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You are called to the emergency room to evaluate an otherwise healthy 18-year-old female whose chief complaints are fever, malaise, and difficulty breathing. As you enter the room, the physician informs you that he suspects community-acquired pneumonia. The most likely causative agent would be _____.

The device used to administer ribavirin as an aerosolized agent is _____.

Which of the following organisms are classified by whether they contain RNA or DNA?

Antibiotic agents are used to treat which of the following organisms?

Preventative measures to reduce the number of nosocomial pneumonia include which of the following?     I.    Patient precautions to reduce aspiration    II.    Health care worker hand washing    III.    Vaccines against particular infections

A patient you are caring for in the ICU has been diagnosed with pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus. She was given a course of methicillin but has NOT shown any clinical or microbiological improvement. The most appropriate drug to treat her condition is _____.

Anti-infective agents that require frequent monitoring after being administered are _____.

Fever commonly presents in all of the following conditions EXCEPT:

LABEL THE DIAGRAM:  Below is a normal ECG tracing.  Label each circled area with the appropriate wave/complex and match the mechanical event that best describes that wave/complex.   EKG Image

Your goal is to optimize a tissue culture protocol for the production of embryogenic calli with high plant regeneration potential from a new potential biofuel crop: A. (8) List 4 factors beside culture medium components and aseptic conditions which will likely determine the tissue culture response. B. (2) Explain what is totipoteny in tissue culture. C. (2)  How do you to direct the culture response to undifferentiated (callus) or differentiated (plant regeneration) growth. D. (4) Describe two approaches/types of treatments that can minimize the occurrence of genetic variation in tissue culture?  E. (12) Describe 8 steps/treatments that prevent contaminations in tissue cultures.