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Which organism does NOT cause some form of diarrhea/gastroenteritis?

Which species of Chlamydia causes a sexually transmitted disease?  (14.7; 14.8; 14.9)

All of the following are dimorphic fungi EXCEPT:   (17.6)

What is X factor in chocolate plates?  (11.7)

Which organism causes whooping cough?  (11.3)

The eggs of Taenia solium and Taenia saginata are indistinguishable and cannot be used to differentiate the two species.  (19.1)

A 46 year old male presents with severe muscular rigidity of the jaw and neck. His wife indicates that he had recently received a puncture wound in his foot. Anaerobic cultures grew a large spore-forming gram positive rod. What is the most likely organism?

Name two viruses that cause meningitis. (18.4)

Which gram negative diplococci is asaccharolytic (does not break down sugars), is oxidase positive and DNAse positive, and is an opportunist that can cause pneumonia and otitis media (ear infection)? (10.1)

Yeast reproduce by budding, with subsequent production of a blastocondium.  (17.2)