Microbio Systems High Yield

Question 1

Bacteria to cause dental plaques?

Answer 1

S. mutans

Question 2

“food poisoning from reheated rice”

Answer 2

B. cereus

Question 3

“food poisoning from reheated meat”

Answer 3

C. perfringens

Question 4

“food poisoning from contaminated seafood that can also cause wound infections”

Answer 4

V. vulnificus

Question 5

“food poisoning from meats, mayonnaise, custard from a preformed toxin”

Answer 5

S. aureus

Question 6

“bloody diarrhea caused by comma shaped organism that grows at 42C”

Answer 6

Campylobacter

Question 7

“lactose negative, flagellar motility organism that causes bloody diarrhea”

Answer 7

Salmonella

Question 8

“lactose negative organism that has a very low ID50 that causes bloody diarrhea”

Answer 8

Shigella

Question 9

which parasite causes bloody diarrhea?

Answer 9

E. histolytica

Question 10

Which parasites cause watery diarrhea?

Answer 10

Giardia

Cryptosporidium

Question 11

2 causes of pneumonia in neonates?

Answer 11

GBS

E. coli

Question 12

What causes pneumonia in children 4wk - 18yo?

Answer 12

RSV
Mycoplasma
C. trachomatis
C. pneumoniae
S. pneumo

Question 13

3 causes of pnemonia in adlts 18yo- 40yo?

Answer 13

Mycoplasma
C. pneumoniae
S. pneumo

Question 14

5 causes of pneumonia in adults 40yo- 65yo?

Answer 14

S. pneumo
H. flu
Anaerobes
Viruses
Mycoplasma

Question 15

5 causes of pneumonia in the elderly?

Answer 15

S. pneumo
Influenza virus
Gram (-) rods

Question 16

Name 3 cases of atypical pneumonia?

Answer 16

Mycoplasama
Legionella
Chlamydia

Question 17

3 causes of post viral pneumonia?

Answer 17

S. aureus
H. influenza
S. pneumo

Question 18

Listeria causes meningitis in which age groups?

Answer 18

Very old and very young

Question 19

What is the #1 cause of meningitis in an individual over the age of 6mo?

Answer 19

S. pneumo

Question 20

What is the imperic treatment for pneumonia?

Answer 20

Ceftriaxone and vancomycin

Question 21

Common cause of meningitis in HIV (+) patients?

Answer 21

Cryptococcus

Question 22

Inflammatory cell type seen in bacterial meningitis?

Answer 22

PMNs

Question 23

What is the inflammatory cell type seen in viral and fungal meningitis?

Answer 23

Lymphocytes

Question 24

Osteomyelitis in a person bitten by a dog or cat?

Answer 24

Pasturella multocida

Question 25

Leading cause of UTI?

Answer 25

E. coli

Question 26

"colonies with a green metallic sheen on EMB agar"

Answer 26

W. coli

Question 27

Second most common cause of UTIs?

Answer 27

S. saprophyticus

Question 28

Third leading cause of UTI?

Answer 28

Klebsiella

Question 29

Which bacteria to cause UTI is associated with struvite stones?

Answer 29

Proteus mirabilis

Question 30

UTI caused by an organism with fruity odor and blue-green pigment?

Answer 30

Pseudomonas

Question 31

Classic triad of congenital toxoplasma gondii?

Answer 31

Chorioretinits Hydrocephalus Intracranial calcifications

Question 32

Classic triad of congenial rubella?

Answer 32

PDA/ puonary artery hypoplasia Cataracts Deafness

Question 33

What are the symptoms of congenital CMV?

Answer 33

Periventricular calcifications hearing loss seizures blueberry muffin rash

Question 34

What are the symptoms of congenital HIV?

Answer 34

recurrent infections | Chronic diarrhea

Question 35

What are the symptoms of HSV2?

Answer 35

Encephalitis Herpatic (vesicular) lesions

Question 36

What are the symptoms of congenital spyphilis?

Answer 36

Stillbirth/hydrops fetalis facial abnormalities saber shins CN VIII deafness

Question 37

"erythematous sandpaper like rash with fever and sore throat"

Answer 37

S. pyogenes scarlet fever

Question 38

"vesicular rash that begins on trunk and spreads to face and extremitis with lesions of all different ages"

Answer 38

VZV

Question 39

Name the STI: "painful genital ulcer with exudative, inguinal adenopathy"

Answer 39

H. ducreyi

Question 40

Name the STI: "urethritis, cervicitis, cojunctivitis, reactive arthritis, PID"

Answer 40

Chamlydia

Question 41

Name the STI: "condylomata acuminata (genital warts, loilocytes)"

Answer 41

HPV 6/ 11

Question 42

Name the STI: "painful genital vesicles or ulcers that can cause systemic symptoms"

Answer 42

Herpes

Question 43

Name the STI: "urethritis, cervicitis, PID, prostatitis, epididymitis, arthritis, creamy purulent discharge"

Answer 43

Gonorrhea

Question 44

Name the STI: infection of lymphatic, painless genital ulcers, painful lymphadenopathy"

Answer 44

C. trachomatis (L1- L3)

Question 45

"infection of the liver capsule and "violin string" adhesions of peritoneum to liver"

Answer 45

PID

Question 46

Meningitis in an unimmunized child?

Answer 46

HiB Poliovirus

Question 47

"Cherry red" epiglottitis in an unimmunized child?

Answer 47

HiB

Question 48

Pneumonia in CF and burn patients?

Answer 48

Pseudomonas

Question 49

organism that causes facial nerve palsy?

Answer 49

Borrelia burgdorferi