1) Why was the presence of nitrite in the patient's urine(case file) a significant finding?
Aerotolerance questions.
2) What causes the cracking in the agar? can that same phenomenon occur in human tissue?
3) A sample from a patient with a suspected anaerobic infection is left out too long before being taken to the laboratory for growth and identification. why would that be a problem?
CATALASE Questions.
1) What organism is patient G apparently infected with?
2) Is treating Patient G with vancomycin likely to work? why or why not?