Question

On a urine bacteriology culture blood agar plate at 24 hours, over 100,000 small, white colonies are observed. They are catalase positive and a side coagulase test s negative. Your next step is to A) report out over 1000,000 staphylococcus epidermidis/ml of urine B) Perform a Gram stain C) Inoculate a Gram positive urine antibiotic susceptibility battery D) set up a tube E) ask for a repeat culture. Many fungal infections in oral pharyngeal, uro-gential and similar cultures are often accidentally discovered during direct specimen examination using A) Carbolfuschin stain B) Motility examination-SlMmedia C) Wright stain D)Methylene Blue staining E) none of the above = identity India ink preparation is used to detect the presence of which is/are highly suggestive of A) blastopores - Candida species B) arthrospores - Geotrichium species C) Carbohydrate capsule - Cryptococcus D) conidia - Aspergillus species E) none of the above = identify Direct examination results can possibly save patient's life with an acute disease. Detection of fungal elements in a patient's specimen may be accomplished by A) brain heart infusion agar with lacto-phenol cotton blue added B) slide culture technique with KOH observations C) observation of D) observation of and texture of the fungal agent in morphology none of the above identify Case 45 year old pigeon breeder, who recently received a renal was on steroids), complained to his physician

Answer 1

This test can futher enable the result for better understanding collagenase is energy which breads down collage fungi all acidic in nature so if shows staining with methyleane base as its basic which binds with fungi * muthylene behave is simple dye used for identification bacterial and fungal cells india inke preparation used for staining cryptography as is encapsulation yeast it is used for easy visualization of capsule.