Foundations in Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259705212
Author: Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 22.L1, Problem 2CSR
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The fungal pathogens that could be suspected if the students visited Brazil for camping.
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The students and counselors mentioned in the case study suffered from histoplasmosis. They had gone to Omaha, Nebraska. Had they been to Brazil for camping, the fungal pathogen, and hence the infection would have differed.
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Ch. 22.1 - Prob. 1ELOCh. 22.1 - Prob. 2ELOCh. 22.1 - Prob. 3ELOCh. 22.1 - List the most important antifungal defenses found...Ch. 22.1 - Prob. 5ELOCh. 22.1 - Prob. 1CYPCh. 22.1 - Prob. 2CYPCh. 22.1 - Prob. 3CYPCh. 22.1 - Prob. 4CYPCh. 22.1 - Prob. 5CYP
Ch. 22.1 - Prob. 6CYPCh. 22.1 - Prob. 7CYPCh. 22.2 - Prob. 6ELOCh. 22.2 - Prob. 7ELOCh. 22.2 - Prob. 8ELOCh. 22.2 - Understand the means by which infections with...Ch. 22.2 - Differentiate between systemic, subcutaneous,...Ch. 22.2 - Prob. 9CYPCh. 22.2 - Prob. 10CYPCh. 22.2 - Prob. 11CYPCh. 22.2 - Prob. 12CYPCh. 22.2 - Prob. 13CYPCh. 22.3 - Describe the progression of a typical subcutaneous...Ch. 22.3 - Prob. 11ELOCh. 22.3 - Prob. 12ELOCh. 22.3 - Prob. 13ELOCh. 22.3 - Prob. 14CYPCh. 22.3 - Prob. 15CYPCh. 22.3 - Prob. 16CYPCh. 22.3 - List the similarities and differences encountered...Ch. 22.4 - Prob. 14ELOCh. 22.4 - Understand the pathology, epidemiology, and...Ch. 22.4 - Distinguish among the diseases caused by members...Ch. 22.4 - List the factors involved in contracting ringworm,...Ch. 22.4 - Prob. 20CYPCh. 22.5 - Prob. 16ELOCh. 22.5 - Prob. 21CYPCh. 22.6 - Prob. 17ELOCh. 22.6 - Explain the epidemiology of candidiasis.Ch. 22.6 - Prob. 19ELOCh. 22.6 - Prob. 22CYPCh. 22.6 - Prob. 23CYPCh. 22.6 - Prob. 24CYPCh. 22.6 - Prob. 25CYPCh. 22.6 - Prob. 26CYPCh. 22.6 - Prob. 27CYPCh. 22.7 - Prob. 20ELOCh. 22.7 - Prob. 28CYPCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 1MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 2MCQCh. 22.L1 - Primary pathogenic fungi differ from opportunistic...Ch. 22.L1 - True pathogenic fungi a. are transmissible from...Ch. 22.L1 - Prob. 5MCQCh. 22.L1 - Histoplasmosis has the greatest endemic occurrence...Ch. 22.L1 - Coccidioidomycosis is endemic to which geographic...Ch. 22.L1 - Skin testing with antigen is a useful...Ch. 22.L1 - Prob. 9MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 10MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 11MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 12MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 13MCQCh. 22.L1 - Which fungus does not commonly cause systemic...Ch. 22.L1 - Prob. 15MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 16MCQCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 1CSRCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 2CSRCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 3CSRCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 1WCCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 2WCCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 3WCCh. 22.L1 - Prob. 4WCCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 1CTCh. 22.L2 - a. Name several medical conditions that compromise...Ch. 22.L2 - Prob. 3CTCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 4CTCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 5CTCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 6CTCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 7CTCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 8CTCh. 22.L2 - Prob. 1VCCh. 22.L2 - What would you expect to see microscopically from...
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