ASCP Microbiology Exam 2025/2026
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Assured
Gemella - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gram positive diplococcus.
Thrive best at high partial carbon dioxide pressure.
Facultative anaerobe.
Oxidase negative.
Catalase negative.
In mucous membranes of humans and animals and upper digestive tract.
Leuconstoc - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gram positive cocci often in chains.
Intrinsically resistant to vancomycin.
Catalase negative.
Are generally slime forming.
,Responsible for cabbage fermentation.
Acanthamoeba - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A genus of amoeba
One of the most common single celled eukaryotes in soil and frequently in
fresh water.
Has two forms - metabolically active trophozoite.
Dormant - stress resistant cyst.
Causes keratitis and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
Naegleria fowleri - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Protozoa.
Causes Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis.
Enter through the nose and travels to the brain.
Commonly found in warm fresh water.
Only species that infects humans.
Almost always results in death.
Schistisoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Also known as the blood flukes.
Schistisoma mansoni - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Blood fluke most commonly found in
Africa, South America, West Indies and Porto Rico.
,Lives in the large intestines.
Approximately 115-175 micrometers by 45-75 micrometers.
Lateral spine.
Schistisoma heamatobium - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Blood fluke most commonly
found in Nile Vally, Mideast and East Africa.
Live in veins surrounding bladder.
Approximately 110-170 micrometers by 40-70 micrometers.
Terminal spine.
Schistisoma japonicum. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Blood fluke most commonly found
in Far East Japan, China and Philippines.
Lives in the small intestines.
Approximately 60-95 micrometers by 40-60 micrometers.
No spine.
Hantavirus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A single stranded enveloped, negative sense
RNA virus.
In the Bunyaviridae family.
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, May become infected through contact with rodent urine, saliva or feces.
Can cause fatal diseases such as hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome.
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rare respiratory illness
associated with inhalation of aerolized rodent excreta.
Cause of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the US. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
Sin Nombre virus carried by deer mice.
Bartonella - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gram negative bacteria.
Facultative intracellar parasite.
It is transmitted by vectors such as ticks, flees, sand flies and mosquitoes.
Cause of Cat Scratch Disease - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bartonella henselae.
Edwardsiella - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An Enterobacteriaceae.
Gram negative rod.
Facultative anaerobe.
Enterobacteriaceae family.
First discovered in snakes.
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Assured
Gemella - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gram positive diplococcus.
Thrive best at high partial carbon dioxide pressure.
Facultative anaerobe.
Oxidase negative.
Catalase negative.
In mucous membranes of humans and animals and upper digestive tract.
Leuconstoc - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gram positive cocci often in chains.
Intrinsically resistant to vancomycin.
Catalase negative.
Are generally slime forming.
,Responsible for cabbage fermentation.
Acanthamoeba - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A genus of amoeba
One of the most common single celled eukaryotes in soil and frequently in
fresh water.
Has two forms - metabolically active trophozoite.
Dormant - stress resistant cyst.
Causes keratitis and granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.
Naegleria fowleri - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Protozoa.
Causes Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis.
Enter through the nose and travels to the brain.
Commonly found in warm fresh water.
Only species that infects humans.
Almost always results in death.
Schistisoma - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Also known as the blood flukes.
Schistisoma mansoni - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Blood fluke most commonly found in
Africa, South America, West Indies and Porto Rico.
,Lives in the large intestines.
Approximately 115-175 micrometers by 45-75 micrometers.
Lateral spine.
Schistisoma heamatobium - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Blood fluke most commonly
found in Nile Vally, Mideast and East Africa.
Live in veins surrounding bladder.
Approximately 110-170 micrometers by 40-70 micrometers.
Terminal spine.
Schistisoma japonicum. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Blood fluke most commonly found
in Far East Japan, China and Philippines.
Lives in the small intestines.
Approximately 60-95 micrometers by 40-60 micrometers.
No spine.
Hantavirus - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A single stranded enveloped, negative sense
RNA virus.
In the Bunyaviridae family.
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, May become infected through contact with rodent urine, saliva or feces.
Can cause fatal diseases such as hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal
syndrome.
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Rare respiratory illness
associated with inhalation of aerolized rodent excreta.
Cause of Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome in the US. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔The
Sin Nombre virus carried by deer mice.
Bartonella - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Gram negative bacteria.
Facultative intracellar parasite.
It is transmitted by vectors such as ticks, flees, sand flies and mosquitoes.
Cause of Cat Scratch Disease - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Bartonella henselae.
Edwardsiella - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔An Enterobacteriaceae.
Gram negative rod.
Facultative anaerobe.
Enterobacteriaceae family.
First discovered in snakes.
