Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
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Author: Marjorie Kelly Cowan Professor, Heidi Smith
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 21, Problem 17Q
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The disease, a man is suffering from who tried to rescue some of the family’s belonging to the basement filled with water from the nearby flooding stream and also explain why.
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The infection caused by Leptospira interrogans which is an aerobic spirochete is known as leptospirosis. It infects body organs like liver, kidney, CNS along with many other body organs.
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Microbiology Fundamentals: A Clinical Approach
Ch. 21.1 - Prob. 1AYPCh. 21.1 - Prob. 2AYPCh. 21.2 - Prob. 3AYPCh. 21.3 - List the possible causative agents, modes of...Ch. 21.3 - Discuss important features of leptospirosis.Ch. 21.3 - Prob. 1NPCh. 21.3 - Medical Moment Cranberry versus UTI It has long...Ch. 21.4 - List the possible causative agents, modes of...Ch. 21.4 - Prob. 7AYPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 8AYP
Ch. 21.4 - Prob. 9AYPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 10AYPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 11AYPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 12AYPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 2NPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 3NPCh. 21.4 - Prob. 2MMCh. 21 - Prob. 1QCh. 21 - Some of the E. coli strains that are normal biota...Ch. 21 - Many STIs are asymptomatic, or remain latent for...Ch. 21 - Prob. 4QCh. 21 - Three microorganisms in this chapter can be...Ch. 21 - Prob. 6QCh. 21 - Prob. 7QCh. 21 - Prob. 8QCh. 21 - Prob. 9QCh. 21 - Prob. 10QCh. 21 - Prob. 11QCh. 21 - Prob. 12QCh. 21 - Prob. 13QCh. 21 - Prob. 14QCh. 21 - Prob. 15QCh. 21 - Prob. 16QCh. 21 - Prob. 17QCh. 21 - Prob. 18QCh. 21 - Prob. 19QCh. 21 - Prob. 20QCh. 21 - Prob. 21QCh. 21 - Prob. 1VC
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