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Polysaccharide made of D-glutamate
Bacillus anthracis
Dipicolinic acid
In spores to resist dehydration, heat and chemicals

B. anthracis, Clostridium, C. tetani
Glycocalyx role
Mediate adherence to surfaces (ex. indwelling catheter)
Unique things to Gram + and Gram - cell walls
Gram +; Lipoteichoic acid (induces TNF and IL-1), larger cell wall

Gram -; Endotoxin/LPS (Lipid A induces TNF and IL1, O polysaccharide is antigen); Periplasm btw wall and cell membrane (may have B-lactamases)

Both can have Pili, Flagellum, Capsules,
Branching filamentous bacteria
Nocardia (weak acid fast)
Actinomyces

Nocardia is obligate aerobe, Actinomyces is obligate anaerobe
Cell wall enriched in sterols
Mycoplasma
Cell wall with high lipid content
Mycobacteria (mycolic acid)
Special Stains: Giemsa
Chlamydia
Borrelia
Rickettsiae
Trypanosomes
Plasmodium

Most hard to see on gram stain
Special stains: Silver Stain
Fungi (pneumocystis)
Legionella
Helicobacter pylori
Special Culture: H. influenzae
Chocolate agar with factors V (NAD+) and X (hematin)
Special Culture: Neisseria
Thayer-Martin (VPN) media - Vancomycin (gram + inh.), Polymyxin (gram - inh. exc. neisseria), Nystatin (fungi inh.)
Special Culture: Legionella
Charcoal yeast extract agar buffered with cystein and iron
Special Culture: Fungi
Sabouraud's agar
Obligate Aerobes
Norcardia
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (burn wounds, diabetes, nosocomial pneumonia, CF pneumonia)
Mycobacterium TB
Bacillus

Nagging Pests Must Breathe
Obligate Anaerobes
Clostridium
Bacteroides
Actinomyces

Produce gas in tissue, can't use aminoglycosides (need O2 to enter)
Facultative intracellular bugs
Salmonella
Neisseria
Brucella
Mycobacterium
Listeria
Francisella
Legionella
Yersinia pestis

Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLY
Encapsulated bacteria, test
SHiNE SKiS

Strep pneumo
H. influenzae type B
Neisseria meningitidis
E. coli
Salmonella
Klebsiella pneumoniae
group b Strep

Quellung reaction - if encapsulated, swells when anticapsular antisera added

Vaccines to capsule + protein conjugate; Capsule alone only generates IgM (Pneumovax) vs long term in H. influenzae type B or Meningococcal
Catalase + organisms
Pseudomonas, E. coli, S. aureus

Also Listeria, Aspergillus, Canddida, Serratia
Urease positive bugs
Proteus
Ureaplasma
Klebsiella
S. epidermidis
S. saprophyticus (novobicin resistant)

Can cause staghorn caliculi

Also Cryptococcus, H. pylori, Norcardia
Yellow sulfur granules
Actinomyces
Virulence factor: Protein A
Binds Fc part of Ig, prevents opsonization and phagocytosis
Virulence factor: IgA protease
Secreted by SHiN (s. pneumo, H. influenzae type B, Neisseria) and cleaves IgA to colonize respiratory mucosa

also N. gonorrhea
Virulence factor: M protein
Helps present phagocytosis
In group A strep

Rheumatic fever antigen
Exotoxin vs Endotoxin
Exotoxin - Both types can make, Secreted, polypeptide, genes from outside, High toxicity, high titer Abx, Toxoid vaccine, destroyed rapidly (ex. Tetanus, botulism, diphtheria)

Endotoxins - Most gram-negative's outer membrane, not secreted, LPS, from chromosome, low fatality, causes fever and shock due to TNF and IL1, poorly antigenic, no vaccines, stable in heat, (ex. Meningococcemia, gram - sepsis)
Exotoxin: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
Diphtheria toxin; Inactivates EF-2 by ribosylation; pharyngitis with pseudomembranes in throat and severe lymphadenopaty
Exotoxin: Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Exotoxin A; Inactivates EF-2 by ribosylation; Host cell death
Exotoxin: Shiga toxin
Shigella or Shiga like toxin from EHEC (O157:H7); Inactivates 60S ribosome by removing adenine from rRNA. GI mucosal damage, cytokine release leading to HUS. No invasion in EHEC but in shigella
ETEC toxins
Heat-labile - upregulates cAMP, Cl- secretion to gut and water follows

Heat stable - upregulates cGMP, less NaCl reabsorption and water reabsorption from gut
Exotoxin: Edema factor
Bacillus anthracis

Mimics adenylate cyclase to raise cAMP

Causes edematous borders of black eschar in anthrax
Exotoxin: Cholerae toxin
Upregulates cAMP by permanently activating Gs, Cl- secretion and water follows
Exotoxin: Bordetella pertussis
Upregulates cAMP by disabling Gi, impairs phagocytosis

Causes whooping cough
Exotoxin: Tetanospasmin vs Botulinum toxin
Both cleave snares so NT's can be released

