Damselflies mating. California
Photo©CLCase
Biology 240
BIOL 240 visual lab guide BIOL 240 My home page

 

Identification of an Unknown from a Clinical Sample

Download this page (pdf)

Due Date_______

Late papers will not be accepted.

·Your paper must be typed.
·Attach this page to your paper.

·Record the number of your unknown immediately______
·Write down the clinical information on the lab requisition:

Points  
1 Title: "Identification of Unknown #_____"
 5 Purpose
23

Epidemiology of the disease on the label. Use references and identify these references in the Literature Cited section.

Discuss the disease (10)

Describe the pathogen. Use Bergey's Manual, identify the edition and page in Literature Cited. (3)

Incidence and prevalence of the disease (2)

Treatment of the disease (3)

Prevention of the disease (5)

12

Mechanisms of pathogenesis:

Portal of entry/exit (5)

Virulence factors (7)

10 Procedures. A flow chart or table.
10 Results. A table.
 5 Antibiotic sensitivity tests on the pathogen only.
11 Discussion. How you arrived at your identifications.
10 Identification of the "pathogen" to species; the genus of the "contaminant."
 8 Literature cited. Minimum 4 references other than your textbook (2) and lab manual (1), published since 1980. At least one must be a scientific journal.
 5 General form and content.
100 Points possible
   
 

1.Johnson, T. and C. Case. Laboratory Experiments in Microbiology, 8th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2007.

2. Tortora., G., B. Funke, & C. Case. Microbiology: An Introduction, 9th ed. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2007.