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A patient admitted to the hospital, and the provider orders a fibrate drug gemfibrozil (Lopid) 600 mg twice daily, 30 minutes before meals. What medication in the patient’s history could interact with gemfibrozil (Lopid)?

Which of the following is recommended by your textbook as a way to enhance the effectiveness of your examples?

Which of the following enzymes of the citric acid cycle does NOT catalyze the oxidation of a citric acid cycle intermediate?

Free Response #2 (14 points) Determine the following limit. If it doesn’t exist, explain why. If it does exist, clearly show all steps leading to your answer to receive full credit.

The only sources of energy used by organisms currently living on earth are C-C/C-H bonds or light.  

Some strains of Leishmania spp. have reservoir hosts, including dogs and wild rodents. Transmission is via the bite of a:

The genetic material found in the nucleus of an amoeba is known as a (n):

A watery stool was submitted to the laboratory for O & P examination. The technologist notes numerous trophozoites that have nonprogressive, blunt pseudopods.  The cysts are supernucleate, while the trophozoites contain one nuclei with a large, irregular shaped, eccentric karysome, coarse and unevenly distributed peripheral chromatin, and bacteria within cytoplasmic vacuoles. The technologist should:

Pentatrichomonas hominis has a trophozoite stage but no cyst stage and reproduces via longitudinal binary fission.  The parasite belongs to which category?

The following parasite was found on a peripheral blood smear of woman returning from vacation in the Dominican Republic.   The most likely identity of this organism is: