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03/25/2014

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Term
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Definition

Phenylalanine deaminase

 

tests for phenylalanine deaminase production, digests phenylalanine

 

positive plate turns green

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Urease Plate

 

 

positive turns pink 

Term
[image]
Definition

Eosin Methylene Blue

 

green metalic- ecoli, lactose fermentation

black- lactose fermentation

clear- negative

 

Term
[image]
Definition

 

 

red butt and slant: no fermentation

yellow butt and red slant: glucose fermentation

yellow butt and slant: lactose or sucrose fermentation

black butt and red slant: glucose ferment and H2S

black butt and yellow slant: lactose/sucrose fermentation and h2s

gas or no gas? 

 

 

Term

What is Eosin Methylene Blue selective for and why?

 

Definition

Selective for gram negative bacteria 

Methylene Blue toxic to gram positive

Term
How is Eosin Methylene blue differential?
Definition

Lactose fermentaion:

 

colonies positive for lactose fermentation are black/ or green

 

non fermenters are clear

Term
What is TSI and what does it test for?
Definition

Triple Sugar Iron slant

 

tests for glucose fermentation

lactose/sucrose fermentation 

H2S (hydrogen sulfide)

and gas production

Term
what produces the black substance and gas in TSI slants
Definition

black: thiosulfate is converted to hydrogen sulfide

 

gas: thiosulfate to hydrogen gas

 

Term
what is the reaction that urease catalyzes
Definition

 

tests for urease

reaction: urea + water ---> ammonia c02

 

(NH2)2CO + H2O → CO2 + 2NH3 

Term
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Definition

Mannitol Salt Agar

 

yellow is positive for mannitol fermentation

 

 

Term
what bacteria is Mannitol Salt Agar selective for?
Definition
High salt concentrations, selects for gram positive staphylococcus
Term

What does SIM stand for?

 

 

Definition

Sulfide Indole Motility 

 

 

Term

What does each tube indicate? What test?

 

[image]

Definition

Sulfide Indole Motililty test

 

A) uninoculated 

B) non motile and indole negative

C) Motle and indole positive

D) motile, indole positive, H2S producing

Term
What must be added to SIM to test for indole?
Definition
kovac's reagent
Term

What test is this? Which is positive

 

[image]

Definition

Citrate test

 

can organism use citrate as sole carbon source? Blue is positive, can metabolyze ammonium salts

Term

What test? Positive and negative?

 

[image]

Definition

MacConkey

 

Pink colonies Lac+

Clear colonies Lac -

 

 

Term
What is selective/ differenctial for MacConkey agar?
Definition

selective for gram negative, contains bile salts and crystal violent

 

differential for lactose fermentation

Term

 

What plate is this and what does it show?

[image]

Definition

Blood Agar

 

shows 

Beta, Alpha, and Gamma hemolytic streptococcus

Term
What are the four kinds of flagella arangements?
Definition

[image]

Monotrichous

Lophotrichous

Peritrichous

Amphitrichous 

Term
What is a Simple Stain?
Definition

Methylene blue

stains all cells

Term

[image]

 

What is this?

Definition
bacteria with capsules
Term

[image]

What is this?

Definition
Spores
Term
How is the gram stain done?
Definition

Apply crystal violet

set with iodine

decolorize with ethyl alcohol 

apply safranin 

 

Term
what does the gram stain differentiate for?
Definition

peptidoglycan wall

thick in gram positive, retains crystal violet

thinner in gram negative,  more lipid content in outter cell membrain gets washed away by alcohol 

Term

What bacteria is acid fast used for? 

what dye is used?

Definition

Mycobacterium tuberculosis 

 

kinyoun stain

acid alcohol

methylene blue

Term
catalase reaction
Definition

2 H2O2 → 2 H2O + O2

 

hydrogen peroxide -> water and oxygen

Term
[image]
Definition

Kirby-Bauer test


zone of inhibition around antibiotic discs

Term

[image]

 

What test? what is a positive result?

Definition

Starch Hydrolesis 

 

Can bacteria break down starch?

Positive for amylase, clear zone when iodine is added.

Term

name the morphologies

 

round

rod

oval

chains

pairs

clusters

Definition

coccus

bacillus

coccobacillus

stepto-

diplo-

staphylo-

Term

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what test and what is A, B, C

 

Definition

CAMP TEST

 

testing for camp factor

arrow is zone of enhanced hemolysis

 

A) Beta Streptococcus group B

B) Beta Streptococcus group A

C) Staphylococcus aureus 

 

 

 

Term
What are the three groups of strep?
Definition

Beta- streptococci

Viridans streptococci

Pneumococci

Term
what pathogen causes pneumonia
Definition
streptococcus pneumoniae
Term
Which Beta steptococcus group is succestible to Bacitracin?
Definition

Group B

group A is immune

Term
What is STREPTEX?
Definition
latex agglutination test, latex coverered in antibodies that recognize different groups of streptococcus
Term

  Streptococcus pneumoniae 

catalase

Optochin

hemolysis

gram reaction

morphology

arangement

 

 

Definition

catalase negative

optochin sensitive

alpha hemolysis 

gram positive

coccus

chains

 

Term

 Streptococcus mutans

catalase

Optochin

hemolysis

gram reaction

morphology

arangement

 
Definition

catalase negative

optochin resistant

hemolysis alpha

gram positive 

coccus

chain

Term
Coagulase turns what to what, used to differentiate what?
Definition

 

Fibrinogen to fibrin

Term

Beta Strep Group A

Catalase

   Bacitracin

CAMP

Hemolysis

Gram 

 

Definition

catalase negative

Bacitracin resistant

CAMP negative

hemolysis beta

gram positive

Term

Beta Strep Group B

Catalase

   Bacitracin

CAMP

 

Definition

catalase negative

Bacitracin susseptible

camp positive 

Term

Staphylococcus 

 

gram?

catalase? 

 

Definition

gram positive

catalase positive

Term

what tests differentiate Staphylococcus

aureus, epidermidis

saprophyticus

Definition
Novobiocin, Manitol Salt Agar, Coagulase, DNAse, Hemolysis
Term
Which Staph strains are susceptable to Novobiocin
Definition

s. aureus

s. epidermidis

 

Term
Which staph are susceptible to Novobiocin
Definition
s. saprophyticus
Term

What are the hemolytic properties

of 

s. aureus, s. epidermidis, s. saprophyticus 

Definition

S aureus is Beta hemolytic

epidermidis and saprophyticus are not hemolytics

Term
Which Staph grow on MSA
Definition

S. aureus

 

not 

 

s staprophyticus and

s epidermidis

Term
Which strain of staph has coagulase and DNAse
Definition
s. aureus
Term

what are the differences between 

streptococcus pneumoniae and step mutans

 

 

Definition
rmutans is resistant to optochin
Term
what is the difference between group a and b Beta strep
Definition
group a doesn't produce CAMP, resistant to bacitracin
Term

Enterobacteriaceae 

 

gram?

shape?

catalase?

Definition

gram negative

rod

catalase positive

Term

enterobacteriacea

staphylococcus

streptococcus

 

gram?

catalase?

shape?

 

 

 

Definition

enterobacteriaceae: single gram negative bacillus, catalase positive

 

staph: gram positive coccus clusters, catalase positive

 

strep; gram positive coccus chains, catalase negative

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