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| PAPILLOMA, POLYOMA, HEPADNAVIRUSES |
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| Only diploid virus (2 identical ssRNA molecules) |
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POXVIRUS
(carries its own DNA-dependent RNA polymerase and has a complex nucleocapsid) |
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| DNA virus that does not replicate in nucleus and that is NOT icosahedral |
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| INFLUENZA AND RETROVIRUSES |
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| RNA viruses that do not replicate in the cytoplasm |
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CALCIVIRUS, PICORNAVIRUS, REOVIRUS, PARVOVIRUS, ADENOVIRUS, PAPILLOMAVIRUS, POLYOMAVIRUS
(Naked CPR and PAPP smear) |
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| Naked (nonenveloped) viruses |
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These Rascals May Microscopically Lack Color:
Treponema, Rickettsia, Mycobacteria, Mycoplasma, Legionella, Chlamydia |
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| Bugs that do not Gram Stain well |
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| Borrelia, Plasmodium, trypanosomes, Chlamydia |
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| Stains glycogen, mucopolysaccharides, used to diagnose Whipple's disease |
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| Fungi (e.g., Pneumocystis), Legionella |
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| Chocolate agar with factors V and X |
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| Thayer-Martin (or VPN) media--Vancomycin, Polymyxin, Nystatin |
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| Bordet-Gengou (potato) agar |
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| Tellurite plate, Loffler's media |
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| Lactose-fermenting enterics |
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| Pink on MacConkey's agar (bile salts + crystal violet + lactose + neutral red stain) |
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| Blue-black colonies with metallic sheen on eosin-methylene blue (EMB) agar |
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| Charcoal yeast extract agar buffered with cysteine |
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Nagging Pests Must Breathe
Nocardia, Pseudomonas, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Bacillus |
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Anaerobes Can't Breathe Air
Clostridium, Bacteroides, Actinomyces
Lack catalase and/or superoxide dismutase and are thus susceptible to oxidative damage. |
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| Antibiotic class ineffective against anaerobes because require oxygen to enter into bacterial cell |
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Stay inside cells when it is Really Cold
Rickettsia, Chlamydia
Can't make own ATP |
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| Obligate intracellular bugs |
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Some Nasty Bugs May Live FacultativeLy
Salmonella, Neisseria, Brucella, Mycobacterium, Listeria, Francisella, Legionella |
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| Facultative intracellular |
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Particular Kinds Have Urease
Proteus, Klebsiella, H. pylori, Ureaplasma |
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Kapsules Shiled SHiN
Klebsiella, Salmonella, Strep pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenza, Neisseria meningiditis
Capsule = antiphagocytic virulence factor
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SHiN
Strep pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenza, Neisseria gonorrhea |
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| Can produce IgA protease, cause meningitis, and take up DNA from environment |
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| Pneumovax, H. influenzae type B, meningococcal |
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| Capsules serve as antigen in vaccines for which bugs? |
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| Binds Fc region of Ig. Prevents opsonization and phagocytosis. |
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IgA protease
Secreted by SHiN (Strep pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria) |
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| Enzyme that cleaves IgA in order to colonize respiratory mucosa. |
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| M protein (group A streptococcus) |
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| Helps prevent phagocytosis |
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ABCDE
ShigA-like toxin
Botulinum toxin
Cholera toxin
Diphtheria toxin
Erythrogenic toxin of group A strep |
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| Bacterial toxins encoded in a lysogenic phage |
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Staph aureus
Strep pyogenes
Strep agalactiae
Listeria monocytogenes |
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MOPS
Meningitis, Otitis media (in kids), Pneumonia, Sinusitis |
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| Diseases caused by Strep pneumoniae |
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ABCDEFG
ADP ribosylation
Beta-prophage
Corynebacterium
Diphtheriae
Elongation Factor 2
Granules |
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| The ins and outs of diphtheria |
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