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trica comes to you with a severe cough. His x-ray showed haziness throughout his

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Question

trica comes to you with a severe cough. His x-ray showed haziness throughout his right as of clearing surrounded by haziness. You try a traditional culture, but there is no growth 3. 3. A 65-ylo man from South Af A 65-y/o man from South Africa comes to you with a lung with several round are caused this after two days. So you do an acid-fast stain on his sputum and find it is positive. (a) What bacterium illness? (b) Why was there no growth after two days if there are living bacteria in the sputum? (C) therapy last? (d) What do we call the strains of the bacterium which are resistant to at least two classes of antibiotic (e) What about more than three classes? was there no growth after two days if there are living bacteria in the sputum? (c) How long might istant to at least two classes of antibiotics?

Explanation / Answer

1. acid fast strain is positive ---- mycobacterium , so strains of mycobacterium might have caused the disease.

2. the classes of bacterium which are resistant to atleast two classes of antibiotics are called multi drug resistant species.