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THE CONSERVATORY OF MEDICAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
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MICROBIOLOGY LIBRARY AND COURSE
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German engineering has been at the forefront of all major advancements in modern medical science. Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician and a pioneer in the specialty of Infectious Diseases. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis (1877), Tuberculosis bacillus (1882), and Vibrio cholera (1883).
He is also known for his development of Koch's Postulates which continue to be utilized in the laboritories of the twentyfirst century.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905. A contemporary of Louis Pasteur, He is considered one of the founders of microbiology, inspiring such major figures as Paul Ehrlich and Gerhard Domagk.
Below is our image library from Advanced Microbiology. These images are one of the complete sets of images in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases utilized by The Conservatory Associate Faculty when lecturing in Advanced Microbiology. The library and course tools remain dynamic and are updated regularly.
This reference library is currently under reconstruction. When finished, it will contain over 400 images with accompanying academics. From cultivation of bacteria, virology and detection methods, to bio-terrorism, it will be comprehensive.
There are 5 lecture sets. The images can be manipulated by the user. You can pause, or advance the stream at your discretion. Just point at the image and it will instruct you.
Images from the entire course are archived chronologically when the course is on sabbatical. You can point and click the archive images to enlarge and view as a slide presentation.
The Conservatory teaches Advanced Microbiology for students in Colorado year-round, and offers an online textbook. This tool allows us to present Microbiology as an online resource and course available at no cost to our students. This is not only available as an assistant to the students we teach on campus, but is available to anyone wanting to increase their medical knowledge and competitive edge.
For you to be able to utilize this system at no cost, you must sign into We Teach College Students. After confirmation of student status, we will add you to our roster and email your access codes within twenty-four hours.
Keep in mind that this is a large and concise textbook on Microbiology, with case studies, illustrations, color photography, study guides, and web-links. In addition, the related links are robust and can take your studies as far as you wish.
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Bacillus anthracis
Electron microscopy showing spores within.
Anthrax can be weaponized and is a known terrorist threat.
The dermatitic "Black Eschar"
"Wool Sorters Disease", Anthrax pneumonia is a killer.
An aerosolized anthrax weapon, is a weapon of mass destruction.You will have obligations to the CDC and USAMRIID if this bug is isolated in your lab.
BAP Agar
B. anthracis on BAP
Artist's rendering of the spored bacillus
The spores are the infectors.
Know this look.
"The Medusa Head"
Know this look.
"Medusa Head" or "Curly Hair" colony edges
Bacillus cereus
Bacillus cereus
Hemolysins and enterotoxins from B.C.
Food borne illness
B. cereus on BAP
PCN resistant
Moraxella catarrhalis on BAP
Behaves much like Neisserians.
Moraxella catarrhalis. A gram negative coccus related to Neisserians
Has changed its name twice in 30 years
A well known URI and Otitis inducer
It also attacks the LRT
C & S on BAP
M. cat.
The gram negative flagilate bacillus Vibrio spp.
The Vibrio organism
Vibrio cholerae
Electron microscopy
Vibrio cholerae, a known killer, invades the GI tract
Light microscopy of this "Rice Water" diarrhea inducer.
"What's that smell ?"
Amine production of Gardnerella sp.
A great microbiologist
Ella Gardner found out what that smell was.
Gardnerella vaginalis
Electron microscopy
Vaginosis of G.V.
An increased vaginal pH is present
"Clue Cells"
Epithelial cells coated with gram variable to gram negative coccobacilli
10% (K+OH-) solution
The "Whiff Test"
Eikenella corrodens
GNB
Endocarditis
Eikenella corrodens
Bite wounds
Eikenella corrodens
E.C. grows on chocolate and BAP
Eikenella corrodens
It appears to corrode the agar and smells like bleach
Hence its name
Aeromonas hydrophila
Aeromonas hydrophila, gram negative, facultative anaerobes
Grown on BAP
Poison our seafood and drinking water
Causes wound infections and LRIs along with G.I. infections
Wound infected by waterborne Aeromonads
Lactobacillus spp. are gram positive rods. Form strep like chains
Light microscopy
Not generally a disease producer.
Electron microscopy
Lactobacillus sporogenes
A schematic of the organism
Tiny rough gray colonies
No special media required
Lactobacilli
Lactobacilli are the active cultures in yogurt and other products
Erysipelas, from Greek, meaning "Red Skin"
aka Erysipeloid
A gram positive pleomorph
We catch it from animals (livestock)
Chromobacterium violaceum
It produces a naturally occuring antibiotic called Violacein.
