e. Vancomycin 0. Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a toxin that causes diarrhea? a. Enterococcus species C. b. Staphylococcus epidermidis Pseudomonas aeruginosa d. Clostridium difficile Bacteroides fragilis e.
e. Vancomycin 0. Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a toxin that causes diarrhea? a. Enterococcus species C. b. Staphylococcus epidermidis Pseudomonas aeruginosa d. Clostridium difficile Bacteroides fragilis e.
Chapter11: Nutrition Through The Life Span: Pregnancy And Lactation
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Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a toxin that causes diarrhea?
- a.
Enterococcus species b.
Staphylococcus epidermidis
C.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
d.
Clostridium difficile
e.
Bacteroides fragilis
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