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| Name the biochemical test that differentiates nonfermenters from Enterobacteriaceae (except Plesiomonas)? |
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| What substances do nonfermenters fail to ferment? |
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| Name the 3 species of nonfermenters that make up the majority of isolates routinely seen in clinical labs. |
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| Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp., Stenotrophomonas maltophilia |
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| The nonfermenter that is the leading cause of nosocomial pneumonia and bacteremia. |
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| Name the organism that causes pulmonary disease among people with cystic fibrosis. |
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| Septic shock, granulocytopenia, inappropriate anti-microbial therapy, presence of septic metastatic lesions |
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| Name the poor prognostic factors associated with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremia. |
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| Despite all its virulence factors, what type of pathogen is Pseudomonas aeruginosa? |
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| Endotoxin, motility, pili, capsule/several exotoxins, proteases, hemolysins. Most important is Exotoxin A. |
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| What is a virulence factor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa? |
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| Penicillin, ampicillin, early-generation cephalosporins,trimethoprim- sulfamethoxazole (SXT) and chloramphenicol |
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| Name the anti-microbials that Pseudomonas aeruginosa is resistance to. |
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| Name the 2 species of Pseudomonas that have been linked to transfusion-associated septicemia. |
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| Name the genus of organisms that colonized 45% of all tracheotomy patients. |
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| What organisms, which are gram-negative coccobacilli, can appear as gram-positive cocci in smears made from blood culture bottles. |
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| In what single setting does Stenotrophomonas maltophilia produce all its disease? |
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| What organism is associated with pneumonia in patients with cystic fibrosis or chronic granulomatous disease (CGD)? |
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| Burkholderia cepacia complex |
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| What nonfermenter produces a wak, slow, positive oxidase reaction? |
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| Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) gladioli |
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| Which plant pathogen may be mistaken for Burkholderia cepacia? |
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| What is the causative agent of glanders? |
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| Burkholderia (Pseudomonas) pseudomallei |
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| What organism causes melioidosis? |
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| SE Asia (Vietname/Thailand), N. Australia, Mexico |
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| Burkholderia pseudomallei is found in which areas? |
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| Chryseobacterium meningosepticum |
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| This causes meningitis or septicemia in newborns and pneumonia, endocarditis, bacteremia, meningitis. (Isolated cases of peritonitis and keratitis also reported) |
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| Moraxella characteristics |
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| Strongly oxidase positive; non-motile, coccobacillary to bacillary gram-negative bacilli, generally biochemically inert with regard to carb oxidation, strictly aerobic, and suseptible to penicillin |
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| SXT, piperacillin, ticarcillin, carbenicillin, ceftazidime, cefoperazone, quinolones |
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| Alcaligenese are usually suseptible to THESE antibiotics..... |
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| Chromobacterium violacceum |
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| This organism is an opportunistic pathogen that strikes the immunocompromised patient with neutrophil deficits and produces a violet pigment on nonselective agar. |
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| Presence of sphingophopholipids in cell wall. |
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| What is unique about the Sphingobacterium spp.? |
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| Moraxella nonliquefaciens |
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| What is the mosst common member of the genus Moraxella isolated in the clinical lab? |
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| Which nonfermenter is considered by government agencies to be a potential bioterrorist agent? |
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