Term
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Definition
| Lack SOD, catalase and cytochrome |
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Term
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Definition
| small amounts of SOD, grow best on CO2 |
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Term
| Enriched media for anaerobes |
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Definition
| menadione, vitamin k, and hemin |
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Term
| metabolic products of anaerobes |
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Definition
| short chain fatty acids (smell bad) |
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Term
| general approach in lab to IDing a specimen |
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Definition
gram stain, enriched medium, selective medium, colony morphology, commercial ID kits |
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Term
| if foul-smelling, near mucosal surface, gaseous, negative aerobic cultures |
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Definition
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Term
| Pleomorphic gram negative bacilli with a "safety pin appearance" |
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Definition
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Term
| resistance of bacteroides |
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Definition
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Term
| mode of transmission of bacteroides |
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Definition
| translocation, trauma, surgery |
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Term
| capsule (sometimes), LPS, SOD, heparinase, beta-lactamase; found in an abscess |
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Definition
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Term
| found in abscess, grows on bile, anaerobe |
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Definition
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Term
| anaerobe, requires Vitamin K and hemin, black pigment and extremely O2 sensitive, gram neg bacilla |
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Definition
| Prevotella melaninogenicus |
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Term
| Mode of transmission of Prevotella |
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Definition
| normal in oral cavity, must breech mucosa or be aspirated |
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Term
| aspiration pneumonia and empyema; anaerobe |
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Definition
| Prevotella melaninogenicus |
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Term
| asaccharolytic, pigmented, anaerobe, vitamin K and hemin |
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Definition
| Porphyromonas asaccharolytica (or gingivalis) |
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Term
| gram negative "needle-shaped" bacilli, penicillin G susceptible |
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Definition
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Term
| gram negative anaerobic bacilli, non pigmented, vancomycin resistant |
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Definition
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Term
| gram negative anaerobic bacilli treated with vancomycin, pigmented |
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Definition
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Term
| gram negative bacilli, pigmented, resistant to vancomycin |
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Definition
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Term
| gram negative bacilli, resistant to kanamycin, vancomycin and colistin, grows in bile, non-pigmented |
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Definition
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Term
| gram positive bacilli, anaerobe, double zone of hemolysis, lecithinase positive, stormy fermentation |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
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Term
| grows on cycloserine-cefoxitin-fructose agar; cytotoxin assay |
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Definition
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Term
| hospital diarrhea; pseudomembranous enterocolitis due to excessive antibiotics |
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Definition
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Term
| lipase and lecithinase positive, toxin detection; gram + bacilli |
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Definition
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Term
seven heat-labile neurotoxins (A-G)
A,B,E cause most disease |
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Definition
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Term
| tetanospasmin - exotoxin, highly infectious |
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Definition
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Term
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Definition
| Tetanus immune globulin (TIG) |
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Term
| Bacterial vaginosis, gram positive bacilli, anaerobe |
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Definition
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