These Quick Quizzes are not to test your knowledge. They are to test the facts you know. Hence the term Quick. These Quizzes should be doable in under 2 minutes. They are not Board like questions rather they are testing if you are retaining the facts you are studying in your review books i.e. first aid.

In an ideal world you would study a section of material and then take a quick quiz to ensure that you have understood and retained all the information you have read.

You have to understand that the problem with the way we study for Boards is that we read everyday for hours and hours. After a while all the information blends together. Quick Quizzes are meant to be a "Quick and Dirty" way to review the info you have studied each day. Use them to your advantage to analyze if you need to review particular topics.
Good Luck, Your Board Aid Team

Micro QQ#4


Micro #4


Shoot for a 10 out of 10 on this one!




  1. This bug causes dental caries as well as subacute bacterial endocarditis?


    2. Strep pyogenes

    Strep viridans

    staph aureus

    Strep agalactiae



  2. Overgrowth of this bug usually occurs secondary to clindamycin or ampicillin use?


    3. Staph aureus

    Clostridium perfringens

    Corynebacterium diphtheriae

    Clostridium difficile



  3. This condition occurs secondary to clindamycin or ampicillin use?


    4. pseudomembranous colitis

    ototoxicity

    nephrotoxicity

    toxic shock syndrome



  4. Name that bug: Lab dx based on gram positive rods with metachromatic granules?


    5. C. Difficile

    C. perfringens

    Corynebacterium diphtheriae

    Bacillus anthracis



  5. Name that bug: food poisoning after eating mayonnaise based product?


    6. B. cereus

    S. aureus

    C. perfringens

    Salmonella



  6. Name that bug: food poisoning after eating reheated rice?


    7. B. cereus

    S. aureus

    C. perfringens

    E. coli 0157:H7



  7. Name that bug: Transmitted by seafood?


    8. E. coli

    Vibrio cholera

    Vibrio parahaemolyticus

    Y. enterocolitica



  8. Name that bug: Causes diarrhea, does not ferment lactose, nonmotile, very low infectious dose?


    9. V. cholera

    Y. enterocolitica

    Salmonella

    Shigella



  9. All of the following cause bloody diarrhea EXCEPT:


    10. salmonella

    v. cholera

    shigella

    C. jejuni



  10. The K antigen of enterobacteriaceae family is related to which of the following?


    11. motility

    virulence

    endotoxin

    none of the above