Question 28

(Multiple Choice)

You have isolated a bacterium that you believe to be the causative agent of a new disease in frogs. How would you test the third of Koch's postulates?


A) Determine the shape of the bacterial cells.
B) Inject the bacteria into a healthy frog.
C) Isolate the bacterium from a sick frog.
D) Show that the bacterium is not present in healthy frogs.
E) Grow a pure culture of the bacterium outside the frog.

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