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Partial hemolysis on blood agar plates is called _____
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Alpha
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Blood agar plates are BLANK for hemolysis
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Differential
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Which type of media is not differential?
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Phenylethanol agar
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Phenylethanol agar is used
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To select for gram positive bacteria
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MacConkey agar is enriched with salt
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False
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Eosin Methylene Blue agar is selective for BLANK and differential for BLANK
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Gram negative organisms, lactose fermentation
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Mannitol salt agar is selective for BLANK and differential for BLANK
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Salt tolerant organisms, mannitol fermentation
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Which of the following types of agar would be the most helpful for isolating and differentiating Staphylococcus aureus from other types of organisms?
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Mannitol salt agar
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A BLANK medium contains one or more compounds to distinguish between microbes in the medium, while a BLANK medium contains one or more additives to encourage the growth of fastidious microbes
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Differential, enriched
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MacConkey agar is differential for BLANK fermentation
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Lactose
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A durham tube is used to detect BLANK produced by carbohydrate fermentation
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Gas
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How does alpha hemolysis appear on blood agar?
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A green and brown zone surrounding the colony
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The enzyme phenylalanase converts phenylalanine into
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Ammonia and Phenylpyruvic. acid
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A mannitol fermenter appears pink on mannitol salt agar.
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False
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SIM media detects the production of hydrogen sulfide, indole production, and motility. A positive indole test indicates the enzyme BLANK was produced by the bacterial strain.
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Tryptophanase
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Carbohydrate fermentation
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May produce gas and produces acid
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BLANK is the enzyme responsible for digesting starch.
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Amylase
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The urease converts urea into carbon dioxide and
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None of the above (oxygen, starch, Tryptophan)
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A positive oxidase result
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Turns purple
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What color will a lactose fermenter appear on Eosin Methylene Blue agar
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Green metallic
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To test for starch by hydrolysis, the reagent iodine was added to the plate after incubation.
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True
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Which of the following organisms is used as an indicator of fecal contamination of water?
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Escherichia coli
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The reagent used to test for phenylalanine deamination. is BLANK the reagent turns BLANK as a positive result.
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Ferric chloride, green
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What is the term that is used if water is coliform free and drinkable?
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Potable
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Which type of media did you use to isolate your unknown organisms?
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MAC agar and MSA agar
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What is one illness caused by Staphylococcus saprophyticus?
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Urinary tract infection
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Which of the following organisms are never part of the normal flora of the skin, mucous membranes, and throat?
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Staphylococcus saprophyticus
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A negative test for the utilization of citrate would result in
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A green color
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Shigella can cause typhoid fever
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False
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Which of the following is part of the definition for a coliform?
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All of the above (Ferments lactose to acid and gas, Gram negative, Faculative anaerobes)
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The only member in Group B Streptococcus is Streptococcus agalactiae
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True
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Staphylococci are BLANK while Streptococci are
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Catalase positive, catalase negative
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What is one disease that Streptococcus pyogenes can cause?
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Strep throat
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In lab, we tested Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus viridans for susceptibility to
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Optochin
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What is one disease that Streptococcus pneumonia can cause?
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Pneumonia
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Which group of Streptococci is responsible for the formation of dental plaque?
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Viridans group
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Which of the following organisms is a member of Group D Streptococcus?
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Enterococcus faecalis
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Which of the following tests did you perform on your Staphylococcus Unknown (MSA plate) last period?
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Coagulase
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Which of the following tests did you perform on your Enterobacteriaceae Unknown (MAC plate) last period?
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Citrate and SIM
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Which of the following would be a positive result for the production of the enzyme coagulase?
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The formation of a clot in the test tube.
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The rapid Staphylococcus aureus test is based on antigen/ antibody reactions.
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True
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Which of the following organisms produces tryptophanase?
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Escherichia coli
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Suppose you are given an unknown sample that you need to identify as either Salmonella or Shigella. To accomplish this, you decide to use the rapid ID test. When you added the Shigella antiserum to your sample, white clumps were produced while the Salmonella antiserum resulted in a cloudy sample with no clumps. Based on these results, what was the identity of your. unknown?
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Shigella
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Which of the following organisms is resistant to the antibiotic novobiocin?
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Staphylococcus saprophyticus
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When trying to identify a bacterium as a member of Streptococcus Group A, B, C, or D, testing for susceptibility to the antibiotic bacitracin will give you sufficient information to identify the organism
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False
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Which of the following organisms causes B hemolysis on blood agar?
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Staphylococcus aureus
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Which of the following organisms ferments lactose?
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Escherichia coli
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What would a positive test for the rapid detection of Streptococcus pyogenes look like?
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Two pink lines
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Which of the following organisms utilizes citrate?
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Salmonella
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