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NON SPOREFORMING BAC
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| most are ubiquitous inhabitants of the natural environment | non spore forming bacilli |
| diptheroids ; Klebloeffler's bacillus | Corynebacterium |
| ass. with infections of implanted materials | C. jeikeium |
| picket fence; chinese letters; club shaped | C. diptheriae |
| colonizes the pharynx forming pseudomembrane | Diphteria |
| ass. with UTI, bacteremia, endocarditis and wound infections | C. urealyticum |
| normal flora coryneforms | C. striatum and C. amycolatum |
| BABES-ERNST OR metachromatic granules on MB | C. diptheriae |
| PAI'S AGAR | coagulated egg |
| animal inoculation using guinea pig or white mice ; IN VIVO | Fraser and Weld |
| detects toxin production ; paper strip impregnated with anti toxic embedde on agar ; IN VITRO | Elek immunodiffusion test |
| (+) for Elek immunodiffusion test | precipithin lines at 45 degrees |
| component A for corynebacterium | enzyme (ADP ribosyl transferase) |
| gelatinase (+) corynebacterium | C. ulcerans |
| motile, psychrophilic organisms seen in soil, water, sewage, decaying vegetations and in the feces of human, swine and poultry | Listeria |
| grows at 4C ; tumbling motility at 25C | Listeria |
| narrow zone of beta hemolyis | Listeria |
| causes granulomatosis infantsepticum, neonatal meningitis and septicemia | Listeria |
| salicin (+) | Listeria |
| uncommon aerobic gram (+) isolate ; non motile, cat neg and form hydrogen sulfide | Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae |
| block protein synthesis | A subunit |
| entry to cardiac and neural tissues | B subunit |
| Listeria transmission | respiratory droplets |
| from contaminated raw milk or cheese or vaginally during birth | L. monocytogenes |
| Endotoxin; LPS lipid A | L . monocytogenes |