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An intravenous catheter is removed from an 83-year-old male hospitalized with cancer and sent to the laboratory for culture. The tip is rolled across the surface of a sheep blood agar.  At 24 hours incubation, 20 colonies of white, gamma-hemolytic, gram-positive cocci are isolated. The organism proved to be catalase positive and tube coagulase negative. This organism
a.   is a skin contaminant.
b.   indicates a catheter-related infection.
c.   cannot be assessed without the results of a blood culture drawn at the same time.
d.   is considered a critical value and should be reported STAT.
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Clinical Laboratory Microbiology: A Practical Approach

Clinical Laboratory Microbiology: A Practical Approach


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