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Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
What two organisms are very similiar morphically and metabolically? 2 answers.
Bacillus anthracis
Bacillus spp.
Bacillus cereus
Nocardia spp.
Diarrheal syndrome resovles within
9 hours
24 hours
12 hours
18 hours
B. cereus is known as what type of infection?
Opportunistic
Commensalism
Symbiosis
Community accquired
Emetic form causes rare, serious, non-gastrointestial infections in all except
neonates
postsurgical paitents
pregnant women
immunosupressed
What treatments are succesful for emetic form? 2 answers.
ciprofloxacin
penicillin
vancomycin
clindamycin
What are the culture characteristics for B. cereus?
B-hemolytic frosted glass
on SBA
A-hemolytic frosted glass on SBA
B-hemolytic non-frosted glass on SBA
A-hemolytic non-frosted glass on SBA
What's the differential test for B. cereus?
Motility
CAMP
PYR
Bile Esculin
What's the microscopic morphology for B. cereus?
GPB large
GPC seen in clusters
GPB small
GNB
Emetic form is associated with what?
meat
soups
fried rice
poultry
Emetic form causes all of the following except
meningitis
bacteremia
osteomyelitis
septicemia
Food poisoning caused by B. cereus takes on two forms except:
fever
emetic
diarrheal
