Bacteriology — Flashcards

_____ shows a fried-egg colony on Dienes method of staining

The E. coli _____ antigen is present on its flagella

_____ 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

_____ invades the GI mucosal cells, resulting in infectious diarrhea

Hint: Shigella or EHEC

Causative agent of _____ is T.pertenue.

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