A species of the genus Streptococcus is the leading cause of

A) tuberculosis.
B) urinary tract infections.
C) contaminated milk and meat.
D) "flesh-eating" bacterial infections.
E) food poisoning from rice.


D

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a. plastid. b. vacuole. c. microvillus. d. nucleolus. e. basal body.

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