Bacteriology rationale
11. Infant botulinum has been associated with all of the following Clostridium species except:
(A) Clostridium baratii
(B) Clostridium septicum
(C) Clostridium butyricum
(D) Clostridium botulinum
- B. Clostridium septicum is the one who is exempted it is because C. septicum usually in the form of
concentrated immune globulins. In short it develops from the wounds and is not ingested thoroughly to
be infected with the toxin
Botulism results from consumption of preformed toxin or in vivo toxin elaboration in wounds or
intestine. food-borne botulism attributed to toxin F production by a Clostridium baratii organism
isolated from food consumed by the patient. Clostridium butyricum is a strictly anaerobic endospore-
forming Gram-positive butyric acid producing bacillus subsisting by means of fermentation using an
intracellularly accumulated amylopectin-like α-polyglucan (granulose) as a substrate. Clostridium
botulinum is the main strain which causes infant botulism the former and the latter are food-borne and
are the ones who would intoxicate the person who ingested the contaminated food.
12. Which of the following food items is most frequently associated with infant botulism?
(A) Corn syrup
(B) Canned infant formula
(C)Liquid multivitamins
(D) Honey
(E) Jarred baby food
Honey is not recommended to be given to an infant with the disease of infant botulism it is because it
could help the spore be intact and to serve as a media for it to grow faster.
Corn syrup canned infant formula Liquid multivitamins and Jarred baby food could be related to infant
botulism but they are not the same as the Honey that the bacterial endospores would be much of
advantage when having accompanied by it. In short all could cause infant botulism but honey affects or
triggers the most cases or more or less it is the one who is more potent to cause infant botulism
13. All of the following are properties characteristics of Bacillus anthracis EXCEPT
(A) Motility on wet mount examination
(B) Medusa head colonies
(C) Poly-d-glutamic acid capsule
(D) In vitro susceptibility to penicillin
(E) Absence of hemolysis on 5% sheep blood agar
11. Infant botulinum has been associated with all of the following Clostridium species except:
(A) Clostridium baratii
(B) Clostridium septicum
(C) Clostridium butyricum
(D) Clostridium botulinum
- B. Clostridium septicum is the one who is exempted it is because C. septicum usually in the form of
concentrated immune globulins. In short it develops from the wounds and is not ingested thoroughly to
be infected with the toxin
Botulism results from consumption of preformed toxin or in vivo toxin elaboration in wounds or
intestine. food-borne botulism attributed to toxin F production by a Clostridium baratii organism
isolated from food consumed by the patient. Clostridium butyricum is a strictly anaerobic endospore-
forming Gram-positive butyric acid producing bacillus subsisting by means of fermentation using an
intracellularly accumulated amylopectin-like α-polyglucan (granulose) as a substrate. Clostridium
botulinum is the main strain which causes infant botulism the former and the latter are food-borne and
are the ones who would intoxicate the person who ingested the contaminated food.
12. Which of the following food items is most frequently associated with infant botulism?
(A) Corn syrup
(B) Canned infant formula
(C)Liquid multivitamins
(D) Honey
(E) Jarred baby food
Honey is not recommended to be given to an infant with the disease of infant botulism it is because it
could help the spore be intact and to serve as a media for it to grow faster.
Corn syrup canned infant formula Liquid multivitamins and Jarred baby food could be related to infant
botulism but they are not the same as the Honey that the bacterial endospores would be much of
advantage when having accompanied by it. In short all could cause infant botulism but honey affects or
triggers the most cases or more or less it is the one who is more potent to cause infant botulism
13. All of the following are properties characteristics of Bacillus anthracis EXCEPT
(A) Motility on wet mount examination
(B) Medusa head colonies
(C) Poly-d-glutamic acid capsule
(D) In vitro susceptibility to penicillin
(E) Absence of hemolysis on 5% sheep blood agar
