4. CSF stands for cerebrospinal fluid. This is the fluid which bathes the brain and spinal cord. Now, you are a doctor and you

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4. CSF stands for cerebrospinal fluid. This is the fluid which bathes the brain and spinal cord. Now, you are a doctor and you have a patient come into the emergency room with a fever and chills, as well as irritability, mental confusion, sensitivity to light, and the classic (for this disease) stiff neck. These are -CLASSIC- symptoms of a terrible pathogen causing bacterial meningitis. That is a bacteria infecting the brain directly. One of the ways we can diagnose this is by seeing large amounts of protein in the CSF. What test might you run to see if protein is present in a sample of CSF? [ Select] You run the test, and after the addition of the appropriate reagent, the color of the solution is blue. For this test, the result is [ Select] for protein.

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