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This element of the bacterial wall is the reason mycobacteria are acid fast.
What are lipids?
The end result of bacteriostatic drugs on bacteria.
What is inhibit/limit growth?
Name of agar used for KB testing
What is Mueller-Hinton
90% of staphylococci are resistant to this drug
What is penicillin?
Type of infection that commonly involves anaerobes
What are wounds/abcesses/cellulitis?
The group of mycobacteria that are pigmented when grown in the dark or light
What are scotochromogens?
Class of drugs that inhibit DNA gyrase
What are fluoroquinolones?
Definition of MIC
What is the Minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) or lowest concentration of antimicrobial agent required to inhibit growth of the organism
Resistance to this antimicrobial is carried on the mec gene
What is methicillin/oxacillin
This type of testing gives information about the preference for growth conditions relating to oxygen
What is aerotolerance testing?
The threshold for amount of days of growth for classification as a rapid grower
What is 7 days?
The biochemical and physiologic effects a drug and its mechanism of action has on the body.
What is pharmacodynamics?
AST testing using a strip impregnated with a predefined gradient of antibiotic concentrations
What is an Etest?
NDM stands for this
What is New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase; resistance to penicillins, cephalosporins, and carbapenems
The anaerobic bacterium which characteristically shows a "tennis racket" morphology when stained
What is C. tetani?
Name of the staining procedure referred to as cold staining.
What is Kinyoun?
Class of drugs that bind to PBPs
What are beta lactams
Incoculum size standardly used for AST testing
What is 0.5 McFarland?
Phentoypic screening test to identify carbapenemase producers.
What is the modified Hodge test?
Organism displaying molar tooth morphology on agar plate and bread crumb morphology when grown in broth.
What is Actinomyces?
Name of the primary drug chosen to treat TB, that has been noted to have resistance emerging.
What is rifampin?
Compound that works by inhibiting folic acid synthesis
What is Sulfamethozazole/Trimethoprim?
This organization is responsible for setting clinical break points
What is the CLSI?
Acronym for remebering organisms with AmpC Beta Lactamases
MYSPACE
This bacterium produces the most potent neurotoxin known to mankind.
What is C. botulinum?