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*Ferment Several Sugars producing acid
*Facultative Anaerobe
*Lystostaphin: susceptible
*Capsule inhibits phagocytosis and opsinization when present
*Cell wall components are Peptidoglycan, Protein A, and Teichoic Acid.
Genus Staphylococcus
Provides Structural Stability and elicits an immune response.
Peptidoglycan
Inhibits opsinization and phagocytoses; binds IgG.
Protein A.
*Polymers of glycerol or robitol phosphate
*linked to peptidoglycan and are antigenic;
*attachment site for mucosal surface receptors;
*receptor for bacteriophages.
Teichoic acid
Staphylococcus aureus enzymes involved in tissue invasion(4)
*Hyaluronidase
*Fibrinolysin (staphylokinase)
*Coagulase
*Lipase
Staphylococcus aureus toxins involved in pathogenesis(3)
*Leukocidins
*Hemolysins
*Enterotoxins
Toxins that cause food poisoning.
Enterotoxins.
*Facilitates adherence to catheters and other synthetic materials.
*Interferes with cellular immune response which may prevent ingestion by white cells.
Slime Production
Rapid Lactose Fermenters
Esherichia
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
Citrate Positive
Serratia
Providencia
Citrobacter
Klebsiella
Mucoid Positive
Klebsiella
Enterobacter
Swarms
Proteus
Urease Positive
Proteus
Morganella
Motility Negative
Shigella
Klebsiella
Yersinia Pestis
H2S Positive
Salmonella
Proteus
Edwardsiella
Citrobacter freundii
Indole Negative
Enterobacter
Shigella
Salmonella
Proteus mirabilis
Aerobic & Facultative Cell Wall components
Peptidoglycan
Protein A
Teichoic Acid
Which component is responsible for stability of Aerobic & Facultative Cell
Peptidoglycan
Which component of Aerobic & Facultative Cell is the attachment site for mucosal surface receptor
Teichoic Acid
What pyogenic infection is a superficial staphylococcal skin infection primarily affecting children?
Impetigo
Bone and joing infection of Staphylococcus aureus has a high incidence in prepubital age group and adults w/rheumitoid Arthritis?
Septic Arthritis
What is the most common cause of food poisioning?
Meats
Sources of contamination
*Live bacteria from skin abcess or nasopharynx carriers
*food storage temperature
*enterotoxin is released
*preformed toxin acts in small intestine causin severe diarrhea
GNB NPA
Oxidase Negative
Motility by means of perittrichous flagella
Ferments glucose w/or without gas production
Facultative
Enterobacteriacea
Is Somatic antigen "O" thermostabile or thermolabile?
Thermostable
What is the gram stain for the Enterobacteriacea family?
GNB NPA
The most commonly known Enterobacteriacea species is _____positive and ____negative
Lactose, H2S
*Outbreaks occur in newborn nurseries and daycare centers.
*Cases are rarely seen in adults
*Symptoms: Low fever, Vomiting, Diarrhea, contains large amounts of mucus, gross blood not present.
Entereropathogenic Esherichia coli (EPEC)
*Occurs in adults and children
*Fecal-oral transmission
*Fever, Severe abdominal cramps
*malaise
*Watery Diarrhea followed by scanty stool w/pus, mucus, and blood.
Enteroinvasice Escherichia coli (EIEC)
*Produces a cholera like toxin
*Non-bloody, watery diarrhea
*8-12 uniformed stools per day
Enterotoxic Escherichia coli (ETEC)
*Includes Escherichia coli 0157:H7 and hemolytic uremic syndrom (HUS)
Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)
What are two cholera like toxins that ETEC produces
*Heat Labile Toxin (LT) which attaches to adenylate cyclase
*Heat Stable Toxin which attaches to guanylate cyclase