Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
9th Edition
ISBN: 9781259709999
Author: Denise G. Anderson Lecturer, Sarah Salm, Deborah Allen
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 10, Problem 2MC
If an acid-fast bacterium is detected in a clinical sample, then the organism could be
a)Cryptococcus neoformans.
b)Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
c)Neisseria gonorrhoeae.
d) Streptococcus pneumoniae.
e) Streptococcus pyogenes.
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