Infection characterized by severe local inflammation, usually with pus formation, generally caused by one of the pyogenic bacteria.
Sepsis:The term sepsis covers numerous and diverse pyogenic infections which includes superficial skin infections,wound infections,infection of burns,infection of eyes,peritonitis and abscesses.
Pus is an exudate typically white yellow or yellow formed at the site of inflammation during infection.
Abscesses are localized collection of pus composed of living and dead WBC, components of tissue break down.
70% of tissue infection is mainly caused by
Staphylococcus aureus.
Etymology:
Greek word, pyon meaning pus, genein, meaning to produce
Pus is a fluid composed of : dead & dying WBC, dead & dying bacteria (in bacterial cause of pus),tissue debris, edema, fibrin, lipid and nucleic acid.
Pus cells : it is degranulated wbc, neutrophils.
The body responds to invasion by a wide variety of bacteria by an increased blood supply to the area and by an outpouring of serous fluid and white blood cells.
This is the typical inflammatory response.
The white cells which pass from the blood into the infected tissues attempt to ingest the bacteria (phagocytosis), many cells die and the resultant material consisting of both living and dead white cells (leucocytes or pus cells) and bacteria, together with damaged local tissues and blood proteins, constitutes PUS.
Infections in which pus is produced are known as pyogenic, i.e. pus-producing infections.
Pus may be present as a localised collection deep in the tissues—an ABSCESS, it may be produced on a surface, e.g. the mucosa of the pharynx, the mucosa of the bladder, the méninges, indeed any body surface, it is then known as a PURULENT EXUDATE.
Alternatively infection may spread evenly through the tissues causing a diffuse inflammation :CELLULITIS.
The type of pus production will depend on the organism causing the infection, on the tissue in which the infective process is taking place, and also on the body resistance to the infection.
Although the pyogenic infections have very similar appearances whatever the causative organism, different sites of the body have a tendency to be infected with particular species of bacteria.
Always submit two swabs so that Gram stain can be performed.
Limit swab sampling to wounds that are clinically infected or those that are chronic and are not healing.
To minimize contamination, it is important to cleanse the wound to remove superficial debris by thorough irrigation and cleansing with non-bacteriostatic sterile saline.
If the wound is relatively dry, collect the specimen with two cotton-tipped swabs moistened with sterile non-bacteriostatic saline. Gently roll the swab over the surface of the wound approximately five times, focusing on an area where there is evidence of pus or inflamed tissue.
Treponema is a genus of spiral-shaped bacteria. The major treponeme species of human pathogens is Treponema pallidum, whose subspecies are responsible for diseases such as syphilis, bejel, and yaws.
The genus Shigella exclusively infects human intestine.
Shigella dysenteriae is the causative agent of bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in humans.
It is a diarrheal illness which is characterized by frequent passage of blood stained mucopurulent stools.
The four important species of the genus Shigella are:
Shigella dysenteriae
Shigella flexneri
Shigella sonnei
Shigella boydii.
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that causes staphylococcal food poisoning, a form of gastroenteritis with rapid onset of symptoms. S. aureus is commonly found in the environment (soil, water and air) and is also found in the nose and on the skin of humans.
Clinical immunology is the study of diseases caused by disorders of the immune system (failure, aberrant action, and malignant growth of the cellular elements of the system). It also involves diseases of other systems, where immune reactions play a part in the pathology and clinical features.
Treponema is a genus of spiral-shaped bacteria. The major treponeme species of human pathogens is Treponema pallidum, whose subspecies are responsible for diseases such as syphilis, bejel, and yaws.
The genus Shigella exclusively infects human intestine.
Shigella dysenteriae is the causative agent of bacillary dysentery or shigellosis in humans.
It is a diarrheal illness which is characterized by frequent passage of blood stained mucopurulent stools.
The four important species of the genus Shigella are:
Shigella dysenteriae
Shigella flexneri
Shigella sonnei
Shigella boydii.
Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterium that causes staphylococcal food poisoning, a form of gastroenteritis with rapid onset of symptoms. S. aureus is commonly found in the environment (soil, water and air) and is also found in the nose and on the skin of humans.
Clinical immunology is the study of diseases caused by disorders of the immune system (failure, aberrant action, and malignant growth of the cellular elements of the system). It also involves diseases of other systems, where immune reactions play a part in the pathology and clinical features.
