MLT-Microbiology (100% accurate answers)

gram-negative, oxidase negative, reduce nitrate to nitrite and ferment glucose correct answers Enterobacteriaceae colonies dissolve with the additon of sodium deoxycholate (positive bile sensitivity test) and are sensitive to Optochin correct answers Streptococcus pneumoniae medium used to isolate Bordetella pertussis correct answers Bordet-Gengou medium used for the isolation and cultivation of Mycoplasma spp correct answers PPLO agar demonstrates scotochromogenic activity, is nitrate, niacin, and urease negative, while growing best at 42 degrees; may be associated with contamination of the hot water system in large institutions such as hospitals correct answers M. Xenopi produce deep yellow to orange pigmented colonies when grown in either the light or dark correct answers Scotochromogens may be recovered in stool by traditional wet preparations and permanent stains or in duodenal contests, via the Enterotest; may cause "traveler's diarrhea correct answers Giardia lamblia a potentially pathogenic yeast that is usually found as normal flora in the oropharyngeal cavity and may produce thrush correct answers Candida albicans Xenodiagnosis has historically been used to identify is organism also known as Chagas disease correct answers Typanosoma cruzi positive tube coagulase test for ID of this organism; does not have capsular material as a defense mechanism correct answers Staph aureus A potentially lethal type of food poisoning caused by improperly canned food is caused by ____________________. correct answers Clostridium botulinum enriched selective and differential medium for the isolation and presumptive identification of obligately anaerobic gram-negative bacilli of the Bacteroides fragilis group correct answers BBE Agar inhabits the mouth, is considered harmless to humans correct answers Entamoeba gingivalis infects the brain causing amebic meningoencephalitis correct answers Naegleria fowleri infects the brain causing amebic encephalitis correct answers Acantamoeba spp. Neisseria spp. that only ferments glucose correct answers N. gonorrhoeae