A 25 year old man was experiencing some difficulty opening h…
A 25 year old man was experiencing some difficulty opening his mouth and was experiencing severe muscle spasms. He had incurred a deep laceration of the lower leg in a lawn mower incident one week before. The wound was healing but signs of infection persisted. The gram positive bacillus grew as a spreading, gray colony isolated from an aspirate of the wound after incubation under anaerobic conditions. The most likely identification is:
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A technician is working the miscellaneous bench reading stool cultures. The blood-based agar plate has growth after incubation at 42° C for 2 days. The colonies are nonhemolytic, moist, “runny looking”, and spreading. The Gram stain shows tiny gram-negative rods with some S-shapes and seagull-wing shapes. What is growing on the plate?
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