Bacteria I
Specimen required to diagnose Whooping Cough and which bacteria is the culprit?
What is nasopharyngeal swab and Bordetella pertussis?
Bacteria causing infection after milking cows?
What is Brucella abortus?
Toxin testing is the most definitive test for this disease state.
What is Diptheria?
Gram stain from a thigh wound showing Gram-positive bacilli with spores. The isolate did not grow on Brain Heart Infusion agar incubated aerobically.
What is Clostridium perfringens?
Urea Breath Test
What is the test for Helicobacter pylori?
42 degrees C
What is the optimal incubation temperature for Campylobacter?
Specimen used to isolate diptheroids
What is skin?
A method that should NOT be used when trying to cultivate an anaerobe
What is using metal loops, using aerobic conditions and media, incubating for only 24 hr
An acceptable anaerobic specimen from an abscess
What is an aspirate?
Mercury droplets
What B. pertussis looks like on Bordet Gengou
Isolated from a cutaneous black lesion. No growth on MAC, 3+ growth on BA. Colonies were non-hemolytic, nonmotile and large with off-white ground glass appearance with an irregular edge. Gram stain showed a large, Gram positive rectangular bacilli
What is Bacillus anthracis?
Antitoxin
What is treatment for botulism?
College student at a beach party consumed raw oysters and other shellfish. Presented at the eR the next day with symptoms of septicemia.
oxidase positive, MAC - pink colonies gram negative bacilli
Vibrio vulnificus
Added to the medium to grow and differentiate Bacteroides from other anaerobes
What is 20% bile?
TCBS
Vibrio
Causative agent of rice water stools
What is Vibrio cholera?
A gram negative coccobacillus which causes a chancroid and is sexually transmitted.
What is Haemophilus ducreyi?
Francisella tularensis, Pastuerella multocida, Brucella are all causative agents of what type of infections?
What is zoonotic?
Diagnostic of Clostridium botulinum
What is detection of toxin in the serum?
Blood Glucose Cystine Agar
What is media used to isolate Francisella?
Patient presents with leg wound infection after swimming in the ocean. Direct smear from wound shows curved Gram negative bacilli. Culture grows clear colonies on TCBS. What is the diagnosis?
Vibrio vulnificus
Isolated from a bite wound from a pet cat, this bacteria has bipolar staining, oxidase positive, catalase positive, motility negative and no growth on MAC agar.
What is Pasteurella multocida?
Pseudomembranes in the intestines is a symptom of what type of infection?
What is Clostridium difficile?
Organisms that produce a black pigment after 5 days of growth on laked K-V blood agar
What is Prevotella or Porphyromonas?
An isolate that is non-hemolytic and requires NAD for growth.
What is Haemophilus parainfluenzae?