Anyone has a good list of Gram + and - bacteria?

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I can never seem to have a correct complete list of Gram + and - bacteria the professor expects us to know. I know it only after I already lose points on my exam for having confused myself or seeing the name of bacteria I've the faintest memory of.

Does anyone know a good website that has a good list of Gram + and - bacteria for the board or anything?

Thanks,
CP

 

[braluk]

http://www.ohsu.edu/pathinfo/orglist.php

not a complete list by any means, but its a start, im sure ull be able to find this in any micronbiology textbook, just gotta sit there and compile it

 

[WhoisJohnGalt]

I can never seem to have a correct complete list of Gram + and - bacteria the professor expects us to know. I know it only after I already lose points on my exam for having confused myself or seeing the name of bacteria I've the faintest memory of.

Does anyone know a good website that has a good list of Gram + and - bacteria for the board or anything?

Thanks,
CP

Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple has a great way to remember: You only need to know 6 positives: You need to know Streptococcus and Staphylococcus (which I'm sure you know), then you need to know the spore-formers: Clostridium and Bacillus, then you need to know the non-spore-formers: Cornyebacterium and Listeria. That's it! The rest are negative.

 

[bigdan]

The little flowchart-style list in First Aid is a gem, in my book.

dc

 

[Wizard of Oz]

You should have learned something as trivial as that as an undergrad if you had an interest in medicine.

 

[lattimer13]

You should have learned something as trivial as that as an undergrad if you had an interest in medicine.

are you f-ing kidding me? get a life.

to the OP, as previous posters have said...MMRS and first aid should help. best of luck.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

are you f-ing kidding me? get a life.

to the OP, as previous posters have said...MMRS and first aid should help. best of luck.

See that's the beauty of taking some actual medically-oriented courses in college in addition to the usual MCAT prep. I can have a life now while others stick their nose in a book only to forget it after boards. Then they have to spend their residency with antibiotic cheat sheets in their pockets while they call the lab for sensitivities that are unwarranted or inappropriate because they memorized the material without learning it.

Microbiology is a sophomore-level course with only one or two pre-requisites, and any of them should be able to teach you the important Gram negative and positive bugs.

 

[bjackrian]

See that's the beauty of taking some actual medically-oriented courses in college in addition to the usual MCAT prep. I can have a life now while others stick their nose in a book only to forget it after boards. Then they have to spend their residency with antibiotic cheat sheets in their pockets while they call the lab for sensitivities that are unwarranted or inappropriate because they memorized the material without learning it.

Microbiology is a sophomore-level course with only one or two pre-requisites, and any of them should be able to teach you the important Gram negative and positive bugs.

Oh get off your high horse. You're good at micro? Great! I'm happy for you. Really. I didn't take micro in college. That's going to make me a bad doctor, right? Of course not. In taking all those non-"medically-oriented" classes in college, I like to think I even learned things of value for being a doctor.

 

[Wizard of Oz]

Oh get off your high horse. You're good at micro? Great! I'm happy for you. Really. I didn't take micro in college. That's going to make me a bad doctor, right? Of course not. In taking all those non-"medically-oriented" classes in college, I like to think I even learned things of value for being a doctor.

Hey I just take umbrage to being told to get a life because I took a sophomore biology class.

My point is that asking a question like this is tantamount to asking us where a person can find a good resource that tells me the difference between an ulna and a fibula.

I'm not saying that not having a micro background from undergrad is going to make you a bad doctor, just an under-prepared medical student. What you do from now on is up to you, but it will make you a bad doctor if you don't learn antibiotics; and you usually have to have a grasp on the offending agent before you can prescribe lest you become that OB/Gyn I talked to who wanted to give vanc to cover for a UTI.

 

[bjackrian]

My point is that asking a question like this is tantamount to asking us where a person can find a good resource that tells me the difference between an ulna and a fibula.

Ah, in that case, point well taken. I just get tired of getting harassed for being a person with a non-science background in undergrad. Sorry to come off so harsh.

 

[Fusion]

Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple has a great way to remember: You only need to know 6 positives: You need to know Streptococcus and Staphylococcus (which I'm sure you know), then you need to know the spore-formers: Clostridium and Bacillus, then you need to know the non-spore-formers: Cornyebacterium and Listeria. That's it! The rest are negative.

Yes indeed. There are only a handful of bacteria to memorize that do not fall into the category of gram negative rods. Commit those relatively few bugs to memory and your golden.

 

[fakin' the funk]

Hey I just take umbrage to being told to get a life because I took a sophomore biology class.

My point is that asking a question like this is tantamount to asking us where a person can find a good resource that tells me the difference between an ulna and a fibula.

I'm not saying that not having a micro background from undergrad is going to make you a bad doctor, just an under-prepared medical student. What you do from now on is up to you, but it will make you a bad doctor if you don't learn antibiotics; and you usually have to have a grasp on the offending agent before you can prescribe lest you become that OB/Gyn I talked to who wanted to give vanc to cover for a UTI.

Seriously, your high horse is getting tired from being ridden all the time.

 

[SkylineMD]

You should have learned something as trivial as that as an undergrad if you had an interest in medicine.

The above comment makes no sense. Unless you take microbiology, which isn't even a pre-requisite for most medical schools, you wouldn't learn it. In fact most people who are in medical school haven't taken it. Your assumptions are clearly inaccurate