You are the provider on a Pediatric floor in the hospital. A new admission is brought in for observation due to consistent bloody diarrhea with GI upset. The patient’s mother is trying to give you the child’s history, but she is distress as she has two other children with her, and no one has had nap time. The mother explained that the child has some kind of French named disease but can’t recall the exact name. You as a brilliant microbiologist student remembered that the associated disease name was called Guillain-Barre Syndrome. The next step is to run routine labs and get a gram stain. The labs showed a gram-negative bacterium that was partially comma shaped. What is the causative agent and the first line treatment? 

DNA Polymerase I

During replication, each parent DNA strand serves as a_________ for synthesis of new DNA strands.

Human pathogens fall into the group called

The term used to indicate concentration of electrolytes in a given volume is:

Water aids in maintaining a state of dynamic equilibrium/stability within the body’s internal environment. This is called:

The term for extreme thirst is:

The Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System aids in the correction of hypovolemia works as a negative feedback system. It works to increase blood volume by:

Antidiuretic Hormone (ADH)/Vasopressin aids in the correction of hypovolemia, this promotes increase in blood volume or blood pressure by:

The most reliable and easily available dietary source of iodine is: