A patient diagnosed with bipolar disorder and who takes lithium telephones the nurse at the clinic to say, “I’ve had severe diarrhea 4 days. I feel very weak and unsteady when I walk. My usual hand tremor has gotten worse. What should I do?” The nurse should advise the patient:

Which two predominant features of a manic episode can usually be identified quickly?    

At a unit meeting, staff members are planning the décor for a special bedroom for a manic client. The best suggestion from among those listed would be:    

E. coli with shiga toxin has a very high ID and often causes major damage to the gastrointestinal tract and can often result in death. Would you guess that it has high or low pathogenicity and does it have high or low virulence. Justify your thinking. 

Describe where infants get their microbiota from. Discuss as a fetus, during birth and as an infant. (Be short which each part) 

E. coli in someone’s stomach not causing any distress would be considered 

Covid that impacted every single country would be classified as an epidemic/pandemic Ebola that impacted Africa would be classified as an epidemic/pandemic   (2 points)

________ drug should not be used for infants or pregnant women. Why is this, what does it target and why is this fine for adults? 

Choose 1 topic and explain how the gut biome helps us or describe when the gut biome is disrupted the effects this can cause. (This can be very short and should be) 

Compare a true pathogen against an opportunistic pathogen