A 55-year-old teacher presents to your health center for evaluation of pain in her wrists. She states that the pain has been present intermittently for several months, but over the last 2 weeks, it has been preset daily. She has taken over-the counter analgesics for the pain, which seem to help. She denies fever, chills, or rashes. On physical examination, she has pain and tenderness over the right wrist but not the left. She has a hard dorsolateral nodule on the DIP joint of her right middle finger. The MCP joints are normal. What is the most likely etiology of these signs and symptoms?

A) gouty arthritis
B) rheumatoid arthritis
C) systemic lupus erthyematosis
D) osteoarthritis

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When trimming plants and vines: a.burn all the poisonous plants b.touch poison oak and poison sumac with your bare hands c.wear gloves d.cut as quickly as possible

You isolate an infectious substance capable of causing disease in plants, but you do not know whether the infectious agent is a bacterium, virus, viroid, or prion. you have four methods at your disposal to analyze the substance and determine the nature of the infectious agent.i. treat the substance with enzymes that destroy all nucleic acids and then determine whether the substance is still infectious.ii. microscope.iii. culture the substance on nutritive medium, away from any plant cells.iv. treat the sample with proteases that digest all proteins and then determining whether the substance is still infectious.if you already know that the infectious agent was either bacterial or viral, which method(s) listed above would allow you to distinguish between these two possibilities? a) ib) iic) ii or iiid) iv