Microbiology

Question 1

Ammonia like odor

Answer 1

Acinetobacter spp.

Question 2

Fruity odor; strawberry or apple

Answer 2

Alcaligenes faecalis

Question 3

Dirt-like odor

Answer 3

Burkholderia cepacia

Question 4

Mousy odor

Answer 4

Haemophilus influenzae
Pasteurella multocida

Question 5

Musty odor

Answer 5

Pasteurella spp.

Question 6

strings of bead appearance

Answer 6

Streptobacillus moniliformis

Question 7

tightly coiled with one or both ends bent to form hook/s

Answer 7

Leptospira

Question 8

Poor staining characteristics

Answer 8

Legionella

Question 9

Morulae withing WBCs

Answer 9

Ehrlichia

Question 10

Drumstick
Lollipop appearance

Answer 10

Clostridium tetani

Question 11

String of pearl colony

Answer 11

B. anthracis

Question 12

fish eye colonies

Answer 12

Enterobacter

Question 13

burnt gun powder/burnt chocolate

Answer 13

Proteus

Question 14

exhibits cording

Answer 14

M. tuberculosis

Question 15

water droplet colonies

Answer 15

Mycobacterium bovis

Question 16

Bull’s eye colonies

Answer 16

Y. enterolitica

Question 17

hockey puck colonies

Answer 17

Moraxella cattarhalis

Question 18

Target hemolysis
Double zone hemolysis

Answer 18

Clostridium perfringes

Question 19

Gas on water appearance of colonies
Mother of pearl

Answer 19

Clostridium botulinum

Question 20

Chartreuse fluorescence
horsetable/ barnyard odor

Answer 20

Clostridium difficle

Question 21

test tube brush/ pipe cleaner pattern of growth in gelatin media

Answer 21

Eysopelothrix rhusiopathiae

Question 22

Black colonies w dark halo

Answer 22

Bacteroides fragilis

Question 23

pits/corrodes the agar

Answer 23

Bacteroides urealyticus

Question 25

Rancid potato odor

Answer 25

Serratia odorifera

Question 26

Ammonia like odor

Answer 26

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Question 27

Ammonium cyanide odor on BAP

Answer 27

Chromobacter violaceum

Question 28

Ammonium cyanide odor on BAP

Answer 28

Chromobacter violaceum

Question 29

Gram pos bacteria with capsule (3)

Answer 29

Streptococcus pneumoniae Bacillus anthracis Clostridium perfringes

Question 30

6 motile bacteria

Answer 30

Listeria monocytogenes Vibrio cholerae Campylobacter Capnocytophaga gingivalis Kingella kingii Spirochetes

Question 31

Gram neg bacteria with capsule (4)

Answer 31

Neiserria menigitidis Moraxella catarrhalid Klebsiella pneumoniae Harmophilus influenzae