Tetanospasmin - prevents inhibitory NT release (GABA and glycine) in spinal cord so rigid

Botulinum toxin - prevents ACh release at NMJ so get flaccid paralysis
Exotoxin: Alpha toxin
C. perfringens, phospholipase that degrades tissue and cell membranes via phospholipase C degredation (lecithinase), myonecrosis and hemolysis
Exotoxin: Streptolysin O
Strep pyogenes

Degrades cell membranes (RBCs), elevated in rheumatic fever
Exotoxin: TSST-1
S. aureus, Brings MHCII and TCR together to overwhelm IFNgam and IL2 activation to cause shock
Exotoxin: Streptococcus pyogenes for toxic shock
Exotoxin A, Brings MHCII and TCR together to overwhelm IFNgam and IL2 activation to cause shock
Exotoxin: C. diff
Toxin A - binds brush border
Toxin B - destroys actin causing pseudomembranes
Bacterial transformation
Taking up naked DNA from environment or cell lysis

Seen in SHiN bacteria; Adding deoxyribonuclease will inhibit
Bacterial Transposition
Segment of DNA that can jump (excise adn reintegrate) to transfer. Ex. plasmid to chromosome and vice versa
Transduction Generalized vs Specialized
Generalized - packaging event, lytic phage leads to cleavage of bacterial DNA, packaged in viral capsid, infects another bacteria and transfers

Specialized - excision event, Lysogenic phage, viral DNA incorporates to bacterial chromosome, when phage DNA excised, takes more DNA than came with
Genes encoded in phages
ABCDE

ShigA like toxin (EHEC)
Botulinum toxin
Cholera toxin
Diphtheria toxin
Erythrogenic toxin of Strep pyogenes
Gram+ algorithm
Branching = Nocardia (aerobe, acid fast) or Actinomyces (anaerobe)

Cocci -
1) Catalase + in clusters = Staph
a) Coagulase + = S. aureus
b) Coagulase -, Novobicin sensitive (S. epidermidis) or resistant (S. saprophyticus)
2) Catalase - in chain = Strep
a) Alpha hemolysis (green) - S. pneumo (+ quellung, optochin sens.) or S. Viridans (no capsule, optochin resis.)
b) Beta hemolysis (clear) - S. pyogenes (bacitracin sens.) or S. agalactiae (bacitracin resis.)
c) Gamma hemolysis (none) - Enterococcus (Growth in bile and 6.5% NaCl); or nonenterococcus (s. bovis; growth in bile but not 6.5% NaCl)

Rods
Clostridium (anerobe)
Corynebacterium
Listeria (tumbling motility)
Bacillus (aerobe)
Mycobacterium (acid-fast)
Gram + cocci, catalase +, coagulase -, novobicin sensitive

Infects prosthetic devices, IV catheters, makes biofilms
S. epidermidis
Things S. pneumo most commonly causes
MOPS

Meningitis
Otitis media (in kids)
Pneumonia
Sinusitis

"rusty sputum", IgA protease
Babies get pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis, osteomyelitis

Produces CAMP factor to enlarge hemolysis area if plated with S. aureus, Hippurate positive
Gram + cocci, catalase -, B hemolytic, Bacitracin resistant

Group B strep

Can give penicillin prophylaxis
Bacterial endocarditis causes
Acute, severe - S. aureus
Dental procedure, Gram + cocci, catalase -, optochin resistant, alpha hemolysis - S. viridans, S. mutans, or S. sanguis
Gram + cocci, catalase -, gamma hemolysis, grows in bile but not 6.5% NaCl - S. bovis (colon cancer often)
Antibiotics associated with C. diff, treatment
Ampicillin, Clindamycin

Metronidazole or oral Vancomycin to treat
Meningitis in immunocompromised or neonate, Key diagnostic features, treatment
Listeria monocytogenes

Tumbling motility, may for "actin rockets", facultative intracellular from unpasteurized milk/cheese and deli meats or birth canal

AMPICILLIN to treat
Osteomyelitis in
a) Normal
b) Kids
c) HbS
d) Vertebral body
e) Diabetic
f) Prosthesis
g) Sexually Active
h) Cat and dog bites/scratches
a) Normal - S. aureus
b) Kids - Group B. strep
c) HbS - Salmonella
d) Vertebral body - TB
e) Diabetic - Pseudomonas suspect
f) S. aureus or S. epidermidis
g) N. gonorrhea (rare), septic arthritis more common
h) Pasteurella multocida
Disseminated acid fast disease in AIDS pt, drug resistant
M. avium intracellulare, Azithromycin to treat prophylactically when counts too low
TB virulence factors
Cord factor - grows in chain, prevents macrophage maturation and induces TNFa release

Sulfatides - inhibit phagolysosomal fusion
Leprosae forms
Mycobacterium leprae, anesthetic lesions

a) Lepromatous - diffuse on skin, communicable, low cell-mediated immunity and Th2 resposne
b) Tuberculoid - few skin plaques, hgih cell mediated immunity and Th1 response

