What does lysine decarboxylate into? (extra credit)

Which member of Enterobactericeae is associated with the plague?

A superficial-wound culture from a burn patient shows growth with a sheen on sheep blood agar and is lactose negative on MacConkey agar. The organism is oxidase positive. What would you expect the TSI tube to look like?

Pink colonies on a MacConkey plate are lactose positive.

Bi-polar staining is associated with which genus?

The string test is a lab test that uses an aqueous solution of sodium deoxycholate suspension to see if the organism mixed on the loop will lose turbidity or not (i.e. if it will be lysed from the high salt content). If it is not lysed, a sticky, mucoid string is formed. This was primarily the original way to tell the difference between these two organisms

Most bacillus species identified in the clinical laboratory are environmental bacterium, nonpathogenic and of low virulence.

Which of the following has a natural habitat in the mucus-secreting cells of the human stomach?

Which genus is motile.

Clue cells are associated with