Why Would Normal Flora Isolating from Immunosuppressed Patients Undergo Antimicrobial

question 39

Multiple Choice

Why would normal flora isolating from immunosuppressed patients undergo antimicrobial susceptibility testing?

• A) These are not normal flora; they are other potential pathogens that have the same colonial morphology as normal flora.
• B) Species usually viewed as normal flora may be responsible for an infection in an immunosuppressed patient.
• C) All bacteria isolated from immunosuppressed patients must have antimicrobial susceptibility tests performed.
• D) Cultures from immunosuppressed patients only grow pathogenic organisms that must undergo antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

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