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An outbreak occurs in a community where the water supply is contaminated. Multiple patients experience nausea and vomiting as well as profuse diarrhea with abdominal cramps; stools are described as “rice water.” Curved, gram-negative rods are isolated on a sulfate-citrate-bile- sucrose agar. In the treatment of patients who have cholera, the use of a drug that inhibits adenyl cyclase would be expected to have which of the following characteristics?

ABlock the action of cholera toxin
BEradicate the organism
CIncrease fluid secretion
DKill the patient immediately
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