Treat with dapsone, rifampin for tuberculoid, add clofazimine if lepromatous
Gram - lab algorithm
Comma shaped, oxidase +
a) Grows at 42 = Campylobacter
b) Grows in alkaline media = V. cholerae

Diplococci
a) Maltose fermenter = N. meningitidis; also capsule
b) Nonmaltose = N. gonorrhoeae

"Coccoid" rods
a) H. influenzae; chocolate agar with factors V and X
b) Pasteurella - animal bites
c) Brucella
d) Bordetella pertussis, whooping cough; potato agar (Bordet-Gengou)

Rods
1) Lactose fermenter (MacConkey)
a) Fast = Klebsiella, E. coli, enterobacter
b) Slow = Citrobacter, Serratia
2) Lactosenonfermentor, oxidase +
a) Pseudomonas
b) H. pylori; urease +, silver stain
3) Lactose nonfermenter, oxidase -
a) Shigella, HUS, Shiga toxin
b) Salmonella, motile
c) Proteus, urease +, UTI
EHEC unique ID
DOES NOT grow on sorbitol or produce B-galactosidase like other E.coli
Waterhouse-Fiderichsen Syndrome
Acute adrenal infarction due to N. meningococci infection
H. influenzae diseases
EMOP

Epiglottisis - MAIN ONE prior to vaccination
Meningitis
Otitis media
Pneumonia

Suspect in NONVACCINATED child
ID for Legionella
Mild flu
Gram - rod, Silver stain
Charcoal yeast with iron and cysteine needed to grow
Antigen in urine
HYPONATREMIA

Macrolide or quinolone to treat
When to suspect Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Gram - rod, Lactose nonfermenter, oxidase +, fruit odor, blue-green pigment. Exotoxin A inactivates EF2 by ribosylation

PSEUDO

Pneumonia in CF
Sepsis with BLACK SKIN LESIONS
External otitis (swimmer's ear)
UTI
Drug use and Diabetic Osteomyelitis

Aminoglycosides to treat, extended-spectrum penicillin
E. coli virulence factors
Fimbrae - cystitis and pyelonephritis
K capsule - pneumonia, neonatal meningitis
LPS endotoxin - septic shock
ETEC has heat labile and heat stabile toxins
EHEC has shiga like toxin (removes adenosine from 60S rRNA)
Klebsiella suspicion
Gram - rod, lactose fast fermenter, CAPSULE (so not E. coli)

4 A's
Aspiration pneumonia, Abscess in lungs and liver, Alcoholics, diAbetics

VERY mucoid due to capsule; can cause nosocomial UTIs
Salmonella vs Shigella
Salmonella - flagella, hematogenously can spread, produce H2S, invades mucosa and causes monocytic response; Can cause typhus (M cells to spleen, liver, marrow; sepsis and "rose spots" on abdomen with hemorrhagic GI tract)

Shigella - no flagella, cell to cell transmission, no H2S, Invades and causes PMN response

Both don't ferment lactose (not EHIC or EHEC) and can cause bloody diarrhea
Main antecedant to Guillan Barre
Campylobacter jejuni

Bloddy diarrhea, comma shaped, oxidase +, grows at 42 degrees
Spirochetes
Borrelia
Leptospira
Treponema (dark field to see)
Animal urine contact
Leptospira interrogans, flu like symptoms, jaundice, photophobia with conjunctivitis

May gate azotemia from liver and kidney dysfunction, fever, hemorrhage and anemia
Lyme disease signs
Borrelia Burgdorferi

Stages
1) - erythema chronicum migrans
2) Neurologic (facial nerve palsy) and cardiac (AV node block)
3) MSK and migratory polyarthritis, encephalopathy, polyneuropathy,
Syphilis tests, Congenital syphilis signs
Painless chancre first, then disseminated maculopapular rash, then gummas (granulomas), aortitis (vasa vasorum destruction), neurosyphilis (dorsal columns), Argyll Robertson pupil (constricts to accomodation but not light)

Tests
VDRL - screen. False + in viruses (mono, hepatitis), drugs, Rheumatic fever, lupus and leprosy
FTA-ABS - confirm

Congenital - saber shins, saddle nose, sensorineural deafness, Hutchinson's teeth, mulberry molars. Transmitted in 1st trimester
Zoonotic bacteria: Catch scratch
Bartonella

Necrosis and lymphadenopathy
Zoonotic bacteria: Bloody diarrhea
Campylobacter, puppies or livestock
Zoonotic bacteria: Parrots, other birds
Psittacosis, Chlamydophila psittaci
Zoonotic bacteria: Mycobacterium leprae
Armadillos, humans with lepromatous leprosy
Rickettsia prowazekki vs rickettsii vs typhi
All intracellular and need CoA and NAD+

Prowazekii - epidemic typhus from louse
Rickettsii - Rocky Mountain spotted fever, rash Starts at wrist & ankles, moves to trunks, palms, soles.
Typhi - endemic typhus from fleas, Rash starts center and spreads sparing palms and soles

Doxycycline for all
Gardnerella vaginalis presentation
Fishy smell
Gram-variable rod
Gray vaginal discharge
NOT STD but associated with sexual activity
Loss of lactobacillus
Clue cells,

