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WGU t Search TEST NAME: PBBO.1 Linh Nguyen 58 TIME LEFT: 01:09:01 Pathogen A Cho

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WGU t Search TEST NAME: PBBO.1 Linh Nguyen 58 TIME LEFT: 01:09:01 Pathogen A Cholera is a bacterial pathogen found in contaminated water and shelifish. The onset of cholera is sudden, and the disease is transmitted through untreated water Pathogen B Shigella is a bacterial infection that is transmitted person through Pathogen C from person to person through the oral-fecal route or by food handlers with poor hygiene. is self-limiting and occurs most commonly in children. The parasitic pathogen is usually spread by the fecal-oral route and can be transmitted through contaminated water Pathogen D ella infection is the most common bacterial infection and is most frequently found among children. The disease is spread through the oral-fecal route, with contaminated food and water the most common mode. A young boy baconnes a er vi sitn is un es ar n n ackson Couny, Oregon The boy has loose at ry dia hea, abdominal cramps, loss of appetite, a sight fever, and some wom ng. Upon examination, the boy's stool is found to contain cysts. The boy begins to recover on his own after about nine days What is the cause of the disease? Please read all of the pathogens in the passage above, and select your answer from the options below.) 55 56 5758 59 80 61 62 63 64 65 33/65 A FONT

Explanation / Answer

Symptoms of the jack: loose watery diarrohea, abdominal cramps, loss of apetite, slight fever, vomiting. these all symptoms are quite common in infection with all the pathogens.

But Jack has cysts in the stool sample which is a specific syptom cause by the infection of Cryptospiridium. It is also given that the boy starts to recover by his own after some days. This happens only in case of cryptospiridium which is a self limiting pathogen that eliminates itself after certain interval of time.