Bug of the day - bugguy19

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Listeria monocytogens vs Corynebacterium diphtheria. ✴✴✴

Both are ...
Gram +ve rods
Facultative anaerobe
Non spore forming
Catalans +ve

But .... guess what ...
Listeria motile (tumbling motility)

Corynebacterium non motile 😩


listeria ✈✈✈ grow in cold temp, tumbling motility, beta hemolytic ,intracellular growth
Listeria✈✈✈✈neonatal meningitis and sepsis, sepsis in pregnant women
ttt✈✈✈✈✈✈✈ampicillin +/- gentamycin OR TMP-SMX



Corynebacterium✈✈✈✈✈Chinese letter ,black colony on K- telluride,loeffler media
Cause✈✈✈✈diphtheria
ttt✈✈✈✈DTaP ,antitoxin, penicillin or erythromycin

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HY secret 💎💎💎

L.monocytogenes is only gram+ve with endotoxin

Bacteroids only gram-ve with no typical endotoxin


See you tomorrow

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Hi, if you are following this post and find it helpful please PUMP it UP so other people can benefit from it.

thank you

Bug Guy19

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This is a great post. thank you so much BUGGUY19

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great going bug guy.... really well put

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Bacillus anthracis Vs Bacillus Cereus

Both are.....

Gram +ve rod
Spore forming
Aerobic

But ...

B.cereus is motile (it will make your GIT motile hahahahahha 😊
Associated with reheated food especially rice
Self limited food poisoning


B.anthracis (biowarfare agent)
Can grow without oxygen
Exotoxin of 3 protein (PA,EF,LF)
3 types of anthrax (cutaneous,plumonary ,GIT )
Parenteral antibiotics +anti PA vaccine

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Thanks bugguy, your bugs have really been helpful...please keep it up

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Hi , thank you all and wish you all success .
Today our last gram -ve rod , tomorrow we will start gram -ve cocci (Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhea )

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Sorry I mean today our last 2 gram +ve rod

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Nocardia vs actinomyces Israelii

Both are

gram -ve rods ,
Beaded filaments
Resembling fungi
Cause abscesses

Only A.israelii form sulfur granule ttt✈✈✈surgical+penicillin G
Only nocardia is acid fast. ttt✈✈✈✈✈✈✈surgical+ TMP-SMX