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Exam 3
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Microbiology
Graduate
10/27/2014

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Term

Gram +, catalase +, coagulase +, facultative anaerobic, beta-hemolytic, grape-like clusters

 

Type I NF, FUO (osteomyelytic), endocarditis, otitis externa

Definition
Staphylococcus aureus
Term

Gram +, Catalase -, spherical, chain, beta hemolytic, facultative anaerobic

 

Type I NF, Type II NF, pharyngitis, acute epiglottitis, tonsillitis, endocarditis, PANDAs

Definition
Streptococcus pyogenes (GAS)
Term

Gram +, catalase -

 

Type I NF => "track mark" infxn from drug abuse

Definition
Streptococcus milleri
Term

Gram -

 

Type I NF

Definition
Haemophilus aprophilus
Term

Gram +, rod, alpha toxin, lecithinase activity, anaerobic

 

Type III NF (gas gangrene, Clostridial myonecrosis)

Definition
Clostridium perfringens
Term

Gram -, rod, oxidase +, salt water transmission (puncture)

 

Type IV NF, cholera

Definition
Vibrio vulnificus
Term

acid fast, aerobic rod, facultatively intracellular (macrophages & schwann cells) Ziehl-Neeson test

 

common name: Hansen's disease

 

2 types: Tuberculoid, Lepromatous

Definition
Mycobacterium leprae
Term
Herpesviridae family, enveloped dsDNA, Tzank smear test, dermatomal arrangement
Definition
Vericella-Zoster (Chicken pox), Herpes Zoster (Shingles)
Term

Thermically dimorphic yeast, cigar-shaped,

 

May present as lymphadenitis, Rose gardener's disease, Sporotrichosis

Definition
Sporothrix schenkii
Term

Gram - coccobacillus, pleomorphic, fastidious & facultatively anaerobic, encapsulated, Factors V and X, Hib

 

FUO, Epliglottitis, Otitis media & conjunctivitis & sinusitis (unencapsulated, associated with pneumonia), chronic (bacterial) bronchitis, atypical pneumonia, bacterial myocarditis (most myocarditis is viral etiology)

Definition
Haemophilus influenzae
Term

Facultatively anaerobic, alpha hemolytic, gram +, encapsulated diplococcus (and in chains)

 

bile susceptible, Acute epliglottitis, Otitis media, sinusitis, chronic bronchitis, typical pneumonia, endocarditis (vegetations)

, pericarditis
Definition
Streptococcus pneumoniae
Term

gram -, aerobic, coccobacilli, nonmotile

 

Whooping cough

Definition
Bordetella pertussis
Term

aerobic, gram - dipplococcus

 

Otitis media (20% of cases)

Definition
Moraxella catarrhallis
Term

Gram +, anaerobic, filamentous rod

 

Subacute tonsillitis

Definition
Actinomyces
Term

Gram + aerobic rod, Chinese-letter cellular arrangement

 

"Bullneck" cervical lymphadenopathy, thick, grey pseudomembrane in back of throat

 

DTap vaccine

Definition
Corynebacterium diptheriae
Term

Gram +, facultative anaerobe, coccal cluster, Catalase and coagulase positive

 

Otitis externa

Definition
staphylococcus aureus
Term

Gram -, positive string test, bacterial cells with hyper-mucoviscosity

 

naturally resistant to ampicillin, encapsulated rod

 

bacterial pneumonia

Definition
Klebsiella pneumoniae
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