Case Study . Several persons working in an exercise gym acquired an acute disease characterized by fever, cough, pneumonia, and headache. Treatment with erythromycin cleared it up. The source was never found, but an environmental focus was suspected.a. What do you think might have caused the disease? b. People in a different gym got skin lesions after sitting in a redwood hot tub. Which pathogen could have caused that?

Case Study . Several persons working in an exercise gym acquired an acute disease characterized by fever, cough, pneumonia, and headache. Treatment with erythromycin cleared it up. The source was never found, but an environmental focus was suspected.a. What do you think might have caused the disease? b. People in a different gym got skin lesions after sitting in a redwood hot tub. Which pathogen could have caused that?

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