Microbiology: An Introduction Plus Mastering Microbiology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (13th Edition) (What's New in Microbiology)

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ISBN: 9780134688640

Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case, Derek Weber, Warner Bair

Publisher: PEARSON

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Chapter 11, Problem 1CAE

After contact with a patient’s spinal fluid, a lab technician developed fever, nausea, and purple lesions on her neck and extremities. A throat culture grew gram-negative diplococcic. What is the genus of the bacteria?

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Microbiology: An Introduction Plus Mastering Microbiology with Pearson eText -- Access Card Package (13th Edition) (What's New in Microbiology)

Ch. 11 - The following outline can be used to identify...Ch. 11 - Compare and contrast each of the following: a....Ch. 11 - DRAW IT Draw a key to differentiate the following...Ch. 11 - Prob. 4R Ch. 11 - If you Gram-stained the bacteria that live in the...Ch. 11 - Which of the following does not belong with the...Ch. 11 - Prob. 3MCQ Ch. 11 - Prob. 4MCQ Ch. 11 - Which of the following terms is the most specific?...Ch. 11 - Which one of the following does not belong with...

Ch. 11 - Which of the following pairs is mismatched? a....Ch. 11 - Prob. 8MCQ Ch. 11 - When Legionella was newly discovered, why was it...Ch. 11 - Prob. 10MCQ Ch. 11 - Prob. 1A Ch. 11 - Prob. 2A Ch. 11 - Bacteria are single-celled organisms that must...Ch. 11 - After contact with a patients spinal fluid, a lab...Ch. 11 - Between April 1 and May 15 of one year. 22...Ch. 11 - Prob. 3CAE

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