Question | Answer |
What are the 5 asexual fungi spores? | Arthrospores, blastospores, chlamydiospores, condiospores, sporangiospores. |
What are the 3 sexual fungi spores? | Ascospores, basidiospores, zygospore. |
What stain is used for fungi? | Lactopheno Cotton Blue Stain |
How do yeast reproduce? | They asexually bud with blastospores. |
Sac fungi are what? | Sexual reproduction with ascospores. |
What are hyphae? | A thread-like filament. |
What are the 2 kinds of hyphae? | Septate (crosswalls), and aseptate (no crosswalls). |
How do we identity Candida albicans? | It forms a cotton white colony, wine odor, termial chlamydospores, and germ tubes. |
What are the 3 types of Chlamydiospores? | Termainal, intercalary, and sessile. |
Black Bread Mold is caused by what? | Rhizopus |
What media are fungi grown on? | Sabouraud's Dextrose Agar |
What are microcondia? | Little hairs on the structure. |
What are macroconidia? | Spores inside a sessile sac, off to the side. |
What is a conidiophore? | The trunk of the structure. |
What is the vesicle? | The body of the structure. |
What is a phialide? | The "fingers" of the structure. |
What is a conidia? | Attached spores, no more then 6. |
What does Penicillin look like? | A "fork". |
What does Aspergillus look like? | Medusa's head. |
What are sporangiospores? | Rhizopus is an example. It's a spore at the end of a hyphae. |
What media do we use for throat swabs? | Blood agar. |
What organism is isolated from the throat? | Strept. |
What grows on Blood agar? | Strept. and all bacteria. |
What grows on Endo agar? | Gram negative rods (lactose is present). |
What grows on Mannitol Salt agar? | Staph. cocci (like Staph. aureaus). |
What grows on Sabouraud's agar? | Fungus. |
What grows on TSI and what does it stand for? | Gram negative rods, and Triple Sugar Iron (lactose, sucrose, glucose) |
What grows in Urea? | Bacteria (Proteus). |
What is Citrate used for? | Entrobacter, idole testing, (E.coli), Covex is used to create the red ring. |
Endo agar has what sugar and what color changes? | Lactose, pink to purple. |
TSI agar has what sugars, what color changes, and what other results? | Lactose, sucrose, glucose. Pink to yellow. Gas detection and blackening. |
What color changes happen in Urea? | Yellow to pink. |
What test confirms Proteus? | Urea test broth, yellow to pink. |
What test confirms Strept.? | Alpha (green zones), Beta (clear zones), and Gamma (no zones). |
What is a pseudopod? | A cytoplasmic extension of the membrane. |
What are 2 ameobas? | Entamoeba histolyica (GI), and Entamoeba Gingivalis (mouth). |
What is a trophozoite? | The adult stage of an amoeba. |
What is a cyst and what are 2? | The cyst is the dormant stage of an amoeba, and Entamoeba Gingivalis and Giardia lamblia are 2. |
What is a scolex? | The head of the tapeworm. |
What is a strobilia? | The entire tapeworm. |
What is a bursa? | The ends of a hookworm, male's have a fish fin that curls. |
What are proglottids? | Segments of the tapeworm. |
What are gravid proglottids? | Egg filled segments in a tapeworm. |
What is an axostyle? | Two rods that run through the parasite, give shape and rigidity. |
What is an operculum? | The lid on the eggs of flukes. |
What are 3 flukes? | Fasiola hepatica (liver), Fasciolopsis buski (GI), Pargaonimus westermani (lung). |
What is the atrial? | The mouth. |
What are the 3 tapeworms? | T.saginata (beef, 4 suckers), T.solium (pork, rostellum, 4 suckers, 2 rows of hooks), D.latum (fish, bothria). |