Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 17

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
Mr. Olson arrived in the emergency department with his 10-month-old son. Mr. Olson states he had difficulty waking his son from a nap this afternoon. Additionally, the infant was unable to hold his spoon at dinner and did not seem to be chewing correctly. You observe that the patient has a very weak cry. Mr. Olson noted that the only difference in his son’s diet was the ingestion of fresh honey on his toast at breakfast yesterday. You suspect Clostridium botulinum infection due to the ingestion of bacterial endospores.
-Even though it is a bacterium,Clostridium botulinum can be made more pathogenic once infected with a(n)

• A)temperate phage.
• B)oncogene.
• C)plaque.
• D)retrovirus.

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Definitions:

Data Point

An observation.

Unique Contribution

A unique contribution refers to a specific, novel input or insight provided by a researcher or study, distinct from previous work in the field.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that quantifies the variability or spread of sample means around the population mean.

Variance

The square of the standard deviation and another measure of a distribution’s spread or dispersion.