When a patient is diagnosed with an infection caused by an agent of bioterrorism patients are placed in isolation and laboratory workers that were potentially exposed to the infectious agents are monitored by what government agency?

On MAC and EMB, nonfermenters appear:

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

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

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

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?

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?

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?

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

Bacteria in the arrangement of clusters fall into which of the following category