Enterococci for the USMLE Step 1 | Highlights and Annotations by Gistr.

Enterococci, gram-positive bacteria, are normal intestinal flora (flowers near sewer). They're pyr-positive (raincoat), grow in 6.5% NaCl (salt shaker), exhibit gamma-hemolysis (green lights), and grow in bile (green soda). Enterococci cause abdominal wound infections (punched man), UTIs (fluid on girl), and endocarditis (car). Key species are *E. faecium* and *E. faecalis* (fee). They can infect the biliary tree (banana) and are often resistant to vancomycin (van, bouncers). Treatment includes ampicillin (amps) and linezolid (line tape). we've included a lot of purple colors. This is to help you remember that enterococcus is a gram-positive organism. the green-looking gamma ray in the last video but recall that it's our symbol for gamma hemolysis. So enterococcus exhibits gamma hemolysis on blood agar. sewer. The fact that there are a bunch of flowers growing right next to the green soda should help you remember that enterococcus grows in bile. This guy getting punched here is to help you remember that enterococcus causes abdominal wound infections. the spilled fluid on the girl's crotch is here to help you remember that enterococcus can cause urinary tract infections the car here represents endocarditis so enterococcus causes endocarditis fee sounds kind of like fesium and ficalis so this is here to help you remember that the two species in the enterococcus genus are enterococcus fecium and enterococcus vecalis Sophie the banana tree banana sounds like biliary so we'll be using banana trees in our images to represent the biliary tree in this image the banana tree should help you remember that enterococcus causes biliary tree infections you enterococcus can be treated with ampicillin enterococcus is catalase negative so D is wrong so again the correct