Multiple Choice
Your young friend has meningococcemia.Having had microbiology,you understand the severe consequences of this disease and worry that she might:
A) have a progression of the disease leading to respiratory collapse.
B) have to have a limb amputated.
C) transfer the infectious agent to her fetus,since she is pregnant.
D) go into a chronic disease state,where the symptoms come and go for years.
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