CASE REPORT: While swimming in the creek, Anna slipped and a rock cut a three-inch gash in her leg. The next day, the area around the cut was swollen and red and the pain was increasing. When she began to run a fever later in the afternoon and the wound began to throb, a friend took her to the emergency room. A specimen of pus was collected from the wound for culture. An IV was started, delivering a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Blood work showed high activity and numbers of white blood cells. Quick work by the laboratory team isolated the organism into pure culture and was provided to you on a nutrient agar slant and in a liquid broth culture tube for further investigation. Patient cóndition is becoming critical. Unknown bacterium identification needed STAT. 24 h 24 h Isolation Stock Culture
CASE REPORT: While swimming in the creek, Anna slipped and a rock cut a three-inch gash in her leg. The next day, the area around the cut was swollen and red and the pain was increasing. When she began to run a fever later in the afternoon and the wound began to throb, a friend took her to the emergency room. A specimen of pus was collected from the wound for culture. An IV was started, delivering a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Blood work showed high activity and numbers of white blood cells. Quick work by the laboratory team isolated the organism into pure culture and was provided to you on a nutrient agar slant and in a liquid broth culture tube for further investigation. Patient cóndition is becoming critical. Unknown bacterium identification needed STAT. 24 h 24 h Isolation Stock Culture
Chapter11: Cpt Surgery I
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review the case uploaded. in a practice scenario to identify unknown bacteria.
a) in your own words write an introduction on how you identify unknown bacteria
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