Exam 30: Agents of Bioterror and Forensic Microbiology

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Organisms that have the following characteristics-aerobic growth, nonhemolytic colonies 2 to 5 mm in diameter, catalase positive, nonmotile, large gram-positive bacilli recovered from lesions, blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or lymph nodes-can be presumptively identified as:

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Question 21

What disease is associated with rabbits?

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Question 22

What type of plague is the most common and results from the bite of a flea?

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Question 23

What document prohibits the use of biological agents during war?

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Question 24

A microbiologist observes culture plates that have larger nonpigmented gray colonies at 24 hours that are indole-negative, nonmotile, catalase-positive, and resistant to polymyxin B disks.The Gram stain shows this is a gram-negative coccobacilli.What is the most probable organism?

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Question 25

What classification system was developed in 1999 by academic infectious disease experts, government officials, military intelligence experts, and law enforcement officials?

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Question 26

What is the specimen of choice for cutaneous anthrax?

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Question 27

What is bioterrorism?

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Question 28

A microbiologist is looking at a set of plates from a seriously ill patient.The sheep blood agar (SBA) plate shows small, nonhemolytic colonies that have a fried egg appearance.On MacConkey, these organisms grow as a small, nonlactose fermenter.On Gram stain, this organism is a bipolar staining, plump gram-negative rod.What is the most probable organism?

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Question 29

A microbiologist is looking at the blood culture plates taken from a woman who had ingested fresh, unpasteurized milk.The growth on the blood agar and chocolate agar showed small, circular, smooth, convex, nonpigmented, and nonhemolytic colonies.Gram stain revealed tiny gram-negative rods.The organism was catalase, oxidase, nitrate reduction, and urease positive, but showed a lack of motility.What is the most probable organism?

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Question 30

What organism causes Q fever?

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Question 31

One of the first recorded terror attacks occurred in 1984 in a restaurant in The Dalles, Oregon.What organism was used in this attack?

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Question 32

Yersinia pestis causes all the following except _____ plague.

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Exam 30: Agents of Bioterror and Forensic Microbiology

Organisms that have the following characteristics-aerobic growth, nonhemolytic colonies 2 to 5 mm in diameter, catalase positive, nonmotile, large gram-positive bacilli recovered from lesions, blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) or lymph nodes-can be presumptively identified as:

What disease is associated with rabbits?

What type of plague is the most common and results from the bite of a flea?

What document prohibits the use of biological agents during war?

A microbiologist observes culture plates that have larger nonpigmented gray colonies at 24 hours that are indole-negative, nonmotile, catalase-positive, and resistant to polymyxin B disks.The Gram stain shows this is a gram-negative coccobacilli.What is the most probable organism?

What classification system was developed in 1999 by academic infectious disease experts, government officials, military intelligence experts, and law enforcement officials?

What is the specimen of choice for cutaneous anthrax?

What is bioterrorism?

What organism causes Q fever?

One of the first recorded terror attacks occurred in 1984 in a restaurant in The Dalles, Oregon.What organism was used in this attack?

Yersinia pestis causes all the following except _____ plague.

Bacterial Cell Structure, Physiology, Metabolism, and Genetics

Host-Parasite Interaction

The Laboratory Role in Infection Control

Control of Microorganisms

Performance Improvement in the Microbiology Laboratory

Specimen Collection and Processing

Microscopic Examination of Materials From Infected Sites

Use of Colony Morphology for the Presumptive Identification of Microorganisms

Biochemical Identification of Gram-Negative Bacteria

Immunodiagnosis of Infectious Diseases

Applications of Molecular Diagnostics

Antimicrobial Agent Mechanisms of Action and Resistance

Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

Staphylococci

Streptococcus, Enterococcus, and Other Catalase-Negative, Gram-Positive Cocci

Aerobic Gram-Positive Bacilli

Neisseria Species and Moraxella Catarrhalis

Haemophilus and Other Fastidious Gram-Negative Bacilli

Enterobacteriaceae

Vibrio, Aeromonas, Plesiomonas, and Campylobacter Species

Nonfermenting and Miscellaneous Gram-Negative Bacilli

Anaerobes of Clinical Importance

The Spirochetes

Chlamydia, Rickettsia and Similar Organisms

Mycoplasma and Ureaplasma

Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Nontuberculous Mycobacteria

Medically Significant Fungi

Diagnostic Parasitology

Clinical Virology

Biofilms: Architects of Disease

Upper and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections

Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

Gastrointestinal Infections and Food Poisoning

Infections of the Central Nervous System

Bacteremia and Sepsis

Urinary Tract Infections

Genital Infections and Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Infections in Special Populations

Zoonotic Diseases

Ocular Infections

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