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Micro q2 - boero - ArchivalUser - 09-24-2007
A 34-year-old man has been suffering from a severe headache for 4 weeks. He lapses into a coma and is taken to the emergency department. Examination shows no fever and abducens paralysis of the right eye. CT of the brain shows dilated ventricles and no space-occupying lesions. Examination of a CSF sample obtained using special procedures is most likely to indicate which of the following findings?
a) Many mononuclear cells and acid-fast organisms
b) Many PMN cells and no bacteria
c) Many PMN cells and gram-negative intracellular bacteria
d) Many PMN cells and gram-negative diplococci
e) No cells and no bacteria
0 - ArchivalUser - 09-24-2007
a) Many mononuclear cells and acid-fast organisms
0 - ArchivalUser - 09-25-2007
no ideaaaa...<<A or E?
0 - ArchivalUser - 09-25-2007
A or E? go for E...
0 - ArchivalUser - 09-25-2007
ee