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Streptococcus pyogenes is also known as pneumococcus.

What is the classification of Streptococcus pyogenes?

A patient with pneumococcal pneumonia is contagious so long as Streptococcal pneumoniae is present in respiratory secretions, regardless of antibiotic treatment.

What is the extremely potent exotoxin (and the primary virulence factor) released by Corynebacterium diphtheria?

Seasons/Climates don’t affect the morbidity rate of Bordetella pertussis.

Approximately 3000 droplet nuclei are produced after 5 minutes while someone is doing which of the following actions?

When someone infected with M. tuberculosis has a decrease in their immune system and the bacteria begin to multiply within the body at a rate where the immune system cannot fight them off adequately, the patient now:

What infection occurs when an infection moves from a single hair follicle into the surrounding tissue.

Serena is completing a research study regarding trauma to a natural disaster.  She has chosen to interview and gather information about one individual’s response to a hurricane that hit a coastal town.  She intends to delve very deeply into this person’s life and experience to understand his response to the disaster and the trauma she may have experienced.  Serena is using a(n) _____ design.

What bacteria is responsible for developing into Scarlet Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease?