Multiple Choice
A patient comes to see you, complaining of a very sore throat. When you examine her, you find that she has a fever of 39oC, and you observe that her throat is extremely red, with pus on her tonsils. You swab the pus and make a slide, which you then send to the clinical lab for Gram staining. The lab sends back a report in which it is noted that the slide has many long chains of round cells that have stained purple in color.
-Based on the Gram staining, you suspect that the patient has a ________ infection.
A) fungal
B) bacterial
C) protozoan
D) algal
E) prion
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