Fungi are eukaryotic microorganisms which are heterotrophic and essentially aerobic with limited anaerobic capabilities. Fungi synthesize lysine by the L-αadipic acid biosynthetic pathway. They possess chitinous cell walls, plasma membranes containing ergosterol, 80SrRNA and microtubules composed of tubulin. Fungi grow as yeasts, molds (filamentous) or a combination of both (i.e. dimorphism).
• Actinomyces species are classified as anaerobic, gram positive and filamentous bacteria.
• It is a chronic granulomatous suppurative and fibrosing disease caused by anaerobic or microaerophilic gram-positive nonacid fast, branched filamentous bacteria.
• Most of the species isolated from actinomycotic lesions have been identified as A. israelii, A. viscosus, A. odontolyticus, A.naeslundii or A. meyeri.
• These microorganisms have been identified in dental plaque, dental calculus, necrotic pulp, and tonsils.
• The usual pattern of this disease is one characterized chiefly by the formation of abscesses that tend to drain by the formation of sinus tracts.
• pus from the abscesses is examined on a clean glass slide, it shows the typical ‘sulfur granules’ or colonies of organisms, which appear in the suppurative material as tiny, yellow grains.
• Another infection that produces this type of sulfur granules is botryomycosis.
casoni test is an immediate hypersensitivity skin test previously used in the diagnosis of hydatid disease.
Intradermal injection of 0.2ml of hydatid fluid collected from animal/human cyst which is sterilized by seitz filtration OR membrane filtration.
equal volume of saline(control) injected on the other forearm and observation made for next 30 min and after 1 to 2 days.
As a precaution anaphylactic tray must be kept ready before carrying out the test.(Type 1 hypersensitivity reaction)
Interpretation: Sensitive patients develop large wheal measuring 5 cm or more with formation of pseudopodia like projection within 30 minutes occuring at injection site, considered positive result.(immediate hypersensitivity) .
No reaction in the control arm.
Disadvantage: It has low sensitivity (60-80%)
and gives false positive results in cross reactive cestode infections.
It is no longer used nowadays and replaced largely by the serological tests.
Less reliable than imaging technique.
Direct
Passive
Reverse Passive
Agglutination Inhibition
Coagglutination
Agglutination tests can be done :
On slides
In tubes
In microtritation plates
-Difference between precipitation and agglutination reaction.
It is called “polymerase” because the only enzyme used in this reaction is DNA polymerase.
It is called “chain” because the products of the first reaction become substrates of the following one, and so on.
Introduction to calcium
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Dietary requirement of calcium
Calcium absorption
Biochemical function of calcium
Calcium in blood
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The prostate is an exocrine gland of the male mammalian reproductive system
It is a walnut-sized gland that forms part of the male reproductive system and is located in front of the rectum and just below the urinary bladder
Function is to store and secrete a clear, slightly alkaline fluid that constitutes 10-30% of the volume of the seminal fluid that along with the spermatozoa, constitutes semen
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2. Introduction
• Infection characterized by severe local
inflammation, usually with pus formation, generally caused by one of the
pyogenic bacteria.
• Sepsis:The term sepsis covers numerous and diverse pyogenic infections
which includes superficial skin infections,wound infections,infection of
burns,infection of eyes,peritonitis and abscesses.
• Pus is an exudate typically white yellow or yellow formed at the site of
inflammation during infection.
• Abscesses are localized collection of pus composed of living and dead
WBC, components of tissue break down.
• 70% of tissue infection is mainly caused by
Staphylococcus aureus.
• Etymology:
– Greek word, pyon meaning pus, genein, meaning to produce
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
3. What is pus, and pus cells?
• Pus is a fluid composed of : dead & dying WBC, dead
& dying bacteria (in bacterial cause of pus),tissue
debris, edema, fibrin, lipid and nucleic acid.
• Pus cells : it is degranulated wbc, neutrophils.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
4. INTRODUCTION
• The body responds to invasion by a wide variety of bacteria by an
increased blood supply to the area and by an outpouring of serous
fluid and white blood cells.
• This is the typical inflammatory response.
