You Are a Volunteer for Nurses Without Borders and Are

question 76

Multiple Choice

You are a volunteer for Nurses Without Borders and are being sent to a country in Africa. You are excited, because you will have opportunities to go on safari, but you are also somewhat concerned because you have learned from the CDC website that there is currently cholera in the country to which you are going. Patients with cholera experience vomiting and severe diarrhea, producing several liters of liquid stool in a day. This results in signs of dehydration, including sunken eyes, muscle cramps, and in a few cases, convulsions and death. Cholera is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. You make a list of questions about V. cholerae that you answer with the help of your nursing school study group.
-The phage from which the cholera toxin gene originates is a ________ phage.

• A) filamentous
• B) lytic
• C) temperate
• D) Gram-positive
• E) double-stranded RNA

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