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• What are the Genus of Vibrionaceae?

  • Aliivibrio
  • Vibrio
  • Grimontia
  • Catenococcus
  • Photobacterium
  • Listonella
  • Salinivibrio
  • Enterovibrio
• Vibrionaceae are inhabitants of?

  Fresh or Salt water
• In Vibrionaceae, most bioluminescent bacteria belongs in this family 
• What gram result is Vibrionaceae?

  Negative
• What kind of bacteria Vibrionaceae is in terms of oxygen ?

  Facultative anaerobe
• What can Vibrionaceae ferment?

  Sugar
• What is the result for Vibrionaceae's Oxidase?

  Positive
• How many flagella does Vibrionaceae have?

  1 or more
• Vibrionaceae synthesizes what?

  Tetrodotoxin
• It is an ancient marine alkaloid and powerful neurotoxin

  Tetrodotoxin
• What specie is gram negative, short, curved, non-spore forming, and comma-shaped?

  Vibrio spp
• Other word for non-spore forming

  Aspergenous
• Vibrio spp is motile through what?

  Monitrichous organisms
• Motile through monitrichous organism except?

  V. metschnikovii
• Where is Vibrio spp found?

  Brackish, Marine, and Salt water
• Vibrio spp is Halophilic except?

  V. cholerae and V. mimicus
• Vibrio spp is isolated from?

  Algae, plankton, fish, and shellfish
• When does Vibrio infection mostly occur?

  Summer and Fall
• In this culture, colonies are smooth, opaque and iridescent with greenish hue

  CAP
• In this culture, colonies are NLF (except: V. vulnificus, w/c is lactose fermenter)


  MAC
• In this culture, colonies are Alpha or Beta hemolytic

  BAP
• What does Vibrio spp ferments?

  Glucose
• Catalase and Oxidase positive except?

  V. metschnikovil
• Non-lactose fermenters except?


   V. vulnificus
• Oxidase (+) and reduce nitrates to nitrite except for?

   V. metschnikovii
• What is the Habitat of Vibrio Cholerae?

  Brackish or Marine water
• What is the Mode of Transmission of Vibrio Cholerae?

  Ingestion and Open Wound
• It is primarily responsible for key features of cholera

  Cholera Toxin
• What causes mucosal cells to hyper secrete water and electrolytes into lumen?

  Cholera Toxin
• Can Vibrio Cholerae be distinguished from E coli?

  Yes
• What stands for Ace?

  Accessory cholera toxin
• What stands for Zot?


  Zonula occludens toxin
• In Vibrio cholerae, what is for attachment and release of cholera toxin?

  TCP pili
• In Vibrio cholerae, what penetrates mucus membrane?

  Mucinase
• In Vibrio cholerae, what mediates the distribution of cells?

  Motility and chemotaxis