Metronidazole to treat
Palm and sole rash
Coxsackievirus A - hand foot and mouth disesae
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Secondary syphilis
Chlamydia forms
Intracellular (needs ATP); Elementary body is infectious and endocytosed. REticulate body repicates by fission

C. trachomatis - STD, reactive arthritis, conjunctivitis, PID
C. pneumoniae, C. psittaci - atypical pneumonia

Treat with azithromycin or doxycycline

ABC - blindness due to follicular conjunctivitis in Africa
D-K - Urethritis/PID, ectopic pregnancy, neonatal pneumonia (STACCATO cough) or neonatal conjunctivitis

L1-L3 - Lymphogranuloma venereum - granuloma on vulva; lymphatic infection, rectal strictures
"Walking pneumonia", insidious, headache, nonproductive cough, diffuse infiltrate, X-ray looks worse

Military recruits or prisons
Mycoplasma

High cold agglutin titer (IgM)

Macrolide or fluoroquinolone treats

NOT penicillin because no cell wall
Systemic Mycoses: Histoplasmosis
Mississippi and Ohio River valley, pneumonia
Macrophages filled with Histoplasma
Bird or bat dropping
Systemic Mycoses: Blastomycosis
East of Miss. River, Central America
Inflammatory lung disease, can go to bone and skin, granulomatous nodules

Broad based buds
Systemic Mycoses: Coccidioidomycosis
Southwestern US, pneumonia and meningitis, can go to bone and skin. Post-earthquakes or San Joaquin Valley

Spherules with endospores
Systemic Mycoses: Paracoccidioidomycosis
Latin America
Budding yeast with captain's wheel
Malassezia furfur
Fungus

Lipid degradation damages melanocytes causing hypopigmented or hyperpigmented patches

Hot, humid weather (cruise ex.)

Miconazole or selenium sulfide to treat
"spaghetti and meatball" on KOH prep
Candida albicans
Systemic or superficial fungus; oral or esophageal thrush in immunocompromised, vulvovaginitis, diaper rash, may cause endocarditis in drug users

GERM TUBES at 37 degrees
Aspergillus vs Mucor and Rhizopus
Aspergillus - invasive in immunocompromised or makes fungus ball, Acute angles, true hyphae

Mucor and RHizopus - DKA, proliferate in vessel walls, necrosis, go to brain, frontal lob abscess. Black necrotic escher
Cryptococcus neoformans ID
Encapsulated yeast
Pigeon droppings
Can cause meningitis in immunocompromised but starts in lungs
Mucarmine stain, India ink, Latex agglutination test
Fungal pneumonia in immunocompromised
Pneumocystis jirovecii

TMP-SMX, prophylaxis under 200
Sporothrix schenckii
Dimorphic cigar shaped budding yeast, lives on vegetation
Introduced to skin via trauma, ulcer along lymphatic lines on skin
Malaria treatment
Chloroquine - blocks heme polymerase
Mefloquine - chloroquine resistance
Quinidine - if lifethreatening, make sure no G6PD def
Primaquine - vivax/ovale for hypnozoite (G6PD test)
Parasite treatments
Metronidazole for Giardia or Entamoeba
Mebendazole
Sulfadiazine+Pyrimethamine
Praziquantel for flukes and tapeworms
Parasite hints: Brain cysts, seizures
T. solium (cysticercosis);
Parasite hints: Liver cysts
Echinococcus granulosus; anaphylaxis if rupture
Parasite hints: B12 def
Diphyllobothrium latum
Parasite hints: Biliary tract disesae, cholangiocarcinoma
Clonorchis sinensis
Parasite hints: Hemoptysis
Paragonimus westermani
Parasite hints: Portal HTN
Schistosoma mansoni
Parasite hints: Hematuria, bladder cancer
Schistosoma haematobium
Parasite hints: Microcytic anemia
Ancylostoma, Necator

Barefoot
Parasite hints: Perianal pruritus
Enterobius

Scotch tape test, mebendazole
Recombination vs Reassortment
Recombination - gene exchange across two chromosomes with significant homology

Reassortment - segmented genome exchange, high freq. recombination. Causes influenza pandemic
Complementation
1 of 2 viruses is a mutation with nonfunctional protein, nonmutated complements to make protein for both

ex. Hep D
Phenotypic mixing
Simultaneous infection with 2 viruses

Genomes can be partially coated with surface proteins of both types, so can infect different cells. Next generation though is normal coating
Live vs Killed virus vaccines
Live - attenuated, rarely revert, last longer - smallpox, yellow fever, VZV, Sabin's polio, MMR, nasal influenza

Deat - Rabies, Influenza shot, Salk Polio and HAV
Only ssDNA virus
Parvovirus
ex. B19, aplastic crisis risk, erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), hydrops fetalis
Only dsRNA virus
Reoviridae

Rotavirus - childhood diarrhea, loss of villi, reduced absorption of Na+, K+ loss too
Only impt one
+ strand RNA viruses

