CLOSTRIDIUM QUIZ

Which of the following properties are the characteristics of tetanospasmin?

It is a neurotoxin

It is a heat-labile protein

All of these

It can be toxoided

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Blackening of meat in cooked meat broth is through

all of these

C perfringens

C tetani

C histolyticum

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Which of the following is predominantly proteolytic?

C. speticum

C. histolyticum

C. sporogenes

Both (a) and (b)

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Which of the following(s) is/are obligate anaeorbes?

C tetani

C septicum

C novyi

All of these

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Which of the following types of Clostridium perfringens produces alpha toxin most abundantly?

Type B

Type C

Type D

Type A

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Typical drumstick appearance of bacilli is generally seen in

C histolyticum

C perfringens

C botulinum

C tetani

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Clostridium botulinum food poisoning is due to

invasion of bacteria in the intestine

both (a) and (b)

preformed toxin

None of these

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Which of the following species of Clostridium is predominantly sacchrolytic?

C novyi

C perfringens

C septicum

All of these

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Drumstick appearance is characteristic of

C tetani

C tetanomorphum

C sphenoides

all of these

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Reddening of meat in cooked meat broth is produced by

C histolyticum

Clostridium perfringens

C sporogenes

C tetani

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