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100

This bacteria has a polysaccharide capsule that forms a biofilm that allows it to bind to prosthetic devices. 

What is Staphylococcus epidermidis?

100

Cat Scratch Disease

What is Bartonella?

100

This bacteria causes meningitis in 20% of neonates. It is CAMP positive, hippurate positive, and exhibits tumbling motility at 25C.

What is Listeria monocytogenes?

100

TRUE OR FALSE

500,000 US laboratories are exposed to infectious material and cultures every day.

What is TRUE?

100

This type of organism is killed almost immediately in the presence of oxygen

What is obligate anaerobe?

200

This coagulase negative staph is associated with UTI's in sexually active young females

Double points for correct Novobiocin reaction

What is Staphylococcus saprophyticus?

What is Resistant?

200

This faintly staining gram negative rod grows best on BCYE agar and causes Pontiac Fever

What is Legionella?

200

This bacterial vaginosis causing bacteria is associated with the presence of clue cells.

What is Gardnerella vaginalis?

200

Bubonic Plague

Pneumonic Plague

What is Yersinia pestis?

200

Most common anaerobic gram negative rod isolated from soft tissue wounds that will grow on the KV plate

What is Bacterodes fragilis?

300

The slide coagulase test is a screening test using "Clumping Factor" for this form of coagulase

What is bound?

300

This musty/mushroom smelling gram negative rod is oxidase positive, catalase positive, and indole positive. It is associated with soft tissue infections following a bite or scratch.

What is Pasteurella?

300

This organism resembles beta hemolytic strep on the SBA plate but can be differentiated by gram stain. It is reverse CAMP positive and associated with pharyngitis.

What is Arcanobacterium haemolyticum?

300

This most commonly reported laboratory acquired infection is a tiny gram negative coccobacilli that grows best on chocolate agar and causes Undulant Fever.

What is Brucella?

300

This anaerobe is responsible for gas gangrene and food poising and produces a double zone of hemolysis

What is Clostridium perfringens?

400

S. aureus

S. intermedius

S. schleiferi

What are tube coagulase positive staphs?

400

This oxidase positive urea negative organism does not grow well on SBA or MAC. Bordet-Gengou or Regan-Lowe are often used for culture medium.

What is Bordetella pertussis?

400

This organism grows well on tomato juice agar and is normal flora of the female genital tract.

What is Lactobacillus? 

400

Woolsorter's Disease is caused by the inhalation of spores from this bacteria.

What is Bacillus anthracis?

400

This gram positive rod is skin microbiota that is frequently isolated from blood as a contaminant.

What is Cutibacterium acnes?

500

MRSA can be detected by oxacillin resistance, presence of penicillin binding protein PBP2a, or encoded by these genes

What is mecA/mecC?

500

This oxidase positive gram negative rod is associated with urinary tract infections, particularly in females. The urea and nitrate reactions depend on the species isolated.

What is Oligella?

500

TRUE or FALSE

Vancomycin is large in size and cannot penetrate the outer membrane of most gram positive bacteria to reach their cell wall precursor targets.

DOUBLE POINTS: Name the drug class

What is FALSE? (Gram Negative)

DOUBLE: What is Glycopeptides?

500

This Biosafety Safety Level (BSL) is used for microbes that are dangerous and exotic, posing a high risk of aerosol transmission infections, which are frequently fatal without treatment or vaccines.

What is BSL-4?

500

This test determines whether an organism isolated under anaerobic conditions is a strict or facultative anaerobe.

What is aerotolerance?

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