Microbiology: An Introduction (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134605180
Author: Gerard J. Tortora, Berdell R. Funke, Christine L. Case, Derek Weber, Warner Bair
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 23, Problem 8MCQ
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The patient has been hospitalized and has fever with headache. The laboratory diagnosis showed spirochetes in her blood. The possible diagnosis, based on clinical symptoms and laboratory diagnosis would be relapsing fever.
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