Micro mneumonics

Microbiology

The first two mnemonics are modifications of well-known mnemonics.

-Gram-positive, spore-forming, rods: Bacillus and Clostridium

Some love stay home forming spores:

Basically Claustrophilic (Bacilli and Clostridia)

-Other gram-positive rods:

Others love to belong: C-L-A-N

C-Corynebacterium

L-Listeria

A-Actinomyces

N-Nocardia

All species within the Enterobacteriaceae family are gram-negative enteric bacilli and are facultative anaerobes that can ferment glucose to acid.

When microorganisms compete with humans for glucose, they are Nasty CURSESS."

Nasty-Neisseria (N. gonorrhoeae and N. meningitides)

C-Curved: Vibrio and C-Campylobacter species

UR-Urease-positive

SE-Serratia

SS-Salmonella, Shigella

Urease(+): Y. enterocolitica, Y. pseudotuberculosis, P. mirabilis, P. vulgaris, M. morgani

Clinically significant Anaerobes "A Closed Box For Pepsi."

A-Actinomyces G+

C-Clostridia- G+

B-Bacteroides G-

For Fusobacterium G-

Pepsi Peptostreptococci G+