Microbiology Board Review Questions
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Which bacteria adhere to hard surfaces via lexans? - ANSWER✔✔ lactobacillus
Which bacteria produce dextrans? - ANSWER✔✔ S. mutans
What is the optimum temperature for culturing most microorganisms that cause
human disease? - ANSWER✔✔ 37 C (98.6 F)
Organism responsible for rheumatic fever - ANSWER✔✔ streptococcus
Which immune hypersensitivity reaction does not involve antibody production? -
ANSWER✔✔ Type IV (delayed)
What is the portion of an antibody responsible for binding to an antigen? -
ANSWER✔✔ Fab region (fragment antibody)
How is Clostridium tetani spread? - ANSWER✔✔ dust-born particles
What bacterial product is necessary for invading tissue during spread of infection?
- ANSWER✔✔ hyaluronidase
, What morphology are most disease-causing organisms? - ANSWER✔✔ gram -
rods
What organism is most associated with root caries? - ANSWER✔✔ Actinomyces
viscosus
What organism is causative for anthrax? - ANSWER✔✔ Bacillus
What is the only sugar that can be utilized to produce dextrans by S. mutans? -
ANSWER✔✔ sucrose
What type of staining procedure is used to determine if an organism is a spore
former? - ANSWER✔✔ Schaefer-Fulton
What aids in adherence and gliding motility of a microorganism? - ANSWER✔✔
slime layer
Interaction in which only one organism benefits and the other neither benefits or
is harmed - ANSWER✔✔ commensalism
In which phase of metabolism is energy consumed? - ANSWER✔✔ anabolism
In which phase of metabolism is energy released? - ANSWER✔✔ catabolism
Skin rashes, oral patches and swollen lymph nodes are present during which stage
of a syphilis infection? - ANSWER✔✔ secondary
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