Exam 4

Osmotic diarrhea

water retention

Secretory diarrhea

body release water into bowel

exudative diarrhea

blood and pus in stool

uncomplicated symptomatic diarrhea

frequent bowel movements 

complicated symptomatic diarrhea

fever and nausea

gastroenteritis

inflammation of stomach and intestines resulting from bacterial toxins or viral infection causing vomiting and diarrhea

dysentery 

infection of intestines resulting in severe diarrhea with he presence of blood and mucus in the feces 

halophilic

salt loving

microaerophilic

requires O2

capnophilic 

requires CO2 

non-fermentative

aerobic forming bacilli that do not ferment glucose

oxidizer

yellow in open tube, no change(green) in oiled tube

fermenter 

yellow in both the open tube and oiled tube 

non-oxidizer

no change(green) in both tubes

pyoverdin

green/yellow pigment

pyocyanin

blue pigment

pyorubin 

red pigment 

pyomelanin

brown pigment

most common form of anthrax

cutaneous anthrax

anthrax the would most likely be seen in a bioterrorism attack 

inhalation or pulmonary anthrax 

most fatal form of anthrax

inhalation or pulmonary anthrax

What are the two main tests that you would set up the identify GPRs

gram stain and catalase to identify and determine further testing

what is the purpose of Loeffler’s agar 

forcing organisms to produce meta chromatic granules to be able to pull off and stain with methylene blue 

Use of 4C cold enrichment

used to selectively isolate Listeria in cultures containing normal flora

one test that would be helpful in differentiating listeria from bet-hemolytic streptococci

grain stain morphology