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1. What is the course of illness with food poisoning from S. aurues and B. cereus
Degradation of lipids produces acids that damage melancytes and cause hypopigmented and or hyperpigmented patches - occurs in hot humid weather
Herpesviruses - HBV - smallpox
Starts quickly and ends quickly
Many treponemas
2. What is the TX for mycoplasma pneumonia
Encapsulated microbes SHiN
Tetracycline or erythromycin
MeninGococci - maltose and glucose - Gonococci - only glucose - both produce IgA protease
gram- negative cell wall
3. fever - lymphadenopathy - skin rashes - condylomata lata - org and dz
Treponema - 2ndary syphillis
Schistosoma haematobium
Coagulation cascade - DIC
Chronic disease - positive during window period
4. What sugars do the various neisseria bacteria ferment and what enzyme do they both produce
Antigen in urine
MeninGococci - maltose and glucose - Gonococci - only glucose - both produce IgA protease
Hemagluttin
N. meningitidis - enterovirus - s pneumo - HSV
5. What diseases can HHV-6 cause and What is the route of transmission
Bad xray - worse than pt - high titer of cold agglutinins (IgM) which can agglutinate or lyse RBCs - grown on Eaton's agar
Strep bovis - also group D
Roseola - high fevers for several days that can cause seizures - followed by a macular papular rash - not determined
ribosomes (eukaryotic) - size
6. produces tetanospas an exotoxin causing tetanus
some fungi produce ______ that are toxic to humans
Cyanophora paradoxa
C tetani
C3a - hypotension - edema and C5a - neutrophil chemotaxis
7. What are agryll roberston pupils
animal kingdom
Accommodate but does not react - associated with tertiary syphillis
Cytoplasmic inclusions seen on giemsa stain or fluorescent antibody- stained smear
Taenia solium - cysticercosis
8. Involved in photosynthesis (chlorophyll); contain 70S ribosomes; when hit by light - chlorophyll releases an electron
Oral and esophageal thrush
chlamydia
Taenia solium - cysticercosis
chloroplasts - function
9. In what clinical scenarios do you see Pseudomonas
Koch's Postulates 2
Fungi
ribosomes (prokaryotic) - size
Burn wounds - nosocomial pneumonia - pneumonias in cystic fibrosis
10. Capsule outside cell wall - usually sticky - composed of polysaccharide and/or polypeptide
Resistant
glycocalyx - description
Grow in 6.5% NaCl and bile
candidiasis
11. Why are chlamydiae obligate intracellular
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12. Pleomorphic gram variable rod that causes vaginosis presenting as gray vaginal discharge with a fishy smell; non painful
Crohns or appendicitis
Gardnerella vaginalis
Rheumatic fever - acute glomerulonephritis
N. meningitidis - enterovirus - s pneumo - HSV
13. Virus that infects bacteria
bacteriophage - definition
E. Coli produces beta galactosidase
S. pyogenes - hemolysin antigen for ASO antibody Which is used in the dx of rheumatic fever
gram stain - definition
14. Spirochetes have axial filaments which wrap around the cell causing it to move in a corkscrew manner
specialized flagella
Humoral and cell mediate - can revert to virulence
Tropheryma whippelii (whipple's dz)
H. flu
15. Pairs
No - erythromycin
monera kingdom
All except coxiella are via arthropod
arrangements - diplo
16. What does aspergillus cause
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17. Cell bursts when cell wall is weak or damaged and is in a hypotonic solution
Comma shaped - s - shaped - oxidase positive - grows at 42 C
methanogens
in prokaryotic cell membranes -
osmotic lysis
18. bloody diarrhea - reddish brown liver abcess - RUQ pain - flask shaped ulcer; dz - transmission - dx - and tx
Entamoeba his - cysts in water - serology/trophozoites or cysts in stool/RBC in cytoplasm of entamoeba - metronidazole and iodquinol
Transcribe negative strand to positive - RNA dependent RNA polymerase
R. typhi
Contains a variety genes for antibiotic resistance - enzymes and toxins; DNA
19. What bacteria in particular have the ability to transform
Complementationthis occurs with simultaneous infection of a cell with 2 viruses - genome of virus A can be partially or completely coated forming a pseudovirion with the surface protein of of virus B