• The white cells which pass from the blood into the infected tissues
attempt to ingest the bacteria (phagocytosis), many cells die and
the resultant material consisting of both living and dead white cells
(leucocytes or pus cells) and bacteria, together with damaged local
tissues and blood proteins, constitutes PUS.
• Infections in which pus is produced are known as pyogenic, i.e. pus-
producing infections.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
5. • Pus may be present as a localised collection deep in the tissues—an
ABSCESS, it may be produced on a surface, e.g. the mucosa of the
pharynx, the mucosa of the bladder, the méninges, indeed any body
surface, it is then known as a PURULENT EXUDATE.
• Alternatively infection may spread evenly through the tissues causing
a diffuse inflammation :CELLULITIS.
• The type of pus production will depend on the organism causing the
infection, on the tissue in which the infective process is taking place,
and also on the body resistance to the infection.
• Although the pyogenic infections have very similar appearances
whatever the causative organism, different sites of the body have a
tendency to be infected with particular species of bacteria.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
6. • Gram positive
– Staphylococcus aureus
– Streptococcus pyogenes
– Enterococcus species
– Anareobic streptococci
– Clostridium perfrinhes
and other clostridia
– Actinomycetes
– Actinomyces israaeli
– Mycobacterium
tuberculosis
• Gram negative(rare)
– Pseudomonas
aeruginosa
– Proteus species
– Escherichia coli
– Bacterioids species
– Klebsiella species
– Pasteurella species
Common organisms causing Pyogenic
infections are as follows:
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
8. • Some of the common infections caused by
pyogenic bacterias are:
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9. Folliculitis: It is the infection and inflammation of one or
more hair follicles.
Potential bacteria:S.aureus
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10. Impetigo: It is a contagious skin infection that usually
produces blisters or sores on the face, neck, hands, and
diaper area.
Potential bacteria:S.aureus, S.pyogenes
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
11. • Ecthyma :It is similar
to impetigo, but
occurs deep inside
the skin.
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12. Furncles: It is another word for a boil. Boils are bacterial or
fungal infections of hair follicles. S.aureus
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13. Carbuncle:clustures of furuncle connected
subcutaneously causing deeper supperations.A
large abscess,usually occurs in thick collagenous
tissue such as back of the neck.
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14. Macules: A patch of skin that is altered in color but usually
not elevated and that is a characteristic feature of
various disease.
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15. Papules: It is a circumscribed, solid elevation of skin with
no visible fluid, varying in size from a pinhead to 1 cm.
They can be brown, purple, pink or red in color, and can
cluster into a rash. The papules may open when
scratched and become infected and crusty.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
16. Stye:It is a small boil or abscess in one of the glands of
lash follicles caused by S.aureus of endogenous
origin(anterior nares or implantation by finger from a
septic lesion elsewhere in the body.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
17. • Acne: It is a common
skin condition where the
pores of skin become
blocked by hair, sebum
(an oily substance),
bacteria and dead skin
cells. Those blockages
produce blackheads,
whiteheads, nodules and
other types of pimples.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
18. Erysipelas :It is an infection of the upper layers of the skin
(superficial). The most common cause is group A streptococcal
bacteria, especially Streptococcus pyogenes. Erysipelas results in
a fiery red rash with raised edges that can easily be distinguished
from the skin around it. The affected skin may be warm to the
touch.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
19. 1.Infection of wounds
• Infection may occur following accidental trauma
and injections,but postoperative wound
infections in hospital are most common .Wound
infection may be:
• Endogenous infection:Infection occurs by patients
own bacteria flora such as S.aureus from skin and
anterior nares or coliforms.
• Exogeneous infection:Spread of organisms from
hospital staff and visitors occur by direct and indirect
airborne routes.more than 60% of hospital acquired
infections are due to Gram negative enteric bacilli and
only in 30% cases Gram positive cocci responsible.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
21. 2.Infections of skin and subcutaneous
tissue
• Clinical types
• 1. Acne(pimple): caused by Propionibacterium acne,
anaerobic diphtheroids, coagulase negative
Staphylococci and micrococci
• 2. Staphylococcal infection: Boils , furuncles and
Carbuncle are commonest leisons caused by S.aureus
• 3. Streptococcal infections includes cellulitis,
erysipelas, ecythema and impetigo and scarlet fever.