- strand RNA viruses
I went to a RETRO TOGA party where I drank FLAVored CORONA and ate HIPPY, CALIfornia PICles

Retrovirus
Togavirus
Flavavirus
Coronavirus
Hepevirus
Calicivirus
Picornavirus

Negative strand - needs RNA dep RNA pol with it to work
Arenavirus
Bunyavirus
Paramyxovirus
Orthomyxovirus
Filovirus
Rhabdovirus

Always Bring Polymerase Or Fail Replication
Only diploid virus
Retrovirus (2 + ssRNA molecules)
Herpesviruses common ones
dsDNA

HSV-1 - oral and genital lesions, temporal lobe encephalitis (most common sporadic encephalitis in US), keratoconjunctivitis; latent in trigeminal ganglia
HSV-2 - genital and oral lesions, latent in sacral ganglia
VZV - chickenpox and zoster, latent in dorsal root or trigeminal ganglia
EBV - mononucleosis, Burkitt's lymphoma, Hodgkin's lymphoma, nasopharyngeal carcinoma, latent in B cells, atypical lymphocytes
CMV - immunosuppresed pt infection, esp. transplants, congenital defects, owl's eye inclusions, latent in mononuclear cells
HHV6&7 - roseaola
HHV8 - Kaposi sarcoma

Tzanck test to visualize multinucleated giant cells, PCR test of choice
Hepadnavirus common ones
dsDNA

HBV, has RT but not a retrovirus
Adenovirus common ones
Naked, dsDNA

Causes common cold, pink eye, pneumonia in tight groups (day care), febrile pharyngitis
Parvovirus common ones
Naked, ssDNA
B19 - aplastic crisis risk, erythema infectiosum (fifth disease), hydrops fetalis
Papillomavirus common ones
dsDNA

HPV, 16 and 18 can cause cancer
Poxvirus common ones
dsDNA

Molluscum contagiosum - flesh colored dome lesions with central dimple
Picornaviruses common ones
PERCH

SS + RNA
Poliovirus - Salk and Sabin vaccines (IPV/OPV)
Echovirus - aseptic meningitis
Rhinovirus - cold
Coxsackievirus - aseptic meningitis, hand, foot, mouth disease, myocarditis
HAV - acute hepatitis
Norwalk virus
Norovirus in Calicivirus family

Viral gastroenteritis
Flaviviruses common ones
SS + RNA

HCV
Yellow fever
Dengue
St. louis encephalitis
West Nile virus
Togaviruses common ones
Rubella
Eastern equine encephalitis
Western equine encephalitis
Retroviruses
Have RT

HTLV - Tcell leukemia
HIV
Paramyxovirus common ones
Parainfluenza - croup
RSV - bronchiolitis in babies (RIBAVIRIN treats)
Measles, Mumps
Orthomyxovirus, virulence factors
Influenza

Hemagglutinin - viral entry
Neuraminidase - progeny virion release
Genetic shift vs drift
Shift - pandemics, reassortment of genome (high frequency recombination)

Drift - epidemics, minor change based on mutation
Rubella vs Rubeolla
Rubella (togavirus) german measles - milder, fever, truncal rash starts at head and moves down. MORE lymphadenopathy than rubeola (measles paramyxovirus)

Measles - koplic spots, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, rash from head to toe and includes heands and feet.

Also rubeola is congenital
Mumps virus presentation
Parotitis
Orchitis
aseptic Meningitis
Rabies virsu presentation
Negri bodies in cytoplasm of neurons (Purkinje cells of cerebellum)

Retrograde transport, fever, malaise, agitation, photophobia, hydrophobia, paralysis, coma, death

From bat, raccoon, skunks
Hepatitis viral differences
HAV, HEV - fecal oral, short course, HAV often asymptomatic. HEV associated with mortality in pregnant women

HBV - DNA virus (ONLY ONE) - STD or parenteral, INTEGRATES to host genome

HCV - RNA flavivirus, blood, parenteral, long course, chronic, cirrhosis, carcinoma; Cold cryoglobulinemia

HDV - broken virus, perenteral, sexual, superinfection if already have HBV
HBV antigens and antibodies
HBsAg - means virus infection
Anti-HBs - immunity to Hep B
HBcAg - core of HBV
Anti-HBc - previous infection of Hep B, if just anti-HBs may have vaccine, IgM for recent, IgG for chronic. Positive in window period before antiHBs
HBeAg - active viral replication
Anti-HBe - low transmissibility
HIV proteins, role
env - formed from gp160 cleavage
a) gp120 - attach to CD4 T cell
b) gp41 - fusion and entry

gag - capsid, gp41
pol - RT, aspartate protease, integrase

Binds CCR5 early and CXCR4 late co receptor on T cells or CCR5 on macrophages

If mutated CCR5 have immunity (homozygous) or resistance (heterozygous)

Diagnose with ELISA and Western blot confirmation
Bacterial mimic of appendicitis
Yersinia enterocolitica

