Why Would Normal Flora Isolates from Immunosuppressed Patients Undergo Antimicrobial

question 13

Multiple Choice

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

• A) These are not normal florae; they are other potential pathogens that have the colonial morphology as normal florae.
• B) Species usually viewed as normal florae 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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