• 4. Gram negative infections: are rare on healthy skin
except moist area of groin and axilla
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22. 3.Infection of Burns
• The large moist exposed surface of burns become
colonised by bacteria within 24 hours
• Bacterial flora of skin, respiratory tract and colon,
streptococci and aerobic spore-bearing bacilli and
non-fermenting bacilli are often involved
• S. aureus is the commonest isolate from burns ,
followed by P. aeruginosa and then various GNB
e.g E. coli, Klebsiella spp, Acinetobacter spp and S.
pyogenes groups A, B, C and G
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23. 4.Infection of Eyes
• Eyelid infections: Stye- S.aureus
• Infection of Lacrimal apparatus
• Conjunctivitis/ Keratitis/ Orbital Cellulitis:
– Causative agents: S. aureus, Hemophilus spp.
Moraxella Lacunata, Chlamydia trachomatis, S.
pneumoniae , Adenovirus, HSV 1
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
24. • Staphylococcus aureus is the commonest
pathogen isolated from subcutaneous
abscesses and skin wounds. It also causes
impetigo. Penicillin and methicillin resistant
strains of S.aureus are common causes of
hospital acquired wound infections.
• Pseudomonas aeruginosa is associated with
infected burns and hospital acquired
infections.
Notes on pathogen
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25. • Escherichia coli, Proteus species,
Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacterioides
species are the pathogens most frequently
isolated from abdominal abcesses and
wounds. Pus containing Bacterioides species
has very unpleasant smell.
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26. • C. perfringens is found mainly in deep wounds
where anaerobic conditions exist. The toxins
produced cause putrefactive decay of the
infected tissue with gas production.The death
and decay of tissue by C. perfringens is called
gas gangrene.
• Chronic leg ulceration is common in those with
sickle cell disease. The commonest pathogens
isolated are S. aureus, P. aeruginosa, S. pyogenes,
and Bacteroides species.
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28. • Mycobacterium tuberculosis is associated with
cold abscesses. It is cold because it is not accompanied by the
classical signs of inflammation .
• Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax, with cutaneous
form of the disease producing pustule usually on
the hand or arm.
• Vincent’s organisms (Borrelia vincenti with Gram
negative anaerobic fusiform bacilli) are associated
with tropical ulcer. The ulcer is commonly found
on the leg, often of malnourished persons,
especially children. Staphylococci and
streptococci are frequently secondary invaders.
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29. • Actinomycetes (filamentous bacteria) and several
species of fungi cause mycetom. Specimens of
pus from the draining sinuses contain granules,
examination of which helps to differentiate
whether the mycetoma is bacterial (treatable) or
fungal (less easily treated).
• A. israeli and other species of Actinomyces cause
actinomycosis. Small yellow granules can be
found in pus from a draining sinus (often in the
neck).
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30. • Y. pestis causes plague. The disease is referred
to as bubonic plague when the organism
infects a lymph gland and produces a painful
swelling referred to as a bubo. The organism
can be found in the fluid aspirated from the
bubo and in the surrounding inflamed tissue.
The organism is highly infectious.
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
34. • Aspirated material is superior to a swab
specimen because swabs:
1. Commonly yield host of mixed bacterial flora
2. Often don’t reflect true organisms.
3. Easily contaminated
4. Tend to dry out.
5. Likely to expose anaerobes to too much oxygen
6 . Small volume
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35. Sample collection
• Pus from abcess is best collected at the time
the abcess is incised and drained, or after it is
ruptured naturally.
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36. • Care should be taken to avoid contamination
with commensal organism from the skin.
• As far as possible a specimen from wound
should be collected before an antiseptic
dressing is applied.
• If a swab must be used, collect two, one for
culture and one for Gram stain.
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37. Sampling Deep Wounds:
1. Disinfect the surface with 70% alcohol and then
with 2% tincture of iodine.
2. Aspirate the deepest portion of the lesion or pass
a swab deep into the lesion, firmly sampling the
lesion’s leading edge. Avoid contamination by the
wound surface.
3. If collection is done at surgery, a portion of the
abscess wall should also be sent for culture.
4. Transfer material into a sterile
5. Remove tincture of iodine with 70% alcohol to
prevent burn.
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38. Sampling Soft Tissue Aspirate:
1. Disinfect the surface with 70% alcohol and
then with 2% tincture of iodine.
