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Legionella Characteristics
- Characteristics
- Bacillus
- Poor Gram Stain
- Charcoal Yeast with Iron and Cysteine
- Silver Stain
- Water Sources
- Smokers and Heavy Drinkers
- Detect Antigen in Urine
2 mins
Legionella Disease
- Signs and Symptoms
- High Fever
- Diarrhea
- Increased Liver Enzymes
- Hyponatremia
- Type IV Renal Tubular Acidosis
- Severe Atypical Pneumonia
- Pontiac Fever
- Treatment
- Fluoroquinolones
- Macrolides
2 mins
Mycoplasma Pneumoniae
- Characteristics
- No Cell Wall and No Gram Stain
- Cholesterol Membrane
- Eaton's Agar
- Mulberry Colonies
- Disease
- Atypical pneumonia
- Military Recruits
- Cold IgM Autoimmune Hemolytic Anemia
- Erythema Multiforme
- Treatment
- Tetracycline
- Erythromycin
2 mins
Gardnerella vaginalis
- Signs and Symptoms
- Bacterial Vaginosis
- Not an STD
- Fishy Smell
- Whiff Test
- Grey Vaginal Discharge
- Increase pH
- Clue Cells
- Squamous Epithelial Cells Covered with Bacteria
- Mobiluncus Coinfection
- Treatment
- Metronidazole
2 mins
Francisella tularensis
- Mechanism
- Contact with Infected Animals
- Dermacentor Wood Tick
- Deer Fly
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Coccobacilli
- Facultative Intracellular
- Charcoal Yeast Agar with Cysteine and Iron
- Signs and Symptoms
- Ulceration
- Fever
- Painful Lymphadenopathy
- Caseating Granulomas
- Treatment
- Streptomycin
3 mins
Vibrio Cholera Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Bacilli
- Glucose Fermenting
- Non-lactose Fermenting
- Oxidase Positive
- Comma Shaped
- Thrives in Alkaline Environment
- Crustaceans
1 min
Bacteroides Fragilis
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Anaerobe
- Normal Colonic Flora
- Produces Vitamin K
- Produces Gas in Tissue
- Foul-Smelling
- Signs and Symptoms
- Gastrointestinal Abscess
- Treatment
- Penicillin-Resistant
- Clindamycin
- Metronidazole
2 mins
Helicobacter Pylori
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Bacilli
- Curved
- Polar Flagellum
- Catalase-Positive
- Oxidase-Positive
- Disease
- Gastric and Duodenal Ulcers
- Ammonia
- Neutral Environment
- Gastric Adenocarcinoma
- MALT lymphoma
- Diagnosis
- Serology IgG antibody
- Stool Antigen
- Urease Positive Breath Test
- Biopsy
- Treatment
- 2 ABX and PPI
2 mins
Chlamydia Characteristics
- Characteristics
- Cannot Make ATP
- Elementary body infects
- Intraepithelial
- Reticulate Body Replicates
- Diagnosis
- Cell Wall Lacks Muramic Acid
- Giemsa Stain
- Inclusion Bodies
- Treatment
- Azithromycin (Preferred)
- Doxycycline
2 mins
Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Rickettsia rickettsii
- Dermacentor Wood Tick
- Endemic to East Coast
- Fever
- Headache
- Rash Starts on Wrist and Ankle
- Rash migrates towards the trunk
- Thrombocytopenia
- Hyponatremia
- Elevated liver enzymes
59 secs
Coxiella burnetii
- Characteristics
- Gram Negative Bacteria
- Intracellular
- Aerosol Transmission
- Affects Animal Handlers
- Presentation
- Q Fever
- Flu-like Symptoms
- Atypical Pneumonia
- Hepatitis
- Endocarditis
- Diagnosis
- Serology
- Treatment
- Doxycycline
2 mins
Borrelia burgdorferi
- Characteristics
- Lyme Disease
- Spirochete
- Dark-field Microscopy
- Giemsa Stain
- Silver Stain
- White-footed Mouse
- Ixodes Tick
- Babesia
- Anaplasmosis
- Signs & Symptoms
- Flu-like Symptoms
- Erythema Migrans
- Bulls Eye Rash
- Bilateral Bell's Palsy
- Conduction Defects
- Arthropathy
- Treatments
- Doxycycline
- Ceftriaxone
3 mins
Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Disease
- Signs and Symptoms
- Pneumonia
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Burn Wounds
- Hot tub folliculitis
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Osteomyelitis associated with IV drug use
- Osteomyelitis from Shoe Puncture Wound
- Diabetic Osteomyelitis
- Corneal Infections in contact lens users
- Endocarditis
- Ecthyma Gangrenosum
3 mins
Bordetella pertussis
- Pathophysiology
- Gram-Negative
- Coccobacillus
- Bordet-Gengou Agar
- ADP Ribosylating AB Toxin
- Inhibits Gi to cause Increase in cAMP
- Signs AND Symptoms
- Lymphocytosis
- Increase in Insulin
- Catarrhal Phase is Infectious Period
- Paroxysmal Phase is Symptomatic Period
- Whooping Cough
- Treatment
- Macrolides
4 mins
Enterohemorrhagic E. Coli (EHEC)
- Characteristics
- O157:H7
- Non-Sorbitol Fermenting
- Hamburger Meat
- Produces Shiga-like Toxin
- Gram-negative
- Lysogeny
- Inactivates 60S Ribosome
- Disease
- Bloody Diarrhea
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Acute Renal Failure
- Thrombocytopenia
2 mins
Haemophilus ducreyi
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Coccobacillus
- Pleomorphic
- Parallel Short Chains
- School of Fish Appearance on Gram Stain
- Signs and Symptoms
- Chancroid
- Painful Genital Ulcer
- Buboes
- Treatment
- Azithromycin
- Ceftriaxone
2 mins
Neisseria gonorrhoeae Characteristics
- Characteristics
- Gram Negative
- Diplococci
- Chocolate Agar
- Thayer-Martin Media
- VPN
- Oxidase Positive
- Glucose Fermenting
- Pilus
- Opa Surface Protein
- Rapid Antigenic Variation
- IgA Protease
2 mins
Chlamydia trachomatis
- Characteristics
- A to C
- Trachoma
- Follicular Conjunctivitis
- Blindness
- Africa
- L1 to 3
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Buboes
- Genital Ulcer
- D to K
- Urethritis and PID
- Neonatal Pneumonia
- Staccato Cough
- Neonatal Conjunctivitis
2 mins
Shigella
- Characteristics
- Gram-Negative
- Bacilli
- Non Lactose Fermenting
- White on Macconkey Agar
- Oxidase Negative
- Non H2S Producing
- Day Care Centers
- High Virulence
- Replicates Intracellularly
- Actin Rocket
- Signs and Symptoms
- Bloody Diarrhea
- Shiga Toxin
- Inhibits 60S Ribosome
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Thrombocytopenia
- Kidney Failure
3 mins
Vibrio Cholera Disease
- ADP Ribosylating AB Toxin
- Turn Gs on Causing Increase in cAMP
- Secretion of Cl
- Blocks Reabsorption of Na
- Rice Water Diarrhea
1 min
