AAMI MICROBIOLOGY FOR EMBALMERS
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
●● The causative agent of scarlet fever is staphylococcus aureus
Answer: False
●● The meningococcus enters the body by the nose and mouth
Answer: True
●● Which of the following organisms enters the body by the genital
system?
Answer: Gonorrhea
●● Ophthalmia neonatorum is caused by the Gonococcus
Answer: True
●● A nosocomial infection is one that originates
Answer: In Hospitals
●● Toxic shock syndrome is caused by ?
Answer: Staphylococcus aureus
,●● The infection, puerperal sepsis is caused by an organism that enters
the body by way of
Answer: Hands or Instruments
●● The Beta hemolytic streptococcal organism causes milder infections
than the alpha hemolytic strep
Answer: False
●● Which organism cause lesions called abscesses?
Answer: Staphylococcus aureus
●● Crede's method is associated with which organism?
Answer: Gonorrhea
●● Staphylococcus aureus causes
Answer: food poisoning
●● There is a permanent naturally acquired active immunity to
gonorrhea
Answer: False
●● Which of the following infection have a rash?
,Answer: Scarlet Fever
●● The pneumococcus typically enters the body by way of a would
Answer: False
●● The meningococcus is transmitted via droplet infection through
aerosols or nasopharyngeal discharged from an infection person or
carrier
Answer: True
●● The organisms do not have to enter the body to cause a food
intoxication as in a type of food poisoning
Answer: True
●● Which of the following organisms have a capsule?
Answer: Streptococcus Pneumoniae
●● Which infections are transmitted by droplet infection?
Answer: Neisseria meningitidis
●● Neisseria meningitidis produces an endotoxin
Answer: True
, ●● Bronchopneumonia is milder then lobar pneumonia
Answer: True
●● Obligate aerobe
Answer: Must have free oxygen in order to develop
●● Obligate anaerobe
Answer: Can only exist in the absence of free oxygen- uses oxygen
containing compounds
●● Facultative aerobe
Answer: Prefers an environment with no oxygen, but may live in the
presence of oxygen - usually gets oxygen from oxygen- Containing
compounds , but may get it from free oxygen
●● Facultative anaerobe
Answer: Prefers an environment with oxygen, but may live without it
usually get oxygen from free oxygen, but can obtain it from oxygen -
containing compounds.
●● pyogenic cocci
Answer: are spherical bacteria that cause various suppurative (pus-
producing) infections in animals. Included are the Gram-positive cocci
Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED
CORRECT ANSWERS
●● The causative agent of scarlet fever is staphylococcus aureus
Answer: False
●● The meningococcus enters the body by the nose and mouth
Answer: True
●● Which of the following organisms enters the body by the genital
system?
Answer: Gonorrhea
●● Ophthalmia neonatorum is caused by the Gonococcus
Answer: True
●● A nosocomial infection is one that originates
Answer: In Hospitals
●● Toxic shock syndrome is caused by ?
Answer: Staphylococcus aureus
,●● The infection, puerperal sepsis is caused by an organism that enters
the body by way of
Answer: Hands or Instruments
●● The Beta hemolytic streptococcal organism causes milder infections
than the alpha hemolytic strep
Answer: False
●● Which organism cause lesions called abscesses?
Answer: Staphylococcus aureus
●● Crede's method is associated with which organism?
Answer: Gonorrhea
●● Staphylococcus aureus causes
Answer: food poisoning
●● There is a permanent naturally acquired active immunity to
gonorrhea
Answer: False
●● Which of the following infection have a rash?
,Answer: Scarlet Fever
●● The pneumococcus typically enters the body by way of a would
Answer: False
●● The meningococcus is transmitted via droplet infection through
aerosols or nasopharyngeal discharged from an infection person or
carrier
Answer: True
●● The organisms do not have to enter the body to cause a food
intoxication as in a type of food poisoning
Answer: True
●● Which of the following organisms have a capsule?
Answer: Streptococcus Pneumoniae
●● Which infections are transmitted by droplet infection?
Answer: Neisseria meningitidis
●● Neisseria meningitidis produces an endotoxin
Answer: True
, ●● Bronchopneumonia is milder then lobar pneumonia
Answer: True
●● Obligate aerobe
Answer: Must have free oxygen in order to develop
●● Obligate anaerobe
Answer: Can only exist in the absence of free oxygen- uses oxygen
containing compounds
●● Facultative aerobe
Answer: Prefers an environment with no oxygen, but may live in the
presence of oxygen - usually gets oxygen from oxygen- Containing
compounds , but may get it from free oxygen
●● Facultative anaerobe
Answer: Prefers an environment with oxygen, but may live without it
usually get oxygen from free oxygen, but can obtain it from oxygen -
containing compounds.
●● pyogenic cocci
Answer: are spherical bacteria that cause various suppurative (pus-
producing) infections in animals. Included are the Gram-positive cocci
Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes and Streptococcus
