Several Cases of Nonbloody Diarrhea with Nausea, Fever, and Abdominal

question 62

Multiple Choice

Several cases of nonbloody diarrhea with nausea, fever, and abdominal pain have occurred among a number of people who ate at the same restaurant. Public health officers find a food sample containing motile noncoliform, Gram- negative bacteria capable of metabolizing glucose. The "food poisoning" resulted from contamination with

• A) Shigella.
• B) Yersinia.
• C) Citrobacter.
• D) Salmonella.
• E) Escherichia coli.

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