Your friend had a Pseudomonas (a gram negative bacterium) in…
Your friend had a Pseudomonas (a gram negative bacterium) infection and was sent to the hospital. When doctors administered antibiotics your friend went into septic shock rather quickly. The doctors said that the septic shock was a result of an endotoxin. Which of the following provides the best explanation of what happened?
Read DetailsBacteroides within your GI tract obtain nutrients from the f…
Bacteroides within your GI tract obtain nutrients from the food that you eat, but they also help prevent your GI tract from getting colonized by pathogenic bacteria that pass through. Bacteroides in return gets a steady source of nutrients. This is an example of which of the following:
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