Current Recommendations in the United States for Treatment of MRSA

question 39

Multiple Choice

Current recommendations in the United States for treatment of MRSA are to use

• A)more than one antibiotic.
• B)no antibiotics to allow the immune system to function.
• C)any antibiotic other than methicillin.
• D)no antibiotics to curb the development of resistance.
• E)erythromycin and a second antibiotic.

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Definitions:

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve which describes the spread of a characteristic throughout a population, where most occurrences take place around the central peak and probabilities for values taper off equally towards both tails.

Symmetry

Symmetry in statistics refers to a situation where the two halves of a distribution mirror each other across a central point.

Modality

Refers to the manner or mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed.

Normal Distributions

A symmetric probability distribution around the mean, demonstrating that frequencies decrease as distances from the mean increase.