An RN in a Primary Care Office Is Caring for a 15-Year-Old

question 61

Multiple Choice

An RN in a primary care office is caring for a 15-year-old male with severe gastrointestinal distress. The patient reports four days of diarrhea, vomiting, and intermittent fever. A stool culture was ordered in an attempt to identify a disease-causing pathogen.
-The laboratory report concludes that the diagnosis is salmonellosis caused by Salmonella infection. Remembering resources available for prokaryotic identification,the RN speculates that the laboratory technicians may have used 

• A)Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology because rRNA analysis was required in the identification of this pathogen.
• B)Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology because its five volumes of information were necessary for phenotypic identification of this pathogen.
• C)Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology because they needed to fully understand the evolutionary background of the pathogen.
• D)Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology because it classifies prokaryotes based on phenotypic traits typically tested for in clinical settings.

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