Multiple Choice
You patient tells you he has heard that N. gonorrhoeae is increasingly difficult to treat because of resistance to antibiotics. He asks whether it is possible to determine which antibiotics will be affective in treating his infection. You tell him that ________ indicate antibiotic susceptibility.
A) colony morphology
B) antibiograms
C) metabolic assays
D) 16S rRNA sequencing
E) MALDI-TOF MS assays
Correct Answer:
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