Culture Shock
This four-letter jelly-like substance obtained from the cell walls of red algae is often used as a substrate in Petri dishes.
What is agar?
What service does TSS Micro Lab offer and perform that utilizes the following:
MALDI-TOF, gram straining, biochemical analysis
What is Identification?
Borrelia burgdorferi is a bacterial species known for causing what infectious disease that is spread by ticks in the genus Ixodes?
What is Lyme Disease?
TSS's Quality Policy is comprised of these 4 C's.
What are Commitment, Competence, Compliance, and Continuous Improvement?
What five-letter word means a single-celled reproductive unit that is capable of giving rise to a new organism without sexual fusion, such as those found in fungi?
What is a Spore?
You’ll get a colorful shock from this "selective and differential" medium that turns pink if the bacteria can ferment lactose, like E. coli.
What is MacConkey agar?
The process of maintaining inoculated culture media at optimal, controlled environmental conditions (temperature, time, atmosphere) to allow microorganisms to grow and reproduce.
What is Incubation?
If an infectious microbe is pyrogenic, that means that it causes what condition, defined by the CDC as a body temperature of more than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, in humans?
What are TSS's 3 new core values?
What are Urgency, Mastery, and Connection?
Queen calls out this astronomer in “Bohemian Rhapsody”
Who is Galileo?
What is the term for the long, hair-like, whip-like appendage on some bacteria that produces a positive ‘M’ result in SIM media?
What is Flagella?
______ is the intentional introduction of microorganisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses) into a sterile growth medium—such as agar plates or broth—to promote their growth, reproduction, and study.
What is Inoculation?
What is the five-letter name of the neurotoxin produced by the Gram-positive bacterium Clostridium botulinum that is used for cosmetic purposes?
What is Botox?
The goal of any operating room is what “A” term, the state of being free from contamination from bacteria, viruses, or other microorganisms?
What is Aseptic?
Named after a physicist, this unit measures electric resistance. It is also a mantra often used in yoga and other meditation practices.
What is 'ohm'?
A blackening of the agar observed in SIM and TSI media are indicative of a bacteria’s ability to produce what gas?
What is Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)?
This 'I' is a desired outcome of 4-quadrant streaking.
What is Isolation?
Koplik’s spots are the nasty little white abrasions from what contagious airborne disease that's repped by the first 'M' in an MMR vaccine?
What is Measles?
TSS Micro Labs hold this accreditation for a globally recognized standard for Quality Management Systems (QMS) that ensures organizations consistently meet customer, statutory, and regulatory requirements.
What is ISO 9001?
In human anatomy, what does the “hallux” refer to?
What is the Big Toe?
What antibiotic was accidentally discovered when a green mold contaminated a petri dish containing Staphylococcus bacteria, destroying the bacteria that was growing around the mold?
What is Penicillin?
This step of the 5 I's involves analyzing microbial growth macroscopically or microscopically to analyze initial characteristics.
What is Inspection?
A unicellular eukaryote called Plasmodium, which develops in blood-feeding insects like mosquitoes and then spreads to vertebrate hosts, is the cause of what deadly disease?
USP 643 and USP 645 pertain to which scopes that TSS Micro Lab offers?
What are TOC and Conductivity?
This word indicating relief, fatigue or even disgust is a homophone of an adjective meaning small in number
What is 'phew'?