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| Mannitol Salt Agar is used for identifying what bacteria? |
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| MacConkey agar is used for identifying what bacteria |
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| intestinal Gram-negative rods |
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| Blood Agar is used to identify what bacteria |
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| Most pathogenic bacteria. Used to identify strep throat. Staph. pyogenes is hemolytic |
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| Chocolate agar is used to identify what bacteria? |
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| finicky bacteria that may not be able to digest the whole red blood cells in blood agar. Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an example of finicky bacteria. |
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| the destruction of red blood cells |
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| Beta-Hemolysis & Strong Beta hemolysis |
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Happens when bacteria can completly digest red blood cells
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Complete clearing of the blood agar plate |
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| Turns plate "Army Green". Only part of the red blood cells are digested |
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| Lack of digestion of red blood cells |
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| What test is used to identify the genus Staphylococcus |
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| What test(s) is/are used for identifying Staph. aureus? |
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| The Coagulase test & the Latex Bead test |
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| Is treatment required for persons with a normal Staph. aureus colonization in the nose? |
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| No, treatment is only necessary if it is MRSA |
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| Strep. pyogenes displays which kind of Hemolysis? |
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| Group B strep. displays which kind of hemolysis? |
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| Strep. pnumoniae displays which kind of hemolysis? |
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| Alpha-hemolysis, army green |
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| Enterococcus faecalis displays which kind of hemolysis? |
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| Gamma-hemolysis or no hemolysis |
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| Strep. pyogenes responds to what test? |
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| Strep. pneumoniae responds to what test? |
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| the Bile Esculin Agar grows which bacteria? |
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| Strep. pneumoniae responds to what in P disks? |
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| These bacteria respond to the optochin in the P disks |
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| What causes most sore throats? |
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| Viruses, this is why antibiotics do not help a sore throat |
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| Alkaline is always what color? |
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| Acid is always what color? |
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| Staph. aureus turns the MSA what color? |
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| What is the zone of inhibiton? |
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| The space around the disk measured in mm. |
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