

•

 

Erythema Migrans

 

Human oropharynx

Dark-field microscopy

 

 

 

 

Target lesions

• Fusobacterium (combined w/

•

DOC: Benzathine Penicillin

 

 

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B. recurrentis

 

Treponema microdentium)

 

 

 

Vincent's angina

 

 

 

Relapsing fever

 

 

 

 

Vector: body louse

 

Trench mouth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Antigenic variation

• DOC: Metronidazole OR

 

 

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DOC: Penicillin or azithromycin

 

Clindamycin OR Cefoxitin

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P.aeruginosa

•Slime-layer

•Grape-like odor

•Exotoxin A:

ADP-R of eEF-2

Liver

• Oxidase (+)

· Pigments

pyocyanin, pyoverdin

• Transient colonization In 10% of normal pop

• Osteomyelitis in drug abusers

• Pneumonia in cystic fibrosis

•Nosocomial infections Burn patients Neutropenic patients

•Ecthyma gangrenosum

•DOC: Penicillin

PLUS Aminoglycoside

Leptospira sp

•Dark-field microscopy

•Contaminated water Animal urine

•Fever, jaundice, uremia

•Non-icteric Leptospirosis Meningitis - No PMN in CSF uveitis, rash

•lcteric Leptospirosis

Weil's disease

Renal failure, myocarditis

· DOC: Penicillin G or doxycycline

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P. multocida

H. influenzae

• Requires CYS

• Polyribito\ capsule

· Animal bites (cats & dogs)

• Quellung (+)

• Cellulitis with Lymphadenitis

• lgA protease

• DOC: Amoxicillin/Clav

• Requires X (Hemin), V (NAO)

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• Normal in nasopharynx and

 

conjunctiva

 

• Pathogenic in kids: type B

 

· Meningitis in 1-2 yr

 

• Otitis media, pneumonia

 

• Acute epiglottitis

 

· DOC: Cefotaxime/Celtriaxone

 

• Prev: HIB vaccine, Rifampin

 

 

 

ENTEROBACTERIACEAE

- Ferment Glucose

- Oxidase (-), Catalase (+) - Reduce Nitrates to Nitrites

Lactose-Fermenting

Vibrio sp

•Polar flagella, comma-shaped

•Enterotoxin (Choleragen) ADP-R, increase cAMP

•Catalase (+), Oxidase (+)

·Alkaline culture (TCBS)

•Classic cholera 01

•Biotypes: El Tor, Cholerae

•Rice-water stools

•Most severe dehydration

•Rx: fluid & electrolytes tetracycline for contacts

•\I. parahaemolyticus

Catalase (-), salt-tolerant Raw seafood

•\I. vulnificus

Brackish water • Oysters Cellulitis, Septicemia DOC: tetracycline

Campylobacter sp

Helicobacter sp

•Microaerophilic

•Polar flagella

•Comma or S-shaped

•Oxidase (+), Catalase (+)

•Skirrow's agar C02

· Invasive

• H. pylori

37'C, urease(+) gastritis, ulcers carcinoma

•DOC: omeprazole + amoxicillin + c\arithromycin

•C.jejuni

42'C enterocolitis

111 bacterial diarrhea U.S.A. · "Gull-Wings"

•C. fetus escapes GIT

•DOC: Erythromycin, fluoroquinolones

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·Capnocytophaga

•Actinobacil/us

·Cardiobacterium

E.coli

•Normal in colon · #1 for UT\

P-pili, X-Adhesins

•Nosocomia\ infections

•Neonatal meningitis (K1)

•ETEC • Traveler's Drha Toxins: LT, ST

•EIEC • Invasive

•EHEC • VTEC 0157:H7

Hemorrhagic colitis Hemolytic uremic S Does not ferment Sorbitol

· EPEC Plasmid-coded EAF

· EAEC Fimbriae/biofilm

•DAEC Infants

Bacteria in microvi\li

•DOC: Ampicillin or Sulfonamides Cephalosporins

K. pneumoniae

· Capsule

• Quellung (+)

· Pneumonia

Currant jelly septum

Chronic lung disease

Alcoholism

Aspiration

·UT\ Nosocomial Catheterization

·DOC: Cepha\osporin +/- aminog\ycoside

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Salmonella

Shigella sp

Y. pestis

• Swarming motility

enterica subsp.

• No H Antigens

• Coagulase (+)

• lndole (+), Urease (+)

• Antigens: Vi, 0, H

• Invasive

 

• V&W antigens

• UT\, Septicemia

• EMB/MacConkey

• Shigatoxin

 

• Safety-pin appearance

• Staghorn calculi

• Predisposing factors

Nicks 60S SU

(bipolar staining

• DOC: Fluoroquinolones

High gastric pH

Neurotoxin

 

Wayson's stain)

 

Cytotoxin

 

• Wild rodents

 

Gastrectomy

 

 

• Wida! test (0, H ag)

Enterotoxin

 

· Flea bite

 

• Osteomyelitis in Sickle

• Enterocolitis

 

• Southwest U.S. (Sylvatic)

 

Cell disease

• Bloody diarrhea

• Bubonic plague

 

• S. entericasubsp.