Also can be nontyphoidal salmonella or campylobacter jejuni
Pneumonia causes in
a) Neonates
b) Children
c) Adults
d) Elderly
a) Neonates - Group B strep, E. coli
b) Children - RSV, mycoplasma, Chalmydia trachomatis, C. pneuonia, S. penumonia
c) Adults - S. pneumonia, Mycoplasma, C. pneumonia; As age H. influenzae, viruses, anaerobes
d) Elderly - S. penumo, Influenza, anaerobes, H. influenza, gram - rods (oral cavity)
Special pneumonia cases
a) Nosocomial
b) Immunocompromised
c) Aspiration
d) Alcoholic, IV drug use
e) CF
f) Post viral
g) Atypical
a) Nosocomial - Staphylococcus, enteric gram - rods
b) Immunocompromised - Staph, enterics, fungi, viruses, pneumocystis jirovecii
c) Aspiration - anaerobes
d) Alcoholic, IV drug use - S. pneumo, Klebsiella, Staph
e) CF - Pseudomonas, Staph, S. pneumo
f) Post viral - Staph, H. influenzae, S. pneumo
g) Atypical - Mycoplasma, Legionella, Chlamydia
Main Abx for Gram - coverage
Ceftriaxone
Main Abx for Gram + coverage
Vancomycin
UTIs predisposing factors, DX markers, Main causes
Women (short urethra), obstruction, surgery, catheter, GU malformation (reflux or vesicopelvic malformation), diabetes, and pregnancy

Positive leukocyte esterase = bacterial
Positive nitrite test = gram negative bacterial UTI

WBC casts = pyelonephritis

Causes
1) E. coli - #1, green on EMB agar
2) S. saprophyticus - gram + cocci, catalase +, coag -, novobicin resistant, sexually active women
3) Klebsiella pneumoniae - Gram - rod, lactose fermenter, urease +
4) Serratia - red pigment, nosocomial
5) Proteus mirabilis - motility, swarming on agar, urease +, STRUVITE STONES
6) Pseudomonas aeruginosa - blue green pigment, fruity odor, nosocomial, drug resistant. Gram - rod, aerobe, oxidase +, nonfermenter
ToRCHeS infections
T. gondii, rubella, CMV, HIV, HSV2, syphilis

Others may include Group b strep (meningitis), E. coli, and listeria (meningitis); parvovirus B19 can cause hydrops fetalis
Rash, lymphadenopathy, arthritis for mom, PDA (or pulm artery hypoplasia), cataracts, deafness and "blueberry muffin rash" for baby
Rubella, respiratory droplet spread
Asymptomatic for mother, Chorioretinitis, hydrocephalus and intracranial calcifications for child
Toxoplasma gondii, cat or meat
Asymptomatic or lesions for mom, encephalitis, vesicular lesions
HSV2, skin or mucous membrane contact
Stillbirth, hydrops fetalis, facial abnormalities (notched teeth, saddle nose, short maxilla, saber shins, sensorineural deafness
Congenital syphilis
Sensorineural hearing loss, seizures, petechial rash, "blueberry muffin" rash
CMV
Hand, foot and mouth disease
Coxsackie virus A

Vesicular rash on palms, soles
Ulcers in oral mucosa
Bug hints: Pus, empyema, abscess
S. aureus
Bug hints: Pneumonia in CF, burn infection
P. aeruginosa
Bug hints: Traumatic open wound
C. perfringens, gas gangrene
Bug hints: "currant jelly" sputum
klebsiella
Bug hints: Dog or cat bite
Pasteurella multocida
Bug hints: PAS stain
T. whipplei
Bug hints: Sepsis/meningitis in newborn
Group B strep
Bug hints: health care provider
HBV (needle stick)
Bug hints: Fungus in DKA
Mucor or rhizopus

90 branches without hyphae
Bug hints: Asplenic pt
Encapsulated SHiN

S. pneumo
H. influenzae B
N. meningitidis
Bug hints: CGC
Catalase +, esp. s. aureus
Bug hints: Neutropenia
C. albicans, Aspergillus
Bug hints: Facial nerve palsy
Borrelia burgdorferi
Penicillin, MOA, Use, Resistance
Binds penicillin binding proteins (transpeptidases) to block cross-linking of peptidoglycan

Used for Gram +, and N. meningitidis, T. pallidum, and syphilis.

Resistance - B-lactamases that cleave B-lactam ring
Oxacillin, nafcillin, dicloxacillin, MOA, use, resistance
Penicillinase resistant penicillins; bind PBP's and block cross linking; B lactamases stopped because of bulky B-lactam ring

Use: S. aureus skin infections esp. MRSA is resistant

Resistance - Altered PBP target site
Ampicillin, Amoxicillin
Aminopenicillins; wider spectrum. Sensitive to penicillinase so needs B lactamase inhibitors when given

Use - Extended spectrum for Gram + and Gram - including many enterococci

Resistance - B lactamases
Ticarcillin, piperacillin
Antipseudomonasl that work like penicillins to bind PBP and prevent cross links

Pseudomonas and gram - rods, needs B lactamase inhibitor b/c penicillinase susceptible

