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Today is just another day in ER and you decide to say it’s a quiet day. 2 mins later the doors are flying open with patients. You are assigned a patient that is coming in for bacillary angiomatosis and do not know how to treat them appropriately. The only thing the paramedics told you was that she was found unconscious at a cat adoption. First you decided to run routine labs and a gram stain. After obtaining the results you share the results with another provider to confer about treatment plans. The results of the gram stain were inconclusive but somewhat resembled a rod-shape. The other provider you were conferring with makes a statement “ugh it’s probably the lab’s incompetent staff to get an inconclusive result”. You realize that the patient’s airway is getting more compromised. Before she needs a tracheostomy or put on a vent, you run to the lab to look at the results yourself. When arriving at the lab you noticed that the gram stain was done correctly but the monocytes on the slide look slightly abnormal. What test should run next for the suspected bacterium? 

Water aids in maintaining a state of dynamic equilibrium/stability within the body’s internal environment. This is called:

Cytopathic effects can be seen through the formation of fused multinucleated cells called

Which of the following correctly describes the function of the lac operon in E. coli?

A food that begins digestion in the mouth by Ptyalin (Salivary Amylase) would be:

DNA Polymerase I

Hypokalemia can be associated with the use of potassium-wasting diuretic medications. A deficiency in potassium can cause muscle weakness causing what dangerous side effect:

An ion that possesses a positive charge is a/an:

The surface of the intestinal wall has mucosal folds, villi, and microvilli to:

A toxic level of Calcium, due to taking too many antacids/Tums, is most likely to result in: