Spore-forming aerobic gram positive bacilli

Non-spore forming aerobic gram positive bacilli

Are all Bacillus species found in soil?

Name the most common disease you can get from Bacillus cereus.

Enumerate the two forms of food poisoning

Type of hemolysis on agar plate produced by Bacillus cereus

How can you acquire anthrax?

The causative agent of woolsorter's disease

Three forms of anthrax

Describe the disease progression of cutaneous anthrax

Describe the pathology of inhalation anthrax

This form of anthrax is sometimes seen as oropharyngeal ulcerations with cervical adenopathy and fever

Give some complications of anthrax

Does recovery from anthrax confer infection?

Give some antibiotics used after anthrax exposure

Describe the characteristic appearance of Bacillus colonies

Bacteria associated with meat processors and veterinarians

Is congenital transmission possible for Listeriosis?

Fill in the data for Listeria monocytogenes
Appearance on Gram stain:
Oxygen requirements:
Spore formation:
Acid-fast:
Temperature requirements:
Hemolytic pattern:
Motility pattern:

Listeriosis is predominantly food-borne. Yes or No?

Agent of swine erysipelas and human erysipeloid

Erysipelothrix is resistant to what kind of environment?

Cutaneous human erysipelothrix infection consisting of localized cellulitis after acquisition through the skin

Specimen of choice for diagnosis of erysipelothrix infection

Medium for cultivation of Erysipelothrix

Triple Sugar Iron Agar Slant for Erysipelothrix:

H2s Positive or Negative?

Gram positive bacilli resembling "Chinese letters" and have a characteristic "dry colonial morphology"

Hallmark of corynebacterium disease

5 Complications of corynebacterium infection

How does corynebacterium invade the body?

Culture medium selective for Corynebacteirum diphtheriae (black to gray)

Culture medium differential for Corynebacteirum diphtheriae (black with brown halos)

Biochemical characteristics of Corynebacteirum diphtheriae