Why Would Normal Flora Isolates from Immunosuppressed Patients Undergo Antimicrobial

question 36

Multiple Choice

Why would normal flora isolates from immunosuppressed patients undergo antimicrobial susceptibility testing?

• A)These are not normal flora; they are other potential pathogens that have the same colonial morphology as normal flora.
• B)Species usually viewed as normal flora may be responsible for an infection in an immunosuppressed patient.
• C)All bacteria isolated from immunosuppressed patients must have antimicrobial susceptibility tests performed.
• D)Cultures from immunosuppressed patients only grow pathogenic organisms that must undergo antimicrobial susceptibility testing.

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