Resistance - B lactamases
B-lactamase inhibitors
Clavulanic Acid
Sulbactam
Tazobactam
CAST

Added to penicillin antibiotics (aminopenicillins [ampi and amox], antipseudomonals [Ticarcillin, piperacillin) to enhance effect and protect from B lactamases
Cefazolin, Cephalexin
Cefoxitin, Cefaclor
1st and 2nd gen cephalosporins, B-lactam drugs resistant to penicillinases

Gram + cocci, Proteus, E.coli, Klebsiella, H. influenzae

DO NOT cover LAME
Listeria, Atypicals, MRSA and enterococci
Ceftriaxone, Cefotaxime
Cefepime
3rd and 4th gen cephalosporins; B-lactams resistant to penicillinases

3rd gens for serious Gram- resistant to others (n. gonorrhea, N. meningitis

4th gens help for Pseudomonas and gram+ too
Azotreonam
Monobactam resistant to B-lactamases
Prevents peptidoglycan cross links by binding PBP3

SYNERGISTIC with Aminoglycosides and no cross allergy with penicillins

GRAM - rods only; penicillin allergic or can't tolerate aminoglycosides (renal tox)
Imipenem, MOA, use, what must always be given
Meropenem
Imipenem - Broad spectrum B-lactamase resistant carbapenem, MUST ge given with cislastatin to reduce renal inactivation of drug

For Gram + cocci, gram - rods, and anaerobes

Meropenem is more stable and lacks tox
Vancomycin, MOA, use, Resistance
Binds D-ala D-ala part of cell wall precursors to inhibit wall formation

GRAM POSITIVE KILLER, especially resistant organisms

NOT problems - Nephrotox, Ototox, Thrombophlebitis

Resistance from changing second ala to lac to avoid
Gentamycin, Neomycin, Amikacin, Tobramycin, Streptomycin, MOA, use, resistance
Aminoglycosides

Bind 30S, inhibit formation of initiation complex, cause mRNA misreads and kill bacteria

Req. O2 for uptake NOT FOR ANAEROBES

Use - severe gram-
Tox - Nephro, Ototox (esp. with loop diuretic)
Resistance - Transferase enzymes that inactivate drug via acetylation, phosphorylation or adenylation
Tetracycline, Doxycycline, Demeclocycline, Minocycline, MOA, use, resistance
Tetracyclines that Bind 30S, inhibit aminoacyl-tRNA attachment

Don't take with milk, antacids or iron preps that inhibit absorption

Use - Borrelia, M. pneumonia, Rickettia, Chlamydia. INTRACELLULARS

Resistance - decreased uptake or increased efflux via pumps
Azithromycin, clarithromycin, Erythromycin, MOA, use, resistance
Macrolides, Bind 50S and inhibit translocation

Used for atypical pneumonia (mycoplasma, legionella, chlamydia), Chlamydia STD, gram + cocci allergy to penicillin

Resistance via methylation of rRNA site it binds to
Chloramphenicol, MOA, use, resistance
Binds 50S, blocks peptidyltransferase

Use - meningitis but toxic (aplastic anemia, gray baby syndrome due to UDP-glucuronyl transferase lack)

Resistance - plasmid acetyltransferase to inactivate drug
Clindamycin, MOA, use, resistance
Blocks peptide transfer (transpeptidation) at 50S.

Used for ANAEROBIC infections in aspiration or 1st line for lung abscesses;
Sulfamethoxazole, Sulfisoxazole, Sulfadiazine, MOA, use, resistance
Sulfonamides

PABA antimetabolites that inhibit DHP synthase

Use - Everything, Simple UTI's often

Tox - G6PD, nephrotox, phototox, kernicterus, displace things from albumin

Resistance - Altered DHP synthase, less uptake or more PABA made
Trimethroprim, MOA, use, resistance
Inhibits bacterial DHF reductase (similar to methotrexate)

Use - combination with sulfonamides (TMP-SMX) for sequential block in folate synthesis

UTI's, Shigella, Salmonella, Pneumocystis pneumonia prophylaxis

Can cause Megaloblastic anemia, leukopenia, granulocytopenia due to marrow effect, leukovorin to rescue
Ciprofloxacin, Norfloxacin, Levofloxacin, Ofloxacin, Sparfloxacin, Moxifloxacin, Gatifloxacin, Enoxacin, Nalidixic acid, MOA, use, resistance
Fluoroquinolones, inhibit DNA gyrase (topoisom. II), and topoisom. IV. NOT WITH ANTACIDs

Use - Gram - rods in UTIs and GI tract

Tox - tendon rupture in kids or elderly on steroids, may prolong QT

Resistance - chromosome encoded DNA gyrase mutation, efflux pumps
Anaerobes above waist diaphragm vs below
Above - Clindamycin
Below - Metronidazole
Metronidazole, MOA, use,
FREE radical toxic metabolites to damage bacterial DNA or protozoa

Use - GET GAP
Giardia
Entamoeba
Trichomonas
Gardnerella vaginalis
Anaerobes
H. pylori (+ PPI and clarithromycin (macrolide))
Tuberculosis Drug Plan MOA, tox, resistance
RIPE

