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To create a glossy water-resistant finish on paper, ____ is used.

What is an example of an item produced by pultrusion?  

A putty-like mixture of resin, catalysts, fillers, and short fiber reinforcements is known as ____.  

A blood culture from a newborn demonstrates a small zone of beta hemolysis on Sheep Blood Agar.  It is catalase positive, hippurate positive, CAMP positive, and motile.  What is the most likely Gram stain results?

An elderly patient in a nursing home is recovering from bacterial pneumonia.  The patient has been on a lengthy regiment of antibiotics to kill the organism causing the disease.  A few days later the patient is diagnosed with pseudomembranous colitis.  What organism is the most likely cause?

The following curved Gram negative bacilli is associated with water sources:

A young woman went to the Emergency Room with irritated eyes. After examining her, the physician found she had an infection in both of her corneas. A swab of the lesion revealed a spindle ‘canoe’ shaped macroconidia. What is the most likely causative agent?

A sheep blood agar plate inoculated with 0.001mL of urine grows 50 colonies of Staphylococcus aureus. How many colony forming units per mL of urine should be reported.

A microbiologist reading a stool culture notices a very moist, mucoid pink colony on MacConkey agar and a yellow colony on Hektoen.  Which of the following is true?

The fecal-oral route of infection is commonly associated with which of the following: