Microbiology Questions-9

9. A 38-year-old sexually-active woman developed
symptoms of lower abdominal pain with
adjacent tenderness. No gram-negative cocci
were observed or isolated. The obligate intracellular
organism causing the infection is
unable to perform which of the following metabolic
functions?
(A) form ATP
(B) form the intracellular, metabolically
active, reticulate body
(C) produce polypeptides
(D) reproduce by binary fission
(E) synthesize DNA gyrase

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