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Gram + cocci
Catalase + coagulase + salt tolerant produces acid from mannitol B-hemolytic |
Staphylococcus aureus
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Gram + cocci
Catalase + Coagulase - normal flora (rarely causes dz) |
Staphylococci
-saprophyticus -epididermis |
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Gram + cocci
catalase - a-hemolytic |
Streptococcus
-pneumoniae -Viridans Strep |
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Gram + cocci
catalase - b-hemolytic Group A |
Streptococcus pyogenes
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Gram + cocci
catalase - b-hemolytic Group B |
Streptococcus agalatiae
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Gram + cocci
catalase - non-hemolytic |
Group D
resistant to bile salts!!! Grows on bile esculin agar |
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Gram + cocci
Catalase - Group D normal GI flora nosocomial infections (highly resistant to antibiotics) |
Enterococci
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Gram + Rods
Spore forming aerobic |
Bacillus
-found in soil and water |
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Gram + rods
spore forming anaerobic |
Clostridium
-found in soil and water, and in human GI tract |
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Gram + rods
non-spore forming anaerobic normal flora (mouth, vagina, GI) |
Lactobacillus
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Gram + rods
non-spore forming anaerobic filamentous branching -normal flora or infectious |
Actinomyces
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Gram + rods
non-spore forming aerobic club-shaped/chinese letters normal flora except 1 |
Corynebacterium
(infectious= C. diphtheria) -selective on tellurite agar |
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Gram + rods
non-spore forming aerobic grows in low temp facultative intracellular tumbling motility 1 pathogen |
Listera
(infectious= L. monocytogenes) |
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Gram + rods
non-spore forming aerobic filamentous branching found in soil + water opportunistic |
Nocardia
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Gram - rods
Enterobacteriaceae **what are 3 characteristics? Lactose fermenting GI/UTI |
Escherichia
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Gram - rods
Enterobacteriaceae **what are 3 characteristics? Lactose fermenting pneumoniae, UTI, GI |
Klebsiella
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Gram - rods
Enterobacteriaceae **what are 3 characteristics? Lactose fermenting infection in hospitalized pts (2) |
Serratia
+ Enterobacter |
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Gram - rods
enterobacteriaceae **what are 3 characteristics? Non-lactose fermenting H2S producing swarming motility urease + common cause of UTI |
Proteus
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Gram - rods
enterobacteriaceae **what are 3 characteristics? Non-lactose fermenting H2S producing motile |
Salmonella
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae curved and spiral "gull wing" oxidase + microaerophilic incubate at 42C |
Campylobacter
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae curved and spiral comma shaped oxidase + |
Vibrio
(halophiles- tolerate salt) |
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae curved and spiral urease + microaerophilic |
Helicobacter
(H. pylori) |
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae successful opportunist oxidase + nosocomial infections doesn't ferment glucose |
Pseudomonas
-infects wounds, burns, sepsis, UTI |
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae respiratory tract pathogens fastidious blood chocolate agar-requires factor X (heme) and factor V (NAD) small pleomorphic |
Haemophilus
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae respiratory tract pathogens requires specialized media (to remove inhibitory substances) fastidious in singles or pairs |
Bordetella
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae respiratory tract pathogens fastidious BCYE |
Legionella
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae Zoonses coccobacillary bi-polar staining dog/cat bite -cellulitis |
Pasturella
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae Zoonses pleomorphic rods fastidious, slow growing animal contact or product |
Brucella
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Gram - rods
non-enterobactericeae Zoonses coccobacilliary fastidious-requires cystiene occupational risk Highly infectious ~50 |
Francisella
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Gram - rods
non enterobacteriaceae Zoonses pleomorphic rods slow growing and difficult to isolate via contact |
Bartonella
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Gram - cocci
assoc with PMNs in direct smear grows best on chocolate agar ~5% CO2 thayer martin also used oxidase + ferments glucose 2 pathogenic species |
Neisseria
-N. meningitidis (ferments glucose AND maltose) -N. gonorrhea (only ferments glucose) |
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Gram - cocci
"classically a rod" nosocomial infections -resistant to antibiotics, can colonize skin |
Acinetobacter
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Gram - cocci
"classically rods" normal upper resp flora otitis media bacteremia meningitis |
Moraxella
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Poor staining
spirochete **what are the 3 characteristics? syphilis |
Treponema pallidum
-has NEVER been cultured |
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Poor staining spirochete
**what are the 3 characteristics? arthropod borne -lyme dz -endemic relapsing fevers |
Borrelia
-B. burdorferi |
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Poor staining
obligate intracellular **what are 3 characteristics? cannot make their own ATP |
-Chlamydia
-Chlamydiophila |
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Poor staining
obligate intracellular **what are 3 characteristics? arthropod borne |
Rickettsia
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Poor staining
obligate intracellular **what are 3 characteristics? arthropod borne infect leukocytes (2) |
-Eherlichia
-Anaplasma |
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Poor staining
obligate intracellular **what are 3 characteristics? zoonses -birthing products (placenta) |
Coxiella
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Poor staining
-cell wall has waxy mycolic acids -resistant to drying, chemical agents, germicides -slow growing (18hrs 2x time) 3 pathogenic: |
Mycobacteria
-M. tuberculosis -M. avium intracellulare -M. leprae |
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Poor staining
lacks cell wal sensitive to environments hard to grow in labs "fried egg appearance" requires sterols for growth normally found in mucus... 1 pathogenic |
Mycoplasma
-M. pneumonia |