STEP gram positives

leprosy tox

oral/facial abscess GP filimentous

pulmonary infection in immunocompromised, filimentous

Tx Nocardia

Tx actinomyces

in the healthy, listeria causes

in the immunocompromised and neonates, listeria causes

in pregnant, listeria causes

woolsorter, fever, pulmonary hemorrhage, widened mediastinum, shock

white/yellow pseudomembranous colitis, diarrhea, previous antibiotic use

C. Diff's toxin

Tx Clostridium Difficile

GP rod w/ metachromatic granules and + elek test for toxin

cornybacterium's exotoxin

pseudomembranous pharyngitis, lymphadenopathy, GP rod

Cannot grow in 6.5% NaCl, can cause bacteremia and subacute endocarditis in COLON cancer patients

gamma hemolytic, can grow in 6.5%nacl and bile

what does enterococcus cause?

what does strep agalactiea produce?

Strep that gives babies pneumonia, meningitis, sepsis b/c it colonizes vagina

ASO titer indicates

scarlet fever, Toxic shock like, rheumatic fever, acute GN

SPECC subcutaneous plaques, polyarthritis, erythema marginatum, chorea, carditis

strep that are normal in oropharynx and cause dental caries and subacute endocarditis on damaged valves

Strep pneumonia is most common cause of

GP, coag neg, novobiocin sensitive, prosthetics and IV cath biofilm

differentiate the alpha hemolytic strep

Differentiate the beta hemolytic strep