2. Aspirate the deepest portion of the lesion or
sinus tract or pass a swab into the lesion, firmly
sampling the lesion’s edge. Avoid contamination
by the wound surface.
3. Transfer material into a sterile container
Ajay Subedi,BMLT
39. Transport/Storage:
Onsite collections: Transport to the
Microbiology Laboratory immediately at room
temperature. Do not refrigerate.
Off site collections: Specimens must be
promptly transported to the laboratory, with the
next available courier, not to exceed 24 hours
from the time of collection.
• Transport aerobic swab or aspirate
refrigerated.
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44. Swabs
• Swabs suitable for taking specimens of
exudate from the throat, nostril, ear, skin,
wounds and other accessible lesions consist of
a sterile pledget of absorbant material, usually
cotton wool or synthetic fiber, mounted on a
thin wore or stick.
• Different swabs for special purposes are
– Baby swabs, Pernasal swab, post nasal swab,
laryngeal swab and High vaginal swab.
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45. • Sampling swabs for the safe collection, transport
and preservation of all types of microorganisms
to the laboratory.
• Synthetic and natural materials are available
allowing the user to tailor cost and performance.
• Swabs are available dry or with culture media
(Amies Clear, Amies Charcoal, MRD); with
wooden, aluminium, polystyrene or
polypropylene shafts; and with cotton, viscose or
alginate tips.
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47. • Always submit two swabs so that Gram stain can be
performed.
• Limit swab sampling to wounds that are clinically infected
or those that are chronic and are not healing.
• To minimize contamination, it is important to cleanse the
wound to remove superficial debris by thorough irrigation
and cleansing with non-bacteriostatic sterile saline.
• If the wound is relatively dry, collect the specimen with
two cotton-tipped swabs moistened with sterile non-
bacteriostatic saline. Gently roll the swab over the surface
of the wound approximately five times, focusing on an area
where there is evidence of pus or inflamed tissue.
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48. Criteria of specimen rejection
• Inappropriate specimen transport device;
• mislabeled specimen;
• unlabeled specimen;
• specimen received after prolonged delay
(usually more than 72 hours);
• specimen received in expired transport media
and dried samples.
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49. In a hospital with a microbiology
laboratory
• Using a sterile technique, aspirate or collect from
a drainage tube up to 5ml of pus.
• It is then transferred to a sterile leak proof sterile
container.
• When pus is not being discharged, a sterile cotton
wool swab is used to collect sample from the
infected site.Immerse the swab in a container of
Amies transport medium.
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50. • Label the specimen and as soon as possible
deliver it with a completed request form to
the laboratory.
Caution: Specimens from patients with suspected plague or anthrax are
highly infectious. Label such specimens HIGH RISK and handle them with
care.
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51. In a health centre for dispatch to a
microbiology laboratory
• Collect the specimen using a sterile cotton-wool
swab. Insert it in a container of Amies transport
medium , breaking off the swab stick to allow the
bottle top to be replaced tightly.
• When the material is aspirated fluid from a
pustule, transfer the fluid to a sterile, leak-proof
container. Stopper, and seal in a leak-proof plastic
or metal container.
Note: It is not possible to transport exudate from a suspected treponemal
ulcer because the treponemes remain motile for only a short time.
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52. • Make a smear of the material on a clean slide
(for Gram staining) and allow to air-dry in a
safe place. Heat-fix the smear.
Caution: Do not make a smear for transporting when the specimen is from a
patient with suspected anthrax or bubonic plague.
• Send the specimens with a completed request
form to reach the microbiology laboratory
within 6 hours.
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53. Laboratory examination
• Macroscopic examination
– The appearance of pus and the amount of pus
should be noted on initial examination.
– The pus of staphylococcal lesion is typically
creamy and thick.
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54. – That of Streptococcus pyogenes infection is
generally straw coloured and watery.
– Proteus infection has a fishy smell and the
Pseudomonas infection a sweet, musty odour and
often a blue pigmentation.
– Pus containing anaerobic organism often has an
offensive putrid smell.
Examination of wet film may reveal the
presence of fungi or motile bacteria.
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55. • When mycetoma or actinomycosis is
suspected, the appearance of specimen and
presence of granules is reported.
• Detection of granules:
– White, yellow, brown, red or black granules may
be present in the pus in mycetoma.
