Question: The Following Scenario Will Provide Information That You Will Need In Order To Use The Scientific Method To Determine How You Would Be Able To Identify An Organism. The Scenario Is: A Patient Is In The Hospital With Bacterial Meningitis. The Doctor Needs To Determine Whether The Patient Has An Infection With Neisseria Meningitidis Or Haemophilus Influenzae….

1. The following scenario will provide information that you willneed in order to use the scientific method to determine how youwould be able to identify an organism.

                The scenario is:

                A patient is in the hospital with bacterial meningitis. The doctorneeds to determine whether the patient has an infection withNeisseria meningitidis or Haemophilusinfluenzae.

                Using the scientific method, address the following: (30points)

1. What is the problem (scenario) that you are asked to solve? (7points)

2. What is your hypothesis for the solution to the problem? (Whatorganism do you think caused the problem?) (7 points)

3. What are the experiments that are required to answer yourhypothesis? (The stains, biochemical, and media for each organismand the expected results) (8 points)

4. What is your conclusion to the problem? (Based on the expectedresults, what organism caused the problem?) (8 points)