Case Study: A patient, ill with an infectious disease, is prescribed an oral bacteriostatic antibiotic. After 48 hours the nurse calls and tells the patient that they need to return to the hospital and receive an IM injection of a different, -cidal antibiotic as the pathogen is showing resistance to the first antibiotic. In addition the nurse states that there are only a few cases of this disease in the area as it is not common in Wisconsin. Question: What type of infectious disease is this patient suffering from? O Fungal O Prion infection O Viral O Bacterial

Case Study: A patient, ill with an infectious disease, is prescribed an oral bacteriostatic antibiotic. After 48 hours the nurse calls and tells the patient that they need to return to the hospital and receive an IM injection of a different, -cidal antibiotic as the pathogen is showing resistance to the first antibiotic. In addition the nurse states that there are only a few cases of this disease in the area as it is not common in Wisconsin. Question: What type of infectious disease is this patient suffering from? O Fungal O Prion infection O Viral O Bacterial

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Case Study: A patient, ill with an infectious disease, is prescribed an oral bacteriostatic antibiotic. After 48 hours the nurse calls and tells the patient that they need to return to the hospital and receive an IM injection of a different, -cidal antibiotic as the pathogen is showing resistance to the first antibiotic. In addition the nurse states that there are only a few cases of this disease in the area as it is not common in Wisconsin. Question: How would this infectious disease be best described by an epidemiologist? Pandemic as the levels are low and not common O Endemic as the nurse stated that the disease is not common in Wisconsin O Sporadic as the nurse stated there are only a few cases in the area O Epidemic as the nurse stated that the disease is not common in Wisconsin MacBook Air - 66 吕口 F3 F4 F2 esc & 2# 2$ 4 T Q
Case Study: A patient, ill with an infectious disease, is prescribed an oral bacteriostatic antibiotic. After 48 hours the nurse calls and tells the patient that they need to return to the hospital and receive an IM injection of a different, -cidal antibiotic as the pathogen is showing resistance to the first antibiotic. In addition the nurse states that there are only a few cases of this disease in the area as it is not common in Wisconsin. Question: What was the route for administration of the first antibiotic prescribed versus the second? O The patient consumes, orally, the first antibiotic and received an injection in their muscle for the second antibiotic O Unsure based upon information provided O Static antibiotics are only administered via IM and therefore the first antibiotic is injected into the muscle and the second is administered by IV O The patient must inject the first antibiotic because it is static and the second must enter in through a vein. MacBook Air 弓0 F3 F4 F2 2#…
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