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Microbiology

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1. What are koplick spots - and when/How does the rash present in measles infxn






2. Clusters






3. How do bacterial capsules function






4. Contains ribosomes and is associated with protein synthesis






5. What are the gram pos bacilli






6. What causes typhoid fever - tricky Ts






7. Which are the DNA nucleocapsid viruses






8. Requires presence of oxygen






9. neutropenic pts






10. tissue nematode causing skin inflammation and ulceration - org - transmission - tx






11. Chains






12. What are the recombinant vaccines






13. Thick peptidoglycan layer with teichoic acids






14. What kind of exotoxin does C. tetani have and What does it do






15. Allows bacterial cells to attach to surfaces - helps prevent phagocytosis






16. What does shiga toxin do and what bugs produce it






17. Water movement with hypotonic solution or hypertonic solution






18. What bugs produce yellow sulfur granules composed of a mass of filaments and formed in pus






19. 20 triangular faces and 12 corners






20. This infection has a variable presentation in mom - and can cause recurrent infection and chronic diarrhea in the neonate - org and transmission






21. What kind of paralysis does tetanus toxin produce






22. Require high salt concentrations






23. What is in pneumovax






24. What is the fxn and chemical composition of the bacterial ribosome






25. What color is the sputum in klebsiella infxn an besides pneumonia - what else can it cause






26. What is the fever cycle for p. falciparum






27. roseola - lots of spots






28. What does pneumocystis jeroveci cause - How is it diagnosed - and in who do you see it in






29. What is HBcAg






30. What are the 3 structural proteins coded for by the HIV genome






31. Where do VZV cells remain latent






32. What are negri bodies and when are they seen






33. Protects the nucleic acid - gives virus its shape - contains the receptor sites for host cell in non - enveloped virus






34. Domain - kingdom - phylum - class - order - family - genus - species






35. What organisms stain with india ink






36. Blue






37. Hairy leukoplakia often on lateral tongue in HIV pos pt






38. Which are the picornaviruses - and What is there the common features






39. Why aren't myccolasma seen on gram stain






40. cestode causing neurocysticercosis - org - transmission - tx






41. Circular and haploid - only one per cell - no nucleus






42. In the chlamydiae replication cycle - What is released from a lysed host cell






43. What are patients at risk for during infection with influenza virus






44. Methanogens - halophiles - and hyperthermophiles






45. Gas gangrene - organism grows in tissues which have poor blood supply - toxin kills cells - necrosis






46. What are the findings for pressure - cells type - protein and surgar in the CSF with a viral meningitis






47. PNA in adults 18yrs to 40yrs






48. SIV does not infect humans - HIV does






49. Rash begins on trunk - spreads to face and extremities with lesions of different age - agent and dz






50. 1876 - Germ Theory of Disease - he proved that a specific microbe causes a specific disease; proved that a bacterium caused anthrax and provided Koch's postulates