The above is an image of BAP . The specimen is a throat swab…

The above is an image of BAP . The specimen is a throat swab obtained from 9 year old Lilly. She woke up with sore throat difficulty swallowing and a low grade fever. Being that, it was picture day at school she decided to go to school despite feeling sick. While on the bus, she feels nauseous and her head began to hurt. She gets picked up from school and taken to to the nearest Urgent care.Her Rapid strep test was questionable and hence a throat culture was ordered. You are working on lilly’s culture. List out all the steps you would proceed with to identify the causitive agent.

Diphtheria is a disease produced by Corynebacterium diphther…

Diphtheria is a disease produced by Corynebacterium diphtheriae. However, not all C. diphtheriae bacteria produce the toxin that causes this disease. To produce the toxin, the bacteria must first become infected with a bacteriophage. The process by which bacterial genes are transferred to new bacteria by the bacteriophage is called

A microbiologist is working with two separate cultures of th…

A microbiologist is working with two separate cultures of the same organism. The bacteria in one culture are resistant to penicillin, whereas the bacteria in the other culture are susceptible to penicillin. The bacteria from both cultures are mixed together, and all the resulting bacteria are resistant to penicillin. What caused this phenomenon?