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XLD agar is used to isolate enteric pathogens.

Which of the following has a natural habitat in the mucus-secreting cells of the human stomach?

Which of the following is not a requirement for a Gram-negative rod to be a member of Enterobacteriaceae?

The Urea Breath Test is used to detect which of the following?

All of the following describe Nocardia except

The string test is a lab test that uses an aqueous solution of sodium deoxycholate suspension to see if the organism mixed on the loop will lose turbidity or not (i.e. if it will be lysed from the high salt content). If it is not lysed, a sticky, mucoid string is formed. This was primarily the original way to tell the difference between these two organisms

Plesiomonas infections are:

Streptococcus pyogenes is susceptible to the antibiotic [BLANK-1] also known as [BLANK-2].  Streptococcus viridans is resistant to the antibiotic [BLANK-3] also known as [BLANK-4].  Use the following word bank: Novobiocin, TaxoP, Penicillin, Bacitracin, Polymixin E, TaxoA,   Optochin, Colistin, Factor V, Vancomycin, Neosporin, Tazo, Zosym 

All bacillus species have a bamboo rod gram stain morphology.

What does Quality Function Deployment (QFD) primarily aim to achieve?