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Metfan725

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on: Jun 25, 2018
At 4 pm, a physician requests that you add a culture for Clostridium difficile to a routine stool culture he wrote orders for at 9 am. You will
 
  A) offer to perform toxin detection instead.
  B) comply with his request.
  C) request a new specimen due to the delay.
  D) offer to send the stool to the state public health laboratory.

Question 2

Commensal Neisseria spp. are often recognized by their
 
  A) ability to grow on Thayer-Martin agar.
  B) sensitivity to colistin.
  C) pigment production.
  D) A and B.
  E) B and C.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

E


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