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36 Cards in this Set
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Round or sphirical shaped |
COCCUS |
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Rod or sausage shaped |
BACILLUS |
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Coiled or spiral shaped |
SPIRALS |
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Cocci arranged in grape like clusters in a group or bunch |
STAPHYLOCOCCUS |
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Cocci arranged in chain |
STREPTOCOCCUS |
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Cocci arranged in a pair or groups of two |
DIPLOCOCCUS |
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Cocci arranged in groups of 4 |
TETRAD |
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Cocci arranged in cubic packets of eight |
SARCINA |
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Bacilli arranged in a chain |
STREPTOBACILLUS |
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Oval shaped,plump bacilli or rods |
COCCOBACILLUS |
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Short slightly curved rods of Bacilli |
VIBRIO |
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"Cork screw" in appearance |
SPIROCHETES |
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Most minute organisms with the size of a nanometer |
VIRUSE |
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Resident organism found in the skin |
STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS |
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Causative agent of acute pharyngitis or more commonly known as "strep throat" |
STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES |
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Causes gonorrhea |
NEISSERIA GONORRHEAE |
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Causes pneumonia |
STRETOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE |
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Commonly found in animals |
SARCINA LUTEUS (MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS) |
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Regarded as normal flora |
GAFFKYA TETRAGENA |
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Commom laboratory contaminant |
BACILLUS SUBTILIS |
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Causative agent of tuberculosis |
MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS |
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Most commonly isolated enteric bacilli associated with diarrhea and UTI |
ESCHERICHIA COLI |
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Causes gonorrhea |
NEISSERIA GONORRHEAE |
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Causes pneumonia |
STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE |
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Commonly found in animals |
SARCINA LUTEA (MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS) |
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Regarded as normal flora |
GAFFKYA TETRAGENA |
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Commom laboratory contaminant |
BACILLUS SUBTILIS |
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Causative agent of tuberculosis |
MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS |
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Most commonly isolated enteric bacilli associated with diarrhea and UTI |
ESCHERICHIA COLI |
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Causative agent of syphilis |
TREPONEMA PALLIDUM |
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Associated with diarrhea |
CAMPYLOBACTER JEJUNI = SPIRILUM |
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Special unit of measurement of bacteria |
MICRON |
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1 micron = ? |
1000 mm |
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Measurement of coccus |
1u |
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Causative agent of cholera |
VIBRIO CHOLERAE |
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Extremely small organismsnthat cannot be seen with the naked eye |
BACTERIA |
