Microbiology Jeopardy

Stain

100

Safranin is a key component of which stain

Gram stain

200

These nonbacterial cells should stain pink on gram stain 

White blood cells,  epithelial cells

300

These bacteria commonly over-decolorize

GPB

400

parasitic stain, oil magnification

Trichrome

500

Lactophenol cotton blue use

Mold

Enterobacterales

100

#1 cause of UTI's 

Escherichia coli

200

Nonlactose fermenter, swarming

Proteus

300

Preferred growth conditions

facultative anaerobes

400

Lactose fermenter, mucoid, indole +

Klebsiella oxytoca

500

Member of this family that is oxidase positive

Pleisomonas

Stool Pathogens

100

Hydrogen Sulfide producer on HE/XLD. More than 2,500 serotypes

Salmonella species

200

Capnophilic, 42^oC, Seagull shaped gram stain

Campylobacter

300

Rice water stools

Vibrio cholera

400

Colorless on MAC, HE, XLD and 

Indole -

Shigella

500

Non-sorbitol fermenter on SMAC

Escherichia coli, 0157:H7

Disk Diffusion

100

Aids in the identification of Streptococcus pyogenes

A disk/Bacitracin  

200

Aids in the identification of Staphylococcus saprophyticus  

Novobiocin

300

P Disk is used for 

Streptococcus pneumoniae

400

Disk diffusion antibiotic testing

Kirby Bauer

500

Used to predict the Penicillin and Cephalosporin susceptibility

Beta lactamase/Cefinase

Nonfermenters

100

Swimmers Ear

Pseudomonas aeruginosa

200

Pigment(s) in Pseudomonas species

Pyocyanin, pyoveridin, pyomelanin 

300

Important nosocomial pathogen, associated with ventilators, gncb

Acinetobacter baumannii

400

Important pathogen in cystic fibrosis patients, historically removing patients from lung transplant list

Burkholderia cepacia 

500

Water dwelling bug associated with deep tissue wounds and gastroenteritis

Aeromonas