Rifampin - Blocks DNA dep RNA Pol - 4R's (RNA Pol inh, Revs up P450, Red/orange body fluids, Rapid resistance)

Isonizid - Needs to be activated by bacterial catalase peroxidase, blocks mycolic acid synthesis. Neurotox, hepatotox, Pyridoxine Def (B6)

Pyrazinamide - Acidifies intracellular environment to aid phagolysosome killing, Hyperuricemia and hepatotox

Ethambutol - Blocks arabinosyltransferase to reduce carb polymerization of mycobacterium cell wall. Optic neuropathy and red green color blindness
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: Meningococcal infection
Ciprofloxacin, rifampin for children
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: Recurrent UTIs
TMP-SMX
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: endocarditis with surgical or dental procedures
Penicillins
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: Pregnant woman with group B strep
Ampicillin
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: Prevent post surgical S. aureus infection
Cefazolin
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: Prevent gonococcal or chlamydial conjunctivitis in newborn
Erythromycin ointment
Antimicrobial prophylaxis: HIV
TMP-SMX for pneumocystis and toxoplasmosis when CD4 < 200 and <100 resp

Azithromycin for MAC when under 50
Treating MRSA and VRE
MRSA - Vancomycin
VRE - Linezolid and streptogramins
Amphotericin B, MOA, use, tox
Antifungal, Binds ergosterol and forms membrane pore

Use - systemic mycoses, fungal meningitis

Must supplement K and Mg for eletrolytes and nephrotox
Nystatin, MOA, use, tox
Binds ergosterol to form pore

TOPICAL b/c toxic systemically, swish and swallow for candida
Fluconazole, ketoconazole, clotrimazole, miconazole, itraconazole, voriconazole, MOA, use, tox
Azoles - inhibit fungal sterol synthesis by inhibiting enzyme converting lanosterol to ergosterol

Use - less serious systemic mycoses, chronic suppression of cryptococcal meningitis, candidal infections

Tox - Ketoconazole and gynecomastia, liver dysfunction via CYP450
Flucytosine, MOA, use
Inhibits DNA and RNA biosynthesis by conversion to 5-FU via cytosine daminase

Systemic fungal infections with AMB combo

Bone marrow suppresion
Capsofungin, micafungin MOA, use, tox
Inhibits cell wall synthesis by inhibiting B-glucan synthesis

Use - invasive aspergillosis, Candida

Causes histamine release (Flushing)
Terbinafine MOA, use, tox
Inhibits squalene epoxidase

Treats dermatophytes espectially oncychomycosis

Abnormal LFTs, visual disturbance
Grisofulvan MOA, use, tox
Interferes with microtubule function, disrupts mitosis. Deposits in keratin tissues (nails)

Used for superficial infection and dermatophytes

Teratogenic, carcinogenic, increases P450
Zanamivir, oseltamivir MOA, use
Inhibit influenza neuraminidas, decreases RELEASE of virus for influenza A and B
Ribavirin, MOA, use
Inhibits guanine nucleotide synthesis by competitively blocking IMP dehydrogenase

Use - RSV, HCV chronic

Hemolytic anemia risk
Acyclovir, MOA, use
Activated/phosphorylated by HSV/VZV thymidine kinase, guanosine analog, Inhibits viral DNA polymerase by chain termination. No effect on latent forms. Daily valacyclovir can reduce frequency

HSV and VZV; weak for EBV, none for CMV b/c less activation
Ganciclovir MOA, use
5' monophosphate formed by CMV viral kinase, guanosine analog to inhibit DNA polymerase

CMV esp. immunocompromised

Tox - leukopenia, neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, renal tox
Foscarnet MOA, use
Viral DNA polymerase inhibitor binds to pyrophosphate binding site on enzyme, NO ACTIVATION needed

Use - CMV retinitis, gangiclovir or acyclovir failure

Nephrotox
Cidofovir, MOA, use
Preferentially inhibits viral DNA polymerase, doesn't require activation

Use - CMV retinitis, acyclovir resistance

Nephrotox, give probenecid and IV saline to reduce
HIV therapy: Protease inhibitors
All end in -navir

Block cleavage of HIV mRNA products to functional proteins, inhibit maturation

Can cause Hyperglycemia, GI prob, lipodystrophy
Tenofovir, Emtricitabine, Abacavir, Lamivudine, Zidovudine, Didanosine, Stavudine
HIV drugs that competitively inhibit nucleotide binding to RT and terminate DNA chain

Tenofovir doesn't need activation; ZDV for general prophylaxis

Bone marrow suppression so give G-CSF and EPO, rash and anemia
Nevirapine, Efavirenze, Delavirdine
RT binders at different site from NRTIs no activation needed
Raltegravir
HIV integrase inhibitor, can cause hypercholesterolemia
IFNs use
Glycoproteins that block replication of viruses and normally made by viral infected cells

IFNa - HBV and HCV, karposi sarcoma
IFNb - MS
IFNgam - NADPH oxidase def

Can cause neutropenia, myopathy