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NON SPOREFORMING BAC
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Question | Answer |
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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 |