A patient has an infection caused by S. moniliformis. Which of the following is the preferred antibiotic choice?
a. Penicillin
b. Tetracycline
c. Streptomycin
d. All of the above
Rat-bite fever caused by S. minus can be differentiated from that caused by S. moniliformis by:
a. chills, fever, headache, vomiting, and of-ten severe joint pains.
b. a granulomatous lesion.
c. septic arthritis.
d. endocarditis.
Which of the following causes sodoku, which is characterized by swollen lymph nodes, chills, fever, headache, vomiting, and often severe joint pains, a rash on the palms, soles of the feet, and other extremities, and a granulomatous lesion?
a. S. moniliformis
b. S. minus
c. Bordetella spp.
d. Pasteurella spp.
Performance of the factor requirement test for Haemophilus involves the:
a. inoculation of unsupplemented media with a light suspension of the organism and placement of X and V factor disks on the agar surface.
b. inoculation of liquid media, unsupple-mented and supplemented with X and V factors.
c. detection of the presence of enzymes that convert <-aminolevulinic acid (ala) into porphyrins.
d. growth of the organism in the presence of bacterial species that produce X and V factors as metabolic byproducts.
The name given to rat-bite fever when the illness is caused by acquired Spirillum minus is:
a. sodoku.
b. Haverhill fever.
c. monillic fever.
d. monillic gastritis.
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