– The sample is mixed with distilled water to free
the granules.
– A hand lense can be used to view the granules.
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57. • Microscopic examination
– Direct examination
• Staphylococcal lesion shows the evidence of pus cells.
• Streptococcal infection is generally with lysed pus cells.
Presence of many epithelium cells resembles
skin contamination but presence of PMNs
suggest good quality of sample.
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58. – Gram Smear
• Make an evenly spread smear of the specimen on a clean,
grease-free slide
• It is air dried and stained by Gram technique.
• The smear is examined for bacteria among the pus cells
using 40x and 100x.
• and stain by Gram staining technique. Examine the smear
for the presence of bacteria and pus cells (PMNs).
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60. • using 100x objective lens and look especially for:
– Gram negative rods ( Possible pathogens are E.coli, Klebsiella
pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus or
Bacteroides species)
– Gram positive cocci in pairs, chains or clusters (possible
pathogens are Staphylococcus
aureus ,Streptococcus pyogenes, anaerobic streptococci or
enterococci).
– Gram positive large rods with square ends (possible pathogens
are Clostridium perfringens or Bacillus anthracis)
– In the case of anaerobic infections large number of pleomorphic
bacteria (streptococci, Gram positive and Gram negative rods of
various size and fusiform bacteria) may be seen.
Sometimes, Gram positive yeast cells with psuedohyphae may
be seen, which can be Candida albicans .
•
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62. • KOH preparation:
When a fungal or actinomycete infection is
suspected.
• Giemsa or Wayson’s smear:
When bubonic plague is suspected.
• Polychrome methylene blue:
When cutaneous anthrax is suspected.
• Dark-field microscopy:
To detect treponemes when yaws or pinta is
suspected.
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63. Wayson smear:Yersinia pestis appears purple with a
characteristic safety-pin appearance,which is due to
the presence of a central vacuole.
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64. • Fluorescent Ab stain- polyclonal or
monoclonal ab against specific organisms.
Direct or indirect .
most commnly used fluorescein
isothiocyanate as flurochrome.
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65. Culture
• The specimen is inoculated in following culture medias to obtain
isolated colonies.
1)Blood agar
Incubate aerobically
2)MacConkey agar
Incubate aerobically
3) Cooked meat medium
Subculture at 24 h, 48 h, and 72 h as indicated
4) Neomycin blood agar when anaerobic infection is suspected
Incubate anaerobically up to 48 h
5)Culture for M. tuberculosis or M. ulcerans
Requires facilities of a Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory
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67. • The specimen should be incubated on two
plates of blood agar, the one for incubation at
37°C aerobically and other for incubation
anaerobically in nitrogen/ hydrogen plus 5-
10% carbondioxide.
• It should also be plated for aerobic incubation
on MacConkey agar or CLED agar for
differentiation of coliforms, staphylococci and
enterococci.
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68. • It should be inoculated into a tube of cooked
meat broth for enrichment of extracting
aerobes and anaerobes.
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69. • If the growth is seen after 24/48 hours of culture, examination
of the colony morphology and identification of the isolates
should be done.
• In the Blood Agar plate look for the hemolysis.
Both Staphylococus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes
gives beta-hemolysis in Blood Agar (Some S. aureus isolates
may not show hemolysis).
Examination and Reporting
the Culture results:
S. aureus gives yellow to cream or white colonies. Colonies are
slightly raised and easily emulsified.beta-hemolytic.
S.pyogenes produces beta-hemolytic colonies. Colonies are
usually small, colourless, dry, shiny or mucoid.
Enterococci gives non-hemolytic colonies in blood agar.
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71. • We can differentiate between streptococci and
staphylococci by a very simple and rapid test-Catalase
test(Staphylococcus-positive, Streptococcus-negative).
• For identification of suspected S. aureus colonies
perform coagulase test (to differentiate coagulase
negative Staphylococci from S. aureus) and for
suspected Group A Streptococci (S.pyogenes)
perform bacitracin sensitivity test(can be added in the
blood agar plate with other antibiotics).
• If enterococci is suspected perform bile esculin test.
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72. • Look for growth of lactose fermenter colonies (pink)
or non-lactose fermenter colonies (pale) in
MacConkey Agar plate.
