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A patient was in a car accident and sustained injuries causing loss of blood supply to the soft tissue of one of his legs.  He developed an anaerobic wound infection where the tissues became swollen, putrid smelling and there was crepitus under the skin.  The most likely pathogen is a fermenting Gram-positive bacillus:

Bacteria that can tolerate exposure to oxygen use the Krebs cycle and electron transport chain to

After hand washing, 30% more pathogenic bacteria remain on the hands of nurses who wear artificial fingernails than on the hands of nurses with natural nails.  Two mechanisms of bacterial attachment to the surfaces of fingernails are:

Infection with systemic fungi most commonly results from:

Transcription and translation are steps involved in the process of:

Redness, heat, edema (swelling), pain, and loss of function are local reactions due to:

_________kills all microorganisms on a surface including endospores, while ______ attempts to reduce the number of pathogenic microbes.

If a drop of blood is in a cortical radiate artery, where will it be found next?

Give the letter of the arrow below that is pointing to a segmental artery.

Give the letter of the arrow below that is pointing to a cortical radiate vein.