Question 26

(Multiple Choice)

A microbiologist is reading the plates from a sputum culture. The culture is from a patient with cystic fibrosis. One organism dominates the blood agar, chocolate, and MacConkey plates. The MacConkey plate shows an organism with a green pigment and a metallic sheen. The probable identification for this organism is


A) Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
B) Serratia marcescens.
C) Chromobacterium violaceum.
D) Prevotella melaninogenica.

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