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A 79-year-old man had surgery to replace an arthritic joint with a prosthetic joint.After several weeks, he complained of low-grade fevers and pain in the joint. Fluid was aspirated from the knee and inoculated into both aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles. The anaerobic blood culture bottle turned positive at 48 hours with a gram-positive cocci. The aerobic bottle remained negative. The most likely identification of this isolate is:

Name the difference between Staph and Strep in regards to their ability to hemolyze red blood cells.

What is the purpose of the Durham tube you used in the water micro lab exercises?

Which component in a PCR reaction synthesizes new strands of complementary DNA?

Name the difference between Staph and Strep in regards to their capnophilic (or non) nature. 

When you see the reaction such as in the “Test” circle in your Rapid Staph test, how would you label this reaction?    

Salmonella-Shigella Agar contains a color indicator, which could indicate the production of H2S by the bacteria.  What is the name of the color indicator?

During the third trimester of pregnancy, prenatal screening should include the evaluation of perianal flora for the presence of this microorganism:

An RDW of 12% would correlate with which finding on the peripheral blood smear?

Which patient profile is best represented by the following hemogram?WBC = 8.1 x 109/LDifferential:Neutrophils =67Lymphocytes =23Monocytes =7Eosinophils =2Basophil = 1