If a male is infected with Neisseria gonorrhoeae, what would be the results of a Gram stain of purulent urethral discharge reveal?    

Which of the following stains would best help a tech recover the presences of Acid Fast Bacillus in a smear with very few present?

  Because biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) organisms have the potential for aerosol transmission, and diseases with these agents may have serious lethal consequences, all of the following guidelines apply to BSL-3 laboratories, except:  

Gonococcal infections occur primarily in all the following sites, except

One of the most effective defenses bacteria have against phagocytosis is

  Nonpathogenic commensal Neisseria spp. include all the following, except    

  In any susceptibility system, variables that can affect the results include the following:1. Antibiotic potency2. Inoculum concentration3. Bactericidal level4. pH5. Anion content  

Why is it that although Nocardia spp. grow on most common nonselective laboratory media, many are missed when the cultures are read?

  Penicillins, cephalosporins, monobactams, and carbapenems all have this ring in their structure that is responsible for inhibiting the transpeptidation reaction, resulting in bacterial lysis and cell death.  

When microbiologists set up a biochemical identification using a commercial system on a suspected pathogen from a culture, they must