The detection of a distinct odor is often helpful in the presumptive identification of  bacterial culture isolates.  Which of the bacterial GNR species produces a distinctive sweet or fruity smell?

This term describes an infection acquired during hospitalization:

The real leadership power in the Senate rests in the hands of whom?

The stock culture needed for quality control testing of oxidase production are:

In the Escherichia coli 0157:7 The 0157 portion of the serotype refers to which of the following?

Following a 2 week camping trip to the southwest (US), a 65 year old male patient was hospitalized with high fever and an inflammatory swelling of the axilla and groin lymph nodes. Several blood cultures were obtained with the result of growing gram negative rods resembling “closed safety-pins”. The organism grew on MacConkey agar showing non-lactose fermenting colonies. Testing demonstrated a non-motile rod that was biochemically inert. The most likely identification?

15. A nurse is reviewing thyroid labs. Which lab result would indicate hypothyroidism?

Choose the bacterial family that is best described as catalase positive, oxidase negative, gram negative bacilli that are facultative anaerobes and most of which reduce nitrates to nitrites.

Cold enrichment of feces (incubation at 4* C)in phosphate buffered saline prior to subculture onto enteric media enhances recovery of:

This is a selective agar for Yersinia: