Strep
Most streptococci are classified into this group.
What is Lancefield group A?
The spirochete bacteria that causes syphiliis.
What is Treponema pallidum?
Patients with Lyme Disease will produce antibodies against this spirochete bacteria.
What is Borrelia Burgdorferi?
Symptoms of T. gondii can cause a UTI and this infectious disease also known as the kissing disease.
What is mononucleosis?
The symptoms of this bacteria cause pharyngitis, scarlet fever, and impetigo.
What is Streptococcus pyogenes?
This describes a complete "clearing" of the red blood cells on the sheep's blood agar in microbiology.
What is beta hemolysis?
The nonspecific nontreponemal antibody produced by infected patient's against the lipid antigen in the treponeme.
What is reagin?
This disease is diagnosed using the clinical findings of a bull's eye rash with ECM, travel to an endemic area, and and a positive ELISA or Western Blot test.
What is Lyme Disease?
Transfusion-related Toxoplasmosis is associated with this product.
What are leukocyte concentrates?
This disease caused by S. pyogenes destroys the tissue covering the muscles and is known as the flesh eating bacteria.
What is necrotizing fasciitis?
This major virulence factor expressed on the surface of S. pyogenes are able to resist phagocytosis by the PMN's (polymorphonuclear) cells.
What is the M Protein?
The most common rapid test used that detects reagin.
The housecat is the definitive host of this tissue coccidian.
What is Toxoplasma gondii?
These Immunoglobulin antibodies are an indication of a recent infection to T. gondii.
What are IgM antibodies?
This is the most frequently used serologic indicator of a recent strep infection.
What is Streptolysin O?
These 2 hemolysins cause the rbc's to rupture or lyse, and cause damage to the PMN's and the platelets.
What is Streptolysin O & Streptolysin S?
We use this kind of sample to best evaluate the tertiary stage of syphilis.
What is CSF?
This flavirus comes from a mosquito-borne pathogen that is a Japanese encephalitis virus.
What is West Nile Virus?
These 2 paired, timed specimens are used to aid in the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis.
What are acute and convalescent specimens?
This streptolysin is the oxygen stable hemolysin.
What is Streptolysin S?
This disease caused by highly invasive Group A Strep is a serious illness brought on quickly and can be fatal.
What is Toxic Shock Syndrome?
The skin lesion that crops up during the primary stage of syphilis.
What is a chancre?
This disease is definitively diagnosed by the inclusions within leukocytes.
What is Erlichiosis?
All mammals can transmit T. gondii in this way.
What is transplacental transmission?
These 3 tests will confirm the diagnosis of S. pyogenes.
What are the the throat culture, an ASO procedure, and the an anti-Dnase B?