PLE Category: Microbiology

PLE-3338

What is the characteristic of broad-based budding?

PLE-3339

What is the term for a mass of fungal filaments?

PLE-3340

What is the term for a systemic hypersensitivity caused by Schistosoma?

PLE-3332

In June, an 18-year-old man develops a sore throat with a fever and a nonproductive cough that develops into pneumonia with a severe, prolonged hacking cough but little sputum production. Cryoagglutinins are present. He is treated appropriately and successfully with azithromycin. What is the nature of the most likely causative agent?

PLE-3333

What is the true epidemiology of HIV?

PLE-3334

Which of the following does not belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae?

PLE-3335

What is the bacterial structure involved in adherence?

PLE-3329

What other tissues are commonly affected by diphtheria infection, in addition to the bull neck and pseudomembranous pharyngitis?

PLE-3330

Cellulitis develops in a 26-year-old man after he is bitten by his girlfriend’s cat. What is the most likely dominant organism involved in the infection?