A Draw a simple but informative and well-labeled picture of streptobacilli with

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A Draw a simple but informative and well-labeled picture of streptobacilli with peritrichous flagella and adhesive fimbriae. Make sure to fully label the important parts of your drawing B. Meningitis is a disease of the central nervous system with a variety of possible causative agents, including bacteria or viruses. Imagine that you work in a clinical microbiology lab, and you receive a sample of spinal fluid from a suspected meningitis case. You do a Gram stain on the sample first, of course. What five different pieces of relevant information can you learn from the Gram stain? C. Imagine that you have decided to switch from being human to being a bacterial cell. Would you choose to a Gram positive bacterium or a Gram negative bacterium? Describe three different important reasons (tagged Reason #1, Reason #2, and Reason #3) why you made the choice you did.

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B. Five pieces of information that we can learn from gram strain test of meningitis

1. First we get to know whether meningitis is due to gram positive bacteria or gram negative bacteria. Mostly, meningitis is cause by gram negative bacteria.

2. The name of gram negative bacteria responsible for causing meningitis.

3. Culture of bacteria

4. Drugs that is given for that bacteria

5. Severity of infection by bacteria.

C. I would choose to become a gram negative bacteria

Reason #1 As gram negative bacteria are more resistant to antibiotics because of tough cell wall

Reason # 2 Lesser susceptibility to detergent

Reason #3 Lesser susceptibility to drying

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