Pseudomonas and Burkholderiales MCQs

Baumannii causes widespread hospital infections such as: Ventilator associated pneumonia Central line associated bloodstream infection Post-neurosurgical meningitis Catheter- associated UTI Wound and soft tissue infections Infections in burn patients Acinetobacter can be grouped into several genomospecies. A. baumannii is the most pathogenic species. Most other species such as A.calcoaceticus and A. lwoffii are rarely pathogenic to man. Reference: Essentials of Medical Microbiology, by Apurba Sastry and Sandhya Bhat, 3rd edition, page no: 646

Mallei differs from B. pseudomallei in being non-motile and oxidase negative. List of important bacteria which are: Catalase positive: Remember: 'SPACE' Staphylococcus aureus Pseudomonas Aspergillus Candida Enterobacter Urease positive: Remember: 'PUNCH KiSS' Proteus Ureaplasma Nocardia Cryptococcus Helicobacter Klebsiella Saprophyticus Epidermidis Oxidase negative: All enterobacteriaceae Acinetobacter Staphylococci Streptococci Indole positive: Remember: ' M organ the vulgar ox ate E.coli on the indole pasture with Ed' Morganella Proteus vulgaris Klebsiella Oxytoca Coli Pasteurella Edwardsiella Reference: Essentials of Medical Microbiology, by Apurba Sastry and Sandhya Bhat, 3rd edition.

King's media is used for enhancement of pigment production by pseudomonas. Reference : https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [The synthetic growth medium Kings BS for detection of synthesis of fluorescein by bacteria Pseudomonas] - PubMed Reference : Essentials of Medical Microbiology, by Apurba Sastry and Sandhya Bhat, 1 st edition, page no: 341

ESKAPE pathogens are the multidrug resistant isolates present in hospital such as enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiellapneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter sps. Reference: Essentials of medical microbiology by Apurba sastry 1 st edition Pg no.607