Exam 22: Anaerobes of Clinical Importance

All of the following are approaches to treating anaerobic infections except:

All of the following procedures should be performed on clinical specimens to recover anaerobic bacteria except:

What is the ideal anaerobic incubation system?

The four major groups of anaerobic gram-negative bacilli include all the following except:

A microbiology technologist is reading an anaerobic culture and observes a double zone of hemolysis on an anaerobically incubated sheep blood agar plate.The Gram stain of that organism was a boxcar-shaped, gram-positive bacillus.What organism is this?

Aerotolerant anaerobes include all the following except:

Bacterial vaginosis is a synergistic infectious process involving all the following bacteria except:

All of the following techniques are used for making definitive identification of anaerobes except:

An immunosuppressed patient notices sinus tracts that are draining pus.He also notices that there appear to be small, hard "nuggets" in the pus.What disease will his doctor most likely diagnose?

A patient goes to the dentist with an abscess.The physician cultures the tooth.Which of the following bacteria is most likely causing this infection?

An anaerobe is an organism that:

Which of the following is considered a better specimen for anaerobic culture than a swab?

What disease does Clostridium perfringens cause?

Anaerobes outnumber aerobes in all of the following locations except: