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Spontaneous resistance to rifampin is caused by a:

Identification by both MALDI-TOF and 16S sequencing is based largely on small differences in:

Why do scientists think there is a link between UTIs and chicken?  

___________________ use sucrose to produce ______________ and ______________ , which can lead to dental caries.

A cariogenic bacterium promotes:

The enrichment technique:

Bacteria from a urine culture grew well on both blood and chocolate agar.  Dark pink colonies appeared on McConkey agar (MAC) after 24 hr. at 37oC.  What test(s) should be done next?  (Check all that apply)  

Which strain is coagulase negative?    

Yersinia pestis was recently discovered in Bronze-age human remains, however DNA sequence analysis revealed that this strain is missing the gene for the Yersinia murine toxin.  This means that the Bronze-age strain: (Check all that apply.)

The term incidence describes: