On MAC and EMB, nonfermenters appear:

Give 1 example of a bioterrorism attack I discussed in class or you have read about.

Which of the following is true with regards to agents of bioterrorism?

Questions 11 & 12 refer to the following scenario. Multiple blood cultures are drawn from an 80 year-old cancer patient with endocarditis. They are all positive and grow out pleomorphic aerobic, gram positive bacilli with palisades and club shapes that are catalase positive. Which of the following is the most probable pathogen?

Which is the only nonfermenter to produce pyocyanin?

Match the bacillus with the correct phrase. Choices will be used multiple times.

An organism from a sputum culture grew SBA and chocolate agar plate after 72 hours, tiny pale staining GNCB. The organism was oxidase, urease and nitrate positive. What is the most likely identification of the potential agent of bioterrorism?

Which is not true for Pasteurella multocida?

The bacteria that is not paired with its distinctive colony odor?

Weakly beta hemolytic gram positive bacteria are growing on a SBA from a CSF specimen of a newborn. What rapid biochemical test should be done next to distinguish Listeria from Group B strep (S. agalactiae) colonies?