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The nurse is conducting an assessment of a 75-year-old client and notes diminished reflex response, a wide-based gait, and slowed coordination.  The nurse’s most appropriate action is to:   

Calculate the below ankle brachial indices (ABIs), bilaterally.   Right ABI (2 points) –  Left ABI (2 points) – 

The holoenzyme for transcription in bacteria is made up of:

What is the growth rate constant when the generation time is 15 minutes?

Oxazolidinones work against all of the following “nasty” bugs, except:

Quorum sensing: (select all that apply)

Beginning with a bacterial culture containing 10 organisms/mL and assuming a generation time of 30 minutes (0.5hrs), approximately how long would it take for there to be 10,000 cells in the population?

The use of the arsenic compound Salvarsan as a treatment for syphilis is credited to:

A microbiologist is attempting to determine the size of a microbial population and has employed several methods. She noticed that the direct count she obtained using a counting chamber and microscope was much higher than her estimate from doing a viable plate count. This discrepancy was encountered during multiple trials. What is the most likely reason for the discrepancy?

The aminoglycosides and tetracyclines specifically target the [one] interfering with [two].