Entamoeba hisotlytica
SHiN - strep pneumo - h flu - neisseria
yeast
20. What are the laboratory findings for H Flu
Spirochete - causes syphillis - or yaws (T. pertenue)
Cytoplasmic inclusions seen on giemsa stain or fluorescent antibody- stained smear
Gram neg coccobacillary rods - cultured on chocolate agar with factors V and X NAD+ and hematin OR with S. aureus
N. gonorrhea - vancomycin (inhibits gram pos) polymyxin (inhibits gram neg) - nystatin (inhibits fungi)
21. How is listeria acquired - What does it form - and How is motility characterized
envelope - definition
Gambiense - rhodesiense
CMV retinitis and esophagitis - disseminated M avium intracellulare - cryptococcal meningoencephalitis
Facultative intracellular microbe - ingestion of unpasteureized milk/cheese and deli meats or by vaginal transmission - forms actin rockets - cell to cell movements and tumbling motility
22. What is the nl flora in the nose
what envelope contains
Major surface antigen - peptidoglycan for support - teichoic acid induces TNF and IL-1
five kingdoms of microorganisms
S. epidermidis; colonized by S. aureus
23. Atypical pneumonia - transmitted by aerosal - two organisms chlamydiae
CMV retinitis
Recombination
Rubella - respiratory droplets
Pneumoniae and psittaci
24. Alcohol dehydrates peptidoglycan - CV-I crystals do not leave
gram- positive stain - explanation
capsid - definition
Gives rigid support - protects against osmotic pressure - sugar backbone with cross linked peptide side chains
Pasteurella multocida
25. What organism causes syphillis and what happens in primary syphillis
Pneumocystis jerovici PNA - TB - histoplasmosis
Treponema palladium - painless chancre
C tetani
Robert Hooke
26. Where do VZV cells remain latent
Staph saprophyticus
Toxoid vaccine
Negative
Trigeminal and dorsal root ganglia
27. How does urinary tract infection present
peptidoglycan - definition
Lactose fermenting enterics
Dysuria - frequency - urgency - suprapubic pain - WBCs but not casts in urine
2 differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes
28. What causes granuloma inguinale (donovanosis)
R. prowazekii
Prevents phagocytosis - group A strep
lysis
Klebsiella granulomatis
29. What are the signs of viral hepatitis
HPV - warts (1 - 2 - 6 - 11) - CIN - cervical cancer (16 - 18) vaccine available
Shingles from VZV - kaposi sarcoma from HHV-8
Episodes of fever - jaundice and inc AST/ALT
Lactose fermeting enterics - citrobacter - klebsiella - E. coli - enterobacter - serratia
30. What is the presentation of EPEC and What is the mechanism
Diarrhea in children - no toxin - adheres to apical surface - flattens villi - prevents absorption
differential staining example
C. diff
E. Coli produces beta galactosidase
31. What are PE signs of PID
Toxic shock syndrome (TSST-1) - scalded skin syndrome (exfoliative toxin) - rapid onste fod poisoning (enterotoxin
Cervical motion tenderness (chandelier sign) purulent cervical discharge
Toxin permanently activates causing rice water diarrhea via induction of cAMP - turns the on on
Ebolo/marburg - hemorrhagic fever - often fatal
32. Chemical synthesis and food industry
adsorption (B)
osmotic pressure
Antiphagocytic virulence factor
commercial applications
33. With strep grown on bacitracin - which are sensitive and which are resistant
Group B are resistant - group A are sensitive - B- BRAS
Candida and aspergillus
anaerobic
Toxo crosses the placenta
34. What feature of influenza virus promotes it entry into cells
N. meningitidis - enterovirus - s pneumo - HSV
Hemagluttin
Taenia solium - cysticercosis
Lactobacillus - colonized by E. coli and group B strep
35. Which location is common for lymphadenopathy in EBC mononucleosis
Elementary body
Bad xray - worse than pt - high titer of cold agglutinins (IgM) which can agglutinate or lyse RBCs - grown on Eaton's agar
Posterior cervical lymph nodes
Staph or H. flu
36. 1673 - First to see microorganisms - marked beginning of microbiology - 'animalcules' - 'father of the microscope'
RNA viruses - BOAR = Bunyavirus - Orthomyxovirus - Arenaviruses - Reoviruses
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek
anaerobic
how many degrees celsius for mold?
