Fungal infections are generally acquired via which route?

a. Person to person
b. Nosocomial
c. Vector
d. Inhalation of spores


D
Fungal infections are generally not communicable in the usual sense of person-to-person trans-mission. Humans become an accidental host for fungi by inhaling spores or by the introduction of fungal elements into tissue by trauma.

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a. sclerenchyma fibers. b. parenchyma. c. xylem. d. epidermis. e. phloem.

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Edwin Southern and his colleagues started the field of genomics

a. True b. False

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