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Your patient has been infected with Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Which of the following symptom(s) would you expect to see?

Yersinia pestis causes two plagues. The  _______ plague results in swollen, painful lymph nodes and fever. While the  _______ plague results in respiratory distress and extremely high mortality. 

What is the most common skin disease in humans? 

Patient was bitten by an Aedes mosquito while traveling and is showing degeneration of the liver, kidneys, and heart, they are jaundice, and are hemorrhaging. What disease do they have? 

_______ can be injected in the form of a vaccine to stimulate the production of antitoxins and provide immunity. 

If smallpox virus were used as a biological weapon, the disease would spread rapidly because___________________. 

Which of the following types of toxins are produced only by Gram-negative bacteria?

Clostridium tetani causes tetanus due to the tetanus toxin. What type of toxin is the tetanus toxin?

______________ is a gram-positive clustered bacteria that is a part of the normal flora. It causes a wide variety of infections, ranging from non-life-threatening to life-threatening. 

Mycobacterium cannot be gram stained, instead we must use acid fast stain due to the outer layer of mycolic acid (waxy lipid layer).