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Pharmacology Exam 3: Antibiotics I: gram + vs. gram -
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03/05/2011
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Term
List the gram + cocci:
Definition
- Staphylococcus
- Streptococcus: haemolytic types (septic infections, bacteraemia, scarlet fever, toxic shock syndrome)

Entercoccus (endocarditis)

Pneumococcus (pneumonia)
Term
Endocarditis is caused by a __ ___ ___ called ____.
Definition
- gram positive cocci
- enterococcus
Term
Haemolytic types of septic infections like bacteraemia, scarlet fever, and toxic shock syndrome are caused by a __ ___ bacteria called ___.
Definition
- gram positive
- streptococcus
Term
List the gram + rods:
Definition
- Corynebacterium (diptheria)

- Clostridium (tetanus, gangrene)

- Listeria monocytogenes (rare cause of meningitis and generalized infection in neonates)
Term
Corynebacterium is a ___ ___ ___ that causes ____.
Definition
- gram positive rod
- diptheria
Term
Clostridium is a __ __ ___ that causes ___ and ___.
Definition
- gram positive rod
- tetanus and gangrene
Term
Listeria monocytogenes is a __ ___ ___ that rarely causes meningitis and generalized infections in neonates.
Definition
gram positive rod
Term
List the gram negative cocci:
Definition
- Morasella catarrhalis (sinusitis)

- Neisseria gonorrhea (gonorrhoea)

- Neisseria meningitidis (meningitis)
Term
____ ____ is a gram ___ ___ that causes sinusitis.
Definition
- Morasella catarrhalis
- gram negative cocci

think "Mora has a Cat that causes her sinusitis"
Term
___ ___ is a gram ___ ___ that causes gonorrhoea.
Definition
- Neisseria gonorrhea
- gram negative cocci
Term
___ ____ is a gram __ __ that causes meningitis.
Definition
- Neisseriae meningitidis
- gram negative cocci
Term
Gram negative rods:
Definition
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Escherichia coli
- Enterobacter
- Klebsiella
- bacteria that cause UTIs
- Septicaemia
- Shigella > dysentery
- Salmonella > typhoid and paratyphoid
- Haemophillus influenza
- Bordetella pertusis (whooping cough)
- Pasteurella multocida (wound infections, abscess)
- Vibrio cholera
- Legionella pneumophila
- Helicobacter pylori
- Campylobacter> diarrhea
- Sprirochetes: Treponema> syphilis
Term
what do peptic ulcers, syphilis, cholera, the flu, whooping cough, and UTIs have in common?
Definition
all caused by gram negative rods