Imagine that you are a physician looking at lab results for a patient. You see that the patient's vaginal smear is reported as containing mixed streptococci, bacilli, and spirochete bacterial cells. How can you use this information in the next steps of helping your patient? Hint: Try looking up the morphology of common vaginal bacterial communities.

Imagine that you are a physician looking at lab results for a patient. You see that the patient's vaginal smear is reported as containing mixed streptococci, bacilli, and spirochete bacterial cells. How can you use this information in the next steps of helping your patient? Hint: Try looking up the morphology of common vaginal bacterial communities.

Microbiology for Surgical Technologists (MindTap Course List)

2nd Edition

ISBN:9781111306663

Author:Margaret Rodriguez, Paul Price

Publisher:Margaret Rodriguez, Paul Price

Chapter2: The Science Of Microbiology

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