Characteristics of Selected Gram-Positive Bacteria (1 of 2)

Clostridia, Mollicutes, Bacilli

What are the Firmicutes

Low (less than 50%)

What’s the G+C Ratio of phylum Firmicutes Clostridia?

Low (less than 50%)

What’s the G+C Ratio of phylum Firmicutes Mollicutes?

Low (less than 50%)

What’s the G+C Ratio of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli?

Clostridium, Epulopiscium Veillonella

What’s the Representative Grnera of phylum Firmicutes Clostridia?

Mycoplasma

What’s the Representative Grnera of phylum Firmicutes Mollicutes?

Bacillus, Listeria, Lactobacillus, Streptococcus, Staphylococcus

What’s the Representative Grnera of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli?

Obligate anerobic rods; endospore formers

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Clostridia?

Giant rods

Part of oral biofilm on human teeth; stain like gram negative (pink)

What’s the Representative Grnera of Epulopiscium veillonella?

Lack cell wall: pleomorphic; smallest free-living cells; stain like Gram-negative (pink)

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Mollicutes?

Facultative anaerobic rods; endospore formers

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for bacillus?

Contaminates of dairy products

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for listeria?

Produce yogurt, buttermilk, pickles, sauerkraut

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for Lactobacillus?

Cocci in chains

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for streptococcus?

Cocci in clusters

What’s the special characteristics of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for Staphylococcus?

Tetanus (p. 326)

Botulism (p. 326)

Gangrene (p. 326)

Severe diarrhea (p. 326)

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Clostridia?

Pneumonia, Urinary tract infections

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Mollicutes?

Anthrax

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for bacillus?

Listeriosis

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for Listeria?

Rare blood infections

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for Lactobacillus?

Strep throat, scarlet fever, and others

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for Streptococcus?

Bacteremia, food poisoning, and others

What’s the Diseases of phylum Firmicutes Bacilli for staphylococcus ?

Epulopiscium fishelsoni

Largest bacterial cell

Epulopiscium

Guess at the table of a fish

Thiomargarita namibiensis

Sulfur pearl of Namibia

Streptomyces

Produce antibiotics

Nocardia

Filaments; degrade pollutants

Actinomyces

Filaments

Mycobacterium

Waxy cell walls (mycolic acid)

Corynebacterium

Snapping division; metachromatic granules in cytoplasm

Rare sinus infections

disease of streptomyces

Lesions

Disease of nocardia

Actinomycosis

Disease of Actinomyces

Tuberculosis and meningitis

Disease of mycobacterium

Diphtheria

Disease of corynebacterium