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Exam 3 Slide-set 1
Medically Important Bacteria
Question | Answer |
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Pathogens are kept in check by? | Competing microbes and our immune systems |
Quorum sensing is what? | Communication for bacteria |
Septicemia is what? | E.coli in the blood |
Staphylococcus (MRSA) | Gram + cocci (methicillin-resistant staph aureus) |
Streptococcus | Gram + cocci |
S. pneumoniae | Gram + cocci (Staphylococcus) |
S. pyogenes | Gram + cocci (Staphylococcus) |
Enterococcus | Gram + cocci |
E. faecalis | Gram + cocci (Enterococcus) |
E. faecium | Gram + cocci (Enterococcus) |
VRE | Vancomycin resistant enterococci |
Actinomyces | (opportunistic immuno-comprimised) Gram + rod *Important* (Not all are Gram +) |
Cornybacterium diptheriae | Gram + rod |
Clostridium botulinum | Gram + rod |
Clostridium difficile | Gram + rod |
Clostridium tetani | Gram + rod |
Listeria monocytogenes | Gram + rod |
Bacillus antracis | Gram + rod (Anthrax) |
Niesseria gonorrhoeae | Gram - |
N. meningitis | Gram - |
Hemophilus influenza | Gram - (Respiratory) |
Klebsella pneumoniae | Gram - (Respiratory) Enterrobacteriaceae |
Legionella pneumophila | Gram - (Respiratory) |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa | Gram - (Respiratory) |
Acinetobacter baumannii | Gram - (Nosocomial) |
E. Coli | Gram - (Urinary) Enterrobacteriaceae |
Proteus mirabilis | Gram - (Urinary) Enterrobacteriaceae |
Enterobacter Cloacae | Gram - (Urinary) Enterrobacteriaceae |
Helicobacter pylori | Gram - (GI) |
Salmonella enteritidis | Gram - (GI) Enterrobacteriaceae |
Salmonella typhy | Gram - (GI) Enterrobacteriaceae |
Vibro cholerae | Gram - (GI) |
B. fragilis | Gram - Bacteroides |
Clostridium | Gram + |
Chlamydia trachomatis | #1 STD, Gram - but in its own phylum, all are intracellular obligates |
Treponem pallidus | Spirochetes, Syphilis |
Borellea burgdorferi | Spirochetes, Lyme disease |
Mycoplasma pneumonia | Mycoplasma, walking pneumonia, very small bacteria, lacks peptidoglycan wall |
Mycobacterium tuberculosis | Other |
Mycobacterium leprae | Other |
Mycobacterium avium intracellulare | Other |
Rickettsia | Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Other |
Isoniazid | Narrow spectrum antimicrobial drug, Mycobacteria (other) |
Ampicillin | Extended spectrum antimicrobial drug, Gram + (listeria monocytogenes), Gram - rods (E. coli, H. Influenza, Proteus Mirabilis, Salmonella typhi) |
Tetracycline | Broad spectrum antimicrobial drug, Gram - rods, anaerobic organisms, spirochetes, mycoplasma, chlamydia, actinomyces, rickettsia, amoebae |