Bordetella and Brucella — Flashcards

Flashcard 1: _____ is the most common bacteria causing atypical pneumonia

Answer: Mycoplasma

Flashcard 2: Vincent's angina is a fuso-spirochetal infection caused by fusiform bacilli and which spirochete?

Answer: Borrelia vincentii (a spirochete)

Extra: Vincent's angina (also known as Trench Mouth or ANUG) is a fuso-spirochetal infection. It involves a symbiotic relationship between: 1. Fusiform bacilli (e.g., Fusobacterium nucleatum) 2. Spirochetes (e.g., Borrelia vincentii)

Flashcard 3: Which special culture media/agars (2) are used to isolate **Corynebacterium diphtheriae**? _____

Answer: Loeffler serum slope and Tellurite agar

Flashcard 4: _____ medium is made of charcoal, blood and antibiotic and used to grow Bordetella pertussis

Answer: Regan-Lowe

Flashcard 5: Bordetella pertussis is a gram _____ coccobacillus

Answer: negative

Flashcard 6: _____ Agar is a potato extract used to grow Bordetella pertussis

Answer: Bordet-Gengou

Flashcard 7: Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a _____ intracellular pathogen.

Answer: facultative

Flashcard 8: School of fish/railroad track appearance on Gram stain is suggestive of _____

Answer: Hemophilus ducreyi

Flashcard 9: Which subtype of diphtheria bacilli shows 'poached egg' colonies (flat with central elevation)? _____

Answer: mitis

Flashcard 10: Which subtype of diphtheria bacilli shows 'frog egg' colonies (dark centre, light margins)? _____

Answer: intermedius