Gram negative coccobacilli correct answers What does Brucella look like microscopically?
Weakly acid fast due to long chains of fatty acids in the cell wall correct answers Is Brucella acid fast?
Positive, positive correct answers All Brucella spp are catalase ____________ and urease ________...
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Gram negative coccobacilli correct answers What does Brucella look like microscopically?
Weakly acid fast due to long chains of fatty acids in the cell wall correct answers Is Brucella acid
fast?
Positive, positive correct answers All Brucella spp are catalase ____________ and urease
____________.
Brucella neotomae and Brucella ovis correct answers Which Brucella spp are not oxidase
positive?
Positive correct answers Except for Brucella neotomae and Brucella ovis, Brucella spp are
usually oxidase ___________.
True correct answers Brucella can survive in refrigerated milk, butter, and ice cream. (True/false)
Heat at 60 degrees celsius for 10 minutes, pasteurization, and 1% phenol in 15 minutes correct
answers How can Brucella be destroyed/inactivated?
Brucella bovis correct answers Brucella spp. that has cattle and bison as a preferred host
Brucella canis correct answers Brucella spp that has dogs and canids as a preferred host
Brucella melitensis correct answers Brucella spp that has goats and sheep as a preferred host
Brucella ovis correct answers Brucella spp. that has sheep as a preferred host
Brucella suis correct answers Brucella spp that has pigs, hares, caribou, reindeer, and rodents as
preferred hosts
Brucella neotomae correct answers Brucella spp that has wood rats/rodents as preferred hosts (in
Utah)
Ingestion of organisms from aborted fetuses or post-abortion discharges correct answers What is
the main mode of transmission of Brucella?
Ingestion of raw milk and fresh cheeses correct answers How do humans typically get infected
with Brucella?
Contaminated semen correct answers How can Brucella get transmitted to female animals
through artificial insemination?
Percutaneous infection through skin abrasions or by accidental inoculation correct answers How
do lab workers get infected with Brucella?
, Phagocytic and non-phagocytic correct answers The most important feature of Brucella is the
ability to survive and multiply within both _________________ and __________________ cells.
Brucella abortus and Brucella melitensis correct answers Which species of Brucella are the most
virulent?
Abortion tissues correct answers What is the most important method of transmission for the
highly virulent species of Brucella?
Cows will eat placenta and lick calves correct answers How do cows get infected with Brucella
after a cow has aborted?
Brucella abortus correct answers What Brucella spp can cause "abortion storms," where a
number of animals within a herd will abort within a short time period
Venereal correct answers What is the most important transmission route for less virulent species
of Brucella?
Long term shedding in urine, milk, and feces; shedding in abortion tissues correct answers How
is Brucella canis shed?
Long term shedding in urine, milk, and feces correct answers How is Brucella suis shed?
Bacteria enters via ingestion, inhalation, or skin; migrates to the lymph nodes; becomes
bacteremic; localizes in mononuclear phagocyte system and reproductive tract, leading to
granuloma formation; bacteria remains dormant in phagocytic cells and hides from host immune
system; life-long infections with remissions and relapses correct answers What is the
pathogenesis of Brucella?
Reproductive disease correct answers In all species of Brucella, what is the common disease
caused?
Mature animals correct answers What age group of animals are most at risk for Brucella
infection?
Erythritol correct answers A polyhydric alcohol in sexually mature animals that acts as a growth
factor for Brucella abortus
Trophoblastic cells correct answers What cells that are present in the outer layer of the blastocyst
of embryo are an important location of intracellular replication for Brucella?
Joints or intervertebral discs correct answers Where in the body can you find Brucella in chronic
cases?
Cats correct answers What species are resistant to Brucellosis?
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