PLE Category: Microbiology

PLE-3919

What is the name of the cell that produces antibodies that can identify polysaccharides?

PLE-3915

What is the most probable cause of the outbreak of watery diarrhea in six individuals from a group of 20 who dined at a Chinese restaurant the previous day, with fried rice being the suspected culprit?

PLE-3916

What is the most reliable indicator that the strain of Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolated from a patient with pharyngitis is pathogenic?

PLE-3917

What is the name of a tissue resident cell that releases histamine and eicosanoids in response to PAMPs?

PLE-3910

What is the most likely mechanism for the resistance of a strain of Influenza A virus to oseltamivir treatment?

PLE-3911

What is the most likely microorganism responsible for causing an infection in a burn patient, resulting in the production of odiferous, blue-green pus?

PLE-3912

What is the most likely organism causing impetigo with bullae in a child, based on the isolation of a Gram-positive, beta-hemolytic, catalase-positive, coagulase-positive coccus?

PLE-3913

What is the most likely organism responsible for the symptoms experienced by six 18-year-old women who drank untreated stream water on their recent Canadian camping trip and are now presenting with abdominal cramping, gas, pain, and pale, greasy, malodorous diarrhea?

PLE-3914

What is the most likely pathogen that caused the infant’s disease, given that the mother had a fever, sore throat, and fatigue during her third month of pregnancy?