A Patient Presents with a Wound That Contains Green Pus

question 23

Multiple Choice

A patient presents with a wound that contains green pus. This suggests to you that the wound is infected with

• A) S. epidermidis, which produces the water-soluble pigments pyoverdin and pyocyanin.
• B) S. pyogenes, which produces a water-soluble blue-green capsule.
• C) P. aeruginosa, which multiplies in photosynthetic biofilms that are green.
• D) P. aeruginosa, which produces the water-soluble pigments pyoverdin and pyocyanin.
• E) either S. epidermidis or S. aureus, both of which produce pigment soluble coagulase.

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Definitions:

Ebbinghaus

Refers to Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist known for his pioneering work on memory and the forgetting curve.

Rate of Forgetting

The pace at which information is lost over time from memory, often described by the forgetting curve.

Auditory Sensation

The perceptual experience of sound, which occurs when sound waves are converted into electrical signals processed by the brain.

Sensory Registers

The initial processing systems that store sensory information for very short periods of time, allowing it to be perceived.