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A Microbiologist Is Looking at a Set of Plates from a Seriously

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A microbiologist is looking at a set of plates from a seriously ill patient.The sheep blood agar (SBA) plate shows small, nonhemolytic colonies that have a fried egg appearance.On MacConkey, these organisms grow as a small, nonlactose fermenter.On Gram stain, this organism is a bipolar staining, plump gram-negative rod.What is the most probable organism?


A) Brucella mallei
B) Bacillus anthracis
C) Yersinia pestis
D) Burkholderia cepacia

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