Chlamydia trachomatis — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: Which life cycle stage of Chlamydia spp. is extracellular?_____

Answer: Elementary body

Flashcard 2: 1st stage of Chlamydia spp. life cycle: _____

Answer: elementary

Flashcard 3: Lysis of the cell results in _____ spp. returning back to the elementary body from the reticular body

Answer: Chlamydia

Flashcard 4: Which life cycle stage of Chlamydia spp. undergoes replication?_____

Answer: Reticular Body

Flashcard 5: What stain is used to visualize Chlamydia spp.?_____

Answer: Giemsa

Flashcard 6: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Answer:

Extra: Eaton's agaratypical "walking" pneumoniamacrolide or flouroquinolone

Flashcard 7: What are the key associations to remember for cold agglutinin?

Answer: IgM, Mycoplasma, Mononucleosis (EBV)

Flashcard 8: Mycoplasmal pneumonia

Answer: Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Extra: pneumonia with insidious onset, headache, nonproductive cough, diffuse interstitial infiltratelung X-ray: diffuse interstitial inflitratemacrolide or flouroquinolone<30 y/o, military recruits and prisoners

Flashcard 9: What factor explains Mycoplasma's inability to Gram stain?

Answer: no cell wall!

Flashcard 10: Nocardia spp.

Answer: +

Extra: branching filaments resembling fungiaerobeacid fastpneumonia in immunocompromised, cutaneous infections of trauma in immunocompetentsulfonamides