It Is Often Difficult for Antibiotics to Effectively Reach the Infection

question 17

Multiple Choice

It is often difficult for antibiotics to effectively reach the infection site of osteomyelitis primarily because of

• A)destruction of the local blood supply.
• B)denaturing of the drug by normal flora.
• C)inflammation and edema.
• D)excessive production of pus at the infection site.

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Definitions:

Population Standard Error

An estimate of how much the sample mean deviates from the actual population mean.

Confidence Interval

An assortment of values, taken from statistical sampling, that is designed to contain the value of a population parameter yet to be identified.

Population Mean

The average value of a characteristic in a population, representing the central tendency of the population data.

Confidence Interval

A confidence interval is a range of values, derived from sample statistics, that is likely to contain the value of an unknown population parameter at a given confidence level.