e. Vancomycin 0. Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a toxin that causes diarrhea? a. Enterococcus species C. b. Staphylococcus epidermidis Pseudomonas aeruginosa d. Clostridium difficile Bacteroides fragilis e.

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Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a toxin that causes diarrhea?
- a.
Enterococcus species b.
Staphylococcus epidermidis
C.
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
d.
Clostridium difficile
e.
Bacteroides fragilis

e. Vancomycin
0. Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of
relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a
toxin that causes diarrhea?
a.
Enterococcus species
C.
b. Staphylococcus epidermidis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
d. Clostridium difficile
Bacteroides fragilis
e.
Transcribed Image Text:e. Vancomycin 0. Antimicrobial therapy can decrease the amount of susceptible bowel flora and allow proliferation of relatively resistant colonic bacteria. Which one of the following species can proliferate and produce a toxin that causes diarrhea? a. Enterococcus species C. b. Staphylococcus epidermidis Pseudomonas aeruginosa d. Clostridium difficile Bacteroides fragilis e.
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