Stains & Morphology
Throat Culture
Disinfection
Blood
Misc.
100
What reagent is used as a mordant in Gram Staining procedure?
What is Gram's Iodine?
100
This technique is used to innoculate an agar to observe properties of individual colonies.
What is streaking for isolation?
100
Bacteria in the blood that is multiplying and pathogenic.
What is septicemia?
100
Percent of erythrocytes in a given volume of blood.
What is Hematocrit?
100
The total magnification when using the oil immersion objective.
What is 1,000x.
200
The Gram stain and likely Genus name of bacteria that looks like a cluster of purple grapes.
What is Gram positive Staphylococcus?
200
A reaction that appears as a green discoloration in Blood Agar around a growing colony.
What is alpha hemolysis?
200
The process that destroys vegetative pathogens, but not bacterial endospores.
What is disinfection?
200
This specific type of lymphocyte is seen in infectious mononucleosis.
What is an atypical (reactive) lymphocyte?
200
The temperature at which Micrococcus luteus grows yellow.
What is 25-28 degrees Celsius?
300
The technique used to stain Mycobacterium.
What is acid-fast stain?
300
This bacteria causes strep throat.
What is Streptococcus pyogenes?
300
Reduce contamination by mechanical removal of microorganisms.
What is sanitation?
300
This WBC has a banded or segmented nucleus, and responds to bacterial infection.
What is a neutrophil?
300
The part(s) of the microscope that holds the slide firmly in place.
What are the stage clips?
400
In endospore staining, this is the reagent used as a counterstain.
What is Safranin?
400
This is the reason beta hemolysis reaction makes the agar around a bacterial colony appear clear.
What is complete lysis of blood cells?
400
Method of innoculating media to test disinfectants.
What is streaking for confluent growth?
400
This is the function of a lymphocyte.
What is recognizing antigens?
400
These are the genus names of 2 bacteria that produce endospores.
What are Bacillus and Clostridium
500
This accounts for the attraction between a dye and a bacterial cell.
What is positive / negative charge?
500
This error can make streptococcus look like staphylococcus on a Gram stained slide.
What is streaking the bacteria too thickly?
500
This disinfectant substance works by altering cell components. It is sporicidal, however, the gas is highly toxic and in solution it may irritate the skin.
What is chlorine? * This information is found in Chapter 11--Choosing a Microbicidal chemical.
500
This is the normal range for RBC count.
What is 4.5-6 million.
500
This property is decreased by using oil in the oil-immersion objective.
What is refraction?
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