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phologically, culturally, and in disease-producing prop¬ 
erties ? 
31. What bacteria cause pneumonia? Describe briefly 
pneumococci. What is the latest work on pneumococci? 
32. Describe briefly gonococci and meningococci. Of 
what value is the immunity treatment in infections with 
staphylococci, streptococci pneumococci, and meningo¬ 
cocci ? 
33. What are the members of the typhoid group ? How 
do they resemble each other and how can they be differ¬ 
entiated ? 
34. Describe the tetanus bacillus, gas bacillus. 
35. Describe the tubercle bacillus. 
36. Describe the diphtheria bacillus. What other bac¬ 
teria belong to the “acid-fast” group? 
37. Describe the organism causing influenza, whooping 
cough. Describe plague bacilli. 
38. Describe the anthrax bacillus. 
39. Describe the cholera spirillum. 
40. What diseases are caused by spirochetes ? Describe 
the most important one. 
41. What diseases are caused by yeasts and molds ? 
42. Describe malaria and its parasite. 
43. What diseases are caused by “higher bacteria”? 
44. What are the “diseases of unknown causation”? 
45. What is Pasteur treatment? 
46. Why is the knowledge of bacteriology important 
to the nurse? 
47. What bacteria are of importance in air? Soil? 
Water? Milk? 
