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  1. 4. purple colored stain used in gram stain (2 words)
  2. 10. gram-negative bacilli
  3. 12. microscopic organisms including bacteria, fungi, and viruses
  4. 13. the scientific study of fungi
  5. 14. UV
  6. 18. gram-negative bacilli
  7. 19. natural antiviral compounds produced by animal cells
  8. 20. clostridium (2 words)
  9. 23. CSF (2 words)
  10. 28. the process of killing all microorganisms and spores
  11. 29. gram-negative bacilli
  12. 30. gram-negative spirochetes
  13. 31. trimethoprim sulfa
  14. 32. antibiotic that targets both gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria (2 words)
  15. 34. a meshwork of amino acids and sugars that forms an additional rigid layer outside the plasma membrane in a bacterial cell wall
  16. 35. fine fibers that help bacteria stick to surfaces and to each other
  17. 36. a solid gel derived from algae and infused with nutrients to promote or restrict bacterial growth
  18. 38. sprawling rings of fungi growing in skin
  19. 39. unicellular fungi
  20. 42. bacteria with a thick peptidoglycan layer of the cell wall that stain purple in a gram stain (2 words)
  21. 43. gram-positive cocci
  22. 45. bacitracin neomycin polymixin
  23. 46. pasteurella (2 words)
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  1. 1. disease causing
  2. 2. gram-positive bacilli
  3. 3. streptococcus (2 words)
  4. 5. thick walled capsules formed by some bacteria, that protect the DNA and are resistant to desiccation, UV light, pH, freezing, heat and many disinfectants
  5. 6. the lowest dilution of a drug in solution that prevents bacterial growth (3 words)
  6. 7. fungi
  7. 8. intestinal
  8. 9. leptospira (2 words)
  9. 11. fluid withdrawn by suction
  10. 15. chemicals that kill or inhibit microorganisms on inanimate objects
  11. 16. the space around an antibiotic disc where no bacteria grow in the agar diffusion test for antibiotic sensitivity
  12. 17. gram-negative bacilli
  13. 21. normal bacteria of animals found on all exposed surfaces and throughout the GI tract (2 words)
  14. 22. a microorganism that does not ordinarily cause disease but becomes pathogenic under certain circumstances (2 words)
  15. 24. UTI (3 words)
  16. 25. disease caused by infection with the yeast Candida albicans
  17. 26. fungi that inhabit the skin of animals
  18. 27. chemicals that kill or inhibit microorganism on living tissue
  19. 33. inflammation of the mammary gland
  20. 37. pink colored stain used in Gram stain
  21. 40. free from infection; uncontaminated
  22. 41. over the counter
  23. 44. c (singular=coccus)