A Patient Is Brought to the Emergency Department with a Severe

question 7

Multiple Choice

A patient is brought to the emergency department with a severe case of gastroenteritis.The patient experienced gastrointestinal upset after eating raw oysters.What organism can be the culprit of this patient's condition?

• A) Vibrio trota
• B) V. parahaemolyticus
• C) V. cholerae
• D) V. vulnificus

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Definitions:

Sample Observation

An individual data point collected from a sample that is used for analysis and making inferences about the population.

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of all data points in a population from the population mean, indicating the diversity within the population.

Confidence Interval

A range of values within which there is a specified probability that the true parameter lies.

Sample Variance

A statistic used to estimate the variance of a population, calculated from a sample of data from that population.