The agent causing the pneumonia, where bluish-green pus was found, is most likely Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Explanation:
Pseudomona aeuriginosa is a gram-negative bacteria that is one of the main causes of hospital-acquired infections, including pneumonias in mechanically ventilated patients.
One of the characteristics of P. aeuriginosa is the formation of a bluish-green pus, since it has the capacity to form cyanide-based blue pigment upon contact with the organic tissues it infects. This is the reason why previously P. aeruginosa was called a pyocyanic bacillus.
<em> The other options are not correct because the only bacterium that produces blue-green pus is P. aeruginosa.</em>
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Based on the scenario being described within the question it can be said that the form of regulation that is being described is known as attenuation. In the context of genetics, this is a specific mechanism that provides control in various bacterial operons that result in term results in premature termination of the transcription.
