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Why is it important to not use antibacterial or antifungal agents in the artificial media when culturing CSF?

Blood cultures were drawn on a patient suspected of having a fungemia. Positive cultures reveal the presence of chlamydoconidia on cornmeal agar. In addition, the yeast is germ-tube positive. The most likely identification of the fungal agent is:

All specimens must be transported:

24. What view is this?

A urine culture from a patient with a urinary tract infection that resulted in growth of a yeast with the following reactions:negative germ tubeurease negativeblastoconidia only (no pseudohyphae) when grown on cornmeal agar The most likely identification is:

11. Identify #11 anatomy:

Fungal infections are generally acquired via which route of transmission?

The laboratory professional has received a CSF specimen that needs to be rejected.  The laboratorian calls the physician and tells the physician the specimen is unacceptable and the reason. The physician insists that the culture needs to be performed on this unacceptable specimen. What should the microbiologist do?

A bomb calorimeter has a heat capacity of 25.6 kJ/°C.  How much will the temperature of the calorimeter rise if it absorbs 455 kJ of heat energy?

21. Identify #21, the black area between the grey areas: