Microbiology Flashcards
Trematode with separate sexes
Schistosoma japonicum
-not hermaphroditic
I.H. :snail
I.S. : cercariae
MOT: skin penetration
Parasite irritated by drinking alcohol
Taenia saginata
Parasite that cause upper elephantiasis?
Brugia malayi
- lower elephantiasis: wuchereria bancrofti
- river blindness: onchocerca volvulus
- calabas swelling: loa loa
Unholy three?
Hookworm, ascaris, trichuris (HAT)
Color of Salmonella in SSA?
Colorless; black center
Shigella- colorless; NO black center
Corkscrew motility
Helicobacter
Cercariae minus tail
Schistosomule
Method used for acid fast stain in TISSUE
Kinyoun Cold Method
Control organism in Acetamide test
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
All trematodes have operculated eggs except
Schistosome
Not used in collecting specimen for herpes virus
Calcium alginate
Component of iodine tincture?
Iodine + alcohol
Iodophor: iodine + detergent
Acetamide Utilization Test media is incubated at:
35 degrees C for 7 days
tumbling motility
listeria
darting motility
campylobacter
gliding motility
capnocytophaga
most common cause of food poisoning
S. aureus
Bartlett’s classification
Sputum specimen must have 25 PMN/LPF
>10 epithelial cells = saliva
Preferred preservative for urine culture
Boric acid
colony count 10^5 bacteria/ml = infection
starburst pattern on gram stain
C. neoformans
pleiffer’s bacillus
H. influenzae
Koch-week’s bacillus
H. aegypticus
causative agent of pink eye conjunctivitis
smallest pathogenic bacillus
requires X factor only
infective agent of soft chancre
short bacilli in a school of fish appearance
H. ducreyi