37. Which bacteria grow pink colonies on MacConkey's agar
Plasma membrane - exceptions are herpesvirus which acquire from nuclear membrane
Infectious = most of dsDNA (not pox/HBV) (+) strand ssRNA (same as mRNA); non infecitious = (-) ssRNA - dsRNA
Lactose fermeting enterics - citrobacter - klebsiella - E. coli - enterobacter - serratia
Dipicolinic acid
38. Pseudopodia - cilia - and flagella
Sacral ganglia
Resistant to destruction by heat or chemicals - need to autoclave to kill by steaming at 121C for 15 minutes
Mycoplasma - have sterols
protozoa means of locomotion (3)
39. What is the fxn and chemical composition of the outer membrane in gram negative bacteria
cell wall - function
Rubella
Site of endotoxin (LPS) - major surface antigen - lipid A induces TNF and IL-1 - polysaccharide is the antigen
Ancylostoma - necator
40. Is pneumocystis a fungus or a protazoan
Fibrocaseous cavitary lesion in upper lobe
Yeast - protazoan
S. pyogenes - hemolysin antigen for ASO antibody Which is used in the dx of rheumatic fever
Entertoxigenic E. coli
41. Study of protozoans
60%; viruses
three domains of microorganisms
protozoology
Rickettsia rickettsii
42. Brain abscesses in HIV - classic triad of chorioretinitis - hydrocephalus - intracranial calcifications - dz - transmission - dx - and tx
Toxoplasma - cysts in meat or cat feces - serology/biopsy - sulfadiazine + pyrimethamine
Cytoplasmic inclusions seen on giemsa stain or fluorescent antibody- stained smear
Rapid cell division
Metabolic activity without division
43. What kind does exotoxin from C. botulinum do
Blocks the release of ACH - causes anticholinergic symptoms - CNS paralysis - especially cranial nerves
flagella - description
Lactose fermenting enterics
Complementationthis occurs with simultaneous infection of a cell with 2 viruses - genome of virus A can be partially or completely coated forming a pseudovirion with the surface protein of of virus B
44. What toxins does S. aureus secrete
Diarrhea in children - no toxin - adheres to apical surface - flattens villi - prevents absorption
Transfer of just plasmid in F+ and transfer of plasmid plus some flanking genes in Hfr x F-
Enterotoxins - TSST-1 - exfoliatin which causes scalded skin syndrome
Topocal miconazole - selenium sulfide
45. lysogenic phage infects bacterium - viral DNA incorporated into bacterial chromosome - when phage DNA is excised can bring portions of bacterial chromosome into capside
Specialized transduction - an excision event
eukaryotic organelles (5)
microbiology
Grow in 6.5% NaCl and bile
46. What is a capsule conjugated with a protein
Febrile pharyingitis - acute hemorrhagic cystitis - pneumonia - conjunctivitis (watery)
Alpha toxin (lecithinase) that can cause myonecrosis (gas gangrene) and hemolysis
Antigen in vaccines
Koch's Postulates 1
47. What kind of immunity to killed/inactivated viral vaccines induce - and What is the benefit
Cytoplasm - except influenza and retroviruses
Only humoral - stable
Prompt oral rehydration
Avain resevoir
48. What bug produces a yellow pigment
Surface protein - lipid bilayer - capsid - nucleic acid
Prevents phagocytosis - group A strep
Staph or enteric GNR
S. aureus
49. This bacteria causes gastritis and up to 90% of duodenal ulcers - risk factor for peptic ulcer - gastric adenocarcinoma - lymphoma
Gummas (chronic granulomas) - aortitis (vasa vasorum destruction) neurosyphillis (tabes dorsalis) - argyll robertson pupils
H. pylori
chlamydia
Children
50. What are the 4 Cs of HCV
Skin infections - organ abscesses - pneumonia
Chronic - cirrhosis - carcinoma - carriers
Clostridium botulinum
tetanus