A bone marrow transplant patient develops an abrupt fever wi…
A bone marrow transplant patient develops an abrupt fever with respiratory distress. Despite treatment with antifungal medications, the patient dies on the fifth day. The following organism was isolated from both sputum and blood cultures. Identify the organism shown below: pic19.jpg
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Several people from a picnic came down with a gastrointestinal disturbance, and public health officials suspected a case of food poisoning. The food, especially hot dogs, were cultured and after 24 hours of growth on sheep blood agar (SBA), there was a small, round, smooth, translucent colony surrounded by a narrow zone of β-hemolysis. A Gram stain showed short, gram-positive rods. Motility medium was inoculated and an umbrella pattern of motility was observed at room temperature. What organism was isolated as the cause of the illness?
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A microbiologist is reading an anaerobic culture and observes a double zone of hemolysis on an anaerobically incubated sheep blood agar plate. The Gram stain of that organism was a spore-forming, gram-positive bacillus. What organism is this?
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