Classification
These are the 3 broad categories of bacterial shapes.
What are cocci, rods/bacilli and spiral.
This is a special type of stain required to stain Mycobacterium spp. due to the mycolic acid in the cell wall.
What is Acid Fast
This is the stage in the bacterial growth phase where bacteria are growing rapidly.
What is the log phase.
This is the general term to describe an antibiotic that is effective against only either gram positive or gram negative bacteria.
What is narrow spectrum.
Bacteria fall into this category of organisms.
What are prokaryotes.
This is the term for a bacteria which has a flagella at one end.
What is monotrichous.
This is considered the time sensitive step in the gram stain procedure.
What is the decolourizer (Ethanol).
This is the order of the bacterial growth phases.
What is lag phase, log phase, stationary phase and death phase.
This is the term for the area that we measure during a Kirby-Bauer sensitivity test to assess how effective the antibiotic is to a bacteria.
What is the Zone of Inhibition.
This is the main difference in the cell wall between gram negative and gram positive bacteria.
This is a type of disordered protein that can alter other proteins and disrupt nervous tissue.
What is a prion.
This is the correct order of the gram stain procedure.
What is: Crystal Violet, Iodine, Decolourizer, Safranin.
This is the organism that we most often associate with otitis externa, and can be linked to dietary allergies as well.
What is Malassezia spp.
These are the 3 terms for describing how effective an antibiotic will be against a particular bacteria that you will see on a culture and sensitivity report.
What are sensitive, intermediate and resistant.
These are organisms that require oxygen in order to reproduce and grow.
What are obligate or strict aerobes.
This type of pathogen is considered an obligate intracellular parasite as it requires another cell to be able to replicate and function.
What is a virus.
These are the 3 main classifications of agar media.
What are: Isolation, Selective or Differential.
These are the terms to differentiate between different types of hyphae, based on whether or not cross walls are present.
What are septate and aseptate.
When taking a sample for a culture and sensitivity, it is most ideal to do this _______ antibiotic administration.
What is before antibiotic administration (if possible).
This type of bacteria grow best when there oxygen present, but it is not a requirement.
What are faculative aerobes.
These are the nutritional requirements, temperature and pH requirements of most pathogens of veterinary concern?
What are chemoheterotrophs, mesophiles and neutral.
When completing a hemolysis test on a bacteria using a blood agar plate, this is how you would define complete hemolysis, a full clearing around the colony growing on BAP.
What is "beta"
Whether or not you should be concerned about being infected by the dimorphic fungi we see in veterinary medicine (e.x Blastomyces spp, Histoplasma spp.)
What is - yes, they are highly zoonotic.
This is some extra information that can be provided by an automated culture and sensitivity analyzer regarding the amount of antibiotic required.
What is the MIC (Minimum Inhibitory Concentration).
This is the colour that a gram negative bacteria would be after the decolourizer step, prior to adding safranin.
What is colourless.