NLFs
GN Cocci
HACEK
Fast. GNRs
Antibiotics
Anaerobes
Mycology
Virology
Parasitology
100
Substances that nonfermenters fail to ferment in traditional media
What are carbohydrates?
100
The disease most commonly associated with newborns passing through a birth canal infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae
What is ophthalmia neonatorum?
100
NAD and hemin, two requirements necessary for Haemophilus influenzae to grow, are most commonly known by these terms
What are X and V factors?
100
Method by which Bordetella pertussis is spread?
What is respiratory droplets?
100
Common causative agent of pharyngitis that is universally susceptible to penicillin
What is Group A streptococcus?
100
Causative agent of pseudomembranous colitis.
What is Clostridium difficile?
100
The yeast most commonly found in a clinical laboratory and is germ tube positive
What is Candida albicans?
100
Causative agent of chicken pox
What is Varicella zoster?
100
What is Giardia duodenalis?
200
This organism is a common cause of pulmonary disease among individuals with cystic fibrosis
What is Pseudomonas aeruginosa?
200
All Neisseria spp. possess all of the following characteristics but this one: oxidase positive, catalase positive, motile and aerobic
What is motile?
200
Tiny pleomorphic gram negative rod that does not grow on sheep blood agar and has "mousy" odor
What is Haemophilus influenzae?
200
The following are biochemical characteristics of Vibrio spp., except for this one: ferments glucose, is halophilic, is oxidase negative and reduces nitrates to nitrites
What is oxidase negative?
200
Antibacterial activity is significantly greater with two antibiotics used together than if the agents were used alone.
What is synergism?
200
A gram positive rod that demonstrates double zone hemolysis on an anaerobic sheep blood plate
What is Clostridium perfringens?
200
Fungi that cause infection in skin, hair and nails.
What are dermatophytes?
200
Means by which hepatitis is spread
What is blood and body fluids?
200
Parasite seen in this biopsy of an arm nodule
What is Trichinella spiralis?
300
The nonfermenter not included in the list of the majority of isolates routinely seen in clinical laboratory: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Pseudomonas putida and Acinetobacter.
What is Pseudomonas putida?
300
The most likely organism when intra- and extracellular gram negative diplococci are seen on a CSF gram stain
What is Neisseria meningitidis?
300
Small colonies growing around another colony as they derive essential nutrients secreted by the other colony
What is satellitism?
300
The causative agent of undulant fever
What is Brucella?
300
On a breakpoint panel, how the result is interpreted when there is growth in both wells
What is resistant?
300
An organism that grows only in the absence of molecular oxygen
What is an obligate anaerobe?
300
Specimen taken from an infected nail
What is Trichophyton mentagrophytes?
300
Type of cancer is associated with human papilloma virus (HPV)?
What is cervical cancer?
300
The plasmodium species seen here:
What is falciparum?
400
The characteristic from the following list that is not true of Pseudomonas: oxidase positive, indole positive, thin gram-negative rods, resistant to many antibiotics
What is indole positive?
400
35° C and 3% to 5% carbon dioxide
What are the conditions under which Neisseria gonorrhoeae culture be incubated?
400
All of the following are all characteristics of the HACEK group of organisms except for this one: normal oral flora, cause endocarditis, gram positive rod and possess fastidious nutritional requirements.
What is gram positive rod?
400
The virulence factor associated with Haemophilus spp. plays the most significant role in the invasiveness of the organism?
What is the capsule?
400
The patient’s infecting organism is likely to require the maximum amount of antimicrobial or more than can be achieved when this susceptibility result is reached.
What is an intermediate MIC or zone size?
400
Growth on the anaerobic BBE plate shows dark brown colonies that stain as gram-negative coccobacilli
What is Bacteroides fragilis?
400
This fungus grew in a sputum from a cave explorer.
What is Histoplasma capsulatum?
400
Most commonly isolated virus from children with gastroenteritis
What is Rotavirus?
400
What is Schistosoma mansoni?
500
The pigment that is only produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
What is pyocyanin?
500
The way Neisseria meningitidis is most commonly is spread
What is respiratory droplets?
500
A fastidious gram negative rod is isolated frequently from a human bite wound whose colonies can pit the agar and possess a chlorine bleach-like odor.
What is Eiknella corrodens?
500
The name of the organism that is responsible for “summer diarrhea” in Japan?
What is Vibrio parahaemolyticus?
500
The lowest antibiotic concentration to inhibit the growth of an organism
What is an MIC (minimal inhibitory concentration?)
500
The appearance of Clostridium perfringens colonies on egg-yolk agar
What is off-white precipitate around the colonies?
500
Specimen taken from a scaly patch on a leg
What is Microsporum canis?
500
Requirement for viruses to be able to replicate
What is be inside a living cell?
500
What is pinworm (Enterobius vermicularis)?
600
The single situation when Stenotrophomonas maltophilia typically produce disease
What is nosocomial?
600
In a carbohydrate substrate test, this gram-negative diplococcus produces acid only from glucose.
What is Neisseria gonorrhoeae?
600
The organism represented by the "K" in HACEK?
What is Kingella?
600
Organism that stains poorly with Gram's stain but it's characteristic seagull wing-shaped rods stain well using carbol fuschin
What is Campylobacter?
600
The most critical step in any susceptibility test
What is inoculum preparation?
600
The anaerobic gram negative rod that characteristically is long, slender and has pointed, tapered ends?
What is Fusobacterium?
600
This organism was isolated from a diabetic patient with a sinus infection and revealed wide sparsely septate (aseptate) hyphae without rhizoids.
What is Mucor?
600
The visual changes produced in an infected cell by a virus
What is the cytopathic effect?
600
What is Entamoeba histolytica?