Specimen Collection - You Can't B. cereus?
The most important consideration for collection & handling of CSF
What is processing the sample immediately?
Soft Beta-Hemolytic colony that is hippurate and CAMP +
What is Streptococcus agalactiae?
Antibiotic that is ONLY used for treatment of UTI
What is nitrofurantoin?
Serious disease caused by E. coli O157:H7
What is Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)?
Genera that is known for its rapid urease production
What is Proteus?
The reagent used for the catalase test
What is Hydrogen Peroxide?
Term for "Salt loving" bacteria that need increased levels of salt to grow
What is halophilic?
Colony morphology of Bacillus anthracis
What is non-hemolytic, "Medusa's Head" colonies on BAP?
The way to process a throat swab submitted for anaerobic culture
What is reject the specimen?
Wide Zone Beta-Hemolytic colony that is PYR + and susceptible to bacitracin
What is Streptococcus pyogenes?
The lowest concentration of drug that inhibits the growth of bacteria
What is the Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (MIC)?
What is 3 component endotoxin?
Bacterium known for causing gastric ulcers
What is Helicobacter pylori?
Biochemical test used to detect slow lactose fermenters
What is ONPG?
Term for "Carbon Dioxide loving" bacteria that need increased levels of CO2
What is capnophilic?
GPR that is notorious for causing brain abscesses and invasive pulmonary disease
What is Nocardia abscessus?
The colony count for a urine culture showing 56 colonies of GNR on the BAP
What is 56,000 CFU/mL?
What is Staphylococcus aureus?
The most common method that bacteria have acquired to become resistant to penicillins & cephalosporins
What is Beta-Lactamase?
Common characteristic of some of the most frequent causes of bacterial meningitis
What is they possess virulence factors that inhibit phagocytosis?
Organism that produces sputum with the characteristic "currant jelly" appearance - most common cause of primary bacterial pneumonia
What is Klebsiella pneumoniae?
Biochemical test useful for differentiating Gram-Negative cocci
Condition preferred by obligate anaerobes, facultative anaerobes and microaerophilic organisms
What is Decreased Oxygen?
GPR that causes abscesses that produce sulfur-like granules
What is Actinomyces israelii?
According to Bartlett's Classification, Sputum should be rejected for culture when these 2 conditions are met
What are > 25 squamous epithelial cells/LPF & < 10 WBCs/LPF
Narrow Zone Beta-Hemolytic colony that is CAMP + and produces characteristic tumbling, umbrella motility
What is Listeria monocytogenes?
Aminoglycosides include ____________ and cause _______________.
What is vancomycin and nephrotoxicity?
Organism that causes severe diarrheal illness, rapid dehydration & "Rice Water" stools
What is Vibrio cholerae?
Bacteria that is often confused with Salmonella spp.
What is Citrobacter freundii?
Sodium deoxycholate is used in this test to ID Streptococcus pneumoniae
What is bile solubility?
Bacteria that is VERY fastidious, requiring 85% nitrogen, 5% oxygen and 10% CO2
What is Campylobacter species?
Name 3 Gram-Positive Rods
What are Erysipelothrix Rhusiopathiae, Listeria monocytogenes, Bacillus spp, Corynebacterium spp, Nocardia spp?
The reason that Gram staining of direct smears from the female genital tract is not performed
What is the female genital tract contains many organisms that resemble N. gonorrhoeae?
Flat, shiny, spready Beta-Hemolytic colony that is oxidase + and produces various pigments
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
3 organisms that are commonly used for Quality Control for the Kirby-Bauer Method of AST
What are E. coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa & Staphylococcus aureus?
3 organisms that are often associated with newborn and infant illnesses
What are Streptococcus agalactiae, Listeria monocytogenes & Neisseria meningitidis?
2 members of the Enterobacteriaceae that are NONMOTILE
What are Klebsiella and Shigella?
3 genera of Enterobacteriaceae that are PDA positive
What are Proteus, Providencia & Morganella?
Term for an environment that produces decreased oxygen and increased CO2
What is microaerophilic?
Appearance of Corynebacterium diphtheriae on CTBA medium
What is black colonies with brown halos?