Micro Lab Safety
Gloves, masks, laboratory coats and eye protection are examples of this.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
3% H2O2 is used for this test.
What is the catalase test?
Purposefully adding microorganisms into a lab nutrient medium is called _________?
What is inoculation?
This organism often appears mucoid in culture.
What is Klebsiella species?
These organisms appear as pairs and chains in a Gram stain.
What Streptococcus species?
This is the most important primary containment equipment in clinical microbiology lab.
What is a biological safety cabinet (BSC)?
This test detects the enzyme tryptophanase.
What is indole?
Bacteria that require special growth factors and complex nutrients are called ______?
What are fastidious organisms?
This organism may swarm on blood agar.
What is Proteus species?
An organism that is novobiocin resistant and a common cause of urinary tract infections
What is Staphylococcus saprophyticus?
Processing of specimens that include centrifugation, grinding, mixing and vortexing can potentially result in this type transmission.
What is airborne?
This test detects an enzyme that inactivates penicillin.
What is β-lactamase?
A culture that contains only one identified species of microorganism.
What is a pure culture?
The Lipid A portion of the cell wall in gram negative organisms.
What is endotoxin?
Commonly isolated organism grows as white, opaque beta-hemolytic colonies on blood agar.
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
Most clinical microbiology labs are at this biosafety level.
What is BSL-2 and/or BSL-3?
This test can help differentiate between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Escherichia coli.
What is oxidase?
A stain that can be used for organisms that do not have a cell wall.
What is acridine orange?
A fastidious organism that requires hemin and NAD for growth.
What Haemophilus influenzae?
This bacteria is known to have a butterscotch or caramel odor on media.
What is Streptococcus anginosus?
This is one of the most common laboratory-acquired infections.
What is brucellosis?
This test results as a pink color and is typically performed on gram positive organisms,
What is PYR?
2 specimens that are assessed for adequacy by Gram stain for culture rejection.
What are sputum and bronchial aspirates?
A weakly staining gram negative that requires L-cysteine for growth and will not grow on blood agar.
What is Legionella species?
Group D antigen is in all species of this genus.
What is Enterococcus?