Bacteriology — Flashcards

_____ invades the GI mucosal cells, resulting in infectious diarrhea

Hint: Shigella or EHEC

Exotoxin A causes _____ of EF-2 (elongation factor-2), thus inhibiting protein synthesis

Nocardia is a gram _____ branching filamentous rod

_____ Agar is a potato extract used to grow Bordetella pertussis

_____ is found in abundance within a bacterial spore and is thought to provide heat resistance

_____ is a virulence factor released from Group A Strep that converts plasminogen to plasmin (a fibrinolytic)

The _____ unit of cholera toxin attach to the GM1 ganglioside receptors on the surface of jejunal epithelial cells.

Rickettsia is technically a gram _____, however it doesn't gram stain well at all

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

_____ Agar is used to detect the O157 strains of E. coli