Fastidious Bugs
This organism causes whooping cough.
What is Bordetella pertussis?
This organism causes gas gangrene.
What is Clostridium perfringens?
This stain is used to visualize Mycobacterium species.
What is the acid fast stain?
This organism lacks a cell wall.
What is Mycoplasma pneumoniae?
This organism grows on BCYE agar.
What is Legionella pneumophila?
This organism causes pseudomembranous colitis.
What is Clostridiodes dificile?
An AFB culture from a sputum specimen grows rough, buff-colored colonies after 3 weeks. The organism is niacin positive and nitrate positive.
What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis?
This organism is the most common bacterial STD.
What is Chlamydia trachomatis?
This organism causes tularemia and is frequently caused by small animal bites.
What is Francisella tularensis?
This anaerobe demonstrates double-zone hemolysis.
What is Clostridium perfringens?
This species is associated with fish tank granuloma.
What is Mycobacterium marinum.
This serologic finding is associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
What are cold agglutinins?
This organism causes cat scratch disease.
What is Bartonella?
This toxin-producing organism causes flaccid paralysis.
What is Clostridium botulinum?
This broad group of organisms grow in less than 7 days.
What are rapid growers?
This organism causes syphilis.
What is Treponema pallidum?
What organism causes undulant fever?
What is Brucella?
This anaerobic GNR grows on BBE agar and blackens the media.
What is Bacteroides fragilis?
This group of mycobacteria frequently causes disseminated infections in AIDS patients with CD4 counts below 50 cells/μL.
What is the Mycobacterium avium complex?
This organism causes Lyme disease.
What is Borrelia burgdorferi?