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An obligate anaerobe is found to be catalase and superoxide dismutase negative and are difficult to culture. Where are these bugs normal flora?
1. Skin
2. Nasal Pharynx
3. Urniary tract
4. GI tract

  #2

4 ??

  #3

1?

  #4

bacterois? they are in the gingivesa.also in nose? may be

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  #5

maybe not 1. Is it strep fecalis? then 3?

  #6

it is nose for bacteriodes

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  #7

anaerobic bacteriodes....thats correct.....but the major area of residence of these organisms in teh body is teh GIT!!! 4!

star1, excellent!


  #8

since they lack those enzymes they get killed oxidatively...


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Its star1''s answer







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