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Microbiology of Infection Sources

This document provides information on various microbiology topics including: 1. Common sources of bacterial infections such as Listeria from refrigerated foods and Legionella from water aerosols. 2. Culture media used to grow specific bacteria such as Mannitol salt agar for Staphylococcus aureus and Loeffler's serum slope for Corynebacterium diphtheriae. 3. The four types of hypersensitivity reactions. 4. Animals used to cultivate the bacteria that causes leprosy. 5. Characteristics of aerobic bacteria such as Bacillus anthracis and Neisseria meningitidis.

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Microbiology of Infection Sources

This document provides information on various microbiology topics including: 1. Common sources of bacterial infections such as Listeria from refrigerated foods and Legionella from water aerosols. 2. Culture media used to grow specific bacteria such as Mannitol salt agar for Staphylococcus aureus and Loeffler's serum slope for Corynebacterium diphtheriae. 3. The four types of hypersensitivity reactions. 4. Animals used to cultivate the bacteria that causes leprosy. 5. Characteristics of aerobic bacteria such as Bacillus anthracis and Neisseria meningitidis.

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MICROBIOLOGY SPECIAL

SOURCE OF INFECTION
Listeria- Refrigereted food (also Listeria only GPB with LPB causing Endotoxic Shock)
Legionella-Water aerosol from airconditioner or cooler (History always speaks of a professor in a convention)
[Link] -Animal bite
Clostridium - Canned food (botulinum toxin)
Gastro enteritis within 6 hr - Preformed staphylococcal toxin
Gastroenteritis within 6-8 hr with vomitting prominently - B. cereus ( H/O Rice Intake)
Bloody Diarrhea 3-5 days after UNCOOKED Hamburger - [Link]
Leptospirosis - Rats, reservoir, Rainfall - 3Rs
CULTURE MEDIAS1. Levinthal & Mannitol salt agar: Staphylococcus Aureus
2. Crystal Violet blood agar: Streptococcus pyogenes
3. Loeffler's serum slope & Potassium tellurite blood agar: Corynebacterium diphtheriae
4. Saboraud's dextrose agar: Nocardia
5. Robertson cooked meat medium: All Anaerobic bacteria
6. PLET medium: Bacillus Anthracis
7. Thayer martin or New york city medium: Gonococcus & Meningococcus
8. MacConkey's agar: All Enterobactericeae
9. Selenite F Broth & Tetrathionate broth: Salmonella and shigella
10. Bordet gengue medium: Bordetella pertussis
11. Castneda method: Brucella
12. Cetrimide or dettol agar: Pseudomonas
13. Lowenstein jensen (L-J medium) or dorset egg medium: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
14. PPLO medium: Mycoplasma
15. skirrow's medium: [Link]
HYPERSENSITIVITY REACTIONS:
A.C.I.D

Type 1-Anaphylaxis A
Type 2-Cytotoxic C
Type 3-Immune complex mediated I
Type 4-Delayed hypersensitivity D
animals used 2 cultivate leprae
m-mouse
a-armadillos
m-monkeys
c-chimpanzee
h-hamsters
e-european hedgehog
l-loris
p-pangolin
AEROBIC BACTERIA
[Link]
[Link]
BRUCELLA
KLEBSIELLA
LISTERIA
MYCOBACTERIA
NOCARDIA
NEISSERIA
PSEUDOMNAS
PROTEUS
PASTEURELLA
[Link]
Antibiotics and Ribosome Subunits

Buy AT 30, CELL at 50:


Buy AT 30:
A= aminoglycosides
T= tetracycline
CELL at 50:
C= Chloramphenicol
E= Erythromycin
L=Linezolid
L= cLindamycin
BASH-Latent infections
Latent infections are possible in:
B-Brill zinser disease A-Ankylostoma, S-Slow virus infection, H-Herpes zoster
Bile stained eggs
TAsTe
A = Ascaris lumbricoides
T = Trichuris trichura
T = Tenia species
capsule seen in..
Strep pneumonia
Bacteroides
H. influenza
Anthrax (B. anthracis)
E. coli
Pasteurella
Salmonella
Menigitidis (N. Menigitidis)
Yersinia pestis

Pseudomonas
Francisella
Brucella
Klebsiella
pneumoccus
Bacteria that increase cAMP
Increase cAMP: CAPE
Cholera
Anthracis
Pertussis
[Link]
coagulase negative staph and novobiocin
NOVOBIOCIN RESISTANCE IN SAPROPHYTICS (STAPHYLOCOCCUS SAPROPHYTICUS)
THE OTHER COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPH i.e. STAPH EPIDERMIDIS IS OPPOSITE of it =NOVOBIOCIN SENSITIVE
dimorphic fungi :
C:COCCCIDIODES
A:ASPERGILOSSIS
S:SPOROTRIX SHENCKII
H:HISTOPLASMA
B:BLASTOMYCES
components of mc conkey:PLANT
p=peptone
l=lactose
a=agar
n=neutral red
BFP-syphilis
conditions in which BFP reaction occurs----- M THRIL

H-hepatitis
I-infectious mononucleosis
T-tropical eosinophilia
L-leprosy(specially Lepromatous)
R-relapsing fever
M-malaria
DNA viruses
1)All DNA viruses r HHAPPPy virusesHepadna,
Herpes,
Adeno,
Pox,
Parvo,
Papova.
2)All r double stranded EXCEPT-Parvo(ie part of a virus-single stranded)
3)All r linear EXCEPT -Papova & Hepadna(circular)
4)All r icosahedral EXCEPT-Pox(complex)
5)All replicate in nucleus EXCEPT-Pox(in cytoplasm as it carries its own DNA dependent RNA polymerase)
6)Naked DNA viruses -PAP
Parvo,Adeno,Papova
7)HPH-enveloped viruses

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