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A Patient Has a Serious Lung Infection

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A patient has a serious lung infection.A sputum sample was taken.The lab technician stated that the lab isolated a bacterium that did not have any peptidoglycan.You hypothesize that the identity of this microbe could possibly be __________.


A) Mycobacterium tuberculosis
B) Borrelia burgdorferi
C) Streptococcus pneumoniae
D) Mycoplasma pneumoniae
E) Haemophilus influenzae

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