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As an RN in a primary care office, you recently took care of a 15-year-old patient with severe gastrointestinal distress. Since the patient had experienced diarrhea, vomiting, and a fever for 4 days, a stool culture was ordered in an attempt to identify a disease-causing pathogen. The laboratory results have just been faxed over to your office and you begin to read the data.
-Microscopic analysis revealed the presence of gram-negative bacilli in the patient's stool.Based upon this information,you picture in your mind which of the following images?

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Please read the clinical scenario, and then answer the question that follow to become familiar with the traditional NCLEX question format.
  As an RN in a primary care office, you recently took care of a 15-year-old patient with severe gastrointestinal distress. Since the patient had experienced diarrhea, vomiting, and a fever for 4 days, a stool culture was ordered in an attempt to identify a disease-causing pathogen. The laboratory results have just been faxed over to your office and you begin to read the data.
-Microscopic analysis revealed the presence of gram-negative bacilli in the patient's stool.Based upon this information,you picture in your mind which of the following images?

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Gram-negative bacilli appear as red rods under a microscope after a Gram stain.

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