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.
-The report shows that a motility test was also performed on the sample,and the microbe produced positive results.Thinking about bacterial movement,you realize that this bacterium could possess which structure(s)for motility?

Question

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.
-The report shows that a motility test was also performed on the sample,and the microbe produced positive results.Thinking about bacterial movement,you realize that this bacterium could possess which structure(s)for motility?

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The presence of motility in the microbe suggests its ability to move via flagella or one or more whip-like appendages that enable bacterial movement. Endospores are dormant structures formed by certain bacteria to survive harsh environmental conditions; a pilus is a hair-like appendage used for bacterial attachment or conjugation, and pseudopodia are extensions of cytoplasm used in amoeboid movement by eukaryotic cells. None of these structures allow bacteria to move in the same way as a flagella. Therefore, the correct choice is C, one or more flagella.

Please Read the Clinical Scenario, and Then Answer the Question