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A polysaccharide capsule is the major virulence factor for this alpha hemolytic organism.
What is Streptococcus pneumoniae?
The primary causative agent of epiglottitis.
What is Haemophilus influenzae type b?
The reagent used to detect a positive phenylalanine test.
What is 10% ferric chloride?
The name of the sedimentation concentration method.
What is formalin-ethyl acetate procedure?
The catalase reaction of Corynebacterium spp.
What is positive?
The antibody to this enzyme is measured in the ASO titer test.
What is streptolysin O?
The causative agent of Lyme disease.
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?
The function of zinc dust in the nitrate test.
What is to confirm a true negative reaction?
The specimen used to demonstrate infection with Trichinella spiralis.
What is a muscle biopsy?
A Corynebacterum spp. that is lipophilic.
What is C. jeikeium or C. urealyticum?
A slightly alpha hemolytic, catalase negative, gram positive rod that produces hydrogen sulfide in TSI.
What is Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae?
The causative agent of chancroid.
What is Haemophilus ducreyi?
The true name of optochin.
What is ethylhydrocupriene dihydrochloride?
The reservior host for Balantidium coli.
What is the hog?
The medium used to demonstrate tellurite reduction and the presence of cystinase.
What is Tinsdale or cystine tellurite medium?
Hemolysis cannot be read on this blood containing medium.
What is PEA or CNA?
The causative agent of whooping cough.
What is Bordetella pertussis?
The enzyme detected in the ONPG test.
What is beta galactosidase?
Autoinfection is commonly associated with immunosuppressed individuals with this parasite.
What is Strongyloides stercoralis?
The test used to identify toxigenic strains of Corynebacteium diphtheriae.
What is the ELEK test?
The beta hemolytic gram positive rod that can resemble Streptococcus pyogenes' colonies in a throat culture.
What is Arcanobacterium haemolyticum or Actinomyces pyogenes?
The causative agent of undulant fever.
What is Brucella spp?
The pH of a positive methyl red test.
What is 4.4 or less?
The nematode associated with eating sushi or sashimi.
What is Anisakis spp?
The medium used to promote the formation of metachromatic granules.
What is Loeffler's medium?