Enteric Pathogens

Pathogens that won't  follow chart.

25 cards   |   Total Attempts: 188
  

Cards In This Set

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Association with UTI & Diarrheal diseases
Enteroadherant E-Coli
Assoiciated with Poor Sanitation fecal/oral known as infantile E-coli
Enteropathogenic E-Coli
Travelor's Diarrhea/Montezuma Revenge 2 Toxins: Heat Stable & Heat Labile
Enterotoxogenic E-Coli
Invades Intestine and causes Dysentary
Enteroinvasive E-Coli
0:157: H7 strain causes hemmorhagic diarrhea and colitis Phage encoded toxins (HUS)
Enterohemorrhagic E-Coli
What fluorescent product is produced if Beta glucoronidase is present. This test is always negative for 0:157: H7
Answer 6
MUG
0157: H7 fails to ferment this sorbitol
Answer 7
MAC Sorbitol
What pathogen is associated with poor sanitation, gastroenteritis, invasive, and paratyphoid fever?
Answer 8
Salmonella Mac = non-lactose fermenter. (ONPG-). It shows H2S production on other selective media. -/+ with gas and H2S on KIA Citrate is positive for subgroup I except the typhoids Lysine+ Motile
What Antigens can be present in Salmonella?
O antigenheat stable cell wall liposaccharide H antigen – flagellar antigen – floccular (Heat labile) Vi or K antigen capsular antigen or surface antigen. (heat labile) Titers of 1:80 are suggestive and 1:160 significant. Look for 4 fold rise in titer.
Causes Dysentary, severe diarreaha, HUS, bacilliary dysentary has Verotoxin (Shiga toxin), and can be grouped.
Answer 10
Shigella Species: S. Dysnetariae (Group A) S. Flexneri (Group B) S. Boydii (Group C) S. Sonnei (Group D)
Causative agent of the plague, contact with household pets, accute enteritis, and seen in rodents (guinea pigs) has bull's eye look on CIN plate
Answer 11
Yersinia species: Y. Pestis Y. Enterolitica Y. Psedotubercolosis
Halophilic, can get from contaminated seafood, Sereogroup 01 in pandemic infections, watery rice stools, Sepsis & liver in the elderly . String Test Method
Answer 12
Vibrio Species: V. Cholera V. Parahemolyticus V. Vulnificans
OX+ found in salt water, bloody mucous, and rice stool
Answer 13
Aeromonas species
OX- found in fresh water, Esturarine, and soil
Answer 14
Plesiomonas
Most common cause of diarrhea, bloody & pus in stools, darting motility
Answer 15
Campylobacter