Bacteriology — Flashcards

Factors _____ and X (hematin) are added to chocolate agar to grow Haemophilus influenzae

_____ is a bacterium grown on buffered charcoal yeast extract with iron and cysteine

_____ produces the exotoxin Streptolysin O (cytolysin)

_____ cell walls contain mycolic acid, therefore a special Ziehl-Neelsen (acid-fast) stain is used to visualize them

Hint: which bacteria

All Clostridium spp. are _____erobic, gram positive rods

_____, Moraxella catarrhalis, and Legionella are common causes of pneumonia superimposed on COPD

Gram-positive organisms (3) that commonly colonize **previously damaged** heart valves: 1. _____ 2. Enterococci 3. Streptococcus bovis

Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Serratia commonly cause nosocomial _____ and UTIs

Causative agent of _____ is T.pertenue.

_____ invades the GI mucosal cells, resulting in infectious diarrhea

Hint: Shigella or EHEC