Name the microbe behind each clue

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Bacterium behind the Black Death, spread by the bite of an infected flea

   Item

   Y. pestis

2. Clue

   Salmonella serovar causing typhoid fever, traced from an Athens mass grave

   Item

   S. Typhi

3. Clue

   Anaerobic bacterium whose toxin caused botulism from canned and jarred food

   Item

   C. botulinum

4. Clue

   Overgrows the gut after high antibiotic doses and causes chronic diarrhea

   Item

   C. difficile

5. Clue

   Staph strain resistant to methicillin, amoxicillin, penicillin and oxacillin

   Item

   MRSA

6. Clue

   Serotype from the raw spinach outbreak that causes bloody diarrhea

   Item

   O157:H7

7. Clue

   Blue-green algae that began the oxygenation of the atmosphere

   Item

   Cyanobacteria

8. Clue

   Soil bacteria that form nitrogen fixing nodules on legume roots

   Item

   Rhizobia

9. Clue

   Genus Robert Koch worked with while developing his disease postulates

   Item

   Mycobacterium

Instructions

Read each clue, then tap the microbe it describes on the three by three board.

Explanation