| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| What gram stain are staph and strep | Positive | 92%
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| Which obligate intracellular pathogen causes it? | Chlamydia | 85%
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| What bacterial disease caused by Strep pyogenes gives rise to a strawberry tongue? | Scarlet fever | 69%
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| What is the most prevalent cause of infectious blindness in the developing world? | Trachoma | 38%
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| What is the general term for enzymes used to create clots? | Coagulase | 31%
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| What term describing strep and staphylo-cocci, means pus-making? | Pyogenic | 31%
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| What is the medical term for flesh eating bacteria? | Necrotizing fasciitis | 23%
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| Bacteria often evade phagocytosis by shielding with capsules, what are these commonly made out of? | Polysaccharide | 23%
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| This bacteria outside the hosts cells is an elementary body, that can't replicat, what does it become once in the host, that means it can replicate? | Reticulate body | 23%
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| What is the common term for pore forming toxins such as streptolysin (from Strep. pyogenes) and pneumolysin (from Pneumococcus) causing apoptosis in macrophages? | Cytolysin | 15%
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| What green fluorescent siderophore is released by Pseudomonas aeruginosa to increase iron uptake? | Pyoverdin | 15%
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| What enzyme in helicobacter helps overcome stomach acid by releasing NH3 | Urease | 15%
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| What cascade is targetted my bacteria to prevent chemotaxis of macrophages by the host? | Complement | 8%
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| What STI might this bacteria also cause? | Non-gonococcal urethritis | 8%
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| What is injected by its virulence needles to initiate actin rearrangement of the hosts cytoskeleton? | TARP (Translocated Actin Recruiting Phosphoprotein) | 8%
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