Microbiology - Bacteriology I

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Define:
Obligate aerobe
Obligate anaerobe
Facultative anaerobe
Aerotolerant
Microaerophilic

Which is most common?

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Obligate aerobe; Needs O2 to grow

Obligate anaerobe: O2 is toxic

*Facultative anaerobe: grows in both environments

Aerotolerant: Anaerobe not killed by O2

Microaerophilic: requires CO2 to grow

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Give an example of an aerotolerant bacteria

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Clostridium tertium

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Define:
Lag phase
Log phase
Stationary phase

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Lag phase: slow growth. >24h old

Log phase: Best growth. 18-25h

Stationary phase: Good for transportation (ex: boric acid in urine)

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Preferred collection for N gonorrhea?

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Charcoal swap
DO NOT REFRIGERATE

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Transport media for swabs

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Stuart or Aimes transport media. Preserves viability

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Urine collection

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in boric acid, refrigerate
MUST CULTURE WITHIN 24h

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Gram stain steps

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1. Crystal violet
2. Iodine (mordant)
3. Acetone (decolorizer)
4. Safranin (counterstain)

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Criteria for sputum rejection

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>25 squames/lpf

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Indications for CSF baterial antigen test

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Best in partially treated patients. Always culture also.

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Organisms detected with CSF bacterial antigen test? Why is this test falling out of favor?

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HIB, N mening, S pna, GBS

Worked best for HIB, now with vaccine we don't see much. Low sens & spec with others.

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What is a selective media? Differential media?

Which type is MacConkey?

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Selective: something added to the media that selects for certain growth (ex. PEA for gpc)

Differential: something added to ID with color (chromagar)

MacConkey is BOTH

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Staphylococcus

gpc in clusters

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What test is this?

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Catalase test.

Staph is +, strep is -

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What test is this?

When should it be read?

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Coagulase test.
rabbit plasma + organism, 35C.
Read at 4h AND at 24h.

S. aureus is +
"coag-negative-staph" are -

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What is the major virulence factor for S aureus?

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Protein A

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What diseases are caused by S aureus?

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Toxic shock syndrome (TSST1)
Scalded skin syndrome
Food poisoning
Endocarditis
Soft tissue infection (PVL)

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Mannitol salt agar. What ferments mannitol and turns it yellow?

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S. aureus

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What organism has mauve colonies on chromagar?

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S aureus

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What coag neg staph is responsible for subacute endocarditis?

What is its new claim to fame

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S. epidermidis (normal skin flora)


BIOFILMS!

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What coag neg staph is responsible for UTIs in reproductive-age females?

How to ID?

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S. saprophyticus

NOVOBIOCIN RESISTANT by KB disk

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What coag neg staph is responsible for line-related sepsis?

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S. hemolyticus

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What is the only coag-neg staph that hemolyzes on SBA and therefore can be confused with S. aureus?

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S. hemolyticus

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Micrococcus

gps in TETRADS

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Micrococcus

yellow pigment

normal flora, rarely causes infection

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ID of micrococcus

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bacitracin susceptible
modified oxidase +
does NOT ferment glucose (vs staph)

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Organism?

How to ID vs. staph?

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Streptococcus
gpc in chains

catalase NEGATIVE

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Novobiocin KB disk test

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R; Resistant = Staph saprophyticus

L: susceptible = Staph epidermidis

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Beta-hemolytic streps

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Lancefield groupings: Group ABCFG strep

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GAS

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S. pyogenes (Group A beta-hemolytic strep)

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test? organism?

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GAS = s. pyogenes
BACITRACIN SENSITIVE

A stands for "GAS" not bacitracin...

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What test is this? Which is GAS?

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PYR test.

GAS is PYR + and turns RED

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What organism is universally susceptible to penicillin?

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GAS = S. pyogenes

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Major virulence factor of GAS?

Diseases?

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M PROTEIN (vs staph: protein A)
Also: capsule, exotoxins, streptolysin O & S

Pharyngitis Impetigo Erysipelas Cellulitis
Puerperal sepsis Toxic Shock

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What organisms causes rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis?

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GAS

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Which strep is the LEAST beta-hemolytic?

Unique testing characteristics?

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GBS

Camp test +
Rapid hippurate hydrolysis

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How to ID GBS vs. listeria

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Both look similar on culture; affect same patient population

but GBS is CATALASE NEGATIVE, listeria is +

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Unique test for GBS? Which is GBS?

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Camp test

S. aureus strain with camp factor perpendicular to GBS; intensifies GBS toxin production.

Top one was GBS, looks like an arrow = camp test +

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Rapid hippurate hydrolysis. Which is GBS?

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purple = positive
read at 4 hrs

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What test do most people do for GBS?

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Lancefield groupings (serology?)

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important gamma-hemolytic streps

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Enterococcis
GDS not enterococcus

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ID of enterococcus

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BILE ESCULIN +
6.5% SALT +
PYR + (~GAS)

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All enterococci are resistant to:

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Cephalosporins
Clindamycin
Bactrim

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Test?

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Bile esculin (enteroccus is +)

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GDS (not enterococcus) vs enterococcus?

