Week 3 - Gram Positive bacilli

Question 1

Bacillus and Clostridium species form what as a survival mechanism?

Answer 1

Endospores

Question 2

What is the bacteria responsible for the disease Anthrax?

Answer 2

Bacillus anthracis

Question 3

Which Gram Positive bacilli can cause infections in the skin, ingestion or inhalation?

Answer 3

Bacillus anthracis

Question 4

Which gram positive bacilli is a common food poisoning organism found in rice that has not been refrigerated soon after cooking?

Answer 4

Bacillus cereus

Question 5

What microorganism causes gas gangrene?

Answer 5

Clostridium perfringens

Question 6

What gram positive bacilli causes diarrhoea after antibiotic use?

Answer 6

Clostridiodes difficile

Question 7

Which gram positive bacilli is associated with post partum death of babies?

Answer 7

Clostridium tetani

Question 8

Which gram positive bacilli can produce a toxin in improperly canned food, leading to paralysis?

Answer 8

Clostridium botulinum

Question 9

Which gram positive bacilli forms a toxin due to a lysogenic phage?

Answer 9

Corynebacterium diptheriae

Question 10

What gram positive bacilli is a food poisoning organism that grows in the fridge?

Answer 10

Listeria monocytogenes

Question 11

I am a Gram Positive bacilli that can cause a slow-healing cutaneous infection, but I am more famous for causing a pseudo membrane in the throat. Who am I?

Answer 11

Corynebacterium diptheriae

Question 12

The type of exotoxin that C. diptheriae produces is…

Answer 12

An AB exotoxin.

Question 13

I am a gram positive bacillus that can grow in the placenta. I can also cross the placenta and BBB. I grow best at -18 degrees C to 10 degrees C, so keep me in the fridge and I’ll multiply happily. Who am I?

Answer 13

Listeria monocytogenes