PANCE Practice Test

Category - PA

Each of the following can be caused by Neisseria infection EXCEPT:
  1. septic arthritis
  2. Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome
  3. meningitis
  4. pseudomembranous colitis
Explanation
Answer: D - Pseudomembranous colitis is not caused by Neisseria; it is due to antibiotic-induced overgrowth of Clostridium difficile. Neisseria genus is a gram-negative cocci which has two species.
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