Technology for the Surgical
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Coccoid - Answer: round
Bacillus - Answer: rod
Spirilla - Answer: spiral
L-form - Answer: shape changes depending on envirnment
Strepto - Answer: chains
Staphylo - Answer: clusters
, Obligate aerobes - Answer: need oxygen
Obligate anaerobes - Answer: do not need oxygen
Faculative anaerobes - Answer: can live with or without oxygen
Microphiles - Answer: can live on ANY amount of oxygen
Capnophiles - Answer: need Carbon Dioxide
What 3 sterlizing treatments destroy spores? - Answer: Gravity Displacement
Pre Vac Sterilizer
Glutaraldahyde 2%
Staphylococcus - Answer: round clusters
Two exapmles of staphylococcus - Answer: S. aureus
S. epidermidis
Three diseases caused by S. aureus - Answer: Osteomylitis
Endocarditis
SSI
Disease caused by S. epidermidis - Answer: UTI
Streptococcus - Answer: round chains