FQ, Azithro

conjunctivitis

 

typhi

• DOC: fluid and electrolytes

fever, buboes,

 

 

 

• Pneumonic plague

 

No animal res.

 

 

• DOC: Aminoglycosides

 

No H2S produced

 

 

 

Invasive (R-E) cells

 

 

PLUS Quarantine (72 h)

 

Rose spots

 

 

• Y. enterocolitica

 

• DOC: fluoroquinolones

 

 

Cold growth

 

or cephalosporins

 

 

• Heat-stable toxins

• S. entericasubsp. enteritidis

Poultry, reptiles Rx: Symptomatic

• DOC for invasive: ampicillin, cephalosporins

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Chlamydia trachomatis

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•Acid fast, obligate aerobe

•Respiratory transmission

•Pathogen, contagious

•Cord factor-trehalose

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•Sulfatides-inhib. phagosome- lysosome fusion

•Niacin (+), catalase (+) at 37'C, (-) at 68'C

•Slow growing

•Drug resistance

•Lowenstein-Jensen medium

•DOC: isoniazid + rifampin +

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•Gram (+) wall but doesn't stain due to waxy CW

•Acid fast

•Obligate aerobe

•Soil organism

•Opportunist, non-contagious

•Pulmonary -) diss infections CA pis, late AIDS pis

M.leprae

•Obligate intracellular bacterium

•Tuberculoid (CMI damage)

•Lepromatous leprosy (poor CMI)

•DOC: dapsone + rifampin + clofazimine

M.marinum

•Obligate intracellular bacteria

•Gram-negative envelope but stain poorly

•Rocky MT Spt'd Fever-rash on wrists/ankles -) trunk, palms, soles

•Vector: Dermacentortick

•Reservoirs: ticks, wild rodents

•Dx: serol: 4x incr indir Fl. Ab + Weil-Felix DOC: Doxycycline

R.prowazekii

•Obligate intracellular bacteria

•Epidemic typhus

•Vector: Pediculus louse

•Reservoir: humans, squirrel fleas,

flying squirrels

Bartone/la henselae

•Cat scratch fever

•Bacillary angiomatosis in AIDS

Ehrlichia

•Ehrlichiosis

•Morulae in WBC

•DOC: doxycycline

•E. chafeensis-monocytes + macrophages

•E. phagocytophila - PMNs

•Jxodes tick

•Obligate intracellular bacteria

•Gram-negative envelope but stain poorly; lack muramic acid

•Elementary body-transmitted

•Reticulate body-intracellular

•Dx: serology or tissue culture

growth confirmed by inclusion

bodies (Fl Ab, Giemsa, iodine)

Serotypes D-K

•U.S.-Most common bacterial STD (HPV and HSV2 more common)

•Neonatal/adult inclus. conjunct, neonatal. pneumo; urethritis

cervicitis, PID, infertility

Serotypes L1, 2, 3

•Lymphogranuloma venereum

•STD in Africa, Asia, S. America

Serotypes A, B, Ba, C

•Trachoma-follic conjunctivitis -) conj. scarring, entropion -) corneal scarring

•Leading infectious cause blindness

•DOC: Doxycycline or azithromycin

Chlamydophila pneumoniae

•TWAR agent

•Respiratory infections

•Probably very common

•Potential association with atherosclerosis

•DOC: macrolides and tetracycline

Chlamydophila psittaci

•Atypical pneumonia

•Birds (parrots)

•DOC: tetracycline

•Lack cell wall peptidoglycan -) non-Gram-staining

•Cholesterol (req'd) in membr.

•Atypical pneumonia in youth and young adults

•Free living (culturable, extracell.)

•Slow growth, special media: Myco­ plasma, Eaton's or Hayflick's media-sterols+pur/pyrimidines: mulberry colonies

•Cold aggulutinins in 65% cases

•No Penicillins nor Cephalosporins

•DOC: erythromycin, azithromycin

Ureaplasma urealyticum

•Urethritis, prostatitis

•Urease positive

•No cell wall

•DOC: erythromycin or tetracycline

•Cutaneous lesions (fish tank granuloma)

•DOC: isoniazid, rifampin, ethambutol

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Lymphocytic

 

 

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Choriomeningitis

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hepatitis C

 

 

Hepatitis E

Human metapneumovirus

BUNYAVIRUS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hantavirus

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Herpes Simplex Virus

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Epstein-Barr Virus

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Cytomegalovirus

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