Several persons working in an exercise gym acquired an acute disease characterized by fever, cough, pneumonia, and

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Several persons working in an exercise gym acquired an acute disease characterized by fever, cough, pneumonia, and headache. Treatment with erythromycin cleared it up. The source was never found, but an environmental focus was suspected.
a. What do you think might have caused the disease?
b. People in a different gym got skin lesions after sitting in a redwood hot tub. Which pathogen could have caused that?
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Foundations in Microbiology

ISBN: 978-0073375298

8th edition

Authors: Kathleen Park Talaro, Barry Chess

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