A 10 year-old boy has fever, painful swallowing and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck. Throat specimen on Gram-stained sh
Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2022 11:57 am
A 10 year-old boy has fever, painful swallowing and enlarged lymph nodes in the neck. Throat specimen on Gram-stained shows gram-positive coccl arranged in chains. On blood agar numerous colonies surrounded by dear zone. If you found the catalase test to be negative, which one of the following organisms would you MOST probably have isolated? O Streptococcus pneumoniae O Streptococcus pyogenes O Corynebacterium diphtherine Staphylococcus aureus