Which fungal condition is most often detected in the bone marrow?

a. Brucellosis
b. Histoplasmosis
c. Tuberculosis
d. Leishmaniasis


B
The diagnosis of diseases, including brucellosis, histoplasmosis, blastomycosis, tuberculosis, and leishmaniasis, can sometimes be made by the detection of organisms in the bone marrow; how-ever, only histoplasmosis is a fungus.

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A) pyrimidine dimer formation. B) depurination. C) tautomeric shift. D) double-stranded DNA breaks. E) deletion mutations.

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The bacterium (Agrobacterium/Cyanobacteria/Rhizobium) is a member of the alphaproteobacteria that forms beneficial relationships with higher plants

What will be an ideal response?

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