Case study for microbiology A 34 y/o AIDS patient comes to you with a thick mat

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Case study for microbiology
A 34 y/o AIDS patient comes to you with a thick mat of white growth on his tongue and his breath smells faintly of baked bread. a) What is the disease? b) What organism caused it? c) What is it called when a weak pathogen causes a disease in someone like this? d) What does this organism commonly cause in females? Case study for microbiology
A 34 y/o AIDS patient comes to you with a thick mat of white growth on his tongue and his breath smells faintly of baked bread. a) What is the disease? b) What organism caused it? c) What is it called when a weak pathogen causes a disease in someone like this? d) What does this organism commonly cause in females? Case study for microbiology
A 34 y/o AIDS patient comes to you with a thick mat of white growth on his tongue and his breath smells faintly of baked bread. a) What is the disease? b) What organism caused it? c) What is it called when a weak pathogen causes a disease in someone like this? d) What does this organism commonly cause in females?

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A. the disease is Zygomycosis.

B. organism which caused it ---- zygomycetes.

D. they cause mucromycosis in females.

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