Bacteriology — Flashcards

_____ invades the GI mucosal cells, resulting in infectious diarrhea

Hint: Shigella or EHEC

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

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

Nocardia is a gram _____ branching filamentous rod

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

_____ of Mycobacteria tuberculosis activates macrophages via induction of TNF-a, which then form granulomas

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

_____ agar is commonly used to differentiate species of streptococcus

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

Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Serratia stain _____ on MacConkey agar