____________ input is used to facilitate positioning and handling and includes the following: touch, vestibular, approximation, vision and hearing.

The bacterial species that can be described as able to hydrolyze hippurate, is β-hemolytic, is a major cause of neonatal meningitis and sepsis, and is a producer of the Christie, Atkins, Munch-Petersen (CAMP) factor is:

Sheep Blood agar is “stabbed” when inoculating bacteria to enhance hemolysis caused by:

Viridans streptococci can be differentiated from Streptococcus pneumoniae by

Which factor would not attribute to the pathogenicity of S. aureus, as well as the frequency with which this organism produces infections?

Vancomycin is generally suppressed and not reported on commercial AST panels for the following organism due to intrinsic low-level resistance

Isolates of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus from urinary tract infections can be presumptively identified as S. saprophyticus on the basis of its:

The Gram stain from a blood culture shows Gram-positive cocci in chains. No growth occurs on blood agar plates incubated both aerobically and anaerobically. The organism could possibly be

The most frequent agent of nosocomial bacteremia is:

Which virulent and important human pathogen can also be recovered from the nares, perineum, and other skin sites of healthy people, especially in the hospital setting?