A Patient Has a Serious Respiratory Infection

question 48

Multiple Choice

A patient has a serious respiratory infection. A sputum sample yielded a bacterium that did not have any peptidoglycan. You hypothesize that the identity of this microbe could possibly be ______.

• A) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
• B) Streptococcus pneumoniae
• C) Mycoplasma pneumoniae
• D) Borrelia burgdorferi
• E) Staphylococcus aureus

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