An RN Working in a General Medical-Surgical Unit Is Caring

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Multiple Choice

An RN working in a general medical-surgical unit is caring for a 57-year-old female with a bladder infection. Two weeks prior to hospitalization, the patient was experiencing slight burning upon urination. She self-treated by increasing her intake of fluids, but her symptoms continued to worsen. One week later, she developed generalized abdominal pain and a fever. She presented to the hospital when the pain became unbearable and fever reached 104°F. She was admitted to the medical-surgical unit and started on multiple IV antibiotics with concern that she could be developing a kidney infection.
-Knowing that the causative organism for this patient's urinary tract infection,E.coli,has a lipopolysaccharide cell wall,which cells are being activated by this infection?

• A)T helper cells
• B)T cytotoxic cells
• C)Natural killer cells
• D)B cells

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