A complication of a strep infection manifested by carditis, ECG changes, joint pain, and inflammation and fever is
A. tetanus.
B. rheumatic fever.
C. pertussis.
D. scarlet fever.
B. rheumatic fever.
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a. 1, 2, and 4 only b. 1 and 4 only c. 2 and 3 only d. 1, 2, 3, and 4
A 63-year-old male is hospitalized with fever, cough, shortness of breath, and weight loss. He is coughing up thick, foul-smelling, purulent sputum
Talking with him revealed that he consumes about a quart of alcohol per day and smokes two packs of cigarettes per day. He admits he often passes out after one of his many drinking binges. His chest x-ray shows an extensive right upper lobe infiltrate consistent with pneumonia. His laboratory results indicate: Sputum culture Macroscopic: grossly purulent and foul smelling Microscopic: gram-negative rod pattern (many pale, pleomorphic, bipolar staining gram-negative rods and many pale, thin, fusiform gram-negative rods) Culture: light growth of normal upper respiratory flora Transtracheal aspirate culture Macroscopic: grossly purulent and foul smelling Microscopic: gram-negative rod pattern (many pale, pleomorphic, bipolar staining gram-negative rods and many pale, thin, fusiform gram-negative rods) Culture: results pending What clinical feature(s) suggests this individual has anaerobic pneumonia? A) Organisms grown on the sputum culture do not correlate with direct Gram stain B) Unique morphologies on direct Gram stain C) Foul odor D) All of the above E) B and C
Excess dietary glucose will be stored in the liver or muscles as glycogen. The process of converting glucose into glycogen for storage is called glycogenesis
A) Both statements are true. B) Both statements are false. C) The first statement is true; the second is false. D) The first statement is false; the second is true.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false