Scenario for questions 10 through 24:  During the Paris Olympics many people were worried about events held in the Seine River (like marathon swimming and the triathlon) and potential health hazards for athletes.  In fact, at the beginning of the Olympics a practice swim session was canceled in the river due to high levels of Escherichia coli.    Imagine you are a MD/PhD in France during the Olympics and an athlete arrives in your clinic ill after competing in the Seine River.  You isolate the potential pathogen from the athlete and run some tests on the microbe.  During your research you note that it uses glucose as a carbon and energy source.  The rest of your results are in Figure 1 below. Figure 1: Characteristics of the patient isolated microbe, including: (A) a microscopic image of the isolate, (B) results from a thioglycollate broth experiment – the negative control is an uninoculated tube of thioglycollate broth, (C) culture growth rate at varying temperatures, (D) culture growth rate at varying pH.

Who is allowed to prescribe a medication to a patient? 

This form of reproduction produces offspring with increased genetic variation.

What is it called when the form determines the way the drug is given to patient?

All microbes that grow using fermentation make lactic acid.

A patient whose weight is 50 kg, what would this be in pounds?  

Based on the phylogenetic tree the isolated microbe from the athlete is most closely related to which of the following microbes?  (Choose all that apply)

What is the arrangement and morphology of the Gram stained bacteria shown in the image?

What conclusions can you draw from the culture growing on the milk agar plate in the quadrant labeled A in the image below? (Choose all that apply)

What is the abbreviation of nothing by mouth?