Question | Answer |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa | fluorescent, grapelike odor, blue-green pigment, oxidase and catalase positive, oxidizes carbohydrates; wound infections, burns, pulminary infections, endocarditis, ear infections, skin rashes. toxins, proteases, hemolysin, drug resistant |
Pseudomonas florescens and putida | low virulence, flourescent, infections: UTIs, post surgical abcesses, Empyema, septic arthritis, and wound infections |
Acinetobacter | second most common isolate of these organisms, sometimes a normal flora 25% of adults, found in hospitals (venilators, humidifiers, catheters), UTIs, pneumonia, endocarditis, septiciemia, meningitis, wounds, burns, eye infections |
Stentrophomoans maltophilia | third most common isolate of these organisms, pneumonia, endocarditis, abcterimia, rarely meningitis and UTIs; catalase +, oxidase -, DNase+ esculin+ lysine decarbooxylase + gelatin hydrolysis |
Burkholderia identifiers | nosocomial pathogen, pneumonia particularly in CF patients, endocarditis, UTIs, osteomyelotis, dermatitis, wound infections; oxidase- negative, motile, utilizes glucose, maltose, lactose, mannitol, lysine decarbonase + OCD+ ADH+, gram-negative bacillus |
Burkholderia organisms | cepacia:plant pathogens;
gladioli: resembles B. cepacia, found in CF and CGD patients;
mallei: causes glanders; supportive or acute pulmonary infections;
pseudomallei: melioidosis; ingestion, inhalation, or inoculation; possible agent of bioterrorism |