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Microbiology

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1. What do lab diagnostics show for aspergillus






2. What serum markers are present in the window period of HBV infxn






3. Apiration PNA - orgs






4. Svedberg units






5. What are the cause causes of meningitis in HIV






6. What kind of immunity to live attenuated viral vaccines induce and What is the concern






7. How is the presumptive HIV diagnosis made






8. Which nematodes infect through the skin






9. What is the fxn and chemical composition of peptidoglycan






10. Hypothesis that living organisms arise from preexisting life (what we know is true)






11. Ability to move via flagella






12. Require intracellular parasite/has to be within a host cell to replicate (prokaryotic); causes trachoma (most common infectious cause of blindness in the world)






13. What are the two forms of Hansens disease and which patients get which






14. In who do you see meningitis from h flu type b






15. Agar






16. How do group B strep grow on blood agar






17. Many protein subunits called capsomeres






18. What species of trypanosoma other than bruceii cause african sleeping sickness






19. What makes up the cell membrane of mycobacterium






20. What are the killed viral vaccines






21. Requires presence of oxygen






22. What enzyme breaks down lactose and Which bacteria produces it






23. Which kind of viral vaccine requires a booster






24. What shape are s pneumo - do they have a capsule and what protease do they have






25. transmitted fecal - oral - short incubation - no carriers usually asymptomatic - hep virus and family






26. What viruses make up the arena virus family






27. what bug grows blue black colonies on eosin - methylene blue agar with metallic sheen






28. encephalopathy in HIV pos pt due to reactivation of latent virus resulting in demyelination






29. What is the nl flora of the colon






30. Meningitis in newbord (0 - 6 months)






31. Crystal violet- iodine (CV-I) crystals form in cell






32. What are the positive stranded RNA viruses






33. What kind of paralysis does tetanus toxin produce






34. What is the TX for mycoplasma pneumonia






35. What does coronavirus do






36. What is the fxn and chemical composition of plasmid






37. What are the serum markers of Chronic hep B with low infectivity






38. Some algae






39. How do bacterial capsules function






40. Botulism - prevents contraction of muscles - SIDS






41. exchange o- f genes between 2 chromosomes by crossing over within regions of significant base sequence homology






42. Where does reactivation TB usually go - and What can precipitate reactivation






43. What question mark shaped bacteria is found in water contaminated with animal urine and What does it cause






44. What is the mode of transmission of salmonella and shigella






45. Non - hodgkin lymphoma large cell type often in oropharynx (waldeyer's ring) of HIV pos pt






46. What happens in EBV mononucleosis - and what cells does it infect






47. What OI/disease occurs in the mouth and throat of AIDS pts






48. gram pos anaerobe - causes oral - facial abscesses that may drain through sinus tracts of skin - yellow sulfur granules - nl oral flora






49. What are spores highly resistant to - and What can be done to overcome it






50. Capsule outside cell wall - usually sticky - composed of polysaccharide and/or polypeptide