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MICROBIOLOGY AND PARASITOLOGY recall questions

QUESTIONS ANSWERS
1. CMV isolation is recommended using: a. Embryonated hen’s egg
b. Monkey kidney cells
c. A 549 cells
d. Human embryonic fibroblasts

2. Scientific name of the body of a. Scolex

tapeworm b. Strobila
c. Proglottid
d. Rostellum

3. Preferred medium for the isolation of B. Bordet- gengou medium

pertussis

4. Most enterobacteriaceae gives what Opposite

type of MR and VP reaction

5. Often mistaken for cyst of amoeba a. B. hominis

b. Ammonium magnesium phosphate
crystal
c. Ammonium carbonate crystal
d. Epithelial cells

6. Vector of African sleeping sickness Tse tse fly

7. Definitive host(vector) for Plasmodium Female anopheles mosquito

8. The ff. migrates through the blood, ASH: Ascaris, Strongyloides,

liver, lungs, pharynx, and then back to Hookworms
the intestine

9. Venipuncture is not recommended for a. Malaria, babesia, hemoflagellates

b. Amoeba, babesia, malaria
c. Babesia, cryptosporidium,
hemoflagellates
d. Isospora, amoeba, hemoflagellates

10. Not considered as strictly antibiotics a. Vancomycin

b. Bacitracin
c. Tetracycline
d. Sulfonamides

11. Nasopharyngeal swabs are for: a. 1,2,4

1. Neisseria b. 2,3,4
2. H. influenza c. 1,2,3,4
3. B. pertussis d. 3,4
4. MRSA
12. Stain to demonstrate uterine India ink
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arrangement of T. saginata

13. Flat, serrated eggs with confluent a. S. aureus

growth on BAP b. E. coli
c. P. aeruginosa

14. Settings of rpm marked on the face of a. Weekly

the rheostat control on the centrifuge b. Daily
should be checked once c. Monthly
d. Every other week

15. Stimulates production of a. BHI

chlamydospores b. Czapek’s agar
c. Cornmeal agar
d. Urease test

16. Vector for Ascaris lumbricoides Cockroaches

17. First step in viral replication Attachment and penetration

18. Acid fast bacilli is killed using: Moist heat, boiling in 10 mins,
pasteurization or steam under
pressure(autoclave)

19. RNA virus Paramyxoviridae

20. Found in intermediate host of E. Hydatid cyst

granulosus
21. Parasite most prevalent in orphanage a. Ascaris
b. Whipworm
c. Hookworms
d. AOTA

22. First intermediate host of flukes Snail

23. Second intermediate host of P. Fresh water crab

westermanni
24. Oxidase (+) and urease (+) bordetella B. bronchiseptica

25. Not an antibiotic a. Bacitracin

b. Erythromycin
c. Sulfonamides
d. Gentamicin

26. Salmonella bacterial culture (2x) a. 1st at the height of fever

b. 2-3 specimens w/in a 24 hours period
c. 1 specimen in a week

27. Rpm for centrifugation of bacteria

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28. Presumptive test for Candida that uses Germ tube

serum
29. Nonspecific staining of cellular a. Fluorochroming
structures b. Dark-field
c. Phase-contrast
d. Immunofluorescent

30. AMAN medium stain Lactophenol cotton blue

31. Mousy odor in culture media H. influenza, P. multocida

32. Non-gonococcal urethritis Chlamydia trachomatis

33. Agent pseudomembranous colitis C. difficile

34. 3x asked about coagulase S. aureus and S. epidermidis

35. Small lateral spine S. japonicum

36. Most common isolated organism sa Pseudomonas??

ICU
37. Not killed by sterilization Prions??

38. Toxoplasma gondii Cat

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