CSF and Blood
Urines/Antimicrobials
Skin/Wound
Stools/Genital
Respiratory
100
This anticoagulant is used in Blood Cultures to prevent clotting

SPS

100

This drug should be used to detect MRSA in Kirby Bauer

Cefoxitin

100

Black Eschar Lesion Cause

Bacillus anthracis 

100
This spirochete causes a three phased infection

Give the bacteria's name AND the disease name

Treponema pallidum, Syphillis

100

Best time of day for a sputum sample collection?

First Morning

200

CSF Chemistry Results:

Normal Protein

Normal Glucose

1500 mononuclear cells/hpf

Gram stain: No organisms seen, Moderate Lymphocytes

What is your interpretation of this result?

Viral meningitis

200

What is the colony count of a pure culture growing on blood agar of a urine sample if it was set with a 1 uL (0.001 mL) loop and there are 60 colonies present

60K (60,000) CFU/mL

200

I say diabetic foot wound, you look for THIS pathogen (unique to this patient population for this body site!)

Group B strep

200

1.Sterile pyuria cause (no growth in culture, but >10 white cells/lpf)

2.Common coinfection with this organism

Chlamydia trachomatis

N. gonorrhoeae

200

This viral cause of pneumonia can be treated with antivirals to lessen severe symptoms (if used ASAP)

Influenza

300

The amount of blood culture draws and times for suspected bacteremic patients.

What is 2 sets of bottles drawn at 2 different times from 2 different body sites.

300

Careful using this antibiotic in children under 12- it could stunt their growth!

Quinolones (Cipro/levofloxacin)

300

A wound culture from a burn patient who shows the following growth pattern: Moderate beta hemolytic white GPC Clusters on blood and chocolate (no growth on Mac), and Heavy beta hemolytic flat purplish NLF.  Based on this information, you most suspect which two pathogens

Pseudomonas aerug and Staph aureus

300

This organism plays a crucial role in preventing the overgrowth of pathogens that cause Bacterial Vaginosis

Lactobacillus

300

A college student presents with what her physician terms “atypical pneumonia” after viewing her chest xray.  What community acquired pathogen is associated with this description?

Mycoplasma pneumoniae

400

Blood to broth ratio for blood cultures?

1:10 

400

A woman in her early 20’s goes to her physician complaining of burning upon urination, frequency, and general malaise. Her physician sends a urine culture and it grows 100,000 colony-forming units (CFU)/mL of a catalase-positive, coagulase-negative, novobiocin-resistant gram-positive cocci. What is the most likely pathogen?

Staphylococcus saprophyticus

400

This organism genus should be suspected in coastal water wound infections (coral reef abrasion)


This media would be used to isolate this group

Vibrio


TCBS

400

Full invasion of bowel thickness, lymphatic spread, potential mesenteric lymphadenitis cause?

Yersinia enterocolitica

400

Bronchiolitis in an 18 month old, often requiring hospitalization for wheezing and difficulty breathing is most often caused by....

RSV

500
This screening test on CSF can be used to check for patients that could be suffering from an infection of C. neoformans.

What is the India ink?

500

Which of the following is the mode of action of macrolides, aminoglycosides and tetracycline

Protein synthesis (ribosome target)

500

A cellulitis from IV drug user grows GPCCL, Cat pos, coag pos beta hemolytic organism. 

The KB result shows a "D" shape over the Clindamycin. 

The Cefoxitin disk is resistant. 


WHat is the bacteria?

What does this susceptibility panel tell you about the organism's resistance?

This is a MRSA that is also resistant to clindamycin and erythromycin (D test pos)

500

This virus is implicated in cervical cancer and can be vaccinated for as a young adult

HPV

500

Heavy Gram Negative bacilli were isolated on MacConkey from a sputum.  Biochemical results are as follows:

Glucose A/A H2S neg

Deaminase neg

Indole negative

Urea positive

Non motile

The organism is:

Klebsiella pneumoniae