Analysis of your patient\'s specimen just revealed the presence of cells contain

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Analysis of your patient's specimen just revealed the presence of cells containing a cell wall. Discuss the type of microbe(s) that could be causing the infection at hand. b. Further analysis showed the presence of a nucleus and 80S ribosomes. Discuss how this changes your hypothesis regarding the type of microbe(s) causing the patient's infection. c. Final biochemical analysis of the microbe showed that its cell wall was composed of chitin. Provide a final assessment of the pathogen's microbial type based upon all of this evidence.

Explanation / Answer

A. Cell walls are present in microbes such as bacteria, fungi and protozoa. Cell walls are also present in plants but they are not microbes and there cell wall is made of cellulose.

B. Presence of nucleus and 80s ribosime in the microbes reveals that micobe is eukaryotic organism. Prokaryotic microorganisms contain 70s ribosome.

C. Presence of chitin confirm the presence of fungal infection in patient sample. Fugi are the microorganisms having cell wall made up of chitin and also have well defined nucleus within the cells. The ribosmes are 80s type.

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