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Lec4 Staphylococci Flashcards

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What is shape of staphylococci?

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  • pram positive

- cocci

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What distinguishes streptococci from staphylococci?

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  • staphylococci are catalase positive

- staph grows in clusters, strep grows in pairs/chains

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How can staphylococcus aureus be distinguished?

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  • gram positive coccus
  • forms clusters [rather than chains]
  • coagulase positive
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Is staphylococcus aureus coagulase negative or positive?

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positive

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What are the virulence factors of staphylococcus aureus?

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  • growth as biofilm
  • surface factors
  • secreted proteins [exotoxins]
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What is action of surface factors of staphylococcus aureus?

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  • 6 surface proteins
  • facilitate binding to collagen, fibronectin, ferritin
  • they are adhesion factors
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What is action of secreted proteins of staphylococcus aureus?

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  • 5 cytotoxins and 12 enzymes

- facilitate hemolysis and spread of infection

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What is the role of protein A in staphylococcus aureus?

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  • protein A is a virulence factor present in most strains, correlated with virulence
  • bind Fc terminal of IgG –> inhibits complement and phagocytosis
  • increases ability to cause inflammatory diseases [skin infection, organ abscess, pneumonia, endocarditis
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What is role of capsule in staphylococcus aureus?

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  • polysaccharide capsule surrounds organism

- prevent opsonization

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What are two staphylococal proteins that act as superantigens?

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  • staphylococcal enterotoxin
  • TSST-1

lead to toxic shock

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What does staphylococcal release of alpha toxin do?

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cause septic shock

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Are staphylocci typically pyogenic or non-pyogenic?

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pyogenic - means they form lots of pus

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Are coagulase positive or coagulase negative strains of staphylococci more virulent?

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coagulase positive [s. aureus] are more virulent

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What are 3 toxin mediated mechanisms of staph aureus [including disease and which related toxin]?

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toxic shock syndrome [TSST-1 toxin]

scalded skin syndrome [exfoliative toxin]

rapid onset food poisoning [preformed enterotoxin]

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What are the 4 stages of bacterial adherence and what drives each step?

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  1. attachment: mediated by non-specific forces
  2. adhesion: driven by specific adhesion-receptor interactions
  3. aggregation: bacterial macrocolony formed imprved nutritional microenvironment and protects bacteria from host defenses
  4. dispersion
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What are 4 potential sources for bacterial contamination of intravascular catheters?

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  • contamination of catheter hub
  • contamination of infusate
  • transcutaneous migration
  • hematogenous seeding from different site
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What is “slime layer”

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staph aureus and epidermis both form slime layer around foregin body

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What are the host immune responses to staph aureus infection?

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  • primarily mechanical by epidermis [if dont have portal of entry can’t get through epidermis]
  • opsonization
  • neutrophill phagocytosis
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What are the clinical manifestations [disease] associated with staph aureus?

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  • skin and soft tissue infection [most common]
  • vascular infection [endocarditis]
  • metastatic infection [septic arthritis]
  • osteomyelitis
  • hospital acquired infection
  • toxic shock
  • food poisoning [toxin mediated]
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What are the two non-suppurative complications of staph aureus

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  • toxic shock [tsst-1/enterotoxin mediated]

- food poisoning [toxin mediated]

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What is the difference staph and strep vascular infection?

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  • staph can land anywhere, does not require damaged surface or molecular mimicry
  • strep requires previous damage to cause endocarditis or works by molecular mimicry in rheumatic fever
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S aureus buttock abscess - treat?

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  • growing vertically into bigger puss

- need to treat by drainage and antibiotics

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why are diabetics prone to infection [and s aureus in particular]?

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high blood sugars paralyze hemotaxis–> blunt immune response

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What two things can commonly cause impetigo?

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strep pyogenes

staph aureus

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How do you determine staphylococcoal from streptococcal cellulitis?
- strep pyogenes and staph aureus both pus-formers - BUT --> staph produces microabscesses with visible exudation of pus. staph cellulitis can also be subtle and barely noticeable
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What is chalazion?
- infected meibomian gland in eye | - due to colonizationo f conjunctiva by staph
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Why might staph endocarditis require emergency valve replacement?
bacterial vegetations on the valve might embolize to other parts of the body
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true or false: s. aureus can only infect previously damaged valve
false -- staph aureus can infect any valve normal or damaged by contrast, strep can only infect previously damaged valves
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What are roth spots?
- retinal hemorrhages caused by septic microemboli from bacterial endoccarditis
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What is MRSA?
- methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus - very limited therapeutic options - formerly almost exclusively hospital-acquired, no more common in community
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What is staphyloccocal food poinsoning?
- common cause of acute food poisoning - asocated with unrefrigerated dairy - ingestion of preformed toxin causes vomitting and diarrhea - no invasion by organism or superantigen involved
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Treatment of staph infections?
- cell wall active semisynthetic penicillins [oxacillin, nafcillin] - certain cephalosporins [cefazolin]
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What is treatment of MRSA and other resistant strains?
vancomycin
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Is staphylococcus epidermidis coagulase positive or negative?
negative
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What are general features of staph epidermidis?
- coagulase negative - normal inhabitant of skin - rarely causes disease in normal host in absence of foreign bodies - associated with infections related to medical devices - relatively resistant to common antibiotics
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What is mech of s epidermidis as a pathogen of medical devices?
- forms biofilm [slime layer] = colonizes polymer surface of intravascular catheter with thick slime multilayer containing exopolysaccharide and organisms embedded within it to keep making more exopolysaccharide - microcolonies resistant to antibiotics
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Two types of clinical syndromes assocated with Staph epidermidis?
1. infection associated with intravascular device | 2. central nervous system infection associated with foreign bodies
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What is main clinical syndrome of saphylococcus saprophyticus?
- causes UTIs | - has receptor that allows it to bind mucosal receptors in GU tract and cause ascending infection
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Is staphylococcus saprophyticus resistant or sensitive to antibiotics?
- highly sensitive to all antibiotics
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