6th Edition By Connie R. Mahon
Chapters 1 - 41
, Mahon: Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 6th Edition Test Bank
Table of contents
Part 1: Introduction to Clinical Microbiology
Chapter 1. Bacterial Cell Structure, Physiology, Metabolism, and Genetics
Chapter 2. Host-Parasite Interaction
Chapter 3. The Laboratory Role in Infection Control
Chapter 4. Control of Microorganisms: Disinfection, Sterilization, and Microbiology Safety
Chapter 5. Performance Improvement in the Microbiology Laboratory
Chapter 6. Specimen Collection and Processing
Chapter 7. Microscopic Examination of Materials from Infected Sites
Chapter 8. Use of Colony Morphology for the Presumptive Identification of Microorganisms
Chapter 9. Biochemical Identification of Gram-Negative Bacteria
Chapter 10. Immunodiagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Chapter 11. Applications of Molecular Diagnostics
Chapter 12. Antibacterial Mechanisms of Action and Bacterial Resistance Mechanisms
Chapter 13. Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing
Part 2: Laboratory Identification of Significant Isolates
Chapter 14. Staphylococci
Chapter 15. Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and Other Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci
Chapter 16. Aerobic Gram-Positive Bacilli
Chapter 17. Neisseria Species and Moraxella catarrhalis
Chapter 18. Haemophilus, HACEK, Legionella and Other Fastidious Gram-Negative Bacilli
Chapter 19. Enterobacteriaceae
Chapter 20. Vibrio, Aeromonas, and Campylobacter Species
Chapter 21. Nonfermenting and Miscellaneous Gram-Negative Bacilli
Chapter 22. Anaerobes of Clinical Importance
Chapter 23. The Spirochetes
Chapter 24. Chlamydia, Rickettsia, and Similar Organisms
Chapter 25. Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma
Chapter 26. Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria
Chapter 27. Medically Significant Fungi
Chapter 28. Diagnostic Parasitology
Chapter 29. Clinical Virology
Chapter 30. Agents of Bioterror and Forensic Microbiology
Chapter 31. Biofilms: Architects of Disease
Part 3: Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: and Organ System Approach to Diagnostic
Microbiology
Chapter 32. Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections
Chapter 33. Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
Chapter 34. Gastrointestinal Infections and Food Poisoning
Chapter 35. Infections of the Central Nervous System
Chapter 36. Bacteremia and Sepsis
Chapter 37. Urinary Tract Infections
Chapter 38. Genital Infections and Sexually Transmitted Infections
Chapter 39. Infections in Special Populations
Chapter 40. Zoonotic Diseases
Chapter 41. Ocular Infections
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,Chapter 01: Bacterial Cell Structure, Physiology, Metabolism, and Genetics
Mahon: Textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology, 6th Edition Test Bank
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1. To survive, microbial inhabitants have learned to adapt by varying all of the following, except
a. growth rate.
b. growth in all atmospheric conditions.
c. growth at particular temperatures.
d. bacterial shape.
ANSWER: D
The chapter begins by discussing the way microbial inhabitants have had to evolve to survive
in many different niches and habitats. It discusses slow growers, rapid growers, and
replication with scarce or abundant nutrients, under different atmospheric conditions,
temperature requirements, and cell structure. Bacterial shape as a form of evolution is not
discussed.
OBJ: Level 2: Interpretation
2. Who was considered the father of protozoology and bacteriology?
a. Anton van Leeuwenhoek
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Carl Landsteiner
d. Michael Douglas
ANSWER: A
The book discusses Anton van Leeuwenhoek as the inventor of the microscope and the first
person to see the “beasties.” So they dubbed him the father of protozoology and bacteriology.
The other three individuals were not discussed.
OBJ: Level 1: Recall
3. Prokaryotic cells have which of the following structures in their cytoplasm?
a. Golgi apparatus
b. Ribosomes
c. Mitochondria
d. Endoplasmic reticulum
ANSWER: B
All the structures listed are found in eukaryotic cells, but ribosomes are the only ones that
apply to prokaryotic cells.
OBJ: Level 1: Recall
4. This form of DNA is commonly found in eukaryotic cells.
a. Linear
b. Circular
c. Plasmid
d. Colloid
, ANSWER: A
Circular sand splasmid sDNA sare susually sfound sonly sin sbacteria, snot seukaryotic scells.
sColloid sissa sproperty sof sprotein smolecules sand sis snot sassociated swith snucleotides.
OBJ: s Level s1: sRecall
5. The snuclear smembrane sin sprokaryotes sis
a. missing.
b. impenetrable.
c. a sclassic smembrane.
d. a slipid sbilayer smembrane.
ANSWER: s A
Prokaryotic scells sdo snot shave sany smembrane-bound sstructures sin sthe scytoplasm
sincluding sasstructured snucleus.
OBJ: s Level s1: sRecall
6. A smicroorganism sthat sis sa sunicellular sorganism sand slacks sa snuclear smembrane
sand struesnucleus sbelongs sto swhich sclassification?
a. Fungi
b. Bacteria
c. Algae
d. Parasite
ANSWER: s B
Fungi, salgae, sand sparasites sare sunicellular seukaryotic sorganisms sthat scontain sa strue
snucleus.sBacteria sare sprokaryotic sand sdo snot scontain sa strue snucleus sor snuclear
smembrane.
OBJ: s Level s1: sRecall
7. In sthe slaboratory, sthe sclinical smicrobiologist sis sresponsible sfor sall sthe sfollowing, sexcept
a. isolating smicroorganisms.
b. selecting streatment sfor spatients.
c. identifying smicroorganisms.
d. analyzing sbacteria sthat scause sdisease.
ANSWER: s B
Clinical smicrobiologists sdo snot sselect sthe streatment sfor spatients. sThey sprovide sthe sdoctor
swithsthe sname sof sthe sorganism sand sthe santibiotics sthat scan skill sthe sbacteria, sbut snot sin
sthe sfinal sselection sof streatment sprotocols.
OBJ: s Level s2: sRecall
8. What senables sthe smicrobiologist sto sselect sthe scorrect smedia sfor sprimary sculture sand
soptimizesthe schance sof sisolating sa spathogenic sorganism?
a. Determining sstaining scharacteristics
b. Understanding sthe scell sstructure sand sbiochemical spathways sof san sorganism
c. Understanding sthe sgrowth srequirements sof spotential spathogens sat sspecific sbody ssite
d. Knowing sthe sdifferences sin scell swalls sof sparticular sbacteria
ANSWER: s C