Why is treatment with antimicrobial drugs not encouraged in patients with diarrhea caused by enteric bacteria?
What will be an ideal response?
Antimicrobial treatment of enteric diarrhea can worsen the prognosis by killing many bacteria at once, releasing large amounts of lipid A. The release of lipid A from these bacteria causes fever, vasodilation, inflammation, shock, and DIC, potentially leading to death. In addition, the diarrhea is normally self-limiting, and the expulsion of the organisms from the body is often more effective than antimicrobial treatment.
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_____ has eight electrons. _____ has 16 neutrons. _____ can readily form bonds with 2 other atoms. _____ weighs 16 grams.
The process of crossover is best defined as genetic recombination that occurs between ________.
a. non-sister homologous chromatids in meiotic prophase I b. sister chromatids in meiotic prophase II c. non-sister chromatids in meiotic prophase II d. sister chromatids in meiotic prophase I
The Old Order Amish in Lancaster County is descended from one man and woman and has an unusually high
frequency of a recessive allele that causes Ellis-van Creveld syndrome. This is an example of ____.
a. a bottleneck b. mutation c. a founder effect d. gene flow e. genetic drift
"Sticky ends" are
A) produced by the action of DNA ligase. B) another name for the 5' cap on mRNA transcripts. C) always long sequences of a single nucleotide. D) DNA fragments with single-stranded ends.