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Enterobacteriaciae

Enterobacteriaceae encompasses several significant pathogens, including Salmonella, Klebsiella, and Yersinia, each with distinct clinical presentations and treatment approaches. Salmonella species, such as S.

Enterobacteriaciae

Enterobacteriaciae

Other

Providencia
Morganella
Proteus
Citrobacter
Serratia
Enterobacter

Yersinia

Y. pseudotuberculosis

Pseudo appendicitis

Inflammation in the lymph nodes

Y. enterocolitica

Rare in U.S.

Y. pestis

Bubonic plague

Zoonotic infection
Bubonic Plague
Capsule

Virulence factor

Inhibits phagocytosis

Mucoid

2nd leading cause

Pneumonia

3% in young adults

Penetration
through epithelial tight junctions

septicemia likely

Hydrogen sulfide

Subtopic

S. enteritidis

Turkeys / Chickens

1500 serotypes

S. choleraesuis

swine

Enteric fever (typhoid)

Trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole

Amp

Cam

S. typhi

Can survive inside PMNs

Enter intestinal lymphatics

7-14 days

S. choleraesius

GI-itis

Treatment

Antibiotics

Would prolong the carrier state

Fluid Replacement

Widal

do not penetrate epithelium layer
No gas
Motile
Species
S. sonnei
S. boydii
S. flexneri
S. dysenteriae

Shiga

Inhibits protein synthesis

Epidemiology
Fecal-to-oral
Primates the only host
Blood, mucus in stool
1-4 incubation period
Bacillary dysentery

Escherichia

Indole
Lactose
indicates fecal contamination of food and water
most predominant facultative anaerobic normal flora member of GI
Clinical
Extra-intestinal

Neonatal

Septicemia

Meningitis

Majority CNS infections

K1 Antigen

UTI

GI-tis

EIEC

Invasive

do no penetrate epithelium layer

septicemia unlikely

intracellular parasites following endocytosis by epithelia

destroy colonic epithelium

shigella-like

Adherence

EHEC

Sequela = Hemolytic uremis syndrome (HUS)

Hemolytic anemia

Thrombocytopenia

Acute renal failure

Young children

Bloody diarrhea

Verotoxin (Shiga-like toxin)

Fast food hamburgers

ETEC

Colonization pili

attach to microvilli of small intestine epithelium

ST

increased cGMP

LT

increased cAMP

decreased NaCl absorption

Traveler's Diarrhea

EAggEC

Have pili

Adherence main virulence factor

Prolonged water diarrhea

EPEC

"Attaching and effacing lesion"

Nursery outbreaks

Aerobic Gram-Negative Rods

Characteristics

Pathogenic
Opportunistic

E. Coli

Frank

acid-resistant

Infective dose = ~200 cells

Salmonella

Metabolism
Fermentation

lactose w/ acid

glucose

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S)
Nitrate to Nitrites (Red.)
Cytochrome Oxidase
Catalase
Motility
Non-motile

Klebsiella

Shigella

Peritrichous flagella
Spores