If the infectious dose (ID) for gonorrhea is 1,000 cells and the ID for tuberculosis is 10 cells, which organism is more virulent?
Group of answer choices
Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
They are equally virulent.
It is impossible to determine.
1 answer
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is more virulent as it has a lower infectious dose, requiring only 10 cells to cause infection compared to Neisseria gonorrhoeae which requires 1,000 cells.