Your 80 Year Old Patient Reports Diarrhea, Fever, and Smelly

question 40

Multiple Choice

Your 80 year old patient reports diarrhea, fever, and smelly stools. She recently completed a course of antibiotic therapy for a UTI. The lab isolates an endospore forming, gram-positive, anaerobe. Identify the likely pathogen.

• A) Listeria monocytogenes
• B) Clostridioides difficile
• C) Vibrio cholera
• D) E. coli

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