Microbiology: An Introduction
12th Edition
ISBN: 9780321929150
Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 24, Problem 2MCQ
No bacterial pathogen can be isolated from the sputum of a patient with pneumonia. Antibiotic therapy has not been successful. The next step should be
- a. culturing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
- b. culturing for Mycoplasma pneumoniae.
- c. culturing for
fungi . - d. a change in antibiotics.
- e. none; nothing more can be done.
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