A 7-year-old boy is brought to the pediatrician with lesions under his lips as shown in the attached image. Parents report that the lesions developed over the course of a week. On physical examination, his temperature is 37°C, pulse rate is 80/min, blood pressure is 110/80 mmHg, and respiratory rate is 20/min. A culture of the sample from the lesion yields Gram-positive, catalase-negative, cocci. Which of the following is the most likely pathogen? Answers A-E A Candida albicans B Coxsackie A virus C Herpes simplex 1 D Staphylococcus aureus E Streptococcus pyogenes O O Question # 33 attachment CLOSE TOOLKIT O
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- Patient TM is 65 years of age and was recently given a 13C-Urea breath test due to recent gastrointestinal discomfort. What type of bacterial infection is patient TM suspected to have contracted? Give a rationale for the diagnostic test performed and comment on when this test may produce a false negative result.You are working in a lab studying Streptococcus pyogenes as a cause of necrotizing fasciitiis. You have an overnight culture that you want to know the starting concentration of, so do a set of six 1:10 serial dilutions (putting 1 mL from the stock into a 9 mL blank), with tube #1 being 1:10, #2 is 1:100, etc. You plate 0.1 mL from tube 5 onto a blood agar plate and the next morning count 134 colonies. How many bacteria (measured in CFU/mL) were in the overnight culture flask? A. 1.34 x 10^4 CFU/mL B. 1.34 x 10^5 CFU/mL C. 1.34 x 10^6 CFU/mL D. 1.34 x 10^7 CFU/mL E. 1.34 x 10^8 CFU/mL F. cannot tell based on the data given - you'd need to know the volume of the original culture flask5 years old child came to emergency complaining of headache and fever (39.4°C). On examination, he has Confusion, difficulty in wake, Neck stiffness. sample sent to lab for further investigations. Gram stain show Gram-positive, spherical bacteria, alpha-hemolytic What do you think about the causative agent?
- Why is serum beta glucan testing used for diagnosing an invasive candidiasis?What is the microbiology laboratory test that Identifies Pseudomonas maumuensis and what are the results of the tests that identify it? please include your sources in MLA. examples are hemolytic tests, lipid concentrations, genomic tests etc.A 7-year-old child was brought to the emergency room because of fever and a prolonged episode of forceful, dry hacking cough with a distinct inspiratory whoop. The patient has no history of immunization. What is the most probable diagnosis? What is the most probable causative agent and its characteristics? What specimen is used for culturing the organism? What culture medium of choice is used?
- What is this organism? And what other test could be done to confirm it's identification? 1.Gram stain - positive cocci, chains Catalase - weak positive Hemolysis - beta BE - positive NaCl- positive Bacitracin - no zone of inhibition PYR - positive Answer: Enterococcus spp. CAMP test to verify the identity 2.Gram positive cocci, chains Catalase - negative Hemolysis - alpha BE - negative NaCl - negative P disk - resistant Bile Solubility - negative Answer - viridans group, Use PYR test to verifyA 7-year-old child was brought to the emergency room because of fever and a prolonged episode of forceful, dry hacking cough with a distinct inspiratory whoop. The patient has no history of immunization. What culture medium of choice is used?5 years old child came to emergency complaining of headache and fever (39.4°C). On examination, he has Confusion, difficulty in wake, Neck stiffness. sample sent to lab for further investigations. Gram stain show Gram-positive, spherical bacteria, alpha-hemolytic What is the sample to be collected?