Prescott's Microbiology
10th Edition
ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 39.1, Problem 1MI
What organisms serve as the environmental reservoir for L. pneumophila?
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Prescott's Microbiology
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Ch. 39.1 - Prob. 3.1RIACh. 39.1 - What is the mechanism by which PTx kills host...Ch. 39.1 - Prob. 3.3RIACh. 39.1 - Describe the streptococcal exotoxins and how they...Ch. 39.1 - Prob. 4.2RIACh. 39.2 - What are the three stages of Lyme disease? What...Ch. 39.2 - Prob. 1RIACh. 39.2 - Prob. 2RIACh. 39.2 - Prob. 3RIACh. 39.2 - Prob. 4RIACh. 39.2 - How does transovarian passage occur?Ch. 39.3 - What are the chief differences between tuberculoid...Ch. 39.3 - How does H. pylori increase the local pH in its...Ch. 39.3 - Prob. 3MICh. 39.3 - Prob. 4MICh. 39.3 - Prob. 5MICh. 39.3 - Prob. 1.1RIACh. 39.3 - Why do you think the slow growth rate of M. leprae...Ch. 39.3 - Prob. 2.1RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.2RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.3RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.4RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 2.5RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.1RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.2RIACh. 39.3 - What is the difference between S. aureus and MRSA?Ch. 39.3 - Prob. 3.4RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.5RIACh. 39.3 - Prob. 3.6RIACh. 39.4 - How do the neurological effects of botulinum toxin...Ch. 39.4 - To which E. coli class does the strain 0157:H7...Ch. 39.4 - How can Clostridium botulinum cause disease even...Ch. 39.4 - Compare the gastroenteritis caused by Vibrio...Ch. 39.4 - Prob. 2.1RIACh. 39.4 - Compare toxigenic E. coli disease with invasive...Ch. 39.4 - Prob. 2.3RIACh. 39.4 - Prob. 3.1RIACh. 39.4 - Prob. 3.2RIACh. 39.4 - Prob. 3.3RIACh. 39.5 - Prob. 1MICh. 39.5 - Prob. 1RIACh. 39.5 - Prob. 2RIACh. 39.5 - How is ornithosis transmitted?Ch. 39.5 - Prob. 4RIACh. 39.6 - What cells and tissues make up the pseudomembrane?Ch. 39.6 - Prob. 2MICh. 39.6 - Prob. 1RIACh. 39.6 - In both C. difficileassociated disease and...Ch. 39.6 - Prob. 3RIACh. 39 - Describe a typhoid carrier. How does one become a...Ch. 39 - Many consider cholera as the most severe form of...Ch. 39 - Compare the three stages of syphilis and Lyme...Ch. 39 - While many Vibrio cholerae strains are found in...Ch. 39 - The spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi causes Lyme...
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