Bacteriology — Flashcards

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

Proteus mirabilis is urease-positive, hence it forms an _____ environment that results in ammonium magnesium phosphate (struvite) kidney stone formation

_____ causes atypical (walking) pneumonia most commonly transmitted by bird droppings

Hint: Which strain of Chlamydia

Kanagawa phenomenon is shown by _____ because of the presence of heat-stable hemolysin

_____ is a component of gram negative bacteria cell walls

Hint: Exo or Endotoxin

_____ is a virulence factor of Staphylococcus aureus

_____ causes rhinoscleroma

Hint: organism

Gram Positive Algorithm:Streptococcus _____-hemolysis are separated via bile and NaCl growth

Which two bacteria can synthesize superantigens? _____, Streptococcus pyogenes

Bacillus (anthrax, cereus) is a gram _____ rod