Which of the following would you expect to see if your patient had been bitten by a tick infected with the Borrelia bacteria species?

A) quatan fever
B) intermittent fever
C) Pel-Ebstein fever
D) relapsing fever
E) tertian fever


Answer: D

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Mendel verified true-breeding pea plants for certain traits before undertaking his experiments. The

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In the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, a spineless (no wing bristles) female fly is mated to a male that is claret (dark eyes) and hairless (no thoracic bristles). Phenotypically wild-type F1 female progeny were mated to fully homozygous (mutant)

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Which infection are you likely looking at if you view a direct smear of a cervical scraping and see enlarged (multinucleate giant) cells and intranuclear inclusions?

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