Comparison of Staphylococcus Aureus Toxins and Functions
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Which of the following toxins of Staphylococcus aureus is associated with increased virulence and can cause necrotic lesions of the skin or mucous membranes?

  • Enterotoxin A
  • Exfoliative toxins (correct)
  • Panton-Valentine leukocidin
  • Hemolysins

What is the most common food-borne enterobacterial infection?

  • Dysentery
  • Escherichiosis
  • Salmonellosis (correct)
  • Typhoid fever

Which bacterium is characteristic for lactose fermentation?

  • S. typhi
  • Sh. flexneri
  • S. typhimurium
  • E. coli (correct)

Where is the O-antigen of enterobacteria found?

<p>Capsule (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which toxin of Staphylococcus aureus is associated with causing Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome (SSSS)?

<p>Enterotoxin A (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is not a lactose-fermenting bacterium?

<p>S. typhi (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following is a genus of enterobacteria that includes obligate representatives of normal human microflora?

<p>Salmonella (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What type of respiration is characteristic of enterobacteria?

<p>Facultative anaerobic (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which of the following pathogenic factors are characteristic of enterobacteria?

<p>Enterotoxin (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which enterobacterians most commonly cause elevated urinary tract infections?

<p>Esherihia coli (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What characteristics are common to all members of the Enterobacteriaceae family?

<p>Facultative anaerobes (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

How do pathogenic escherichias differentiate from opportunistic pathogens?

<p>Ability to ferment lactose (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which characteristic is specific to enteropathogenic E.coli?

<p>Colonize enterocytes of the small intestine (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

For the diagnosis of diseases caused by pathogenic intestinal rods, sowing feces are carried out on which medium?

<p>Bismuth sulfite agar (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

The pathogens of bacterial dysentery belong to which genus?

<p>Yersinia (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Which main antigens does Shigella have?

<p>O (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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