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When you have a bacterial infection, say gonorrhea, does that mean you're infected with a single bacterium or many bacteria?

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Dr. Michael Ein answered

Specializes in Infectious Disease

See below : You would usually be infected with only one strain of a bacterial species but thousands or millions of individual bacteria cells would be present at the site of infection.

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Answered 3/31/2013

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