Streptococcus pneumoniae Staphylococci

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Streptococcus pneumoniae Staphylococci
Faculty Dr. Alvin Fox
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KEYWORDS

• Staphylococcus aureus
• opportunistic diseases
• food poisoning/enterotoxins
• toxic shock syndrome
• toxic shock toxin
• exfoliative toxin/scalded skin syndrome
• ?,?,?, ? cytotoxins
• leucocidin
• lipase
• hyaluronidase
• protein A
• coagulase () or coagulase ()
• Staphylococcus epidermidis

• S. pneumoniae
• diplococci
• Pneumococcus
• autolysin
• bile solubility test
• optochin susceptibility
• capsule
• Quellung reaction

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S. pneumoniae
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S. pneumoniae

• leading cause pneumonia
• particularly young and old
• after damage to upper respiratory tract
• e.g. following viral infection
• bacteremia
• meningitis
• middle ear infections (otitis media)

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S. pneumoniae

• ? hemolytic
• pneumolysin
• degrades red blood cells under aerobic conditions
  
• grows well on sheep blood agar
• no group antigen

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Diagnosis - spinal fluid

• direct Gram staining
• detection of capsular antigen

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Autolysis - identification
Bile
autolysin
teichoic acid -choline
peptidoglycan
cell membrane
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Identification
Not optochin sensitive
optochin sensitive
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Capsule

• prominent
• virulent strains
• anti-phagocytic
• carbohydrate antigens
• vary among strains

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Capsule

• immunity
• serotype specific
• vaccine contains multiple serotypes
• only for susceptible population

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Quellung reaction

• using antisera
• capsule "fixed"
• visible microscopically

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Pathogenesis

• Teichoic acid
• complement activation
• large numbers of inflammatory cells at infection
  site

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Therapy

• S. pneumoniae
• most strains susceptible to penicillin
• resistance is common

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STAPHYLOCOCCI

• Gram positive
• Facultative anaerobes
• Grape like-clusters
• Catalase positive
• Major components of normal flora
• skin
• nose

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Staphylococcus aureus
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• One of commonest opportunistic
• infections hospital and community

• pneumonia

• osteomyelitis

• septic arthritis

• bacteremia

• endocarditis

• abscesses/boils

• other skin infections

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Food poisoning

• not a human infection
• food contaminated from humans
• growth
• enterotoxin
• onset and recovery both occur within few hours

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Food poisoning

• Vomiting
• nausea
• diarrhea
• abdominal pain

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Associated with outbreak of toxic shock
syndrome.
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Toxic shock syndrome

• fever
• rash
• desquamation
• vomiting
• diarrhea

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Toxic shock syndrome

• Toxic shock toxin
• dissemination
• Organism
• no dissemination

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S. aureus

• babies
• scalded skin syndrome
• exfoliatin

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Lytic exotoxins

• ? toxin
• ? (sphingomyelinase C)
• ? toxin
• ? toxins
• detergent-like
• leucocidins

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Protein A inhibits phagocytosis
PHAGOCYTE
Fc receptor
Protein A
immunoglobulin
BACTERIUM
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Spread

• tissue-degrading enzymes
• lipase
• hyaluronidase

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Identification

• ? hemolytic
• sheep blood agar

• mannitol fermentation

• yellow pigmented (aureus)

• coagulase-positive

• reference laboratories
• phage-typing

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Staphylococcus epidermidis

• major component skin flora
• opportunistic infections
• less common than S.aureus
• nosocomial infections
• heart valves

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Identification

• Non-hemolytic
• sheep blood agar

• Does not ferment mannitol

• Non-pigmented

• Coagulase-negative

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Staphylococcus saprophyticus

• urinary tract infections

• coagulase-negative
• not differentiated from S. epidermidis

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Antibiotic therapy

• Resistance to penicillin
• penicillinase
• ? lactam antibiotics (including methicillin)
• often ineffective
• modified penicillin binding proteins
• Vancomycin
• current drug of choice
• resistance has been observed

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