• Lactose fermenter colonies can be of Escherichia
coli, Klebsiella spps or Enterobacter spps and non-
lactose fermenter colonies can be of Psuedomonas
aeruginosa, Acinetobacter spp, Proteus spps etc.
•
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73. • Member of the family of the Enterobacteriaceae
can be differentiated from other Gram-negative
bacilli by performing two rapid tests (catalase test
+ve, and oxidase test –ve).
• Identifications of the enteric bacteria can be done
by using biochemical tests such as citrate
utilization test,Triple Sugar Iron (TSI) Agar
test,Sulphite-Indole Motility(SIM) test,
and urease test.
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74. • Pseudomonas aeruginosa gives large, flat,
spreading pale colored colonies in MacConkey
Agar. It is oxidase positive and can be identified
by its pigments and/or distinctive smell
(characteristics fruity smell).
• Depending on the facilities available in the
diagnostic laboratories, organisms can be
identified using enterotube test or API-20E
test or other newer diagnostics test available for
the identification of isolates.
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75. Anaerobic blood agar culture and
cooked meat culture
• The growth could be Clostridium perfringens,
Bacteroides fragilis group or
Peptostreptococcus species.
C.perfringens grows rapidly in cooked meat medium with
hydrogen sulphide gas production and reddening but no
decomposition of meat.
On anaerobic blood agar, colonies are seen after 48hrs of
incubation.
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76. • B. fragilis grows in cooked meat medium
producing decomposition blackening of the meat.
• On blood agar non hemolytic grey colonies are
seen.
• Peptostreptococcus grows in cooked meat
medium with production of large number of
hydrogen sulphide gas.
• Small non hemolytic colonies are seen in
anaerobic blood agar after 48hrs of incubation.
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Acne is a skin problem that starts when oil and dead skin cells clog up your pores
A boil, also called a furuncle, is a deep folliculitis, infection of the hair follicle. It is most commonly caused by infection by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus.
Why gangrene in sickle cell anemia?
The reasons being decreased level of Protein C, S, increased fibrinogen, platelet aggregation and activation, vascular endothelial dysfunction and also cellular inflammation. (3) These factors increase thrombotic events and if in the peripheral vessels can cause gangrene.
The pathogenesis of chronic leg ulcers in sickle cell disease(SCD) is complex, and may include the following:
Mechanical obstruction by dense sickled red cells, venous incompetence, bacterial infections, abnormal autonomic control with excessive vasoconstriction when in the dependent position, in situ thrombosis, anemia with decrease in oxygen carrying capacity, and decreased nitric oxide bioavailability leading to impaired endothelial function have all been proposed as potential contributing factors .
Pathophysiology:
In SCD, rigid non-liquid protein strands are formed within the red blood cells which alter its shape nto that of a crescent and the cell is then said to be sickled . The sickled cells become dehydrated, rigid and are less able to negotiate the circulatory system, becoming trapped and lodged within the smaller blood vessels resulting in ischaemia and tissue necrosis. Following an episode of SCD occlusion, the body responds with reperfusion that itself causes tissue damage and an increase in reactive oxygen species and ultimately chronic oxidative stress. The endothelial cells become activated which results in red and white blood cell (mainly leukocyte) adhesion to the wall of the blood vessel which impacts on the occlusion of the vessel. Additionally, in SCD the individuals suffer from an increase in platelet and coagulation activity.
SALINE PEPTONE WATER (Maximum Recovery Diluent) is an isotonic diluent used for maximum recovery of microorganisms, and for the growth of bacterial cultures, principally marine bacteria.
The critical temperature for three of the B. anthracis and the two B. cereus strains was found to lie between 9 °C and 12 °C
activities with high potential for aerosol production of anthrax.
Semi quantitative culture of tissue
Weigh the tissue on analytical balance.
Place 2ml of sterile nutrient broth and homogenise
Inoculate 0.1 ml of sample on BAP in duplicate and 0.01 ml sample using calibrated loop on BAP in duplicate.
Incubate the plate and calculate the number of CFU per gram of tissue
number of CFUs counted × reciprocal of vol.of homogenate innoculated × 2(vol of diluent )÷weight of tissue.
Mainly used in burn cases. >10 5 CFUs per gram of tissue indiactes infection and less than indicates inflammation.