A presumptive diagnosis of gonorrhea can be made from an exudate obtained from a 20 year old patient if which of the following criteria are present?

Culture of a finger wound specimen from a meat packer produced short gram-positive bacilli on a BAP with no hemolysis.  Given the following test results at 48 hours, what is the most likely identification? (Catalase= Neg; H2S/ TSI = positive; Motility (wet prep): Neg; Motility (media) = negative (bottle brush growth in stab culture).

An ER doctor ordered a C&S on a catheterized urine specimen obtained from a 24 year old female patient.  A colony count was done and gave the following results after 24 h: BAP: >100, 000 CFU/ml of gram pos cocci, in clustersMAC: no growthCNA: inhibited growthHemolysis: NegCatalase: PosNovobiocin: Resistant

Select the method of choice for recovery of anaerobic bacteria from a deep abscess.

An outbreak of Staph aureus in the NICU prompted the Infection Control Committee to proceed with an environmental screening procedure.  The best screening media to use for this purpose is:

A 46 year old dog warden was admitted to the hospital with several puncture bite wounds encountered while wrangling with a stray dog.  Culture at 48 hours produced small yellow colonies on 5% BAP and chocolate agars in 10% CO2, but no growth on MAC.  Gram stain showed gram negative, curved fusiform rods.  Colonies were oxidase and catalase positive.  What is the most likely identification?

An emergency department physician suspected Corynebacterium dipthteriae when examining the sore throat of an exchange student from S. America.  What is the appropriate media for the culture of the nasopharyngeal swab obtained from the patient?

The most predominant anaerobe isolated in animal bites is:

 A listless 12 month old boy with a fever of 103F was taken to the ER.  He had been diagnosed with an ear infection 3 days earlier.  A spinal tap was performed, but only one tube of CSF was collected from the lumbar puncture.  The single tube should be submitted to which department first?

A visitor to South America who returned with diarrhea is suspected of being infected with V. cholera.  Select the best medium for recovery and identification of this organism.