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An 18 year old female was seen by her physician for fever, lethargy, and arthritis.  On physical examination, a red rash was identified.  Which of the following is best to identify the agent of this rash illness?

Examination of a throat culture from a 9-year old female with a “scratchy throat” reveals the following: moderate growth of small, alpha-hemolytic colonies; light growth of opaque, white, nonhemolytic colonies; and tiny, translucent colonies within a large zone of beta hemolysis on sheep blood agar.  You conclude:

A helminth egg is described as having terminal polar plugs.  The most likely helminth is:

Evaluation of a Kirby-Bauer sensitivity is done by:

The broth culture suspension of the test organism for use in Kirby-Bauer Disk Diffusion test is adjusted to match

Although dependent on the virus to be isolated, optimal specimen collection time to detect most viral infections is:

The first step in polymerase chain reaction is:

Soft cheese imported from Mexico was implicated as the source in an outbreak of meningitis that occurred among attendees of a large company picnic. Gram-positive, nonspore forming, motile, coccobacilli were isolated from the cheese that had been stored in the cold. The organism most likely responsible for this outbreak is:

The following results were obtained when an ampicillin microdilution test was performed: Test Well Result Sterility Turbid Growth Turbid 1 µg/mL Turbid 2 µg/mL Turbid 4 µg/mL Turbid 8 µg/mL Turbid 16 µg/mL Turbid 32 µg/mL Turbid   An evaluation of these results indicates that the:

Which of the following is the vector for Plasmodium?