Chromobacterium violaceum on nutrient agar
Note the metalic appearing colonies with violet pigment.
The Gonococcus
Gram negative diplococcus
Neisseria meningitidis
This gram negative organism is a well known killer. Our only weapon, vaccination.
Neisseria spp. here on LKV
A special agar to isolate via anyibiotics.
Neisserians are Oxidase +, and Catalase +, but gram negative cocci, usually diplococcoid
N. meningitidis
Unrelenting. Can be killed with PCNs
But N. meningitidis' deadly endotoxin is what kills. It is also antiphagocytic.
Pretty but unholy killer
N. meningitidis
The Brudzinski sign
Inflamed meninges
The classic Petechiae of the meningococcal attack
An ominous sign.
What it does. Inflamed meninges
It tortures, then kills. Usually children and young adults.
Sepsis usually kills before meningitis has a chance to take hold
Survivors have MI's, CVA's, loss of limb, blindness, and renal failure.
Gonococcal infection
Neonatal ophthalmia
Gonorrhea
The word "clap", which is another name for this disease, was coined during the American Civil War ( from the sound the butt of a rifle would make when breaking up adhesions).
Clostridium botulinum
The clostridials are gram positive spore forming anaerobes
Clostridium species
The "Tennis Racket" or "Club" of clostridials
Botulinum toxin
Canned food
The Botox
Botulinum toxin is a paralyzer.
Clostridium perfringens
Gas Gangrene
C. perfringens
C. perfringens on LKV
C. perfringens
Microscopy
Clostridium tetani
Tetnus. Clostridium tetani. It lives in the soil
Clostridium tetani
Pretty under the electron microscope.
Clostridium difficile
attacks the G.I.tract
Usually the result of antibiotic therapy for another condition.
especially clindamycin
Diarrhea and Pseudomembraneous colitis
This can be fatal.
The pseudomembrane
Can obstruct and kill.
Actinomyces israelii
Gram + non spore forming anaerobe
Lumpy jaw
Actinomyces israelii
actinomycotic skin abscess
Actinomyces israelii
Madura foot
Actinomyces israelii
Peptostreptococcus anaerobius
Gram + anaerobic cocci
P. anaerobius throat
Could be any catarrhal infector.
Peptostreptococci
Peptostreptococci chain up like streptococci
Bacteroides fragilis
Gram + anaerobic cocci
Bacteroides fragilis
Here, on Bile Esculin Agar
Bacteroides fragilis
colonies
Egg Yolk Agar
To grow clostridia spp.
Clostr. spp. on CCFA
A special agar to isolate clostridials
Clostr spp. on CCFA
Another view
Laked Kanamycin Vancomycin Agar
Bacteroides
Phenylethyl Alcohol agar
Used to grow Clostridia in presence of enteric GNB's
PYG broth based
nonselective for cultivation of anaerobes for GLC analysis
Cooked meat agar
nonselective for cultivation of anaerobes for GLC analysis
The Angel of Death
The Acid Fast Bacillus
Tuberculosis
What the acid fast bacillus does
Tuberculosis complex
The Gohn
It kills 3,000,000 people a year
Tuberculosis
Here on culture medium
It grows in clumps
The tubercular complexes of the pulmonary invasion
TB pneumonitis
Electron microscopy
Tuberculosis
The cavitary lesions of advanced pulmonary tuberculosis
They remain hemorrhagic.
Tuberculosis
It likes the apices of the lungs
Pulmonary TB
Hemorrhagic cavitations of TB
Antibiotic Weaponry Against TB
Designer drugs trying to keep up with resistance.
Leprosy
Leprosy, now called Hansen's Disease, is a cousin of Tuberculosis
Mycoplasma Pnuemoniae
Just a little bigger than a large virus
The atypical pneumonia of mycoplasma
Not a true consolidation.
The inner sanctum of mycoplasma
The size of a large virus, it lacks a cell wall.
Mycoplasma can kill
Pnuemonia
Mycoplasma attacks respiratory epithelia
It prefers cilliated epithelias
The Atypical pneumonitis of Mycoplasma
Microscopy
Ureaplasma
Mycoplasma type organisms in the urine
A rendering of Ureaplasma
