Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question

question 38

Multiple Choice

Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
As an RN in a primary care office, you recently took care of a 15-year-old patient with severe gastrointestinal distress. Since the patient had experienced diarrhea, vomiting, and a fever for 4 days, a stool culture was ordered in an attempt to identify a disease-causing pathogen. The laboratory results have just been faxed over to your office and you begin to read the data.
-After reading all of the information,you place a call to the patient and inform him that he is suffering from Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis infection.You explain to him that the ability of the technicians to identify the pathogen to the specific serotype was important to his treatment and was possible due to

• A)the analysis of antibody reactions against the pathogen in specimens.
• B)the analysis of bacterial growth on solid agar when the pathogen was cultured.
• C)the analysis of Gram-stained specimens containing the pathogen.
• D)the analysis of motility and biochemical reactions of the pathogen.

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The aggregate amount of expenses incurred in the production of goods or services, including both fixed and variable costs.

Marginal Cost

The increase in total cost that arises from producing one additional unit of a good or service.

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The total variable costs divided by the quantity of output produced; it varies with output levels.

Average Total Cost

The per-unit production cost, calculated by dividing the overall production expenses by the number of units produced.