Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Anaerobes, Key - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Clostridium perfingens
        
        Exotoxins: a-toxin, haemolysin
        
        Enterotoxins: disturb ion transport in sml intestine
        
        Infections: Gas gangrene, food-borne infections (type A), Clostridial endometritis
        
        double-zone haemolysis
      - Clostridium botulinum
        
        Cause botulism (flaccid paralysis) 1) food borne
        2) infant botulism
        3) wound botulism
        
        motile
        
        botulinum toxin: AB toxin
      - Clostridium tetani
        
        Drumstick spores
        
        Causes tetanus (spastic paralysis) - lead to respiratory failure/death
        
        Vaccine against tetanus toxin (inactivated) as part of DTP vaccine
      - Clostridioides difficile
        
        Normal flora of lge intestine
        
        Toxins A (enterotoxin) and B (cytotoxin)
        
        Antibiotic-assocated Diarrhoea
        
        Psuedomembranous Colitis
    - - Cutibacterium acnes
        
        Normal skin flora - contaminates blood cultures
        
        acne
  - - - non-spore forming (cocci)
      - mixed anaerobic infections
- - - - normal flora of colon
      - infection when gain access to bloodstream
      - capsular polysacharide
      - most frequently recovered anaerobic pathogens
    - - normal flora mouth, vagina, gut
      - oral and respiratory infections (e.g. sinusitis, aspiration pneumonia)
    - - normal flora mouth
      - Periodontitis cause by P. gingavalis
      - Black colonies on blood agar
    - - long and thin with pointy ends
      - Biofilm
      - Colorectal cancer
  - - - normal flora of mouth, GIT, urogenital tract
      - skin, dental, respiratory infections
      - tiny