Answer : (A) Anaerobic respiration.
Due to lack of oxygen the nitrite reduces to produce nitric oxide.
A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive...
traditional NCLEX question format. A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The organism's metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab. The organism sample is further tested and found to grow in the absence of oxygen....
A 67-year-old patient with severe sepsis undergoes a full infectious workup upon admittance to the intensive care unit. Cultures of urine, blood, sputum, and cerebral spinal fluid are obtained. The cultures do not yield a specific organism, so further analysis of the sample is done to determine the characteristics of the microorganism. The organism's metabolic processes are analyzed in the lab. The organism is found to grow throughout the entire tube of broth media. Which of the following terms best...