Foundations in Microbiology
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Author: Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess Instructor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 21.L2, Problem 11CT
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To determine:
The cause of severe fever, vomiting, muscle ache, chills, meningitis, and kidney failure that the journalist suffered from. What infection would have been caused?
Introduction:
The symptoms of severe fever, chills, vomiting, muscle ache, meningitis and kidney failure can be caused in several diseases. Since the early culture of septicemia and throat culture were negative and penicillin was effective, the cause had to be discovered.
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