Question 39
Determining the clinical course in patients with viral or bacterial infection for acute cough — NIHR Community Healthcare MICYou are sick with a sore throat and fever. Your doctor does a throat swab and makes a microscope slide. Under the microscope, they find long chains of spherical cells that lack membrane bound organelles.
Do you have a viral or bacterial or fungal infection? How do you know?
a
You have a viral infection, as viruses form long cellular chains unique to your cells.
b
You have a bacterial infection, as bacteria are simple prokaryotic cells - and you are not.
c
You have a fungal infection, as fungi are simple prokaryotic cells - as are you.
d
Impossible to determine from the information supplied.