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Both are Bile esculin +!
GDS is salt negative, PYR negative

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GDS

clin sig?

always susceptible to?

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S. bovis

In blood = GI ca

PCN

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Strep pneumoniae

gpc lancet shaped cocci, with capsule

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S. pna

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alpha-hemolytic strep

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S. pneumoniae
S. viridans (many types)

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Virulence factor in S. pna

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polysaccharide capsule (resists phagocytosis)

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S. pna ID in lab?

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Bile soluble on SBA
OPTOCHIN SENSITIVE

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resistance mechanism of S. pna to pcn?

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Acquired resistance by PBPs

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Quellung reaction

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biochemical reaction in which antibodies bind to the bacterial capsule of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, Haemophilus influenzae, and Salmonella. The antibody reaction allows these species to be visualized under a microscope. If the reaction is positive, the capsule becomes opaque and appears to enlarge.

Can type the ~90 types of S. pna to see if covered by vaccine

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What is optochin?

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a chemical

=ethyl hydrocupreine hydrochloride

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Optochin disk test. Which is S. pna?

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the one on the L; need 14mm of inhibition.
R is S. viridans

THE DISK HAS A P ON IT, NOT AN O! (for pneumococcus)

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Name some viridans streps.

ID pattern?

Dz?

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S. mutans (tooth decay)
S. sanguis
S. mitis

Bile INSOLUBLE, Optochin RESISTANT

Cause of 30% subacute endocarditis, in mitral valve disease

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More virulent group of alpha-hemolytic strep?

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anginosus group

Normal oral flora but more virulent than “normal” viridans Strep perhaps due to capsule

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Blood culture grows gpc, but doesn't grow on media

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Nutritionally variant strep (B6 deficient)
(Abiotrophia, Granulacatilla)

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gpc that will not grow on regular media, but grows next to staph

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nutritionally variant streptococcus

(NOTE: This also works for haemophilus so look for gram stain! There is sufficient hemin in blood for growth of Haemophilus, but the medium is insufficient in NAD. S. aureus produces NAD in excess of its own needs and secretes it into the medium, which supports the growth of Haemophilus as satellite colonies.

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Sugar fermentation of GNCs

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N. gonorrhoeae Gluc + Mal - Lac - Suc -
N. meningitidis Gluc + Mal + Lac - Suc -
N. lactamica Gluc + Mal + Lac+ Suc-
M. catarrhalis all negative, Dna’ase +

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Neisseria
gram negative diplococci

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Can you dx neisseria on gram stain alone?

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Trick question. Depends on sex
Females: NO! Acinetobacter can look very similar and is normal flora in female genital tract

Males: Yes. there is no normal GU flora that looks like this

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organism?

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N gonorrhea

Ferments glucose only (YELLOW!)

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T/F: All neisseria are oxidase positive.

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TRUE

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Waterhouse Friederichsen syndrome
Adrenal necrosis and hemorrhage associated with NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS

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What type of N mening is causing epidemics in college dorms?

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Type C

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What immunodeficiency predisposes to N mening?

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Complement 7, 8, 9 deficiency (MAC complex!)

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Prophylaxis for N mening? Treatment?

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Proph = rifampin

Thx = PCN

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transport for N gon?

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Charcoal swab

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Treatment for PPNG?

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(penicillinase-producing N gon)
Ceftriaxone
Quinolone

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sputum

colonies?
ID?

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moraxella catarrhalis

GNCs in diplococci. causes pneumonia, OM, sinusitis, eye.

HOCKEY PUCK COLONIES
OXIDASE +
DNAase +

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ID?

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Corynebacterium
GPBs, chinese letters

CATALASE +
NO SPORES

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Methylene blue stain of culture growing on Loeffler slant

What is it?
What is in Loeffler slant?

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Metachromatic granules of Corynebact diptheriae

Loeffler slant has EGG in it

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Cysteine tellurite agar
Black colonies with brown halo

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Corynebacterium diptheriae

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GPB on KB disk that is ONLY susceptible to vancomycin and tetracycline

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Corynebacterium jeikeium

(normal skin flora; plastic catheters & lines. resistant to most antibiotics)

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Alkaline encrusted cystitis

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corynebacterium urealyticum
rare
Pure culture of GPB that is rapid urease +

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Only spore-forming gpb?

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Bacillus

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Bacillus
GPB boxcar shaped

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Black eschar skin lesion of bacillus anthracis

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Non-hemolytic, non-motile, PCN sensitive

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Bacillus anthracis
Medusa head colonies on SBA

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Fried rice food poisoning within 1-6h

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B. cereus!

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B cereus vs B anthracis?

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B cereus: Beta hemolytic & motile!

B anthracis: Not hemolytic and not motile!

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Listeria
small gpb, beta-hemolytic (~to GBS but catalase+!)

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What is on the right?

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Listeria. Motile. Likes oxygen so grows near the top. Will grow better at 25C than 35C.

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Endocarditis in drug users

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Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae
catalase negative gpb

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What is the ONLY GPB that makes H2S?

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Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae

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GPB that causes pharyngitis
(and is beta-hemolytic, and catalase negative!)

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Arcanobacterium hemolyticum

Confuse with S.pyogenes (GAS) but this is a GPB!