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What are the characteristics of Mycobacterium?
What is the Acid Fast staining method?
What is the difference between Ziehl-Neelsen stains and Auramine-rhodamine stains?
What is the major component of mycobacteria membranes?
What diseases are caused bd by mycobacteria with a tuberculosis complex?
What diseases are caused by by nontuberculous mycobacteria?
What is tuberculosis?
How do you detect tuberculosis?
What is the infectious dose of mycobacteria?
How does the immune system eradicate an active tuberculosis infection?
What is the difference between latent and primary TB?
What results from spontaneous healing in primary TB?
What is reactivated (secondary) TB?
What is the QuantiFERON-TB Gold (QFT-G) Test?
What is Lowenstein-Jensen medium used for?
How is TB treated?
What is leprosy?
What are some characteristics of M. leprae?
How does M. leprae replicate?
What is the difference between tuberculoid and lepromatous leprosy?
What are the signs/symptoms of leprosy?
How do you treat leprosy?
What is Mycobacterium ulcerans?
What mediates the buruli ulcer?
What's the difference between yeastn yeasts and molds?
Cryptococcus neoformans
What is the most common cause of meningitis in sub-saharan HIV patients?
What are the clinical presentations of Cryptococcus neoformans?
How do you diagnose Cryptococcus neoformans in the lab?
What is Candida albicans?
What does the germ tube test indicate?
Clinical presentations of Candida albicans
What is Histoplasma capsulatum?
What activities put you at a high risk for contracting Histoplasma capsulatum?
What are the clinical presentations of Histoplasma capsulatum?
What are protozoa?
What differences are there in protozoan reproduction?
What are the stages of protozoans?
Excyst vs Encyst
What is the pathogenesis of parasites?
What is Entamoeba histolytica?
How does Entamoeba histolytica?
What are the clinical presentations of Entamoeba histolysis?
What is Giardia lamblia?
What does Giardia lamblia look like under the microscope?
Clinical presentations of Giardia lamblia?
What is Plasmodium falciparum?
What are the clinical presentations of malaria?
Why is Plasmodium falciparum so severe?
What is the life cycle of the malaria parasite
What is the vector of the malaria parasite? How does it work?
What are the intermediate hosts of malaria?
What is the sporogenic cycle of malaria?
What is the pro-erythrocyte stage of malaria?
What is the erythrocyte (blood) stage of the malaria cycle?
What morphological changes in RBCs are caused by P. falciparum?
How do you diagnose malaria?
How is malaria controlled?
What is babesiosis?
What is the vector for babesiosis spp.?
What are the symptoms of babesiosis?
What are the general features of Clostridia spp.?
What species types have the enzymes superoxide dismutase and catalase?
Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium difficile
Clostridium botulinum
Clostridium tetani
What are the general features of Rickettsias spp.?
Rickettsias rickettsiae
Difference between Rickettsia and Ehrlichia
Ehrlicia chaffeensis
Bartonella henselae
General characteristics of Spirochetes
Leptospira
Borrelia burgdorferi
Treponema pallidum
Treponema pallidum (cont.)
General characteristics of Chlamydias
Chlamydia-Chlamydophila developmental cycle
Chlamydia trachomatis
Chlamydophila psittaci
Chlamydophila pneumoniae
General characteristics of Mycoplasmas and Ureaplasmas
Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Ureaplasma urealyticum
