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This anaerobic pathogen is associated with food poisoning from improperly cooked/stored meat.
What is Clostridium perfringens?
This anaerobic bacterium has fusiform/tapered morphology, is sensitive to Kanamycin, and displays "breadcrumb" or "ground glass" colonies.
What is Fusobacterium nucleatum?
This agar is primarily used to isolate B.fragilis.
What is BBE agar?
These two anaerobic GNRs fluoresce brick-red under UV light.
What is Porphyromonas and Prevotella?
The first step after receiving a sputum specimen for anaerobic culture.
WHAT IS REJECTION? :(
The minimum time an anaerobic culture should incubate before initial reading?
What is 48 hours?
Botulism can be diagnosed by the finding this in the patient's serum?
What is C.botulinum toxin?
What is Clostridium tetani?
What is Bacteroides fragilis group?
An organism that can grow on both CHOC and anaBAP.
What is a facultative anaerobe?
The substances that should be detected to confirm C.diff infection.
What is Toxin A and Toxin B?
Used for the presumptive identification of Clostridium perfringens.
What is the "Reverse Camp Test"?
This anaerobe is often the source of antibiotic-associated diarrhea - due to the persistence of its spores after the normal gut flora is disrupted by heavy antibiotic treatment.
What is C.diff?
This type of anaerobe tolerates up to 0.5% of oxygen.
What are strict obligate anaerobes?
This Clostridium sp. is diagnosed based on clinical findings rather than lab results.
What is Clostridium tetani?
The 3 primary antibiotic disks used for presumptive anaerobic identification.
What is Vancomycin, Colistin, and Kanamycin?
The lack of this pathway is what makes an organism strictly anaerobic.
What is the oxygen detoxifying pathway?
This organism is often responsible for shoulder (or another joint replacement site) infections and requires at least a 14-day incubation period.
What is Cutibacterium acnes?
This Clostridium has a "double zone" of beta hemolysis.
What is C.perfringens?
This anaerobic GPC is susceptible to SPS.
What is Peptostreptococcus anaerobius?
An easy way to differentiate Prevotella sp. from Porphyromonas sp.
What is Vancomycin resistance?
This rapid test results differentiates F.nucleatum from F. mortiferum.
What is positive indole?
The palladium catalyst in the Anaerobic GasPak system can become inactivated over time by this.
What is H2S or other metabolites?
This catalase negative anaerobic GPR shows branching filamentous formations in the Gram stain and is often associated with oral abscesses.
What is Actinomyces sp.?
The polymicrobic nature of anaerobic infections which allows for optimal growth environment.
What is lowered O2 tension?