Most enzymes in your body function normally at 37oC.

What is a defining characteristic Proteus mirabilis?

A patient arrives to the ER with a fever, shaking and chills. The physician suspects sepsis. What other laboratory value would you expect to be elevated in sepsis?

Growth on a BAP shows large, gray colonies that are non-hemolytic and ground glass. The gram stain shows large, gram positive rods. To rule out Bacillus anthracis, what tests should be performed next?

Given the following results, what is the most likely organism?     – small, white, gamma colony     – catalase positive     – coagulase negative

Bacteremia is the presence of bacteria in the blood with clinical signs and symptoms.

The most important variable in the recovery of organisms in adult patients with bacteremia is:

Yeast is seen in a wound gram stain. The gram stain is reported as: gram positive yeast

Gram negative diplococci will have growth on BAP, CHOC, and MAC

This select agent produces smooth, creamy white colonies at 24 hours of growth on BAP and CHOC. The gram stain shows small, gram negative rods arranged in long, parallel bundles.