Miscellaneous Microbiology Stuff from Various Sources

Question 1

Which organisms appear as coccobacilli on gram stain?

Answer 1

Acinetobacter species
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
Chlamydia trachomatis 
Haemophilus species
Yersinia 

Bordetella pertussis 
Brucella 
Coxiella 
Francisella species
Gardnerella vaginalis 
Kingella species

Question 2

A coccobacillus (plural coccobacilli) is a type of bacterium with a shape intermediate between cocci (spherical bacteria) and bacilli (rod-shaped bacteria). Coccobacilli, then, are very short ____ which may be mistaken for ____.

Answer 2

rods
cocci

[from Wikipedia: Coccobacillus]