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Enterococcus faecalis
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can grow on bile-esculin agar and hydrolyze the carbohydrate esculin
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Staphlococcus aureus
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can produce toxic shock syndrome by elaborating a toxin referred to as TSST-1
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Staphylococcus aureus
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pathogenic forms of ____ may produce beta hemolysin and the enzyme coagulase
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Streptococcus pyogenes
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Catalase negative, gram positive coccus. Belongs to immunological group A and susceptible to bacitiacin, DPT vaccine contains a toxoid to prevent which pathogen form causing disease
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Streptococcus pneumoniae
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Alpha hemolytic, gram positive coccus. Catalase negative and sensitive to bile salts and other surface active substances such as optichin
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Staphylococcus saprophyticus
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gram positive coccus that is catalase positive, coagulase negative, and resistant to low concentrations of novobiocin
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Escherichiacoli
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can grow and ferment lactose on macconkey's agar
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Klebsiella pneumoniae
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can grow and ferment lactose on macconkey's agar, gram negative rod that grows rapidly on blood and chocolate agar producing a mucoid colony
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Staphylococcus epidemidis
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can grow on selective media containing 7.5% NaCl, does not coagulate rabbit plasma and is susceptible to novobiocine
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Viridans streptococus
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belongs to a group of alpha-hemolytic microogranisms that normally live in the upper respiratory tract and may cause opportunistic infection
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Bacillus subtilis
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gram positive, endosporeforming rod found in the soil
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Bordetalla pertussus
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fastidious gram negative rod, will only grow on Bordet gengov agar but takes 5 to 7 days for colonies to form **whooping cough
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Corynebacterium diphtheria
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gram positive rod that forms palisade arrangements, responsible for toxigenic disease that produces a thick grayish pseudomembrane in the back of the throat and a bullneck (swollen lymphnode)
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Haemophilus influenza
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gram negative rod that grows on chocolate agar but not blood agar. Usually causes meningitis and epiglotittis in 2months to 5 year olds
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Enterococcus faecalis
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the hib vaccine is for this pathogen
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