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- 4. What activity are you testing for when performing a cefinase test?
- 7. A ________ agar plate is used for Kirby Bauer testing.
- 8. Streptococcus spp are reliably sensitive to what antibiotic?
- 9. The presence of _________ epithelial cells in a sputum culture can lead to rejection of the specimen due to contamination.
- 11. Clue cells seen in a vaginal culture gram stain is diagnostic of ___________.
- 14. In a stool culture the two beta hemolytic, oxidase positive bacteria you’re looking for are Aeromonas and_______.
- 15. What color colonies on a MAC plate is considered suspicious in a stool culture?
- 16. The presence of bacteria in the blood is called _______.
- 18. If the zone of inhibition for the P disk on the alpha colony on CNA/BAP is less than 14mm the isolate is reported as _______ in a respiratory culture.
- 20. When inoculating a vaginal secretion into a LIM broth you are trying to select for gram ________ organisms.
- 21. MAC agar is ________ and differential.
- 24. A wound culture MAC plate is growing a single colony type of a oxidase positive NLF. What test should be done to get an identification?
- 26. Chocolate agar is considered what type of media?
- 27. Microaerophilic, 42˚C, gull wing morphology,dusty rose flat wet colonies, and oxidase positive are all defining characteristics of what genus?
- 29. A positive PYR test is what color?
- 32. What type of streak do you perform for a urine culture?
- 35. What respiratory pathogen shows alpha colonies on CNA/BAP?
- 36. The Modified Hodge test for CRE’s is used to test for ________ production.
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- 1. Always add a ___________ broth tube for all bone and tissue cultures to test for aerotolerance.
- 2. Growth in a blood culture bottle is measured as a ________ value.
- 3. A positive CAMP test exhibits _______ morphology.
- 5. This oxidase positive GNR is seen in bite injuries that pit the agar and smell like bleach.
- 6. Candida ______ can be identified by the presence of germ tubes.
- 10. What type of streak do you use when plating a wound culture?
- 12. A wound culture Haemophilus influenzae grows only on ________ and not on BAP.
- 13. Sodium polyanethol sulfate (SPS) tubes for micro must be kept at what temperature?
- 17. GNR’s that are oxidase negative, reduce nitrate to nitrite, and ferment glucose belong to what family of bacteria?
- 19. What genus is described as a GPC weakly catalase positive, PYR +, and growth present in NaCl?
- 22. Your sputum gram stain shows GPC lancet shaped in pairs and you see an alpha colony on the BAP. What test should you perform first on this isolate?
- 23. A BAP from a urine culture shows >100K CFU/ml of a md yellow/white beta, the gram stain shows GPC in clusters its catalase positive and coagulase positive. What is the genus and species?
- 25. Streptococcus spp are all catalase _________ and testing methods depend on the hemolysis exhibited on the BAP.
- 28. The D Test is used to induce resistance to __________.
- 30. What color is a positive urease test?
- 31. Presence of budding yeast, psuedohyphae, and ≥ 3+ WBC in a vaginal culture is indicative of _________.
- 33. E. coli is a GNR that is oxidase negative citrate negative, and is positive for Methyl Red and _______.
- 34. A positive Hippurate Hydrolysis test is what color?