Disease Control. You have been called to a remote area of Uganda to study a mysterious disease that is causing respiratory ailments in a small village. You isolate a bacterium from several patients that seems like a good candidate for the pathogen. How can you determine if this bacterium is causing the illness? I would investigate the bacteria to determine if it had genetic markers consistent with known disease-causing bacteria.

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