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Gram Stain Limitations: These Rascals May Microscopically Lack Color Treponema, Rickettsia, Mycobacteria Mycoplasma, Legionella Pneumophila, Chlamydia
Obligate Aerobes: Nagging Pests Must Breathe Nocardia, Pseudomonas Aerigunosa, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Bacillus
Obligate Anaerobes: Can't Breathe Air Clostridium, Bacillus, Actinomyces
Obligate Intracellular: Really Cowardly Rickettsia, Chlamydia
Facultative Intracellular: Some Nasty Bugs May Live Intracellularly Salmonella, Neisseria, Brucella, Mycobacterium, Listeria, Francisella, Legionella
Encapsulated Bacteria: Some Killers Have Pretty Nice Shiny Bodies Strep pneumoniae, Klebsiella, Hemophilus influenza type B, Pseudomonas aerigunosa, Neiseria meningitidis, Salmonella, group B strep
Urease-positive: Particular Kinds Have Urease Proteus, Klebsiella, H. Pylori Ureaplasma
cAMP Inducers: c, A, M, P Cholera, Anthrax, Monteczuma's Revenge (ETEC), Pertusis
Gram Positive: She Says Black Clocks Look Corny, Not Attractive! Staph and Strep (cocci), Bacillus and Clostridium (rods - spores), Listeria and Cornyebacterium (rods - no spores), Nocardia and Actinomyces (branching filamentous)
Staphylococci: On the way to the STAPH retreat, there was NO StRES Novobiocin: saphrophitiucs is resistant, epidermidis is sensitive
Streptococci: OVRPSS Optochin: viridans is resistant, pneumoniae is sensitive/soluble (in bile)
Streptococci: B Group BRAS Bacitracin: group B are resistant, group A are sensitive
Gram Positive Cocci: Staph and Strep
Gram Positive Rods: Bacillus, Clostridium, Listeria, Cornyebacterium
Catalase Positive: Staph
Catalase Positive - Coagulase Positive: Staph Aureus
Catalase Positive - Coagulase Negative Staph Epidermidis, Staph Saphrophiticus
Catalase Negative: Strep
Alpha Hemolytic Strep: Strep viridans, Strep pneumoniae
Beta Hemolytic Strep: Group A (strep pyogenes), Group B (strep agalactiae)
Gamma Hemolytic Strep: Enterococcus
Zone of hemolysis in alpha: Partial (green)
Zone of hemolysis in beta: Complete (clear)
Zone of hemolysis in gamma: None
CREST Syndrome Calcionsis, Centromere antibody, Raynaud's, Esophageal Dysmotility, Sclerodactyly, Telengiectasias
TORCHHHES Toxoplasmosis, Rubella, CMV, Herpes Simplex, Hepatitis B, HIV, Syphilis
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