Kaplan Microbiology B1 (Ch. 10)

Front 1

1) What is so special about mycoplasmataceae?
2) What organisms do they resemble? How are they different?
3) What are the genera under Mycoplasmataceae? How are they classified?
4) 3 species of medical importance?
5) Disease in humans involves what 2 tracts?

Back 1

1) Smallest free living organisms, lack a cell wall
2) Prokaryotic cells resembling gram - bacteria, but lack cell wall
3) Mycoplasma, Ureaplasma. Classified based on ability to hydrolyze urea
4) Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Mycoplasma hominis, Ureaplasma urealyticum
5) Respiratory, urogenital

Front 2

Mycoplasmataceae:

1) Morphologic?
2) Respiration?
3) Why are they unique among prokaryotes?

Back 2

1) Filamentous, pleomorphic
2) Facultative organisms, mainly fermentative
3) Require sterols for growth, cell membranes contain cholesterol

Front 3

Mycoplasma pneumoniae:

1) Where is it found geographically? How does transmission occur?
2) What is it the most common cause of?
3) Clinical manifestations?
4) What occurs in 20% of patients with mycoplasma pneumonia?
5) Tx?
6) What drugs are they resistant to and why?
7) What is used for diagnosis?

Back 3

1) Throughout the world, aerosol droplets
2) Walking pneumonia in young adults
3) *Nonproductive cough*, low-grade fever, headache
4) Nonpurulent otitis media, *bullous myringitis*
5) Marcolides (erythromycin, azithromycin), tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones
6) Beta-lactam antibiotics
7) Cold agglutinins (IgM)

Front 4

Mycoplasma hominis:

1) How is it transmitted?
2) Who does it primarily affect?
3) Clinical manifestations

Back 4

1) Sexually
2) Postpartum women
3) Postabortal/postpartum fevers/bacteremia, pelvic inflammatory disease

Front 5

Ureaplasma urealyticum:

1) How is it transmitted?
2) How is it distinguished from Mycoplasma?
3) A minor cause of what disease?

Back 5

1) Sexually
2) Produces urea
3) Nongonococcal urethritis