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Enterobacteriaceae Flashcards

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Sites where members of the Enterobacteriaceae are considered “usual flora”

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GI tract, uncommon normal flora of other areas

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Sites where members of the Enterobacteriaceae are always considered pathogenic

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Normally sterile areas

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Characterisitics that are common among all members of Enterobacteriaceae

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  1. GNR (straight)
  2. Facultative anaerobes
  3. Peritrichous flagella (if motile)
  4. Ferment glucose
  5. Nitrates reduced to nitrites
  6. Oxidase negative
  7. Grows well on MAC agar
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What do Enterobacteriaceae generally look like on a SBA?

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Large, smooth, gray colonies on SBA

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Factors which contribute to pathogenicity of Enterobacteriaceae

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  1. Endotoxins
  2. Exotoxins
  3. Invasiveness
  4. Adherence to epithelial cells
  5. Capsules
  6. Colonization
  7. Certain Ags
  8. Hemolysins/enzymes
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When trying to isolate from areas w/ normal flora, you may need to…

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Add several types of differential and selective media

- Stool → MAC, HEK, XLD for example

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5 identification schemes of identifying Enterobacteriaceae

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  1. Crosshatch/checkerboard
  2. Grouping systems
  3. Branching flow diagrams
  4. Numerical coding systems
  5. ?
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Problem w/ crosshatch/checkerboard methods

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Accurate but tedious

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Problem w/ grouping system s(Edwards and Ewing)

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Quicker but additional material may be needed

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Problem w/ branching flow diagrams

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Simple but dangerous

- Atypical organisms may be misidentified

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Problem w/ numerical coding systems

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Need to use your brain and not rely strictly on the number identification

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Purpose of serologic typing

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  • Identification of isolate

- Epidemiologic “fingerprinting” (helps trace where it’s coming from)

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Most frequently serotyped GNRs

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  • Salmonella
  • Shigella
  • Escherichia coli (selective isolates)
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Serologic typing antigenic structure

- K (name and 3 facts)

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Capsular Ag

  • Polysaccharide
  • Heat labile
  • May block O Ag
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Serologic typing antigenic structure

- H (name and two facts)

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Flagellar Ag

  • Protein
  • Heat labile
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Serologic typing antigenic structure

- O (name and two facts)

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Somatic Ag

  • Part of cell wall
  • Heat stable
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Serologic typing

  • What media
  • What antisera
  • What to do if O group is blocked
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Media: non-sugar containing and non-selective media (T. soy, SBA)

  • Antisera: polyvalent
  • If O group is blocked: boil organism and retype (b/c of capsule present)
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Problems involved w/ the treatment of infections from Enterobacteriaceae

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  • High mortality rate for GN septicemia
  • Antimicrobial resistance due to not taking all of antibiotics
  • Potentially harmful effects of antimicrobials used for treatment
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Habitat and most common infection involving E. coli

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  • Large bowel (#1)
  • UTI (#1 most common cause)
  • Gastroenteritis
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Habitat and most common infection involving Shigella

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  • NOT normal flora (#1)/always pathogenic

- Penetrate epithelial cells of intestinal mucosa (blood, mucous, leukocytes)

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Habitat and most common infection involving Salmonella

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  • NOT normal flora (#2)
  • Gastroenteritis (animals)
  • Septicemia (invasive)
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Habitat and most common infection involving Citrobacter

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  • GI

- Variety of infections, primarily UTIs

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Habitat and most common infection involving Serratia

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  • GI, also respiratory flora
  • Formerly strictly saprophytic now
  • Major nosocomial problem
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Habitat and most common infection involving Enterobacter

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  • GI?

- Variety of infections, especially UTIs

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Habitat and most common infection involving Proteus and Morganella
- GI? - UTI...triple phosphate (struvite) crystals - Renal stones
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Habitat and most common infection involving Yersinia
Agent of the plague - Bubonic (lymph) - Pneumonic (lungs) - Septicemic (blood)
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Major source of infection for Enterohemorrhagic E. coli causing gastroenteritis
Hamburgers, fruits, vegetables, water (pools), ect.
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Major source of infection for Salmonella causing gastroenteritis
Animals (chickens, turtles, iguanas, etc), food, water
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Major source of infection for Yersinia pestis
Endemic in rodents and transmitted by insect vector, domestic cats to humans
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Factors contributing to pathogenicity of EPEC and disease caused
Enterpathogenic E. coli - Due to organism's ability to adhere to cells in small intestine - Infant diarrhea
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Factors contributing to pathogenicity of ETEC and disease caused
Enterotoxigenic E. coli - Due to toxins (heat labile toxin and heat stable toxin) - Traveler's diarrhea (Montezuma's revenge) in developing countries
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Factors contributing to pathogenicity of EIEC and disease caused
Enteroinvasive E. coli - Due to ability to invade into mucosal cells of intestine not through blood - Similar to Shigella (no specific disease caused)
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Factors contributing to pathogenicity of STEC, EHEC, VTEC and disease caused
Shiga toxin, Enterohemmorrhagic, and Verotoxin E. coli - Due to cytotoxins (verotoxins and "shiga-like" toxins) - Leading cause of acute renal failure in children
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Formulate an approach for isolating/identifying E. coli (O157: H7) in stool cultures - Media? - Biochemical recommendations? - Typing recommendations?
??? - Use sorbitol MAC (will be sorbitol neg) - Run a MUG test (will be m
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Applications and advantages of shiga toxin testing on stool samples
- Some sorbitol positive STEC strains identified (would be missed by culture) - Assay will detect serotypes other than O157
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Compare and contrast the pathogenic mechanism involved in E. coli, Shigella, and Salmonellas gastroenteritis
???
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Typhoid Fever - Recommended type of specimen - Characteristics of the disease - Specific characteristics for identification of pathogen
- Test positive in blood cultures - Man only host, invasive, high fever, carriers harbor in gallbladder - Serotyping required for identification: it's positive w/ Vi and group D antisera (may have to boil to get rxn w/ group D antisera)
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Most common enteric agent of infection | - Urinary tract
E. coli
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Most common enteric agent of infection | - Abdominal wound
??
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Most common enteric agent of infection | - Newborn meningitis
??
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Msot common enteric agent of infection | - Gastroenteritis
Salmonella
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Most commen enteric agent of infection | - HUS
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (STEC, EHEC, VTEC)
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Most common enteric agent of infection | - Pneumonia
Klebsiella pneumoniae
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Most common enteric agent of infection | - Typhoid fever
Salmonella typhi
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Most common enteric agent of infection | - Plague
Yersinia pestis
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Name 3 Enterobacteriaceae that are ALWAYS considered pathogens, regardless of specimen site
Shigella, Salmonella
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Habitat and most common infection involving Klebsiella pneumoniae
- Bowel (#2) - Pneumonia - Nosocomial infections
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How to differentiate K. pneumoniae vs. K. oxytoca via biochemicals
- K. pneumoniae is indole neg | - K. oxytoca is indole pos
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How to differentiate P. mirabilis and P. vulgaris via biochemicals
- P, mirabilis is ornithine pos, indole neg | - P. vulgaris is ornithine neg, indole pos
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How to differentiate E. coli and Shigella via biochemicals
- Shigella is always non-motile, lysine neg, lactose neg - E. coli varies - Serologic typing required before definitive identification can be made
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Yersinia enterocolitica - Disease - How does someone contract it?
- Gastrointestinal (LN of small intestine) → children - Contaminated water, food (esp. pork), unpasteurized milk, contact w/ animals - Withstand refrigerator temperatures
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Yersinia enterocolitica | - Stool culture
MAC, CIN, YSA at room temperature
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