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STEP 1 Micro: G

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Staph Aureus Lab results
Coag +
Catalase +
Staph Aureus Toxin Mediated Dx (3)
1. Toxic Shock Syndrome
TSST-1 Toxin
2. Scalded Skin Syn
Exfoliative toxin
3. Rapid Onset Food Poisoning
Enterotoxins- Preformed thus speed




Describe Staph Aureus TSST
Superantigen
Binds MHC II and T cell receptor -->
polyclonal T cell activation

Staph Aureus
Systems Affected (4)
1. Cardiovascular: Acute bact endocarditis
2. Bone: Osteomyelitis
3. GI: Food poisoning
4. Skin: scalded skin syndrome/ abscess


Staph Epidermidis
1. Lab Results
2. Known for infecting _____

1. Catalase +, Coag -, Novobiocin Sens
2. Prosthetic devices / catheters
Think Endocarditis

Strep Pneumo
1. Lab results
2. Most Common Cause of ______

1. Capsule, Catalase -, a hemolytic, Optochin sens bile soluble
2. MOPS
Meningitis
Otitis Media
Pneumonia
Sinusitis




Viridans Strep (S Mutans)
1. Lab Results
2. Think _______ and _______ endocarditis

1. No Capsule, Catalase -, a hemolytic, optochin resis, NOT bile sol
2. Dental caries (normal mouth flora), subacute
Strep Pyogenes (Group A Strep)
Lab Results
Catalase -
b hemolytic
Bacitracin Sens



Strep Pyogenes
3 types of infections:
1. Pyogenic _________
2. Toxigenic ________
3. Immunologic _______





1. Pharyngitis, cellulitis, impetigo
2. Scarlet Fever, Toxic Shock Syndrome
3. Rheumatic fever, acute glomerulonephritis

Scarlet Fever
Caused by _____
Strep Pyogenes
Toxigenic
Strep Agalactiae (Group B)
1. Lab results
2. Causes ____, ____, and ____ in _____(age group).

1. Catalase - , b Hemolytic, Bacitracin Resis,
2. Pnuemonia, sepsis, and meningitis in babies
Enterococci (Group D)
1. ____ Resistant
2. Cause ____ and _____
3. Where do they live?


1. Penicillin G
2. Subacute endocaditis, UTI
3. Normal Colonic flora

Strep Bovis (Group D)
Cause ____ and _____ in _____ patients
Bacteremia, Subacute Endocarditis
COLON CANCER

* If vignette has colon cancer + infection think Bovis


Diptheria
Has a potent ___ that inhibits _____.
Exotoxin
protein synthesis via ADP ribosylation of EF2
Diptheria
1. Main disease process / symptom
2. Described by these 2 things (in vignette)

1. Pseudomembranous Pahryngitis
2. 1)Grayish White membrane
2) lymphadenopathy

*** DO NOT scrape membrane



Diptheria

_____ vaccine



Toxoid

Exotoxin is encoded by a b-prophage

Spores:

Have _____ in core

Dipicolonic acid
Name the 4 Clostridia w exotoxins

3 descrpitive points on all of them:

1. Tetani
2. Botulinum
3. Perfringens
4. Difficile

G+BACILLI, Spore Formers, Obligate anaerobes




4 Clostridia w symptom and toxin mode of action
1. Tetani: spastic Paralysis
blocks Glycine release
2. Botulinum: Flaccid Parlysis
inihibits ACh release
3. Perfringens: Gas Gangrene
a toxin (lecithinase= phospholipase) causes necrosis and hemolysis
4. Difficile: Pseudomembranous Colitis
kills enterocytes








Honey and Babies with paralysis
C Botulinum
Older individual in hospital on broad spectrum antibiotics develops diarrhea

Treat with:

C Difficile


Metronidazole


Bacillus Anthracis

Gram ___
Only bacterium with ____ capsule that contains _____


1. +
2. polypeptide, D Glutamate
Listeria Monocytogenes

known for:
1.
2.
3. only G+ with ___




1. Cheese and Deli meat
2. Actin rockets
3. ENDOtoxin

Listeria Monocytogenes

Worry about _____ (target population)

Pregnant women

Can cause spontaneous abortion and infant/ neonatal sepsis/ meningitis

2 G+ rods that look like Fungi
1. Actinomyces
2. Nocardia
Toxic shock involves:
1. Symptoms
2. 2 cell types

1. Fever, vomitting, diarrhea, muscle pain --> severe hypotension and organ failure
2. Tcells and Macrophages

T Cells release IL-2 and activate macrophages , which release TNF and IL1


Non lactose fermenting
Indwelling catheter
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
South American with difficulty swallowing =____
Trypanasoma Cruzi
Chagas Dx:
1. Organism
2. = _____
3. Destroys ____


1. T Cruzi
2. Trypanosomiasis
3. myenteric nerve plexuses

Think megacolon or achalasia



Draining ulcers + painful inguinal NODES + red eyes = ______
Chlamydia
Raised, beefy red lesions - not common in the US
Donavanosis
Calammatobacterium Inguinale
______ blocks phagocytosis and the activation of compliment in Strep ____.
Protein M in Strep Pyogenes
_____ lyses RBCs and is produced by Strep _____
Streptolysin O is produced by most strep Pyogenes
______ is used pharmocologically as a thrombolytic agent.
It does so by _______.
Streptokinase
It catalyzes plasminogen to plasmin
____ limits herpetic frequency, ____ limits herpetic outbreak shedding and longevity.
VALacyclovir
Acyclovir
Blisters on a child that break and form a yellow crust = ______.
If improperly treated, it can then affect the __(organ)___ and cause ____(symptoms)___.
Strep Pyogenes (or Staph Aureus)

Can affect kidney (Post streptococcal glomerulonephritis)

Get Facial edema and dark urine



G- sepsis and toxic shock is caused by the ____ portion of ___.
Lipid A within LPS.
whitish yellow membrane-like plaques = ______

It can proceed to become ____





C. Diff
Membranous Colitis

C Diff is going to be opportunistic - vignette is usually a pt in the hospital being treated with antibiotics for something else




group A strep
Think _____ hemolytic, ____ sensitive, and strep _____.
Beta
Bacitracin
pyogenes

comma shaped
Will have mucus-y stool
Vibrio Cholera

UTI in sexually active young woman
S Saprophyticus

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