A Microbiology Technologist Is Working at the Bench and Notices $\beta$

question 11

Multiple Choice

A microbiology technologist is working at the bench and notices that a patient from the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) grows a Klebsiella pneumoniae bacterium that is an extended-spectrum $\beta$ -lactamase-producing isolate. This technologist would advise the physician to

• A) order any antimicrobial that is effective against gram-negative rods in general.
• B) limit the use of antimicrobial agents that tend to induce the formation of extended-spectrum \(\beta\)-lactamases.
• C) draw more blood cultures, because the ones that grew that organism are contaminated.
• D) be on the lookout for diarrhea.

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