Which statement is true regarding contagious infections? a. bacterial infections are common and are best treated with antiviral medications. b. viral infections are highly variable and need to be treated with antibiotics that are specific for the particular virus. c. treatment for fungal infections varies depending on their location and severity. d. protozoan infections are uncommon and can be treated and prevented with vaccines. select the best answer from the choices provided.

Burns are devastating and debilitating because of loss of fluids and electrolytes from the body. how do physicians estimate the extent of burn damage associated with such dangerous fluid loss?

Which aspects of parenting are legally required?

You isolate an infectious substance capable of causing disease in plants, but you do not know whether the infectious agent is a bacterium, virus, viroid, or prion. you have four methods at your disposal to analyze the substance and determine the nature of the infectious agent. i. treat the substance with enzymes that destroy all nucleic acids and then determine whether the substance is still infectious. ii. microscope. iii. culture the substance on nutritive medium, away from any plant cells. iv. treat the sample with proteases that digest all proteins and then determining whether the substance is still infectious. if you already know that the infectious agent was either bacterial or viral, which method(s) listed above would allow you to distinguish between these two possibilities? a) ib) iic) ii or iiid) iv