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The tribe Klebsiellae is the only tribe positive for the Voges-Proskauer test.

The CAMP and Bacitracin tests are used in the identification of ______ hemolytic Streptococcus spp. (5.17)

If the triple sugar iron (TSI) test is nonreactive (K/K), what kind of organism is present?  (7.19)

List three diseases caused by the four subspecies of Treponema pallidum. (15.2)

Characteristics of Vibrio include

Stool PMNs (neutrophils found in the feces) indicates various bacteria that can invade the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract and cause inflammation. (7.18)

The formation of germ tubes presumptively identifies: 

Which organism requires a very small inoculum (10-200 CFU) to produce the resulting disease? (7.8)

Which member of the Enterobacteriaceae family is nonmotile?  (7.1)

A college professor went to visit her sister in Bakersfield, CA.  While there, they went to tour the pistachio groves and then planted a small garden at her sister’s house. Upon the professor’s return to TN, she developed a fever and cough that would not go away-even after 5 weeks!  The professor starting googling her symptoms and history and decided she had the San Joaquin Valley fever.  What would she expect to grow in a culture? (17.8)