Assignment task: Medical Bacteriology, Chapter 19, the book is textbook of Diagnostic Microbiology 5th or 6th Edition, Mahon, Lehman and Manuselis.
Question 1: Indicate the general characteristics of the Enterobacteriaceae family.
Question 2: What are the major means of identifying bacteria in the Enterobacteriaceae family?
Question 3: What are the true pathogens of the Enterobacteriaceae family?
Question 4: What is a fecal coliform? How does it tie in with the reservoir?
Question 5: Indicate the Escherichia coli strains associated with gastrointestinal syndromes and the major characteristics associated with each strain (e.g., population affected, disease characteristics, virulence factors - how they promote virulence).
Question 6: Which E. coli strains are associated with non-Gl disease states?
Question 7: Which diseases are associated with Salmonella spp.? Which Salmonella spp. (strains) are associated with which disease states?
Question 8: What are the virulence factors associated with the Salmonella spp. (strains)?
Question 9: What is a "tribe?"