AST
The term used to describe antimicrobials effective against a wide variety of microbial groups.
What are broad spectrum antibiotics?
The structure responsible for motility in spirochetes.
What is periplasmic flagella (endoflagella)?
The only virulence factor of Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
What is adhesion protein P1?
The mode of transmission for mycobacterial infections.
What is droplet nuclei?
Yeast reproduce asexually by the formation of these.
What are blastoconidia?
Penicillin resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae can be due to the organism producing this.
What is beta lactamase?
The mode of transmission for Borrelia organisms to the host.
What are arthropods?
Mycoplasmas lack a cell wall. True or false.
What is true?
The method for collection of sputum samples for tuberculosis testing.
What is in the morning on 3 consecutive days?
This is the most useful finding for prompt, presumptive identification of Candida albicans.
What is the production of germ tubes?
The area around the antibiotic disk where bacteria cannot grow.
What is a zone of inhibition?
Secondary syphilis rash is typically seen on this part of the body.
What are palms and soles of feet?
The disease caused by Chlamydophila psittaci in humans.
What is psittacosis?
Microscopic appearance of Mycobacteria stained by the Ziehl-Neelsen or Kinyoun method with methylene blue counterstain.
What are bright red rods against a blue background?
Cryptococcus neoformans is most often associated with exposure to this aerosolization.
What is pigeon excreta?
This organism, to date, is considered universally susceptible to penicillin.
What is Streptococcus pyogenes?
This is the highly confirmatory test performed for a positive RPR.
What is FTA-ABS?
Rickettsial organisms localize here once they are introduced into the human body.
What are the vascular endothelial cells causing petechiae?
This a required component of the media used for mycobacteria.
What is whole egg?
Encapsulated yeast in the CSF of a patient with AIDS is most likely identified with this stain or reagent.
What is India ink?
These test results would prompt a technologist to question inducible clindamycin resistance.
What is erythromycin susceptible, clindamycin resistant.
The characteristic symptom of early Lyme borreliosis.
What is erythema migrans rash?
These two organisms are associated with urogenital tract infections but have also been isolated from asymptomatic individuals.
What is Mycoplasma hominis and Ureaplasma urealyticum?
Must have PPD results confirmed with a chest X-ray.
What are patients who have received the BCG vaccine?
Caffeic acid disks that show a brown pigment production in a few hours.
What is Cryptococcus neoformans?