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Question
A 30 year old woman has bleedy diarrhoea for the past 14 hours, which one of the following organisms is likely to cause this illness?
Options
Streptococcus pyogens
Clostridium difficile
Shigella dysenteriae
Salmonella enteritidis
Solution
Shigella dysenteriae
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