A Client Has Been Exposed to an Infectious Organism but Has

question 19

Multiple Choice

A client has been exposed to an infectious organism but has no clinical manifestations of disease. The nurse cautions the client that this period of time is the

• A) cell gap.
• B) immune response.
• C) infection curve.
• D) latent period.

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