Question 3

(Multiple Choice)

A microbiologist is reading stool culture plates. She sees an organism that has a dry, pink colony with a surrounding "halo" of pink on MAC. What is a good presumptive identification of this organism?


A) Enteric pathogen
B) Escherichia/Citrobacter-like organism
C) Klebsiella/Enterobacter-like organism
D) Haemophilus influenzae

Answer

B